Category: Crime

25 students of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomosho, Oyo State, have been arrested by operatives from the Advance Fee Fraud Unit of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, for alleged involvement in cybercrime, including romance scam, possession of forged documents and obtaining money by false pretences. The students, aged between 18 and 29, were arrested in their off-campus hostels following raids carried out between Monday and Thursday by the operatives. The EFCC spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, said in a statement in Abuja on Thursday that the raids were based…

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Gracious David West, suspected Port Harcourt serial killer, has told the Nigerian police that he used pillowcases to tie a victim before killing her in a hotel room in Rukpokwu, about 18 kilometres from Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital city. 26-year-old West, whom the police said is a cultist, was arrested on Wednesday on East-West Road en route to Uyo from Port Harcourt. West said in a video the Nigerian police posted to its official Twitter handle he had transactional sex with a nameless victim. Hours later, the victim…

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25-year-old Kehinde Musa, who sent his enstranged lover, Rasheedat Animashaun, a suicide text message after she ended their relationship, has allegedly committed suicide at his residence, No. 56 Modele Street, Surulere, Lagos State. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Bala Elkana, said in a statement on Thursday that the deceased locked himself in his room and drank an insecticide suspected to be Sniper, adding that the bereaved family, whom Rasheedat had informed of the suicide note, found Musa unconscious in his room. He stated that the 25-year-old, died while being…

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A 300-level student of the Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti, Bukola Odeyemi, has allegedly stabbed her 22-year-old lover, John Iju, to death. The incident, sources said, occurred at one of the private hostels being used by students of the university around 10pm. Sources said the 20-year-old student of the Department of Biology Education had a quarrel with her boyfriend, also a student of the institution, over his inability to give her the N2,500 she requested for a hairdo. According to the sources, the duo engaged in a heated argument over…

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The police in Rivers state have threatened to seal hotels or guest houses where fresh incidents of murder occurs, as it expressed concern that a serial women killer has been on the prowl in the State, . Rivers State Commissioner of Police (CP), Mustapha Dandaura, disclosed that the police have arrested a man who called a young girl on her cell phone and tried to lure her to a hotel in Port Harcourt yesterday. He issued the warning while briefing newsmen on measures put in place by the Rivers State…

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A 23-year-old woman, Stella Peter, has been arrested by homicide detectives in Lagos State, for allegedly stabbing her live-in-partner, Bala Haruna, aged 25, to death over his refusal to finance their daughter’s one-year birthday party. The incident occurred Tuesday morning at No. 2, Tejuosho Avenue, Surulere where the suspect and the deceased have lived as a couple for three years. It was gathered that Peter, a native of Kogi State, had an argument with her Kebbi State partner, Haruna, following his inability to raise N30,000 for their daughter’s birthday, which…

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An allegedly drunk policeman, identified as Taiwo Orisadare, stabbed about nine persons at a nightclub in Akure, the Ondo State capital, on Friday. The policeman, attached to the Area Commander’s office, Akure, allegedly stabbed the victims, who were said to be young men, at a popular club in Alagbaka GRA during a brawl. According to an eyewitness, the policeman, who was reportedly drunk, started harassing the victims, who had come to relax at the club. It was gathered that trouble started when the policeman began pestering and harassing one of…

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Innocent Ifunayachi, a 34-year-old man who allegedly raped a 14-year-old girl after he had laced her food with Indian hemp that made the girl become unconscious, has been arrested by detectives from Bariga Police Station. The suspect allegedly defiled the 14-year-old-girl in her family house. This was contained in a statement signed by the Lagos State Command Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Bala Elkana, on Sunday. Elkana said, “The suspect, being a friend to the family, visited and found the girl eating noodles. “While she left to get him some…

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A 20-year-old man, Gbolahan Ismaila, has been arrested by the Oyo State Police Command, for killing a 35-year-old woman, Toyin Olubowale, with a wooden stool after allegedly raping her. The Commissioner of Police in the State, Shina Olukolu, while parading the suspect on Friday at the command headquarters, in Eleyele, Ibadan said the culprit forcefully had sex with the victim before killing her. He said on August 29, 2019 around 2pm, Ismaila boarded a commercial motorcycle ridden by one Joel Musa to Olubowale’s house. The CP explained that Ismaila sexually…

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