Category: Crime

In separate attacks, gunmen invaded two villages of Yagbak and Ungwan Ruhugo in the Ayap Chiefdom of the Zango- Kataf Local Government Area of Kaduna State on Friday. A statement from the state government simply indicated that lives were lost, but it was gathered that no fewer than 10 persons were killed during the attack on one of the villages. According to the state Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, some people were killed while houses were razed in attacks on two locations of Yagbak and Ungwan…

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A housewife, Memunat Salaudeen, has been arrested by operatives of the Ogun State Police Command on Monday for allegedly hiring three men to kidnap her husband. The wife, who accused her husband of being stingy, was reported to have hired the accomplices — Olayinka Lawal, Asungba Nura and Usman Oluwatoyin — to kidnap her husband and take a ransom from him. Nemesis, however, caught up with them when the police apprehended the suspects during a stop and search on the Papa-Itori Road. The state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Abimbola…

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Bandits reportedly had a field day on Sunday killing one and kidnapping over 100 Baptist Church worshippers in Kaduna. Chairman of Kaduna chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Rev. Joseph Hayab, said, yesterday, that the security situation kept deteriorating, against the state government’s claims that it was on top of the situation. According to Hayab, the insecurity in the state came to a climax on Sunday, when bandits stormed Emmanuel Baptist Church during service, killed one and abducted over 100 worshippers, while others sustained severe injuries. Hayab said:…

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Unspecified number of persons including a professor of Economics in the University of Abuja, his two children, were reportedly abducted by gunmen in the early hours of Tuesday. The lecturer,whose name was given as Prof. Joseph Obansa,was taken away among others when the gunmen reportedly invaded the institution’s staff quarters,located at Giri, in Gwagwalada, about 30 kilometres away from the nation’s federal capital city. The news of the invasion which surfaced in the university’s social media page, early Tuesday, few hours after the development, has been confirmed by the Public…

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Soji Bakare, a 40-year-old man, has been arrested by Police detectives for allegedly raping a 10-yr-old primary school pupil in her parents’ bedroom in Akure, the Ondo state capital. The suspect was caught while assaulting the victim at her parents’ house located at Aiyeyemi street, Isolo area of Akure, the state capital. It was gathered that the mother of the victim was in the market where she sells soup ingredients when the suspect sneaked into their house and assaulted her daughter. It was gathered that the suspect, whose wife also…

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London, United Kingdom-bound consignments of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and cannabis has been seized by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos State. The NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi, in a statement on Sunday, said narcotic officers on Thursday, October 28, during outward routine clearance of cargoes at the NAHCO export shed of the airport intercepted 20 parcels of cocaine weighing 1.2 kilogrammes concealed in packets of Zee black soap. Also recovered were 23 parcels of heroin weighing 1.4kg hidden in packets of Zee…

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26 people, including two herbalists have been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibadan Zonal Command in Oyo, for alleged cybercrime. Mr Wilson Uwujaren, the commission’s Spokesperson made the disclosure in a statement he signed and made available in Ibadan on Friday. Uwujaren said that the two self-acclaimed herbalists were arrested on Friday at Soka area of Ibadan over their alleged involvement in offences bordering on internet fraud. He said that they were arrested alongside 24 others, four of whom claimed to be students of Lead City…

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Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), hàs said the agency recovered 301 houses from two public officers in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. The revelation came at the inauguration of the House of Representatives adhoc Committee on Investigation of the Operations of Real Estate Developers, yesterday. The ICPC chairman said while 241 buildings were recovered from one of the suspects at different locations within the FCT, the remaining 60 were recovered on a large expanse of land at another location.…

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A 51-year-old woman, Gladys Amadi, from Chokocho, in the Etche Local Government Area, has been arrested by the Rivers State Police Command for allegedly killing her husband, Napoleon Amadi, with a machete. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Nnamdi Omoni, disclosed this while parading the suspect at the State Criminal Investigation Department in Port Harcourt, the state capital. Omoni said Gladys, who admitted to committing the crime, was arrested on October 8, 2021. He said, “It is a case of murder of one Napoleon Amadi. The local police swung into…

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