Category: Crime

A 52-year-old pastor, Adetokunbo Adenopo, has been arrested for allegedly abducting a delivery man, Jonathan Ekpo, in order to obtain ransom from his employers for Sallah celebration. Adenopo, who is the founder of the New Life Church, Sagamu, Ogun State, allegedly carried out the act with his gang members, Chigozie William, 22; Linus Ugorji, 30; and Emmanuel Chris. Ekpo had gone to deliver a package to Adenopo in Sagamu when the four men tied him up and anaesthetised him. They also kept him in an underground room until he was…

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A commercial bank branch in Okeho, Kajola Local Government Area, Oyo State, was on Wednesday attacked by armed robbers. An eyewitness, Kazeem, said that the robbers numbering six stormed the bank around 4.40pm. Kazeem said the robbers came in two vehicles and  started shooting to announce their arrival. The anti-riot policeman attached to the bank was reportedly shot dead by the hoodlums and they went inside the bank and carted away some money. However, some hunters and members of a vigilante group in the town reportedly mobilised and blocked the…

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‌ Gunmen suspected to be Fulani militiamen, have launched fresh attacks on Southern Kaduna communities despite a 24-hour curfew imposed by the Kaduna State government. This was as the umbrella body of Southern Kaduna people, Southern Kaduna Peoples Union, on Saturday said 63 people had been killed in the past one week by the militiamen. The latest killings were reportedly carried out around 7am on Saturday when some suspected Fulani militiamen attacked three communities in Jema’a and Kaura local government areas of Kaduna State and killed at least nine people.…

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Baba Pool, a lottery shop operator, on Thursday committed suicide over his alleged failure to pay some of his customers their winnings. It was gathered that the deceased hanged himself inside his shop in Kayode Market, Abule Ijesha, in the Sabo area of Lagos State. It was learnt that the deceased, in a suicide note, blamed two people for his death. He wrote, “For your information, Bourney and Osuma. Two of them kill me. A killer must surely die.” It was further learnt that the deceased pasted the note at…

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‌Saleh Hassan, 38, has allegedly drugged and raped a five year-old-girl in Bauchi State. The Executive Director, Prison Inmate Development Initiative (PIDI-Nigeria), a human rights group, Cate Iya Rize, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday. She alleged that the five year old girl was raped by the man at Unguwar Hardo area of the Bauchi State capital. Rize said, “It is now a saddening case of a (victim) who was drugged and raped by one Saleh Hassan (shoe shiner) in Paparanda Unguwan Hardo. “Saleh Hassan is 38 years old,…

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An arrested suspect linked with serial killings in the Akinyele area of Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, has said that he got N500 and food for each of the six persons he murdered in the area. No fewer than five females were raped and murdered in Akinyele Local Government Area of Ibadan in the month of June. The 19-year-old suspect whose name was not disclosed was among the 19 suspects paraded on Friday by Oyo State Commissioner of Police, Nwachuckwu Enwonwu, for various offences ranging from armed robbery, defilement, motorcycle…

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The Ogun State Police Command has arrested a 59-year-old pastor of Light Christian Church in the Odeda Local Government Area of Ogun State, Oketokun Abiodun, for allegedly defiling a 10-year-old girl. The pastor reportedly lured the victim to his room and had unlawful carnal knowledge of her. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, in a statement, said the suspect was arrested on Saturday. He said, “The pastor was arrested following a report by the father of the victim, who reported at the Odeda Police Station. “The complainant said…

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Former Executive Director of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Captain Ezekiel Agaba, has been sentenced to seven years imprisonment for laundering N1,541,408,666. Justice Ibrahim Buba of the Federal High Court in Lagos, convicted Agaba of the seven counts of conversion and criminal breach of trust filed against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Buba ruled that the EFCC proved beyond reasonable doubt that the convict stole the sum from NIMASA while he was in charge of Maritime, Safety and Shipping. He sentenced Agaba to…

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‌ An assistant pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Akure, Ondo State, Mr Gideon Bakare, has been excommunicated by the church. The church also relieved him of all ministerial duties in the mission. Bakare was recently accused of attempting to sleep with a woman in her matrimonial home in Akure. In a viral video, the pastor is seen naked as the woman sits beside him while her family films the shot. The woman, in the video, accuses Bakare of wanting to sleep with her as the cleric begs…

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