Category: Crime

A 14-year-old boy (name withheld) has been remanded in a correctional centre on the order of an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State on Tuesday, for allegedly defiling a 13-year-old girl. Magistrate O.A Layinka, who did not take the juvenile’s plea, directed the police to send the case file to the state Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for legal advice. She adjourned the case until Jan. 12, 2022, pending legal advice from the DPP’s office. The Prosecution Counsel, Insp Lucky Ihiehie, told the court that the juvenile committed the offence…

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Men of Ogun State Police Command have arrested an eighteen-year-old Senior Secondary School student, Tope Fasanya, for attempting to kill her guardian, Mrs Esther Bada by poisoning her food. The suspect, Tope according to a statement by State Command Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, was arrested following a complaint by the victim, who reported that she was served food by Tope and immediately after eating the food, she felt sharp stomach pain and became uncomfortable. Oyeyemi said, “When the pain was becoming so severe, she called Tope to eat…

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A pastor, Peter Taiwo, of the Christ Apostolic Bible Church, Alaja Oke, Saje, Abeokuta, hàs been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly defiling a 16-year-old chorister in his church. The police also arrested his wife, Elizabeth Taiwo, for allegedly conniving with him by shutting the door on the victim during the act. The state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, in a statement on Sunday, said the pastor and his wife were arrested on Friday following a complaint lodged by the victim at the Adatan divisional…

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Police in Rivers state have arrested a middle-aged man, Egbe Godfrey, who claimed to have lost all his savings to a trading firm, MBA Trading and Capital Investment Limited in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, for attempting suicide. Godfrey had climbed a telecommunications mast at the Garrison axis of Port Harcourt on Tuesday and threatened to hang himself when residents got him distracted and rescued him. MBA Trading and Capital Investment Limited, operated by one Maxwell Odum, collapsed due to his inability to pay investors agreed return on investment. Thousands of…

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A pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God in FESTAC Town, in the Amuwo Odofin Local Government Area of Lagos State, has been stabbed to death by two new converts suspected to be hoodlums. It was gathered that the victim, Pastor Babatunde Dada, was killed inside the RCCG Chapel of Resurrection on 13 Road, 6th Avenue, FESTAC Town. The killing, which happened on Thursday, December 2, was said to have been perpetrated by two new converts who came to the church for the first time a Sunday before the…

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A medical doctor, Christian Osakwe, has been arrested by the Police Command in Delta state over alleged rape of his housemaid in Asaba. The command’s spokesman, DSP Bright Edafe on Tuesday in Asaba, said that Osakwe was arrested and detained in custody after the police received a formal complaint on the allegation. “The suspect is currently in police custody at the SCID, and we have commenced investigation into the allegation. “I can assure you that once investigation is concluded, the suspect will be charged to court,” Edafe said. A humam…

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In a viral video which surfaced online, students of Idogbo Secondary School, in Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area of Edo State, went haywire, setting a section of the school ablaze, just as they vandalised the principal’s office. They were said to have also harassed a policeman on duty in the school while the students were writing exams. The students were seen chasing a man believed to be the principal, who outran them. In anger, the rampaging students returned to the school premises and destroyed the principal’s office. It was gathered that…

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A report by the Inter-Governmental Action Group against Money Laundering in West Africa (GIABA) alluding that the Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP) was laundering N18 billion through Nigeria’s financial system to deepen terrorism, has been denied by the Federal government. The Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU), which reacted yesterday via a statement issued by its Chief Media Analyst, Ahmed Dikko, faulted the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) body that observed the fund was generated yearly from trading and taxing communities in the Lake Chad region. Established…

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About 100,000 persons have signed two petitions on the Change.org platform, demanding the swift prosecution of all those responsible for the gruesome death of 12-year-old Sylvester Oromoni, who was a boarding student of Dowen College, Lekki, Lagos. The Lagos State Government, on Friday, ordered the indefinite closure of the school, pending the outcome of an investigation into the death of Sylvester. Also, the Lagos State Police Commissioner, Hakeem Odumosu, weekend, ordered the Homicide Section of the State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti, to take over the investigation of the case immediately.…

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