The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday arraigned an estate agent,  Ntai Bagshaw,  for allegedly defrauding accommodation seekers of N70 million.

Bagshaw  appeared  before an Ikeja Special Offences Court alongside his company, Terraworks Ltd.

The defendant, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge.

EFCC counsel, Mrs Fadeke Giwa, urged the court to remand the defendant pending hearing and determination of his bail application.

Giwa also prayed the court for a trial date.

Justice Ismail Ijelu ordered that  the defendant should be kept at the Ikoyi custodial facility.

He adjourned the case until May 13 for  hearing of bail application of the defendant.

EFCC is alleging  that  the defendant, with intent to defraud, obtained under false pretences, money meant for payment for a detached Duplex on Renat Axis in Ogudu GRA, Lagos State.

The commission  also alleged that the defendant unlawfully converted the sum to his personal use.

According to EFCC, the offences contravene Section 1(3) of the Advance Fee Fraud and other Fraud Related Offences Act No. 14 of 2006, and Section 278(2)(b) of the Criminal Law of Lagos state, 2011. (NAN)

An Osogbo Magistrates’ Court in Osun,  on Thursday , remanded three defendants in Ilesa Correctional Facility for alleged burglary and theft of household items whose worth was yet to be disclosed.

The defendants, Adewumi Ademola ,Adedokun Isiaka and Abdullahi Hassan are being charged for conspiracy, burglary and theft.

The Magistrate, Mr O.

Odeleye adjourned the case until May 14, pending their formal bail application.

The Police Prosecutor,ASP Jacob Akintunde told the court that the defendants conspired among themselves to broke into  the apartments of Okeyinka Adeniyi M r Olagunju Rilwan between April 24 and May 2 at Abidogun area in Osogbo .

Akintunde alleged that the trio forcefully entered the apartments and took away  some household items worth thousands of naira belonging to the complainants.

He said  the offence contravened sections 516 ,312,213,509,382(1) punishable under section 390 of the criminal code, Cap 34 Vol.11 ,laws of Osun, 2002.

The trio pleaded not guilty to charges

Defence counsels, Mr Najite Okobie and Mr Kehinde Adepoju ,prayed the court to grant their clients bail in the most liberal terms which was declined.(NAN)

A Kaduna Magistrates’ Court on Thursday sentenced a 24-year-old man, Timothy Sunday, to eight months imprisonment for stealing two electricity prepaid meters.

Sunday, a resident of Karji area of Kaduna, was sentenced on a two-count charge of criminal trespass and theft, which he admitted.

The Magistrate, Ibrahim Emmanuel, however, gave the convict an option of N30,000 fine, with a warning that he must desist from the life of crime.

Emmanuel also said that the electricity prepaid meters must be returned to the owners.

The Prosecuting Counsel, Insp Chidi Leo, had told the court that on May 2, Hassan Luka and Grace Stephen, of Ungwan Maigero Kaduna, reported the matter at Karji Police Station.

Leo said that the convict criminally trespassed into the complainants’ premises and stole the electricity prepaid meters, with values yet unknown.

He told the court that during police investigation and interrogation, the stolen electricity prepaid meters were recovered from the convict and that he also admitted committing the crime.

The prosecutor said that the offences contravened the Penal Code of Kaduna State, 2017. (NAN)