Category: Crime

The Federal Government has finally declared bandits as terrorists. The declaration titled, ‘Terrorism (Prevention) Proscription Order Notice, 2021 is contained in Volume 108 of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Official Gazette. The statement by the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice’s media aide, Umar Jibrilu Gwandu, reads in part: “Notice is hereby given that by the Order of the Federal High Court Abuja, in suit No. FHC/ABJ/CS/1370/2021 dated November 25, 2021 as per the schedule to this notice, the activities of Yan Bindiga (Hausa word for…

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Zamfara State Police Command yesterday said it had rescued 97 kidnap victims during the onslaught against bandits in the state. The Commissioner of Police, Ayuba Elkanah, who announced this in a statement in Gusau, said the victims included seven pregnant women, 19 babies within the ages of two to seven months and 16 children within the ages of two to seven years. Elkanah said the achievement was recorded by the joint Tactical operatives in Shinkafi and Tsafe Local Government Areas, LGAs of the state. According to him, “Following an extensive…

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Wasiu Eluyera, 35, has been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly conniving with his friend, Adeniyi Samuel, to kill his 29-year-old pregnant ex-wife, Bola Taiwo. The state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, in a statement on Monday, said the suspect, who was married to Taiwo, separated from her due to irreconcilable differences. He explained that Eluyera got married to another woman who was living with him. According to Oyeyemi, he met his former wife and they started going out again, which resulted in a pregnancy.…

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Police have arrested a policewoman identified as Ruth, for allegedly inflicting injuries on her 10-year-old niece, identified only as Miracle. Ruth, who resided at the Dutse Alhaji area of the Federal Capital Territory, was said to have caught Miracle stealing a piece of meat from her pot of soup on the Christmas Eve. A resident, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the policewoman tied the victim’s two hands and dipped them inside boiled water. The resident added that neighbours, who heard her cries, alerted the police and Miracle was…

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Nwaduche Ekeneotutu, a 49-year-old native doctor, has been arrested for allegedly raping and impregnating a 15-year-old girl in Enugu-Ukwu, Njikoka Local Government Area, LGA, of Anambra State. Executive Director of Davina Care Foundation, Rachel Yohanna, weekend said the case was brought to the foundation by the vigilante group in the area. The native doctor who is a friend of the girl’s mother was said to have been giving the girl treatment to cure her of an Ogbanje spirit. Yohanna said the crime was reported at Nimo Police station on December…

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Dominion Okoro, a 25-year-old housemaid, on Tuesday, in Benin, confessed to killing Madam Maria Igbinedion, 85, the mother of a former Governor of Edo State, Chief Lucky Igbinedion. Narrating how she carried out the act on December 2, Dominion, who was arrested in her hometown in Calabar, Cross River State, said she hit her late boss in the head with a stool while she slept. The suspect, who spoke while being paraded at the Edo State Police Command Headquarters in Benin, disclosed that she made away with N100,000, a wristwatch…

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Two Islamic clerics have been abducted by a gang of kidnappers after taking time to eat at their residence at Ayetoro in the Yewa-North Local Government Area of Ogun State. The kidnappers reportedly took the two friends, AbdulJelil Hussein and Ilyas Jamiu on Saturday around 10pm shortly after they arrived from a public lecture. The elder brother of one of the victims, Ibrahim Hussein, on Monday said that the kidnappers took their time to carry out the operation. Ibrahim said the kidnappers seized the phones of the occupants of the…

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A pregnant woman, Chioma Eze, has been arrested with 1,442 kilogrammes of imported skunk, while four men, including 62-year-old Basset Emmanuel, were arrested with 182,000 tablets of tramadol by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency after raiding two drug stores in Lagos. Eze, 27, was arrested on Friday, December 17, 2021, when operatives raided her store and home in the Ojo area of Lagos. Another suspect, Michael Oroke, was also nabbed with 29kg of the illicit drug in the same location. A statement on Sunday by the NDLEA…

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A woman, Patience Godswill, has been sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment by the Ondo State High Court for stealing and selling a two-year-old girl, Blessing, in Omifon town, in the Odigbo Local Government Area of the state. The convict and two other women, Martha Ogboji and Nnomah Annaibe, were arrested and charged with stealing Blessing in Ondo State and selling her to a woman in Abia State for N300,000. The trio were arraigned on two counts of conspiracy and child stealing. Godswill pleaded guilty to the two counts preferred against…

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Azeez Ilias, a 37-year-old man, identified as the son of a traditional ruler in the Ipokia Local Government Area of Ogun State, and a woman, identified only as Deborah, have been found dead in a car parked in front of a building in Ago Egun, Idiroko. While they were found naked, their clothes were not in the Toyota Camry, said to be owned by Ilias. It was gathered that the deceased man’s clothes were found in a gutter in front of a house suspected to be the residence of the…

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