Author: Lawbreed Limited

There are indications that Nigeria did no follow the normal procedure before extraditing to the United States of America, Adedunmola Gbadegesin the alleged suspect in $148k fire fraud as the office of the Attorney General of the Federation is accused of ignoring pending proceedings at the Court of Appeal and Federal High Court in Lagos before the extradition. However EFCC which announced the extradition on Wednesday, did not confirm this allegation. Gbedegesin was declared wanted by US authorities in a case of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering. His extradition on Wednesday, was coordinated by the EFCC, following…

A man charged in connection to a romance scam that defrauded a Lexington woman is now on U.S. soil, before his day in court. A Nigerian court, where the suspect is from, recently approved his extradition to Kentucky. He flew into Blue Grass Airport Wednesday morning. “What do you say to the woman who says she’s your victim out $200,000?” WKYT’s Shelby Lofton asked Adedunmola Gbadegsin. “I’m not the perpetrator of the crime. When we get to the court we’ll find out,” Gbadegsin responded. According to an indictment, Gbadegsin is accused of wire fraud and money laundering. FBI special agents…

Lagos State Government has described the statements circulating in the media that it does not have the legal right to collect tolls on the controversial Lekki-Ikoyi Link Bridge and that tolling on the Link Bridge is unlawful as “erroneous.” The Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Moyosore Onigbanjo, made the remarks in a statement to debunk the viral statements. Onigbanjo noted that the misleading statements were based on the false premise that the Lagos State Government has no pending appeal against the judgment of the Federal High Court in Suit No FHC/L/CS/1405/02 between Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa Esq. Vs. Attorney General of The…

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja Wednesday sentenced two former top shots of the Federal Inland Revenue Services FIRS, Mohammed Adamu and Eunice Okoro Udokamma to five years imprisonment each for forging Income Tax Clearance Certificate for unsuspecting tax payers. The convicts were jailed five years without option of fine for forging an Income Tax Clearance Certificate with serial number 05027875 and file number ABJ/PIT/07/CAITO/380. A paltry sum of N120, 000 was collected by the convicts to forge the certificate, signature of one MD Naanmiap, a Tax Controller with FIRS and presented same as genuine to one Vincent Enoghase…

The Senate has amended the Terrorism (Prevention) Act, 2013. The amendment seeks to outlaw the payment of ransom to abductors, kidnappers and terrorists for the release of any person who has been wrongfully confined, imprisoned or kidnapped. The amendment bill was passed for the third and final time on Wednesday after the Senate considered a report of the Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters. The Chairman of the committee, Opeyemi Bamidele (APC, Ekiti Central), presented the report. The major objective of the legislation, he explained, is to discourage the rising spate of kidnapping and abduction for ransom –…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has extradited one Adedunmola Gbadegesin to the United States over a wire fraud scam worth $148,000. Gbadegesin, who was extradited on Monday, is wanted in the US over an alleged conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering. According to the EFCC, the office of the attorney-general of the federation made a request for Gbadegesin’s extradition following a court order to the effect. “The offenses contravene Title 18, US Code, Section 1349 and 1956 (h) and carries a maximum jail term of 20 years was extradited on Monday,” the statement reads. “His extradition…

The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has ordered the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, to unfreeze 18 bank accounts operated by a constitutional lawyer, Mr. Chikaosolu Ojukwu and his company, Stabilization Energy Ltd. The apex bank had on March 14 obtained an interim order that permitted it to freeze the accounts for 180 days. It had in an application it filed before the court, alleged that Ojukwu and his firm engaged in foreign exchange scam. It told the court that investigation revealed that the lawyer was involved in illegal forex transaction, alleging that he obtained $4000 from a commercial…

The Independent Investigation Panel on Human Rights Violations by the defunct SARS and other units of the Nigeria Police Force has issued a warrant of arrest on the Commissioner of Police in charge of Legal Services at the Force Headquarters, CP Igbeh Ochogwu. The arrest order is in respect of the alleged enforced disappearance and unlawful arrest and detention of one John Emeka Alozie by the Force since June 25, 2017. The Deputy Director Public Affairs, Force Headquarters, Fatimah Mohammed, who disclosed this in a statement in Abuja, yesterday, said the CP had been ordered on several occasions to appear…

The Federal High Court in Abuja, on Tuesday, ordered the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), Danladi Umar, to appear before the Nigerian Senate for probe on allegations of misconduct brought against him in a public petition. A 23-year-old security guard at the popular Banex Plaza, Wuse 2, Abuja, Clement Sargwak, had sent the petition to the Senate after he was assaulted by the CCT chairman on March 29 last year. PREMIUM TIMES reported how Mr Umar was caught on camera slapping and kicking Mr Sargwak during a squabble between them over a parking space on the premises.…

A Lagos High Court, sitting at Tafawa Balewa Square, TBS, yesterday, dismissed Chidinma Ojukwu’s counsel, Mr. Onwuka Egwu’s insistence to cross-examine the subpoenaed Access Bank staff, who tendered the bank statements and account number of late Usifo Ataga, before the court. Justice Yetunde Adesanya, in a short ruling, said that Sections 218 and 219 of the Evidence Act 2011 provide that “A person, whether a party or not in a case, may be summoned to produce documents without being summoned to give evidence and, if he causes such document to be produced in court, the court may dispense with his…