A PRIEST IN ANAMBRA STATE WEDDED A COUPLE YESTERDAY, DESPITE DISPUTES WITH THE BRIDE’S FATHER. (PHOTOS).

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 A priest in Anambra State wedded a couple yesterday, despite disputes with the bride’s father In a video circulating online, the Reverend Father narrated that The father of the bride who is from Nteje had insisted that the wedding should not take place unless his daughter swøre never to associate with his mother whom he has a quarrel with. The conflict arose from past marriage issues between the father and her mother. Before the wedding, the father repeatedly met with the priest, warning that he had already taken the bride's mother to a deity and that the girl must follow him to the shrine to appease that deity before the marriage can go on. For peace to prevail, the priest advised the couple to comply with all the father’s requests so the wedding could proceed, the priest even donated some of the items that the brides father told her to bring to use in appeasing the deity. However, when they reached the shr|ne, the father suddenly changed his demand, insisting the daughter take a...

KWARA COURTS JAIL BUREAU DE-CHANGE OPERATOR, TWO OTHERS FOR FRAUD. (PHOTO). #PRESS RELEASE.


 Kwara Courts Jail Bureau de-change Operator, Two  Others for Fraud


Justice Abimbola Awogboro of the Federal High Court sitting in Ilorin has sentenced one Yakubu Aminu  to 200 (Two Hundred) hours community service for carrying out bureau de change businesses  without a valid licence.


Similarly, a Kwara State High Court presided over by Justice Hammed Gegele also jailed the duo of Abdulalahi Abdulrasaq Omotosho and Akeem Ibrahim Salaudeen  for involvement  in internet fraud -related crime.


The Ilorin Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC had on Wednesday October 9, 2024 arraigned the trio before the courts on separate charges.


The charge against Yakubu reads:

 “That you, Yakubu Aminu sometime in July 2024, at Chikanda Market, Yashikira District, Baruten Local Government Area, Kwara State, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court did carry on, other financial business, to wit: Bureau De Change Business without a valid licence issued by the Central Bank of Nigeria contrary to Section 15 (5) of the Banks and other Financial Institutions Act, 2020 and punishable under Section 57 (5) (B) of the same Act”

 

The charge against Akeem reads: “That you, Akeem Ibrahim  Salaudeen 

between 3rd December 2018  and 8th November 2024, in Ilorin, Kwara State within the jurisdiction  of Honourable Court, did knowingly had under your control  the sum of N4,069, 000.00 (Four Million, Sixty Nine Thousand Naira Only) in your bank account number 2104916025  with the name Akeem Ibrahim  Salaudeen with the United Bank of Africa Plc which you knew to be proceeds of criminal conduct and thereby committed an offence contrary to  and punishable under Section 319 (a) of the Penal Code Laws of Northern Nigeria”

 

The defendants pleaded guilty when the charges were read to them.


 The court thereafter convicted and sentenced the defendants to various jail terms relying on the credibility of the cases presented before it and the unchallenged evidence of the prosecution.

 

Justice Awogboro sentenced Aminu to 200 (Two Hundred) hours community service without an option of fine.  The judge also ordered that the sum of 50,000cfa and N368,500 (Three Hundred and Sixty-Eight Thousand, Five Hundred Naira Only) recovered from him at the point of arrest be forfeited to the Federal Government.


Justice Gegele on his part sentenced the duo of Akeem and Abdullahi to six months imprisonment each with an option of N150,000 (One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira only). The sum of N4,069, 000.00 (Four Million, Sixty Nine Thousand Naira Only) recovered from Akeem alongside his iphone 11 and $600 (Six Hundred Dollars) recovered from Abdulahi together with iphone 11 pro max,  being proceeds of their crimes were forfeited to the Federal Government.


 The convicts bagged their imprisonment when they were arrested for internet-related fraud. They were investigated, charged to court and convicted.

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