Category: Crime

Members of Ngwalam village in Numan Local Government Area of Adamawa State were shocked, when the news broke that one of the residents, Ahmadu Idris, a 42-year-old husband of two wives, was caught defiling an underaged girl. Idris arrested by the police for allegedly raping a 13-year-old girl. The man was reported to have lured the minor who sells clothing materials by asking her to take the materials to his wives. Father of the victim, Mallam Musa Abubakar, explained that immediately his daughter entered the suspect’s house, he directed her…

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The village head of Ikot Inyang in the Ibesikpo Asutan Local Government in Akwa Ibom State, one Eteidung Stephen Uyoe, has been arrested by Police for allegedly raping an 11-year-old girl. The command, in a statement by its Public Relations Officer, Nnudam Fredrick, on Tuesday, said the village head was arrested on Saturday. According to the statement, the village head bought beans cake from the victim and asked her to follow him to his house to collect money, where he allegedly defiled her. “Investigation revealed that the suspect bought beans…

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Prophet Paul Abam, General Overseer of Paul’s Ministries, at Itigidi, Abi Local Government Area of Cross Rivers State, was paraded in the community after being caught burying charms in someone’s house. It was learnt that the Prophet, who was a Pastor in an orthodox church in Ugep, Yakurr LGA, a neighbouring town before leaving to open his own ministry, was caught right in the act as he was trying to bury the charm in his “victims” house. The prophet was paraded around Itigidi, Abi LGA, Cross River in a traditional…

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‌ 32-year-old Muhammad Alfa has been arrested by the Kano State Police Command for allegedly raping over 40 women in Kano. This is contained in a statement by the command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Abdullahi Haruna on Wednesday. “Police on Tuesday arrested Mohammed in Kwanar Dangora, an outskirt of Kano. “During interrogation, the man confessed to have raped more than 40 female in a year, including girls, married women, as well as an 80-year-old,” he said. According to him, the suspect was apprehended after he attempted to rape a married…

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‌ According to the survivor of Boko Haram’s Tuesday attack on Fanduma Koloram, in the Gubio Local Government Area of Borno State, the insurgents pretended to be Islamic religious crusaders, collected arms from herders and killed 81 persons. The survivor, who narrated his ordeal to the State Governor, Babagana Zulum, said he called for help from neighbouring village to bury 31 of the 81 victims of the attack in a mass grave. He said “apart from the 81 persons left dead, 13 were injured, while seven others were abducted” .…

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Patrick Igah, a 26-year-old man, on Saturday escaped being lynched by an angry mob, who gave him a beating of his life for allegedly raping a six-year-old girl. An eyewitness said the incident happened at Akparoji Owukpa in the Ogbadibo Local Government Area of Benue State. The eyewitness, said Patrick, also known as Omolomo, was caught having carnal knowledge of the underage on the premises of a worship centre in Akparoji. “It was a young man who went to ease himself that saw the man on top of the little…

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A 12-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped by four masked men at her residence in Abijo area of Ajah, Lagos State. She was said to have been raped while playing alone in the compound around 2pm on Thursday. It was learnt that the victim, a secondary school pupil, was left bleeding from injuries she sustained in her private parts. The victim’s mother, identified simply as Anthonia, explained that she was not in the house when the perpetrators raped her daughter. “I went to the office and was called (on the phone) and…

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Suspected armed robbers who invaded a Bank in Kogi State, reportedly killed nine persons on Thursday. The victims were identified as eight policemen and one civilian. Among those killed were the Divisional Police Officer in the town, five other policemen and two policewomen. While the DPO, two policewomen, and four policemen were killed at the Police Station, one policeman was killed at the bank’s premises. The other victim died after he was hit by a stray bullet. The armed robbers were said to have invaded the Police Station about 1.00…

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