Category: Crime

Aminu Yar’Adua, a 36-year-old son of the late Nigerian President, Umaru Yar’Adua, has been remanded in prison for allegedly killing four people in an auto crash in Yola. Yar’Adua, a student of the American University of Nigeria, Yola, was charged to court for allegedly causing death by dangerous driving on 23 June, 2021. According to the police First Information Report (FIR) tendered in court by the prosecutor, Insp. Zakka Musa, the accused had, while driving along Yola bye pass on 23 June, 2021 , crushed six people as a result…

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Armed robbers reportedly attacked two banks on Thursday in Iree Osun State, leaving a man dead. The deceased was said to have been shot dead at a police station by the robbers, who went there to disperse those on duty before they attacked the branches of two new generation Banks along Ikirun Road. Sources said the deceased, whose identity could not be ascertained, was a constabulary attached to the station and had challenged the robbers. It was also learnt that the men of the underworld used explosives to break the…

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Abba Kyari, suspended deputy commissioner of police, on Tuesday, appeared before the special investigation panel headed by the deputy inspector-general of police in charge of the Force Criminal Investigations Department, Joseph Egbunike. The panel sat at the Force headquarters in Abuja and ended the session at 8.p.m. The IGP Alkali Baba set up the panel following Kyari’s alleged involvement in a $1.1m Internet fraud allegedly perpetrated by suspected wire fraudster, Abbas Ramon, popularly known as ‘Hushpuppi’, and five others. The FBI had claimed that Kyari detained one Kelly Chibuzor at…

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Five persons have been arrested in connection with the murder of Emeka Eloagu, an Abuja celebrity chef and Director of Helenes Food Company. It was gathered from sources that the suspects had been transferred to the Homicide Unit of the State Criminal Investigation Department. The celebrity chef was said to have been found dead in his apartment in Katampe extension, Abuja, on Sunday. A friend of the deceased said on Tuesday that the killers must have been close to the chef. The friend, who gave his name simply as Ken,…

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation has alleged that money laundering suspect, Abass Ramon, aka Hushpuppi, paid N8m or $20,600 to the embattled Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, to arrest and detain a “co-conspirator,” Chibuzo Kelly Vincent. A document issued by the United States District Court for the Central District of California and dated February 12, 2021, alleged that Hushpuppi contracted the services of Kyari after Chibuzo allegedly threatened to expose an alleged $1.1m fraud committed against a Qatari businessman. “Kyari provided the account information for a bank account at…

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A 45-year-old woman, Kafayat Lawal, has been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly stabbing her 17-year-old daughter Ayomide Adekoya with a broken bottle to death. The woman also stabbed another of her children with a broken bottle in the hand which led to the victim’s hospitalisation. The spokesperson for the police in the state, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi disclosed this in a statement on Friday. Oyeyemi stated that the suspect was arrested following information received by the Divisional Police Officer, Ogijo Divisional headquarters, CSP Mohammed Baba, at about…

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