Category: Crime

Homicide detectives from the Osun state police command on Saturday, exhumed the corpse of a Lagos State University student, Favour Daley-Oladele, murdered by her lover, Owolabi Adeeko and a pastor, Segun Philip, in Ikoyi-Ile, Osun State. The state Commissioner of Police, Babatunde Kokumo, who led the team that exhumed the corpse, said the move would enable the police to conclude investigation into the case. While responding to questions from newsmen, Philip, said he killed the deceased to experiment what he read in ‘Seven Book of Moses.’ Philip, who was led…

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Larry Ehizo, a customer care officer of a first generation bank, which was attacked by armed robbers last Saturday, has stated that he began planning how to carry out the operation in October 2019. Ehizo, who recanted his earlier claim that a barman, Ernest Ewim, blackmailed him into carrying out the attempted heist, said he started nursing the idea having monitored the security system and the processes in the bank. The customer care officer said, “Everything Ewim said is true; he didn’t threaten me. I willingly collected his number and…

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Mutiu Sonola, a 37-year-old man, has been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command for beating his 34-year-old wife, Zainab, to death on Christmas Day. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Abimbola Oyeyemi, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday. Oyeyemi said the suspect was arrested on the same day following a report by the father of the deceased. He said the deceased’s father complained at the Ibara Division that he was called on the phone that his daughter had a misunderstanding with her husband and that she…

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Chinasa Ogbaga, a middle-aged man and native of Egwuagu Okpuitumo Community in the Abakaliki Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, has been arrested by the police for allegedly butchering his two children and left one half-dead. The accused person, who was said to have committed the act on Saturday night when villagers and other family members had gone to bed, allegedly took the children to the bush one after the other and slaughtered them. Names of the two slain children were given as Chikamso Ogbaga, a six-year-old boy and Chizaram Ogbaga,…

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Mohammed Adoke, the former Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, who has been accused of complicity in an alleged fraud in OPL 245, otherwise known as Malabu oil deal, returned to the country and was immediately arrested by the International Police (Interpol) and detained in their custody in Abuja. Adoke had earlier on November 11 been arrested and detained in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE) by Interpol over the alleged $1.3 billion Malabu oil scandal when he visited the country to seek medical attention. In Dubai, the UAE had made him…

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A 42 year-old man, Taofeek Oyeyemi is at present cooling his feet at one of the facilities of the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly impregnating his 16-year-old daughter. According to reports, Oyeyemi on discovering that his daughter was pregnant, and in dire need to conceal the truth from neighbors and the public, went ahead to procure abortion for his daughter. The victim is one of the 17 children fathered by Oyeyemi from different women. Bubble however burst when the victim’s bleeding refused to stop as a result of the…

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Two persons have died and scores of residents injured when members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) clashed in Lagos yesterday. Top News gathered that, the death occurred during the clash orchestrated by one of the unit chairmen, who wanted to overthrow the incumbent chairman of Ijesha branch at Surulere axis of Lagos. It was gathered that the clash over who controls NURTW in Ijesha started on Sunday night between factional members of the transport union, leaving residents to panic and scamper for safety. Police spokesperson in…

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A murder case which was started 7years ago, involving Adewale Oyekan- a Lagos Prince and son of Late Oba Adeyinka Oyekan has been delivered at the Lagos State High Court in Ikeja. Oyekan has been sentenced to death by hanging for killing a 62-year-old businesswoman and member of the Peoples Democratic Party, Sikirat Ekun. According to reports, one Lateef Balogun, an ex-domestic staff of the deceased and Adewale Oyekan were sentenced to death for murder on Monday by Justice Raliat Adebiyi for strangling Ekun and throwing her body into a…

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Two domestic workers, Alex Obinyan and Ayuba Samson, have been arrested by operatives of the Rapid Response Squad of the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly stealing jewellery worth N243m in the Lekki area of the state. It was gathered that Obinyan, a cleaner, and Samson, a car washer, allegedly stole a Cuban diamond neck chain as well as Frank Muller and Rolex wristwatches worth N243m belonging to their boss, who is a celebrity, and fled to Borno State. It was learnt that the duo were arrested after selling the…

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Police in Ogun State have arrested a 19-year-old boy, James Tiva, and three others with 42 bags of marijuana popularly called, Indian Hemp, in a community in Ogun State. Other suspects are, Anayor Okechukwu, 25, John chid, 32 and Felix Tehemeh, 20, were on Saturday, November 9, 2019, arrested with the bags of weeds. According to Ogun State Police Spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, “The suspects were arrested following information received by the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Ijebu Igbo Police Station that some cannabis farmers who had just harvested their illicit…

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