Category: Crime

During a joint operation with operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, the Department of State Services said it has arrested the ex-chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina and his son, Faisal. According to the service, it recovered a pistol, a drone and bullet proof vehicles from the suspects after their arrest in Abuja, on Monday. This was contained in a statement signed by the Public Relations Officer of the DSS, Dr. Peter Afunnaya, in Abuja, on Wednesday. He said father and son were arrested at…

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Seven pregnant girls have been rescued from a baby factory in Lagos State by policemen attached to the Isolo Police Division. The seven victims had reportedly escaped from another baby factory in the Isolo area and were fleeing when the attention of the police was called to them. It was learnt that the girls, aged between 13 and 27, had fled where they were camped after they discovered that their babies would be sold. Stranded and lost, they loitered at Cele bus stop, Oshodi-Apapa Expressway around 1am on Wednesday. It…

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One of the serving police officers at the B Division in Asaba has allegedly shot a female colleague dead in Asaba, the Delta State capital. It was gathered that the killing occurred on Saturday during the demolition of illegal structures at the Bonsaac area of Asaba by the officials of state Ministry of Environment in company with some police officers. It was learnt that trouble started when the market women tried to resist the exercise. An eyewitness said that on hearing gunshots, the women charged at the firing policeman and that…

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Blessing Stephen, a 25-year-old woman, has confessed to trading all her three kids for N500,000. Stephen was a member of a child trafficking syndicate recently smashed by operatives of the Inspector-General of Police Intelligence Response Team. Other arrested members of the syndicate are a self-acclaimed doctor, Una Godwin 58; Blessing John 27; Israel Ariyo 33; Itoro Anthony; 40 and Mforbong Ntoro, 48. The operatives had launched a manhunt for one of the suspects, John, who abandoned a four-year-old boy in a church in the Ketu area of the state. John…

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A 58-year-old farmer, Yesiru Onajobi, was yesterday sentenced to 10 years imprisonment by Justice Muslim Hassan of a Federal High Court in Lagos, for rape and defilement of his teenage daughter. The Judge, who noted the rising wave of rape in society, ordered that the convict should serve the term without option of fine. The convict, a resident of Bogije Street in Ibeju Lekki, Lagos, was charged to court in 2011 on a two-count charge of having carnal knowledge of his then 13-year-old daughter. He was prosecuted by the National…

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Six sex workers were on Friday sentenced to three months imprisonment for prostitution by a magistrates court sitting in Ogba, Lagos State. The women, Joy Emmanuel, Tonia Ogini, Sandra Abraham, Joy Joe, Athani Therish and Nwachukwu Vera, were charged with exposing themselves to “public prostitution and conduct likely to cause a breach of the peace.” They were arrested in the early hours of Friday by men of the Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit, who were said to have raided an illegal brothel around Mile 2 area of…

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Onyekachi Nwosu, a businessman, has died while having sex with his lover, identified simply as Chima, in the Aguda area of Surulere, Lagos State. It was gathered that Nwosu and Chima visited the Alfredo Suites around 10pm for a short-time rest, but the 36-year-old man suddenly started gasping for air. Chima, who was jolted by her lover’s condition, rushed out of the room to alert the receptionist and others at the hotel to the development. It was learnt that the manager of the hotel, Uche Ejionye, in company with other staff…

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A home in Kaduna, with over 300 people in Rigasa in the Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State, was on Thursday raided by the police. The cops freed about 300 people who were chained in the house, including children. They were said to be from Burkina Faso, Mali and other African countries, according to the force. The children were said to have confessed to being abused homosexually. Some of the others were said to have  been subjected to daily recitation of the Holy Quran and prayers with torture. According to Bello…

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Generian Ezenwata, a 54-year-old man, has been arraigned by the police in Anambra State, for allegedly stealing firewood from a shrine. He was arraigned before the Anambra State Magistrates’ Court sitting in Achina in the Aguata Local Government Area of the state and presided over by Chief Magistrate R. Agwunobi. Ezenwata was arraigned on three counts of stealing pieces of wood from the Ohia Di Awo shrine forest, worth N38,250; placing palm fronds on the wood, which belonged to one Hillary Ezenwamadu; and giving false information to the police by…

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