Category: Crime

Yet-to-be identified gunmen reportedly opened fire on traditional rulers during a meeting, killing two of them in Imo State yesterday. The monarchs were meeting at the Njaba Local Council headquarters at Nnenasa when the hoodlums struck. It was gathered that some traditional rulers sustained injuries. Police Public relations Officer (PPRO) in the state, Mike Abattam, said two of the traditional rulers had been confirmed dead while the command had commenced investigation into the incident. The fallen monarchs are the Obi I of Okwudor Autonomous Community, Eze Anayochukwu Durueburuo and Eze…

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A blind aged woman was yesterday paraded by operatives of the Akwa Ibom State Police Command, for allegedly possessing a fresh human skull. The suspect was paraded alongside 138 others who were arrested across the state for various offences including murder, militancy, abduction, cultism, armed robbery, stealing, unlawful possession of firearms and vandalism, among others. A breakdown of the number showed that 11 suspects were arrested for alleged murder, 47 for armed robbery and stealing, 10 for defilement and rape, 21 for alleged cultism, 16 for vandalism, seven for kidnapping…

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Two Cameroonians and one Nigerian have been arrested in connection with militancy in Akwa Ibom State. The suspects were arrested on September 13, 2021 during a stop and search conducted by operatives of the Assistant Inspector-General of Police Border Monitoring Unit along Okobo/Oron highway. The command’s Public Relations Officer, Odiko Macdon, in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State on Friday, said two bags of dynamites, a container of incense powder and a bag containing items suspected to be talisman and others were recovered from the suspects. He said, “On September 12, 2021,…

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Jacob Joel, a 42-year-old man, has been remanded in a Jos Correctional Centre for the repeated rape of an 11-year-old girl. The Police told the court that the victim, who is a friend to the defendant’s daughter, was said to have been defiled allegedly by the defendant when she went to visit her friend. The defendant, however, pleaded not guilty to the crime. The judge, Justice S.P Gang, in his ruling, ordered that the defendant be remanded in prison until Dec. 7, for hearing. Earlier, the prosecutor, Mrs L. P.…

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Gunmen reportedly invaded Isu and Onicha-Igboeze communities, of Onicha Local Government Area of Ebonyi State killing no fewer than 10 persons including policemen yesterday. Two Policemen were reportedly killed in Isu while others met a similar fate in Onicha Igboeze. It was gathered that two Lawyers were also killed by the gunmen during the attack. The two affected Lawyers, according to sources, were driving in a vehicle, when they ran into the gunmen who operated on a Lexus Jeep. The Invaders were said to have killed the Lawyers, burnt the…

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Samuel Lucky Akpan, the kidnapper of a four-year-old boy in Akure, the Ondo state capital, has confessed that his intention was to sell the victim for N200,000. Akpan who was arrested by the state security outfit codenamed Amotekun revealed that he needed the money urgently when he was paraded in Akure. According to him ” the man I want to sell the boy to was even waiting for me to bring him when I was arrested by the operatives of Amotekun. The suspect, who is a friend of the boy’s…

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Olagoke Dare, staff of a Microfinance Bank in Abeokuta, has been arrested by men of Ogun State Police command for planning with another person to rob him of N3million belonging to his employer. The command spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, in a statement, yesterday, said the suspect was arrested following a distress call received by the police at Ibara divisional headquarters, that armed robbers have attacked the duo of Olagoke Dare and Mary Agbejo while coming out from a commercial bank at Oke-Ilewo area of the metropolis where they had gone to…

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Esther Adu, a woman suspected to be mentally ill, has been lynched by an angry mob at Ita Balogun, Ilesha, Osun State, for allegedly killing two of her neighbours. It was gathered that the incident, which happened on Saturday, led to pandemonium in the area. The deceased were identified as 90-year-old Ojuolape Olojo and 70-year-old Samson Sunday. One other neighbour, Disu Olaleye, 70, was reported to have been seriously injured by the woman, who wielded a machete. A resident, who witnessed the incident and spoke on condition of anonymity, said…

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Two suspected cultists have been arrested by the Edo State Police Command for allegedly torturing and humiliating a TikToker identified as ‘Queen Perri,’ following a viral video she made on social media. The state Commissioner of Police, Mr Philip Ogbadu, disclosed this after the state’s monthly security meeting at the Government House in Benin City. He said two of the boys involved in the torture of the lady had been arrested and in police custody, adding that the command had intensified search for other culprits. Contrary to the news making…

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