Category: Crime

No fewer than eight residents were on Tuesday night kidnapped in the Ikole Local Government Area of Ekiti State. The abductors were said to have contacted the family of the victims on Wednesday morning, according to sources, and demanded N50 million ransom. A source said on Wednesday that the gunmen, at about 9.30pm, invaded a house where the houseowner was preparing for the burial of his mother, shot sporadically into the air and made away with eight persons. “The men numbering seven came around 9.30pm with guns and surrounded the…

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Personnel of the Nigerian Air Force has been accused of murdering an artist, Ifeanyi Kalu, while driving on the Bus Rapid Transit lane in Lagos State. It was gathered that Ifeanyi was on his way to work in the Ilupeju area of the state when the incident happened. His remains were said to have been deposited in a mortuary at the Nigerian Air Force base in Lagos. Describing Ifeanyi’s death as a big loss to his family, an actor, Segun Adefila, said he was killed two months after his mother’s…

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16 worshippers we’re reportedly killed by gunmen at a mosque in central Nigeria, on Monday, in the latest violence in the region. Scores of gunmen on motorcycles stormed Maza-Kuka village in Mashegu district of Niger state on Monday and opened fire during morning prayers, said Ahmed Ibrahim Matane, the secretary to the government. “The bandits shot dead 16 people inside the mosque while they were praying,” Matane said. Three worshippers were injured in the attack, one of them critically, he added. Matane said one other person was killed in nearby…

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The Katsina State Police Command has arrested a 39-year-old man, Ahmed Abdulmumini, has been arrested for cyber-stalking. According to the police, Abdulmumini’s arrest followed a complaint by Governor Aminu Masari’s Special Adviser on Domestic Affairs, Alhaji Ibrahim Umar. Umar allegedly told the police that the suspect made derogatory remarks about him via email. He claimed that he saw the offensive message while going through various goodwill messages sent to him by people on his 55th birthday on October 25, 2021. The state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Gambo Isah, who…

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2,060 kilogrammes of assorted drugs, including heroin, methamphetamine, cannabis, tramadol and rohypnol has been intercepted by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA. The drugs were reportedly seized in Lagos, Ondo, Edo, Kano, Kaduna and Plateau states. The agency said two consignments of heroin weighing 4.40kg and 550 grams were intercepted on October 6 and 15, respectively, at the cargo shed of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos. A statement on Sunday by the NDLEA Director, Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, said the first was seized at the…

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Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, Minister of Interior, yesterday, vowed to pursue and recapture all inmates, who escaped from the Abolongo Custodial Centre of the Nigeria Correctional Service, NCoS, in Oyo State on Friday night, during a jailbreak after a vicious attack on the facility by yet to be identified gunmen. The minister gave the assurance during a visit to the facility in Oyo, Oyo State, saying: “The spate of attacks on our custodial facilities, the last of which occurred here, on Friday night, calls for serious concern. “First in our society…

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Two kidnap syndicates recently turned against each other in a forest in Galadimawa Town, Giwa Local Government Area of Kaduna State, over an attempt by both camps to take custody of a female victim who escaped from one of the gang’s den. At the end of the bloody fight, 11 members of both warring gangs were killed, while the victim, identified as Binta Abusafyan, managed to escape unhurt in the process. She reported the incident at the Force Investigation Bureau- Intelligence Response Team, FIB-IRT, Ragachigun base in Kaduna. She explained…

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Olayiwola Rasak, a 61-year-old man has been arrested by the Oyo State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps and remanded in prison on the order of Family Court, Iyaganku, Ibadan, for allegedly raping a 15-year-old girl. The NSCDC Commandant, Michael Adaralewa, said this on Friday in a statement by the spokesperson for the command, Oluwole Olusegun. He said that the suspect was charged to court for rape contrary to Section 34(1) and punishable under Section 34(2) of the Child Rights Law of Oyo State by the Anti-Human…

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An Abuja–Kaduna bound train was on Wednesday night ambushed by suspected Bandits, detonating explosives on the rail track and causing unprecedented panic in the Kaduna metropolis. Former senator representing Kaduna Central, Shehu Sani, who was among the passengers travelling to Abuja, yesterday, narrowly escaped death when the train ran into a rail track damaged by the explosion. Sani stated: “Yesterday (Wednesday), bandits attacked Kaduna–Abuja train. They planted an explosive that damaged the rail track and shattered the windshield of the train. They also opened fire, targeting the driver and the…

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The video of the 14-year-old minor allegedly defiled by a popular Nollywood actor, Olanrewaju James, also known as Baba Ijesha, was played at an Ikeja Special Offences Court on Wednesday. The video was a recording of the child forensic interview conducted on May 15 by Mrs Olabisi Ajayi-Kayode, a child expert and Executive Director of the Cece Yara Foundation. The video was played during the cross-examination of Ajayi-Kayode by the defence counsel, Babatunde Ogala (SAN). During the interview, the minor described the interaction she had with Baba Ijesha on April…

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