Category: Crime

Mr Gabriel Ekundayo, 51-year-old Bursar of the Government Secondary School, Dangara, Abaji, in the Federal Capital Territory, has been arrested by operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, for allegedly defiling and impregnating a 15-year-old pupil. The suspect who hails from Ilorin, Kwara State, allegedly lured the victim to his house and drugged her before defiling her. It was learnt that Ekundayo had been handed over to the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons for further investigation and possible prosecution. According to NAPTIP, the bursar…

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A final year student of the University of Benin (UNIBEN), Ephraim Imaghodora, has died after he fell from the second floor of the Faculty of Arts building on Sunday evening in what authorities suspect might be suicide. Imaghodora, a final year student of the Department of Actuarial Science, was said to be battling some academic issues at the time of his death. Public Relations Officer (PRO) of UNIBEN, Michael Osasuyi, yesterday said: “It is unfortunate that something like this has happened in the university. We feel so pained to hear…

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Operatives of the Lagos Rapid Response Squad (RRS), have arrested a suspected pickpocket in Computer Village, Ikeja area of Lagos State, who confessed that he made at least N18,000 daily selling stolen phones. The suspect, Lawal Daodu, 31, was arrested on Friday at about 5:00 p.m. when he unsuccessfully picked a phone from the pocket of a passerby in Ikeja Under-Bridge. Lawal, who had before his arrest picked two android phones from passersby was removing another android phone from the pocket of another victim when the phone incidentally fell from…

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A 20-year-old woman, Blessing John, has been arrested by Police in Lagos for allegedly biting off the manhood of her boyfriend, simply identified as Johnson, while trying to escape from being raped by him. Blessing, who was being detained at the Lagos State Criminal Intelligence Investigation Department (SCIID) on Panti Street, Yaba, said she was in pain when she committed the act. “Johnson is my boyfriend; he works as a hotel manager. We have been dating for six months and he had promised to help me with my Curriculum Vitae…

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Imo state police command has arrested two siblings, Chinaza Nwogu and Emeka Ejike, for conniving with one Emmanuel Sunday to kidnap their 88-year-old father, Louis Njoku. The Force Public Relations Officer, Frank Mba, said, “I am at the Imo State Police Command at the instance of the Inspector-General of Police”. He narrated the pathetic development of two siblings, who teamed up with the would-be husband of one of them to abduct their 88-year-old father. “Chinaza, who wants to get married to Emmanuel, teamed up with her brother, Emeka, to kidnap…

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The Nigerian Police Force yesterday, arraigned Senator Elisha Abbo was before a Magistrates’ Court in Zuba, Abuja, on an assault charge. The lawmaker pleaded not guilty when the one count charge was read to him. After his plea was taken at the dock by Senior Magistrate Abdullahi llellah, he was granted bail to the tune of N5 million. The police had filed criminal charges against Abbo for assaulting a woman at an adult sex toy shop in Abuja after a video of the incident went viral last week. The development…

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A pastor, Pope Paul, has been arrested by men of the Lagos State Police Command, for allegedly raping and impregnating a 15-year-old girl at his place of residence in the Igando area of the state. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Bala Elkana, in a statement on Sunday, said the mother of the victim discovered that her daughter was pregnant after she brought her to live with the suspect in Lagos. He stated that the victim, during interrogation, said the suspect was responsible for the pregnancy, adding that he started…

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Douglas Ajemine, a 41-year-old mother of four, who works with the Rivers State Primary Healthcare Board in Asari-Toru Local Government Area of the state, has been arrested by operatives of the Inspector General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team for paying two men to kill her husband. Ajemine who was apprehended in the Abalama area of the state, started having a love affair with one of the killers, Kingsley Nna, after the gruesome murder of her husband, Inedugoba Tyger. After her arrest, Ajemine claimed that she hired Nna and his…

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The police in Delta State have arrested a pastor alongside two other men for their alleged involvement in rape and defilement. The pastor, simply identified as Collins, was arrested for allegedly raping a 13-year-old girl. Collins, a senior pastor with a new generation church was apprehended by the police after he was allegedly caught in the act. It was gathered that policemen took the suspect into custody after the victim’s parents reported the matter at the Gana Police Station in Sapele. It was gathered that the suspect was arrested on…

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