Category: Crime

A student of the Obafemi Awolowo University, identified as Opeyemi Grace Dara has allegedly committed suicide. The deceased who was in the Department of English and Literature was said to have committed suicide after a dose of lethal substance popularly known as snipper. It was learnt that she took her life following the poor academic performance. But the authorities of the institution confirmed that the deceased committed suicide due to depression occasioned by poor academic records. A copy of her academic records obtained from her page on the school portal indicated that…

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Eniola Shitu, a 23-year-old lady, has been arrested for reportedly filming her female friend being raped by her 31-year-old boyfriend, David Peremobowe. The incident happened at Ikopa-Tuntun, Abiola Way, Abeokuta, Ogun State, last week Wednesday after Eniola had allegedly lured the victim to her boyfriend’s room where she was drugged and raped. It was gathered that while the victim was being allegedly raped by Peremobowe, Shitu was filming the action. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, confirmed the incident in a statement on Wednesday. Oyeyemi…

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In what seems to be a reprisal attack, a 300-Level Marine Engineering student of the Rivers State University, Port Harcourt, known as Montana Million, has been shot dead. This is coming two days after a final year student of the Department of Agriculture, Prince Barisua Tuakabari, was shot dead in a cultist attack. The state police command has meanwhile arrested two students, Elechi Chibuzor and Nnamdi Chibundu, in connection with the killing of Prince Barisua, who was murdered after writing his final year examination on Monday. It was gathered that…

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Musa Adamu, one of the suspects that allegedly kidnapped the village head of Hunki, in Awe Local Government Area, Nasarawa State, Alhaji Umaru Jibrin, has been arrested by the Police. The suspect was reportedly arrested in an eatery in the town, where the victim had also gone to eat. Speaking with journalists during the parade of the suspect alongside others by the Nasarawa State Police command, Jibrin said: “I identified one of those who kidnapped me at an eatery. When he noticed me at the eatery, he immediately tried to…

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Personnel of the Lagos State Police Command, have arrested a tenant, Daniel Isaac, for allegedly killing his landlord, Willy Ebinate, at his house on Owodun Street in the Ikotun area of the state. Isaac was alleged to have killed the 50-year-old car dealer in order to steal his Toyota Camry car that was parked inside the compound. After perpetrating the crime, the 38-year-old tenant reportedly dumped Ebinate’s corpse in a septic tank and drove away the car. It was gathered that Ebinate had gone to the port on Monday, July…

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Idowu Daniel, a 28-year-old teacher, has been arrested by police in Lagos at a private school in the Abule-Egba area of the state for allegedly having sex with a female pupil in his care. Daniel, who teaches computer science at Anatasia Comprehensive College, reportedly raped the 17-year-old pupil inside the school’s biology laboratory. It was learnt that Daniel had asked the pupil to bring her computer science note to him at the laboratory for marking. On getting there, the teacher reportedly made overtures to her and fondled her breasts. She was…

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Suleiman Iyanda, a 71-year-old man, alongside an ex-convict, Gbenga Ajibade, Sunday Alabi, 30, and 45-year-old Wasiu Tiamiyu, were on Thursday, arraigned before an Osun State Magistrates’ Court sitting in Osogbo for allegedly stealing four commercial mini buses. They were accused of conspiring to steal the vehicles in different locations in the state capital between June and earlier this month. Appearing before Magistrate Rofiat Olayemi, Iyanda and Alabi were said to have received the mini buses valued at N6m from Ajibade and Tiamiyu. The police prosecutor, Taiwo Adegoke, alleged that Ajibade…

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Wasiu Orilonise, a 37-year-old guard, has confessed to an Oyo State Magistrates’ Court sitting in Ibadan that he raped his 15-year-old daughter in order to ascertain her virginity and protect her. Orilonise begged the court not to punish him as he had carnal knowledge of the victim for protection and to confirm if she was still a virgin. The accused was arraigned on one count of having unlawful carnal knowledge of his daughter. The prosecutor, Mr Sunday Ogunremi, told the court that the accused had sometime in December 2018 at…

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