Category: Crime

Akinjide Durojaiye, a self-acclaimed evangelist, was on Thursday beaten to a pulp for allegedly stealing two new Tecno mobile phones from a shop within the Femi Johnson Building in the Dugbe area of Ibadan, Oyo State. The 49-year-old man, who claimed to be an evangelist at the Dominion Assembly, Ilare-Ijesa in Osun State, said he was in the shop, where mobile phones and accessories were being sold, to preach the gospel to all the people he found there. Durojaiye claimed that he came from Ilare-Ijesa to Ibadan on an evangelisation…

Read More

Police have arrested a 15-year-old boy who allegedly staged his own kidnap and demanded the sum of N500,000 as ransom. The minor, who was paraded in Jos on Thursday, said he initiated the plan with his friends in order to enable him buy clothes and celebrate his graduation. “I was the one who initiated the plan and not my friends. I wanted my father to give me money for clothes and to also celebrate my graduation,” he said. Briefing newsmen on the arrest of the minor, the Commissioner of Police,…

Read More

A firearms manufacturing plant has been uncovered in Benue State by operatives of the joint military intervention force, code-named Operation Whirl Stroke, OPWS. The operatives also successfully arrested the arms manufacturer alongside nine others, including a wanted alleged kidnap kingpin and cattle rustlers operating between Benue and Nasarawa states axis. Parading the suspects yesterday at the OPWS headquarters in Makurdi, the Force Commander, Major General Adeyemi Yekini, said six of the suspects were arrested in Nasarawa State, while four others were apprehended in Benue State. He explained that the arms…

Read More

Sunday Awolola, a lance Corporal of the Nigerian Army (NA), who allegedly raped a 300-level student of Adekunle Ajasin University Akungba-Akoko (AAUA), was yesterday arraigned at a Magistrate’s Court in Akure, Ondo State. The 33-year-old officer, who was attached to the 32 Artillery Brigade, Akure, was allegedly involved in the rape of a female student from the Department of Religious and African Studies of the university on July 31. He was alleged to have committed the offence at the military checkpoint situated at Ikare-Akoko in Akoko North-East Local Council of…

Read More

After drinking an insecticide and leaving his wife a note that says “you married the wrong man”, a banker with one of the first generation banks has committed suicide in his apartment in Victoria Island, Lagos. A commercial bus driver was also reported to have committed suicide in the state, after taking same substance. Both incidents occurred over the weekend. While the deceased banker, identified simply as Onyechere, was said to have left a suicide note behind for his wife, the commercial bus driver did not. The lifeless body of Onyechere,…

Read More

A 100-level student of Bayelsa state-owned Niger Delta University, Ammassoma in Bayelsa State, was allegedly shot dead by an operative of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) at the weekend. It was gathered that the NSCDC operative at about 10:30 p.m. on Saturday was battling to free his rifle when the gun went off and hit the student identified as Obinna, in Efeke-ama area of the community. The deceased, a year one student of Petrochemical Engineering, was rushed to Tantua hospital, while the killer operative was taken into…

Read More

Terna Taga, an eighteen-year-old boy, who allegedly impregnated a 10-year-old internally displaced person, Masenengen Targba, has said he did not meet the girl a virgin. On Sunday, Targba was said to have been abandoned at a hospital but later rushed to Foundation Memorial Hospital, Makurdi, where she gave birth to a baby girl. Taga is a farmer who dropped out of school in Senior Secondary School 1. Taga, who was paraded by the Benue State Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Garuba, said that though he slept with the little girl twice,…

Read More

Lokesh Parwani, an Indian national, who allegedly attempted suicide after he was arrested for an alleged N116 million fraud yesterday appeared at an Igbosere Chief Magistrate’s Court, Lagos State. The Force Criminal Intelligence and Investigation Department (Force CIID), Annex, Alagbon-Ikoyi, arraigned Parwani, the Personnel Manager of an Indian-owned firm in Lagos, on a three-count charge of conspiracy, fraud and attempted suicide. Police counsel, Morufu Animashaun, alleged that Parwani and his accomplices, who are on the run, conspired and defrauded his employer of the said sum on July 19, 2019, at…

Read More

A factory in Ikeja where e-wastes are assembled and exported to China and Vietnam has been uncovered by operatives of the Lagos State Police Command (Area F) yesterday. The detectives also arrested two persons allegedly behind the e-waste company- 22-year-old Lin Piehao and Li Ruoneng, 27. It was gathered that despite the fact that the visas of the two suspects had since expired, they continued to stay in the country unperturbed. The Area F police operatives stormed No 19 Sule Abuka Street, Opebi, Ikeja, the location of the factory, which…

Read More

A 35-year-old clergyman, Gabriel Asateru, has been sentenced to five years imprisonment by an Ekiti State High Court sitting in Ado Ekiti, for molesting a minor. Pronouncing the judgment, Justice Oluwatoyin Abodunde said, “The accused person stands guilty and is accordingly convicted to serve a prison term of five years and to also pay a sum of N50,000 fine as stipulated by the Child’s Rights Law, 2005.” Asateru, who was accused of defiling a five-year-old girl on December 23, 2016, at Ifisin Ekiti in the Ido/Osi Local Government Area of…

Read More