Category: Crime

The corpses of eight minors were recovered from a Honda Sport Utility Vehicle parked on Adelayo Street, in the Jah-Michael area, Badagry Expressway, Lagos State on Saturday. It was gathered that the vehicle was parked in front of a house where the victims entered it. The kids were said to be playing inside the SUV when they mistakenly locked themselves in as efforts to unlock the door proved abortive. It was learnt that a parent, while searching for the children, found their remains inside the vehicle. The parent was said…

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A 65-year-old man, Rojaiye Balogun, has been arrested by operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps in Ogun State, for allegedly raping his 17-year-old daughter. The state corps Commandant of the NSCDC, Kolawole Taiwo, while parading the suspect at the command headquarters in Abeokuta on Thursday, said he was arrested on Wednesday at Imomo-Ijebu, in the Ijebu Ode Local Government Area of the state. Taiwo disclosed that the case was reported to the Anti-Human Trafficking, Irregular Migration Unit of the command by a relative of the victim. He…

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Kunle Ajibade, a leader of the National Union of Road Transport Workers in Lagos State, has been murdered by suspected hoodlums in Ijeshatedo, in the Surulere area of the state. It was gathered that the assailants stabbed the 28-year-old at his house and trailed him to a hospital where he was receiving treatment. They were said to have shot him multiple times. The victim’s brother, Kehinde, who urged the police to investigate the killing, said his brother was being rushed to the Lagos University Teaching Hospital when he gave up…

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Olayinka Adisa, an Ogun State-based businesswoman, travelling to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, for Umrah (lesser Hajj) has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency for allegedly ingesting 80 pellets of cocaine. Adisa was arrested on Wednesday, November 24, 2021, at the boarding screening area of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, during an outward clearance of Qatar Airways flight 1418. The NDLEA, in a statement by its Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, on Monday, said the suspect claimed she trafficked the drug to get money…

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Victor Adewale Omofaiye, Kogi State Commissioner for Environment, on Sunday escaped being kidnapped but sustained gunshot wounds when gunmen opened fire on his vehicle. It was reliably gathered that the incident happened between Ikoyi and Iyara at about 5:00 pm on Sunday. It was further gathered that the commissioner was on his way to Lokoja when over 20 suspected kidnappers opened fire on his vehicle. The source said they were three in number in the car but the commissioner sustained gunshot wounds from the kidnappers as they were able to…

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Ibrahim lshaq, the Divisional Police Officer in charge of Etsako Central Local Government Area of Edo State, has been reportedly abducted by kidnappers who are demanding N50m ransom before his release. He was said to have been abducted around Ise River along the old Auchi-Ekperi- Agenebode road. Sources said the DPO was driving his private car when he was accosted on Friday evening by the gunmen, who shot indiscriminately into the air and forced his vehicle to stop before he was seized ‎and taken into the bush. The incident is…

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A Principal, Joshua Adeyemi, his Vice, lfedayo Yesufu and three other teachers, have been abducted by suspected gunmen along Auga-Ise road in Akoko North East council area of Ondo state. Adeyemi is the Principal of Auga Community Grammar School while lfedayo is the Vice. The three abducted teachers also of same school include, Oloyede Bukola, Adagunodo Funmilayo and Blessing Okeke. Eyewitness account said that the incident occurred on Thursday afternoon while they were travelling in a Blue Toyota Corolla car belonging to the school Principal along the Auga-Ise road in…

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Maduabuchi Chinedu, a 32-year-old suspected drug trafficker based in Liberia, has been arrested at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency with 9.30 kilogrammes of cocaine estimated at over N2.7bn. The suspect, who hails from Obaha Okigwe village, in the Okigwe Local Government Area of Imo State, lives in Liberia, where he works as a miner. A spokesperson for the NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, on Thursday, said he was arrested during an inward search of an Ethiopian Airline flight 911 at the Abuja…

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A 40-year-old man, Elisha Edet, has been arrested by operatives of the Anti-Human Trafficking Unit of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Akwa Ibom State, for allegedly conniving with his wife to sell their two daughters. Elisha, who lives in Cameroon with his wife, was arrested in Uyo on November 15, 2021, while trying to sell the children, identified as Abasifreke and Rachael. In a statement on Wednesday by the state Police Public Relations Officer, Umana Ukeme, the suspect was quoted to have based his decision to sell the…

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Appolos Ndubuisi, 40, has been arrested by the Police in Abia State, for allegedly selling a baby boy for N350, 000, after deceiving the mother that the baby died during delivery. Ndubuisi was alleged to have conspired with one Rose Godwin Chinweikpe, who operates a maternity home at Owoahia-Afor community in Obingwa council, to sell the baby. It was gathered that the baby boy that was said to be a stillbirth, belongs to Ndubuisi’s supposed wife, Deborah Onukaogu. Commissioner of Police, Abia State, Mrs Janet Agbede, said in 2020 Deborah…

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