Category: Crime

The Northern Governors’ Forum (NGF) has condemned the killing of Deborah Samuel Yakubu, a student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto State, on allegations of blasphemy. While calling for calm, the chairman of the forum and governor of Plateau State, Simon Lalong, in a statement, yesterday, expressed the governor’s concern about the development, which was clearly an extrajudicial measure of addressing perceived infractions. Deborah, a second-year student of Home Economics, was killed on Thursday following an allegation that she had blasphemed the Prophet of Islam. The victim was stoned…

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Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested two pregnant women and a barber at Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Ikeja, Lagos, for attempting to import and export illicit drugs. The NDLEA spokesperson, Mr Femi Babafemi, said this in a statement, yesterday, in Abuja. Babafemi said the first to enter the agency’s dragnet was a Brazilian returnee, Nworie Chikwendu, who was arrested on May 3. He said the suspect was arrested during an inward clearance of passengers on a Qatar Airways flight from Sao Paulo, Brazil, enroute…

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A 60-year-old man identified as Boniface Onyekwere, has been expelled by Deeper Life Bible Church, Anambra State, over an alleged attempt to rape a 12-year-old girl. The church’s stand was made known in a disclaimer signed by the State Overseer, Pastor Jude Chukwuocha and dated April 26, 2022, which noted that Onyekwere was not a pastor or worker in any Deeper Life church in Anambra State. Onyekwere was arrested by the Anambra State Police Command on charges of attempted rape of a minor who was entrusted in his care. The…

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Kushimo Lukman, a mortuary attendant, was, yesterday, arrested in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, for cutting off the head of a deceased boy. Lukman, who was arrested by men of the Ogun State government-owned security outfit, the So-Safe Corps, while on routine patrol, said the severed head was requested for by one Chief Ifalonishe at the cost of N50,000. The So-Safe Corps said the suspect, who resides at 9, Abule Oloni, Oke Yidi, Abeokuta, was “an acclaimed mortuary attendant working with MABOD at Oke-Yidi, Abule Oloni, Abeokuta.” Yusuf said he…

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Chief Afam Ukatu, the billionaire drug baron behind the N3bn tramadol deal involving a suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police and former leader of the Intelligence Response Team, Abba Kyari, has been arrested by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency. A statement on Monday by the spokesperson for the agency, Femi Babafemi, said he was arrested “after months of surveillance and evading arrest.” According to Babafemi, Ukatu, who is the chairman of Mallinson Group of Companies, was nabbed onboard a flight to Abuja at the MM2 terminal of the Lagos airport,…

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The Zamfara state government has been given 14days ultimatum by a notorious terrorist known as Nasanda, to pay him N30 million as compensation for the alleged killing of his wife and two other relations. He threatened to kill 300 people, if his demand was not met. Nasanda alleged that some vigilante men in the state killed his bride, her uncle and aunt. Reacting to the development, convener of Concerned Nigerians, Mr. Deji Adeyanju, lamented the audacity of criminals to make open threats against citizens in a country with equipped security…

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Kuryanga, a middle-aged man, has allegedly set his estranged wife on fire while she was asleep last Thursday in Guyuk town, in the Guyuk Local Government Area of Adamawa State. Armed with Premium Motor Spirit, also called petrol, and a box of matches, Kuryanga reportedly attacked and set ablaze his estranged wife, Janet John, while asleep on an ill-fated night. Noyina, an aunt to Janet who recounted the frightening incident in Hausa said: “It was terrifying to wake up to a column of burning fire like a typical horror movie…

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19 suspected criminals have been arrested by the Ondo State Security Network Agency, also known as Amotekun Corps, in different parts of the state. Among the suspects were two teenagers, Timilehin (12), aka Anini, and Sunday (16), aka Oyenusi; and 20-year-old Odeyemi Ayodele, aka Osumbo. Anini, Oyenusi and Osumbo were hardened criminals who were killed by firing squad during the military era. Timilehin, Sunday and Ayodele were arrested for robbery at Ijare community in the Ifedore Local Government Area of Ondo State. Parading the suspects on Thursday at the command…

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Police Commissioner in Lagos State, CP Abiodun Alabi, has ordered the immediate commencement of appropriate disciplinary measures for a Police officer pictured smoking weed in the Ijora area of the state. In a statement signed by the Spokesperson of the Command, SP Benjamin Hundeyin on Tuesday, the officer was identified as an Assistant Superintendent of Police ASP, Babatunde Adebayo, serving with the Shogunle Division of the Command. The CP directed that the disciplinary action to be meted on the ASP should commensurate with his rank. The Commissioner equally warned officers…

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A suspected imposter, Abiodun Bolarinwa, has been remanded in the Ikoyi Custodial Centre by Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of the Lagos State Special Offences Court sitting at Ikeja on Monday. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in January 2022 arrested the defendant, who claimed to be a military general to access a N270m loan from a transportation company, Kodef Clearing Resources. It was gathered that Bolarinwa allegedly told the company that President Muhammdu Buhari shortlisted him for appointment as the Chief of Army Staff and he needed a quick grant to…

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