Category: Crime

Men of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested two suspected kidnappers for allegedly abducting one Pastor Mapai Samuel of Zoe Family International Church, Odo-Eran, Abeokuta. The suspected female kidnapper, Ibikunle Opeyemi, and her male colleague, Kadiri Jamiu, were arrested on Thursday following a distress call received by policemen at the Aregbe divisional headquarters. The state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, in a statement on Thursday, said two other suspects dressed in military camouflage escaped arrest. He explained that the suspects carried out the operation on Wednesday around…

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A 54-year-old man, Dauda Bello, has been arrested arrested by men of the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly killing a 71-year-old woman, Mrs Mesesi Adisa, and selling her wrists and ankles to a suspected ritualist. The state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday. Oyeyemi said the suspect was arrested on Thursday following the sudden disappearance of the victim, who left her house on June 8, 2022, and did not return home. The PPRO said a family member of the victim reported…

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A fake army general, Hassan Kareem, aka Bolarinwa Abiodun, has been sentenced to seven years imprisonment by Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of the Ikeja Special Offences Court in Lagos State on Thursday. Kareem was convicted after he admitted to using the name of former President Olusegun Obasanjo to defraud a businessman, Bamidele Safiriyu, of N266.5m. The defendant was arrested at his house in the Alagbado area of Lagos State on Wednesday, January 12, 2022. Kareem was arraigned on April 11, 2022, for falsely representing himself with a forged letter of appointment…

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Terrorists on Tuesday night bombed the Kuje Medium Security Custodial Centre, Abuja, which was being guarded by dozens of soldiers, Department of State operatives, police officers and Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps personnel. During the attack which began around 10:22 pm, the terrorists released 600 inmates, including 15 deadly Boko Haram commanders who masterminded the March 28 attack on the Kaduna-Abuja train at Katari, Kaduna, in which eight persons were killed and over 68 passengers kidnapped. The Islamic State West Africa Province claimed responsibility for the attack in a…

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The Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Offences Court, Ikeja, has sentenced Bright Izuchukwu, a housekeeper, who defiled his employer’s daughters aged six and seven, to two terms of life imprisonment. Justice Abiola Soladoye sentenced the convict after finding him guilty of the charges preferred against him by the Lagos State Government. Izuchukwu was arraigned on two counts bordering on defilement. While delivering judgment, Justice Soladoye said the prosecution established the ingredients of the offence against the defendant. “The evidence of the defence is self-serving, manifestly unreliable and untruthful, while that…

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The Presidency’s convoy of cars conveying advance team of security guards, protocol and media officers, were attacked by suspected terrorists on Tuesday, near Dutsinma, Katsina State, leaving two policemen killed. The Presidency officials were travelling to Daura ahead of the trip of President Muhammadu Buhari to his hometown for Sallah. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, confirmed the attack in a statement without confirming the casualty figure. The statement titled “Gallant presidential guards repel attack on advance team ahead of President’s visit” read,…

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Ponle Adebanjo, a middle aged man, has allegedly burnt his estranged wife, Lateefat, to death after she left him over domestic violence. It was learnt that the incident happened on Saturday in the Otun-Akute area of Ogun State. The victim was said to have had four children in a previous relationship before meeting the suspect. The state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, confirmed the incident in a statement on Sunday. The statement read, “The suspect was arrested on Saturday after concerned neighbours reported the incident to the police…

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A suspected Nigerian cybercrime kingpin, James Aliyu has been arrested by the International Criminal Police Organization popularly known as Interpol, over alleged $12 million scam in South Africa. Aliyu was nabbed in his luxury Sandton estate on Wednesday, in connection with almost R196m in alleged romance scamming and business email compromise fraud. Reports revealed that the Nigerian national who appeared in the Randburg magistrate’s court shortly after his arrest, is popular in South African social circles. He is also well-known on Instagram following his lavish holidays and excessive spending on…

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A dismissed police sergeant, James Imhalu, has been sentenced to death by hanging by a High Court in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, for the murder of a commercial driver in 2015 over his refusal to pay a bribe of N100. Justice Elsie Thompson, while delivering her judgment, said evidence before the court showed that the sacked sergeant intentionally fired a shot at the commercial driver, Legbara David, at Whimpey Junction, Port Harcourt. Justice Thompson described Imhalu as a serial trigger-happy policeman who should not be allowed to remain in the…

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In protest against the killing of a cow around Agemowo, in the Badagry area of Lagos State, two yet-to-be-identified cattle herders on Monday reportedly stabbed a man to death. It was gathered that the herders were crossing the expressway with their cattle when a commercial bus crushed the cow to death. Angered by the development, the herders accosted the driver and demanded payment for the dead cow. It was learnt that the request for payment led to an argument that degenerated into a fight, as the herders allegedly stabbed the…

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