{"id":875319,"date":"2025-10-02T21:40:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T02:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/02\/lotto-agent-arraigned-over-alleged-theft-of-n2-7-million\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T21:40:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T02:40:12","slug":"lotto-agent-arraigned-over-alleged-theft-of-n2-7-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/02\/lotto-agent-arraigned-over-alleged-theft-of-n2-7-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Lotto agent arraigned over\u00a0 alleged theft of N2.7 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\u00a0A 27-year-old Lotto agent, Daniel Ayomikun, was on Tuesday arraigned before an Ogudu Magistrates\u2019 Court, Lagos, for allegedly stealing his business partner\u2019s N2.7 million.<\/p>\n<p>Ayomikun, who resides on Aladelola Street, Ikosi-Ketu, is facing a charge of stealing. He pleaded not guilty to the allegation.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecutor, Inspector Sunday Bassey, told the court that the defendant committed the offence on September 22 at about 8 p.m. at Jakande Market, Ikosi-Ketu.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Bassey alleged that the defendant borrowed N2.7 million from the complainant, Wasiu Oluwaseun, a fruit vendor, promising repayment on September 23, but failed to honour the agreement.<\/p>\n<p>He said the complainant gave the defendant N1.7 million in cash and transferred N1 million to his Opay account.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Bassey added that efforts by the complainant to recover his money were futile.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0He said the offence contravened Section 287 of the Lagos State Criminal Law, 2015, which prescribes three years\u2019 imprisonment for stealing.<\/p>\n<p>The Magistrate, Mrs O. A. Daodu, granted Ayomikun bail in the sum of N500,000, with two sureties in like sum, and adjourned the case until October 17.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>(NAN)<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> We have recently deactivated our website&#8217;s comment provider in favour of other channels of distribution and commentary. We encourage you to join the conversation on our stories via our Facebook, Twitter and other social media pages.<\/p>\n<p> Margherita Schildgen <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/gazettengr.com\/lotto-agent-arraigned-over-alleged-theft-of-n2-7-million\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0A 27-year-old Lotto agent, Daniel Ayomikun, was on Tuesday arraigned before an Ogudu Magistrates\u2019 Court, Lagos, for allegedly stealing his business partner\u2019s N2.7 million. Ayomikun, who resides on Aladelola Street, Ikosi-Ketu, is facing a charge of stealing. He pleaded not guilty to the allegation. The prosecutor, Inspector Sunday Bassey, told the court that the defendant<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":875320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3629,45698],"tags":[7700,45697],"class_list":{"0":"post-875319","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-agent","8":"category-lotto","9":"tag-agent","10":"tag-lotto"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=875319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/875320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}