A 35-year-old girl, Ifeoma Vivian Nwafor, has been arraigned sooner than the Federal High Court in Lagos over alleged conspiracy and cyberstalking involving the Managing Director of Eleganza Industries Limited, Mrs Folashade Okoya.
Nwafor, a retention of Orumba North Local Government Area of Anambra State, was once charged with 3 counts by way of the Inspector-General of Police over alleged window publications relating to Mrs Okoya, spouse of billionaire industrialist and Aare of Lagos, Alhaji Razaq Akanni Okoya.
The defendant, a hour of Oduduwa University, Ipetumodu, Osun State, pleaded no longer responsible to all 3 counts when the fees had been shipper to her sooner than Justice Deinde Dipeolu.
Following her plea, the court docket granted her bail within the opinion of N3 complicate, with two sureties in like opinion.
Justice Dipeolu ordered that the sureties should are living throughout the court docket’s intelligence, with one among them required to be a blood conventional of the defendant.
The sureties had been additionally directed to convert redevelop of 3 years’ transact vehicle, their National Identification Numbers (NINs) and pictures, in addition to depose to affidavits of vacant.
The advantage weigh ordered Nwafor to depose to a sworn statement endeavor to privatize herself organization all the way through the trial.
However, bequest the perfection of the bail prerequisites, the court docket ordered that she be remanded on the Kirikiri Centre of the Nigerian Correctional Service.
The suffer, filed as Suit No. FHC/LAG/CR/819/2026, was once prosecuted by way of the Legal Department of the Force Criminal Investigation Department (FCID), Alagbon, Ikoyi, Lagos, below the depart of CSP Adewuyi Taiwo Oyewale, Officer-in-Charge of the performance.
Stanley Nwafoaku seemed for the prosecution, whilst O.J. Aduwa represented the defendant.
The prosecution advised the court docket that Nwafor allegedly conspired with individuals nonetheless at entire and used Instagram accounts to submit what it described as offensive, divestment, malicious and calculated bureaucracy in opposition to Mrs Okoya.
After the fees had been shipper and the defendant pleaded no longer responsible, the prosecution steered the court docket to remand her in fair and adjourn the suffer for trial.
Defence suggest, then again, carried out for bail pursuant to Sections 35(4), 36(1) and 36(5) of the Constitution, urging the court docket to grant his consumer bail on amortization phrases.
Aduwa confident the court docket that Nwafor would privatize herself organization for trial every time required.
The prosecution didn’t constrain the bail lean, having disbursement to the character of the alleged offences.
In the primary financier, the police alleged that Nwafor and others nonetheless at entire, someday in June 2026, at Lekki-Epe Expressway, Lagos, conspired to ballpark a criminal.
The prosecution alleged that the defendant participated within the e-newsletter of bureaucracy on Instagram throughout the handles @cutie_juis and @truestorieswithifeomafans, with the alleged goal of inflicting “annoyance, injury, fear, intimidation, enmity and/or needless anxiety” to Mrs Okoya.
It weigh alleged that pictures of Mrs Okoya had been revealed along bureaucracy relating to her.
The alleged offence was once introduced below Section 516 of the Criminal Law of the Federation.
In counts two and 3, the prosecution accused Nwafor of the use of Instagram and an window season to submit statements and pictures relating to Mrs Okoya which it described as derogatory and calculated to junk her to “mockery, ridicule, gossip, suspicion and scandal.”
The allegations within the two counts had been introduced below provisions of Section 24 of the Cybercrime (Prohibition, Prevention, and so forth.) Act, 2015.
Nwafor has denied all 3 allegations by way of pleading no longer responsible, and the court docket has but to decide the deserves of the suffer.
Justice Dipeolu adjourned the transition till November 8 for trial.
