Category: Crime

A call has been made by the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, NAPTIP, to end the practice of Nigerian girls being used as sex slaves in Mali. At a presentation to the ECOWAS Parliament during its First Ordinary Session on Saturday, NAPTIP Director-General, Julie Okah-Donli told members of parliament that Nigerian girls were being sold for between N210,000 and N240,000 to work as prostitutes. Presenting the report of the fact-finding mission to Mali, Okah-Donli said that after being sold, the girls were made to pay back…

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A Beninese domestic help, Christian Yavine has been sentenced to death by Justice Oluwatoyin Ipaye of the Lagos State High Court in Igbosere, for killing his employer’s 78-year-old mother, Mariam Abiola. The judge found 23-year-old Yavine guilty of severing Abiola’s head with a knife while she slept in her daughter’s residence in the Ipaja area of Lagos on July 1, 2014. It was gathered that the convict’s employer, Ajoke Abiola, had gone to a vigil in a church when the incident happened. Delivering her judgment on Monday, Justice Ipaye, who…

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A lance corporal in the army, Ojiegbe Obinna and others in military attire, have been arrested by police in Anambra State for alleged kidnapping. While Obinna and two others were arrested at Ekwulobia in the Aguata Local Government Area, the other two in army attire were arrested in a different incident in Ogidi, in the Idemili North Local Government Area of the state. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Haruna Mohammed, disclosed this in Awka, the Anambra State capital, on Saturday. Describing the use of military uniform for kidnapping as…

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Mohammed, a 25-year-old member of a suspected gang of kidnappers in the Kpakungu community in the Chanchaga Local Government Area of Niger State has confessed to the abduction of one Halima Ibrahim on May 11, 2019. The suspect was said to have kidnapped his victim and held her in captivity for over two weeks while demanding N150,000 ransom before her release. Yakubu confessed that he kidnapped Halima with the intent of extorting money from her would-be husband, who also resides in the same area. He said, “We are from the…

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A 17-year-old lady has been arrested in the Ekuigbo community, Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State following the death of a male child she allegedly threw into a well. Sources from the community said the mother was reported to have thrown her 9-month-old son into a well owing to her inability to carter for his welfare. The mother, identified as Eguonor Joseph, according to local sources, had dropped her baby, Harrison Joseph inside a well in the community at about 5a.m but the remains of the baby was…

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Bridget Okafor, a former Assistant Comptroller General of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), has been arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday, on a 13-count charge bordering on a N3.336 billion sleaze. She was arraigned before Justice Venchak S. Gaba of a Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court, Kwali, Abuja, but she pleaded not guilty to the charges. One of the counts reads: “That Bridget Chienyezu Okafor, while in the public service and serving as ACG in charge of finance and revenue in 2015 at Abuja within the…

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Uzakah Ebiweni, a 300-level medical student of the Niger Delta University, Ammasoma in the Southern Ijaw Local Governmant Area of Bayelsa State, has committed suicide for failing his examination. Ebiweni was said to have dived into the Amassoma River and drowned before he could get help. Sources at the university said few hours after Ebiweni’s body was recovered, another student attempted to kill himself by running into a fast-moving motorcycle, but was rescued by other students. It was gathered that Ebiweni, a student of Surgery and Medicine at the Faculty…

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The traditional ruler of Ipene community in the Biase Local Government Area of Cross River State, Chief Paulinus Ogbor, and a retired police officer, identified simply as Onugh, have been arrested by the Ebonyi State Police Command, for allegedly stealing three transformers. The spokesperson for the command, DSP Loveth Odah, said that the duo were arrested by men of the 13 Brigade, Nigerian Army, Calabar, at Unwana in the Afikpo North Local Government Area of Ebonyi State on Friday, and were handed over to the police for further investigation. It…

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The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a school gardener, Femi Aderonmu, for allegedly beating a Senior Secondary School 3 pupil of the Jubril Martins Memorial Grammar School, Iponri, Rafiu Adagun, to death. It was gathered that Rafiu was heading home after writing his West African Senior School Certificate Examination on Wednesday when he was accosted by the gardener along the Oke-Olu Road in the Iponri area of the state. It was learnt that Aderonmu engaged the deceased in a fight, which led to the latter being unconscious. He was…

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