NYSC Member, undergraduate arraigned for allegedly diverting N9m fees from university website

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday, arraigned a corps member, Nazim Usman Gomna, and a 400 level student of Al-Hikmah University, Idris Shuaibu Suleiman, over alleged theft.

The defendants were arraigned on a three count charge of conspiracy and theft before Justice Sikiru Oyinloye of the Kwara State High Court in Ilorin.

Nasim and Idris allegedly hacked the website of the Al-Hikmah University, Ilorin, and diverted students’ school fees to the tune N9.1million.

Nazim graduated as a Computer Scientist from the university and is serving at the Jigawa State House of Assembly.

He allegedly connived with Idris to hack the university’s website using the latter’s account details to collect tuition fees illegally from students.

The crime perpetrated between March, 2020 and May, 2020, is contrary to Section 96 of the Penal Code and punishable under Section 97 and 287 of the same Penal Code.

The defendants pleaded not guilty to the three counts.

EFCC, Sesan Ola, asked the court for a date to commence trial and an order to remand the defendants in prison custody.

Defence counsels, A. T. Kamaldeen and Ismail Mustapha urged the court to admit their clients to bail pending trial and determination of the case.

Justice Oyinloye admitted the defendants to bail in the sum of N3.5million each with one surety in like sum.

The surety must be resident within the jurisdiction of this court and must provide telephone contacts, residential address, recent passport photographs.

The judge also ordered the defendants to submit their travel documents to the court.

In another development, the EFCC secured the conviction of Mohammed Abdulwahab, who pleaded guilty to a 3-count charge of romance scam preferred against him.

Mohammed, who claimed to be Jessica Carmen, in December 2020, in Ilorin, used jessicacarmen440@gmail.com to induce one Mert Usul to make payment to a car pick-up company while he had no intention to purchase any car.

The offence was contrary to Section 95 of the Penal Code and punishable under Section 324 of the same Penal Code.

Justice Oyinloye said from the evidence before the court, the defendant engaged in online romance scam.

The judge sentenced Mohammed to six months imprisonment on each of the counts with an option of fine of N50,000.

He ordered that the phone and laptop used to perpetrate the crime be forfeited to the Federal Government
[08:52, 3/12/2021] NG Defender: Nigerian WBF Boxing Champion, Ridwan escapes death as gunmen attack him after receiving N10m cheque from Gov. Makinde

Ridwan Oyekola, the current World Boxing Federation, WBF, International Super Featherweight Champion, popularly known as Scorpion, has survived an alleged attempt on his life by unknown gunmen.

It was gathered that the Oyekola was attacked by the gunmen shortly after receiving a cheque of 10 million from the Oyo state governor, Seyi Makinde at the state Secretariat on Thursday evening, March 4.

Oyekola had defeated his counterpart from Argentina, Lucas Montesino at Ilaji Sports Resorts, Ibadan in December 2020 and he was decorated as the World Boxing Federation (WBF) International Super Featherweight Champion.

Governor Makinde had presented the check to Oyekola for making the State proud with his victory over his Argentine counterpart.

Narrating his experience, Oyekola said that it was the grace of God that made him escape death with two other occupants in his car.

“As we left the government secretariat, the venue of cheque presentation, I wanted to drop a friend that accompanied me to the event at Mokola, I just saw a vehicle and it accosted us along NTA to Total garden area, and the two men were pointing guns at us to stop,” the boxing champ narrated.

“I was shocked and swerved the car to escape them but fell into a ditch. The assailants drove off after noticing that the car had fallen off from the road.” he added.

Oyekola was with another boxer, Habeeb ‘Ige’ Oladeji the national bantamweight title holder and a friend Adesina Sheriff in the vehicle during the attack but none sustained serious injury except Ridwan who suffered shock.

Confirming the incident, Oyekola’s manager and promoter; Sola Ayodele, called on the government to provide adequate security for the boxer, saying the assailants might still be on his trail.