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The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, NAPTIP, has arrested a 49-year-old housewife, Mrs Augustina Ikyor, in Makurdi for allegedly stealing two-month-old twins. The Makurdi Zonal Commander of the agency, Mrs Gloria Bai, who made this known, yesterday, said her office acted on a distress message from the mother of the babies, who, Tuesday, raised the alarm, alleging that the suspect tricked her and took away her twin babies to an unknown destination. According to Bai, “she stated that the woman had previously demanded she sold off…

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Police have arrested three men in the Ijebu-Ode area of Ogun State, for allegedly attempting to kidnap their former employer, Ifenuga Olayinka, after he sacked them . The suspects — Peter Nse, 24; Chuckwuma Nwobodo, 48; and Michael Umanah, 30 — were arrested following a complaint by Olayinka. The Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday. He explained that Olayinka reported that he received a text message on his phone from someone who described himself as ‘Killer Vagabond of Africa.’ The…

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Three nurses at a private hospital have been arrested by operatives of the Delta State Police Command in Asaba, over the alleged removal of the eyes, nose and ear of a deceased newborn baby. It was learnt that the hospital had released the deceased child on Sunday after he was confirmed dead by a paediatric, but was, however, brought back, yesterday, by the parents who alleged the removal of the human parts. A source at the hospital said: “The parents brought the child to the hospital on Sunday evening, immediately…

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A notorious criminal, Ridwan Abdulfatai aged 20, has been arrested by the police from the Kwara State Command on yesterday, for allegedly robbing and raping of some female students of the Kwara State University, Malete, in the Moro Local Government Area of Kwara State. Abdulfatai who had been in and out of prison, before his present arrest, confessed to his nefarious activities which led to the arrest of his gang members which include Ibrahim Akorede (25) and Aliyu Apalado (25), all from the Oke Fomo area, Ilorin. In a press…

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A total of 2,465,000 tablets of tramadol 225mg and 250mg weighing 2,356kg, smuggled through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos State, has been intercepted by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency. The NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, in a statement on Sunday, said the seizure, which took place on Friday, was worth N1,040,000,000 in street value. This is coming barely a week after about 13.5 million pills of the same opioid worth over N8.8bn were recovered by operatives of the NDLEA from one of the mansions of a billionaire drug…

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Police operatives in Ogun State have arrested two suspected Internet fraudsters popularly call ‘Yahoo boys’, for killing a 40-year-old man, Abdullahi Azeez, and cutting him to pieces. The command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi,  who disclosed this in a statement in Abeokuta, the state capital, named the suspects as Friday Abinya Odeh, 21, and Poso Idowu, 20 years. He said the suspects were arrested following a report lodged at Owode Egba divisional headquarters on June 9, 2022 by relations of the victim, who reported that the victim left his…

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