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Salisu Buhari Mentors Tinubu on Certificate Forgery

CrimeBy prisca November 21, 2023 Leave a comment

On June 3, 1999, Salisu Buhari, a 29-year-old Nigerian businessman who had made his fortune in the IT industry, was elected Speaker of the Nigerian House of Representatives, giving him Nigeria’s fourth-highest office under the constitution. His colleagues, the government and Nigeria as a whole did not know that Salisu Buhari was unfit for the position held. A few weeks after his election, results showed that Salisu Buhari, the sixth Speaker of the House of Representatives, had succeeded in coming to power. News Magazine published an article on July 19, 1999, stating that Salisu Buhari was seven years younger than his stated age of…

The Unquenchable Spark of Fatherly Love.

CrimeBy prisca October 21, 2023 Leave a comment

Stanley Enekwe shortly before his execution The robber Stanley Enekwe was executed in April 1972 for stealing an official vehicle of the Nigerian Army. Stanley was reportedly a former Biafran soldier who fought in the Nigerian Civil War and returned in one of the official war vehicles. He was accused of theft and later sentenced…

Notorious Benin Criminal, Lawrence Anini Faces his Karma.

CrimeBy prisca October 21, 2023 Leave a comment

Lawrence Anini, also known as “Law”, was born in 1960, the same year Nigeria gained independence, to the Owuo family in Orogbo village in Orhionmwon region, about 30 km from Benin City, the capital of Bendel today’s Edo State, away, born. A 26-year-old thief has terrorized parts of Benin and several other nearby towns; With…

Nobel Prize Winner, Wole Soyinka, Declared Wanted.

CrimeBy prisca October 19, 2023 Leave a comment

Chairman SL Akintola was expected to give a victory speech after the rigged regional elections of 1965 which brought him to power as Premier of the Western Region. On October 15, 1965, shortly before the radio broadcast of the Prime Minister’s speech, an armed man reportedly entered the premises of the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC)…

Awolowo Convicted For Corruption in 1962.

CrimeBy prisca March 22, 2023 Leave a comment

In 1962, during the political crisis in the Western Region of Nigeria, the Coker Commission of Inquiry was established. George Baptist Ayodola Coker was delegated by Moses Majekodunmi, the sole head of the Western District, to seat the commission of investigation into the undertakings of the Area’s six legal companies since October first 1964. In…

Horrific Assassination of Renowned Journalist, Dele Giwa.

Crime, FactsBy prisca March 6, 2023 Leave a comment

On the 19th of October, 1986, Dele Giwa was killed in his house, No 25, Talabi Crescent, off Talabi street, Adeniyi Jones Avenue, by a letter bomb which was said to have been delivered by Buba Marwa, a former military administrator of Lagos State. The bomb explosion at first left Dele Giwa seriously injured and…

The First Public Criminal Execution in Nigeria.

Crime, FactsBy prisca February 17, 2023 Leave a comment

The name Babatunde Folorunsho may sound lovely and pleasant to the ear, but its historical bearer was a nightmarish and a source of daily terror for Nigerians in the early 1970s. Babatunde Folorunsho: Who Was He? In the 1970s, ruthless bandit Babatunde Folorunsho and his gang of armed robbers put the safety and security of…

Mysterious Case of Nigerian Notorious Female Drug Dealer, Gloria Okon.

Crime, FactsBy prisca February 17, 2023 Leave a comment

The National Security Organization (NSO) detained Gloria Okon, 35, at the Aminu Kano International Airport on April 22, 1985, for allegedly smuggling heroin and other hard drugs. When she was discovered in possession of 56.17 grammes of the substances, 301 dollars, 60 pounds sterling, N20,000, and 19,000 Italian lire, she was on her way to…

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