OVER 25 MILLION PHONES STOLEN IN ONE YEAR- FG. (PHOTO).

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 Over 25 million phones stolen in one year – FG The Crime Experience and Security Perception Survey report of the National Bureau of Statistics, a Federal Government agency, shows that Nigeria recorded 25.35 million phone theft cases between May 2023 and April 2024. According to the report, this was the most common type of crime within the period under review. The report read, “The number of crimes experienced by individuals in Nigeria was analysed over a period of time. The results show that theft of phones (25,354,417) was the most common crime experienced by individuals, followed by consumer fraud (12,107,210) and assault (8,453,258). However, hijacking of cars (333,349) was the least crime experienced by individuals within the reference period.” It also noted that most phone theft cases occurred either at home or in a public place, and about 90 per cent of such cases were reported to the police. Despite the high rate of the incident being reported, only about 11.7 per cent of t...

KWARA PASTOR, WIDE, SON ARRAIGNED OVER STUDENT'S DEATH, TAMPERING WITH EVIDENCE. (PHOTO).


 Kwara pastor, wife, son arraigned over student’s death, tampering with evidence


A clergyman, his wife and 24-year-old son have been arraigned over the killing of Mojisola Awesu, a student of the College of Health Technology in Kwara State.


The suspects, Pastor Adebayo Adeniyi (51), his wife, Bukola (49), and their son, Joshua Happiness, were arraigned over a four-count charge of criminal conspiracy, culpable homicide, theft, false information and causing disappearance of evidence.


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According to the Police First Information Report (FIR), the victim was allegedly killed by the student who contracted her to pose as a girlfriend for N15,000 at a party which happened to be a scam.


“Happiness, the son of the pastor, deliberately lured Mojisola from Offa to Ilorin and later killed and abandoned her lifeless body in the hotel room, locked the room and ran away with Mojisola’s iPhone 11 Pro and her N15,000,


“He hid the phone inside his wardrobe in his school hostel room and during investigation, he said his father instructed him to lie that he threw the stolen iPhone into Afelele Lake, Offa, but it was discovered that his parents removed the SIM card from the said iPhone, wrapped it in a paper and hid same in the block of a fence of a building far away from their residence where it was later recovered by the police, “the sheet read inpart.


The defendants denied the allegations.


Counsel to the defendants, Barr Iwalaye, urged the court to grant them bail.


In his ruling, the Magistrate, Wahab Saka, ordered their remand at the federal correctional centre, Ilorin, and adjourned the case to September 12, 2024.

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