A 21-year old man, Tosin Lamidi who burgled a woman’s apartment and stole her laptop and phone, has been arrested after the victim, Gift Nseobong contacted him and offered sex to him in exchange for her sim card in Lagos.

The burglary took place at 8 Mutiatu Okesalu Street, Ikotun, Lagos where Nseobong resides.
Lamidi was arrested at Ikotun Roundabout where he arranged to meet Nseobong to take her to a hotel as they agreed.
He was arraigned in a Lagos Magistrate’s court sitting in Ejigbo where he was remanded in prison custody at Kirikiri, Lagos.

P.M.EXPRESS gathered that Lamidi allegedly broke into Nseobong apartment, stole the items, sold them and retained the sim card and started using it.

However, when Nseobong bought another sim card and tried the number of the stolen phone, Lamidi picked the call. She engaged and pleaded to the suspect to return the sim card because of the contact numbers in the Sim card which are so important to her and offered to do anything in return.

Lamidi then gave her condition which involved that he would sleep with her before he can release the sim card to her and she agreed.
They arranged to meet at Ikotun roundabout from where they will move to a hotel for a sex romp.
However, that decision was what landed Lamidi to prison as he was arrested and taken to the police at Ikotun division where the sim card was retrieved.

He was charged with conspiracy and stealing under the Criminal Code.

He pleaded not guilty.

The presiding Magistrate, Mrs J.O.E Adeyemi granted him bail in the sum of N50,000 with one surety in like sum.

He was remanded in prison custody pending when he will perfect his bail,

The matter was adjourned till 30 January 2017

A magistrate court in Osun state on Tuesday, issued an arrest warrant on the traditional ruler Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrasheed Akanbi.

The arrest warrant was issued due to the refusal of the monarch to honour a court summons issued in November to answer to a suit filed against him by another monarch, Oluwo of Iwo-Oke, Oba Kadiri Adeoye.

Oba Adeoye accused the Oluwo of Iwo of concealing some facts about his past before he was installed as a first class monarch about a year ago.

Channels TV reported that the monarch was also accused of keeping armed thugs around to oppress, molest and attack his antagonists. The affidavit also stated that the monarch was involved in the internet fraud commonly known as ‘Yahoo-Yahoo’ operating from inside his palace.

The plaintiff also claimed that Oba Akanbi forged his name to obtain travelling documents to the United States where he was jailed in New York City and was deported to Nigeria in 2000.

He also stated that the monarch later traveled out with his real identity to Canada in 2001 and got the Canadian citizenship but was again arrested in Toronto and was in jail between 2006 and 2007.

The monarch, Oba Akanbi, however reacted to these allegations in a 13 paragraph affidavit through the Aremo of Iwo land, Adelani Akanbi describing the application filed against the monarch by Oba Adeoye as “scandalous, vexations and designed to embarrass, blackmail and ridicule the monarch in the view of right thinking members of the society”.

The absence of the monarch in court to defend himself however made the chief magistrate to order his arrest and the case was adjourned to December 27, 2016.