Judiciary
Businessman gets N400,000 bail over alleged cheating
A Grade I Area Court in Kado, Abuja, on Monday admitted a businessman, Zakarnaini Usman to a bail of N400, 000 over alleged cheating.
Usman who resides at Customs quarters, Abuja is facing two count charge of criminal breach of trust and cheating.
The Prosecution Counsel, Mr. Stanley Nwafoaku, told the court that the matter was reported at Mabushi Police Station by the complainant, Mrs. Ramatu Yusuf of Jahi 2, Abuja, on Dec.15, 2022.
He said the complainant alleged that sometime in October 2022, she entrusted the sum of N500,000 to the defendant to invest in his business with the promise of returning it.
The prosecutor said that when the complainant requested for her money, the defendant refused to return it as he had converted the money to his personal use.
He added that during police investigation the defendant confessed to have committed the crime.
Nwafoaku said the offence contravened the provisions of sections 312 and 322 of the penal code.
The defendant, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge.
The Judge, Muhammed Wakili granted the defendant bail in the sum of N400, 000 with one surety, who must provide a passport photograph.
He must also provide any valid means of identification and a BVN printout from his bank details.
Wakili adjourned the matter until Feb. 16, for hearing
A journalist with Trust TV, Jamil Mabai, has narrated how he was detained by the Katsina State Hisbah Corps while at the corps’ office on official duty.
The journalist explained that he had gone to the Hisbah headquarters for a follow-up interview with the corps’ Public Relations Officer, Nafiu Akilu, over an incident involving their officers.
Mabai, who narrated his experience on his X handle, said he had wanted to interview the corps’ PRO over a resident, Mallam Gambo, who was shot dead by an officer of the Community Watch Corps.
According to him, while Hisbah officials were trying to shut down a wedding with a DJ, the shots that killed the resident were fired by an operative of the Community Watch Corps tasked with defending communities against bandits attacks
A Sharia Court in Kano State on Wednesday ordered that a 25-year-old man, Ahmed Abdulkadir who pleaded guilty to stealing a cold room compressor unit worth N60,000 be remanded in a correction centre.
The police charged Abdulkadir, who lives in Fagge Quarters, Kano, with theft.
The Judge, Malam Umar Lawal-Abubaka, adjourned the matter until July 25 for summary trial.
Earlier, the Prosecution Counsel, Insp Abdullahi Wada told the court that the complainant, Nura Muhammed who also resides in Fagge Quarters, reported the matter at the Fagge Police Station, Kano, on July 6.
Wada alleged that the defendant, entered into the complainant’s shop and stole the compressor unit.
The defendant pleaded guilty to the charge.
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