Category: Crime

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Lagos Zonal Office, on Monday, March 22, 2021, arraigned one Nanpan Salihu Yaniyang before Justice O.O. Abike-Fadipe of the Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja , Lagos on a four-count charge bordering on stealing and obtaining by false pretence to the tune of N17,449,000 ( Seventeen Million Four Hundred and Forty-nine Thousand Naira) and $6,300( Six Thousand Three Hundred United States Dollars). One of the counts reads: “Nanpan Salihu Yaniyang , sometime in 2020 in Lagos State , within the jurisdiction of…

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Some Lagos commercial bus drivers have reportedly attacked and hacked an officer of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) to death at Anthony area of Lagos State. General Manager of the agency, Olajide Oduyoye, who made this known said that the deceased, Osazu Segun Godwin, alongside his colleague, Adeniyi Hakeem, were attacked by drivers of Suzuki commercial buses popularly known as ‘korope,’ and others at Anthony on Tuesday. Oduyoye explained that Godwin and Hakeem were attacked with machetes and other dangerous weapons by the drivers, and the development, he…

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A 50-year-old electrical engineer Preye Ojoko has been sentenced to five years imprisonment by a Bayelsa State High Court sitting in Yenagoa, on Wednesday, for the serial rape of his 17-year-old sister-in-law. Ojoko, who is a father of five, was accused of defiling his wife’s niece at the age of nine, and again raped her when she turned 17 years under the pretence of training her in school. The prosecuting counsel and former attorney-general of the state, Kemesuode Wodu, told the court the accused started the serial rape of his…

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Mr. Ismail Adeoye, a staff of Polaris Bank and Mr. Popoola Isaac, a staff of RCC; a construction company were the two victims abducted by gunmen that stormed a quarry site in Ibadan, Oyo State on Monday. The incident occurred at Dalli Village (Binu Quarry), along Ibadan-Ijebu-Ode Road, and the case has been reported at the Idi Ayunre Police Station. The Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of the state police command, Mr Olugbenga Fadeyi, confirmed the abduction, said efforts had been intensified to get the victims released. Fadeyi said: “Efforts are…

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A 41-year-old lecturer in the Department of Business Management, Covenant University, Ota, Dr Stephen Ukenna, for allegedly raping a 17-year-old student of the institution. The suspect was arrested following a complaint lodged at the Ota area command by the parents of the victim. The state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday. According to DSP Oyeyemi, the parents reported that their daughter called them on the phone from school that she was invited by the lecturer to his office under the pretext that…

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