A 44-year old woman, Mrs. Adenike Owolope, has been
arrested and charged before the Ejigbo Magistrate’s Court, Lagos State,
southwest Nigeria, for allegedly squandering her employer’s money on
lotto game, also known as Baba Ijebu.
She was charged on a one count charge of stealing before the presiding magistrate, Mrs M. B. Folami.
P.M.NEWS gathered that the Ogun State-born Owolope worked in the sales and finance department of a cosmetics company, Remdocs Nigeria Limited, at 35 Saidat Kellam Street, Abaranje, Ikotun, Lagos where she had access to the company’s money and allegedly stole N1, 960, 000 to play lotto.