Category: Crime

Police in Lagos have arrested a man, Ifeanyi Njoku, for allegedly killing his girlfriend, Precious Okeke, 24, in an estate at Badore, in the Ajah area of Lagos State. It was gathered that the live-in lovers stayed on Oke Street, where Njoku allegedly killed his girlfriend for ritual purposes. It was learnt that a native doctor, who was assisting the suspect, instructed him to have sex with Okeke’s corpse. Njoku was said to have engaged in the illicit act with the corpse for six days, as the stench emanating from…

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The NDLEA has seized 1,399kg of hard drugs in Kaduna in March. A shop and four houses were sealed in the process. Commander of the NDLEA in the state, Mr Umar Adoro, gave the breakdown of drugs seized as 997.121kg of Indian hemp and 342.329kg of other psychotropic substances. Others were 0.027kg of cocaine, 0.036kg of heroin and 59.382kg of Tramadol. Adoro in Kaduna on Wednesday said that three of the houses sealed are located at Rigacikun area of the state. The fourth, he said, was sealed at Anguwan Maigero…

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A 100-year-old suspected female ritualist, Furera Abubakar, and two others, have been arrested for allegedly plucking out the right eye of a 12-year-old boy, Mustapha Yunusa. The other suspects are Isah Hassan (17) and Sani Abdulrahman (16). The Kano State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Abdullahi Haruna, in a statement on Thursday, said the Almajiri boy was lured into a corner where his assailants removed his left eyeball on the orders of the woman. The eyeball was to be used in preparing an “appear and disappear” charm. The statement read,…

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Over 48 hours after terrorists attacked the Abuja-Kaduna train, Nigerians are yet to know the number of passengers on board. The attacked train, which left at least eight passengers dead and 41 injured, saw the disappearance of scores of passengers. This is even as the terrorists, who went away with some of the passengers, have started calling their families to say their loved ones are with them. Although the Nigeria Railway Corporation, NRC, said in a statement, Tuesday, that 398 passengers bought tickets for the trip, and that only 362…

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Following a failed attempt to kidnap some pupils of a private school on Omole Estate in the Ojodu area of Lagos State, a suspected ritualist, Temitayo Olafisoye, has been arrested. It was gathered that Olafisoye and an accomplice, Kayode Akinola, visited the estate on Sunday and started loitering around the school premises. Their suspicious movement was reportedly noticed by some of the estate guards. However, on Monday, a woman, who used her car to convey her children to the school, reportedly parked close to the premises so the pupils could…

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Two drug traffickers arrested at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, (NAIA), Abuja have excreted a total of 165 wraps of cocaine. This was made known by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). The Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA, Mr Femi Babafemi said this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja. Babafemi who named the suspects as Elvis Iro, 53 and Uwaezuoke Christian, 42 said that they were arrested by operatives of the NDLEA. He said that the suspects excreted the drugs while under observation in the Agency’s custody. According…

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A lady, Blessing Stephen, has been sentenced to 10-years imprisonment by a Magistrate’s Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, for conspiracy and child trafficking. The Chief Magistrate, Felicitas Amanze, described Stephen as unrepentant and hardened, adding that the prosecution proved she deceived the child’s mother, Abigail Monday, to sell her baby for N200,000, and gave her N20,000. Stephen was sentenced to three years on count one and seven years on count two. The sentences, according to the chief magistrate, will run consecutively. The court also directed that the child’s…

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18-year-old Abdulsamad Suleiman of Dorayi Chiranchi Quarters, Gwale, Kano, has been arrested by the Kano State Police Command alongside an accomplice, Mu’azzam Lawan, 17, over the alleged murder of a housewife. The spokesman for the state police command, SP Abdullahi Haruna, in a statement on Thursday, said, ‘’On February 12, 2022, around 8.30pm, a report was received from a resident of Danbare Quarters, Kumbotso LGA, Kano State, that on the same date around 8pm when he returned from his place of work to his house, he met his wife, Rukayya…

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