Category: Crime

Senior Special Assistant to the President on Diaspora, Mrs. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has revealed that another Nigerian has been arrested at Jeddah Airport, in Saudi Arabia, for allegedly smuggling about 1,138g of cocaine. Dabiri-Erewa expressed disappointment that this was coming shortly after a Nigerian lady was executed in the same country for a related offence. “The sad thing is that in the midst of talking about 20 Nigerians on death row, even as eight had been executed, just yesterday (Thursday), another Nigerian, Wahid Somade, was arrested at Jeddah Airport with about…

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One Kabiru Oke, and his son, Faruq, have been arrested by operatives of the Lagos State Police Command, for allegedly raping and impregnating the daughter of the sister to Kabiru’s wife in the Egbeda area of the state. The suspects were alleged to have taken advantage of the fact that the victim lived with them by having carnal knowledge of her and threatened to kill her if she revealed the molestation to anyone. The state’s Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Bala Elkana, in a statement on Sunday, said the suspects…

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A 16-year-old Senior Secondary School Three student, Chibuzo Ohaneme, has stabbed his female classmate, Olamma Ekwebelem, to death in Umuoli Ikpem in the Ehime Mbano Local Government Area of Imo State on Thursday. A source revealed that Ohaneme was enraged because Ekwebelem had repeatedly turned down his relationship proposal to her. It was gathered that while the murderer hails from Umuohum Umuna in the Onuimo LGA of the state, the slain teenager, who was to sit for Senior Secondary Certificate Examination in June, hailed from Ikpem. The boy and the girl…

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Colleagues of Dr. Stephen Urueye, have described his death as cruel and sad. Urueye, who was on housemanship at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, Lagos, was attacked by some hoodlums around 9pm on Thursday in the Canal area, near the campus while he was seeing off a friend who visited him in his lodge. He was knifed in the thigh and dispossessed of cash and an ATM card, by the hoodlums. The police had arrested two persons in connection with the attack on the 25-year-old doctor, who was the…

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Investigation has commenced into the alleged molestation of a four-year-old pupil of the University of Lagos Women Society Nursery and Primary School, Akoka, Lagos. It was learnt that the victim was allegedly molested on the school premises by a driver identified as Abiodun Matthew. Matthew, it was gathered, usually pick two other pupils at the school after closing hours on the instruction of their parents. The driver, in the course of time, was said to have become close to a teacher at the school, identified as Charity Madumere. Madumere is said…

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The police officer that allegedly killed Kolade Johnson has been dismissed by the Nigeria Police Force yesterday. According to Lagos Police Spokesman, Bala Elkana, the judgment was served in an orderly room trial by the Lagos State Police Command. “The two police officers, alleged to have been involved in the shooting of Kolade Johnson on March 31, 2019, were apprehended and subjected to internal disciplinary proceedings, known as Orderly Room Trial by the Command. “The Orderly Room trial commenced on Monday, April 1, 2019 and ended on Thursday, April 4,…

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Ogayi Deckland, 35, has been arrested for aggressively driving off with an officer of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, who had to cling to his car bonnet along the Igbogbo Park Road in Ikorodu on (Thursday), March 28, 2019, around 6.55pm. Deckland was said to have disobeyed the instruction of the traffic personnel on duty in the area by driving on when he was asked to wait and attempted to hit a LASTMA officer, Adeyinka Seriki, who jumped onto the bonnet of the car to avert being killed. It…

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Police in Imo confirmed the death of two persons  suspected to be students of Federal University of Technology, Owerri, FUTO, Ugochukwu Kingsley and Aka Uche, both male, yesterday, after India hemp and tramadol were recovered from their room. Two others were said to be hospitalized. The incident was said to have happened at Sunshine Lodge in Ihiagwa in Owerri West Local Government Area in Imo State. It was learnt that the incident which happened on Tuesday, at about 10:30pm  was reported to the nearest police division around 12:00pm by the…

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Josephine Omolu, a 36 -year-old housewife, on Wednesday appeared in an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court for allegedly pouring hot water on a neighbour for greeting her husband. The Police Prosecutor, Assistant Superintendent of Police Clifford Ogu, told the court that the defendant committed the offence on March 26 at Agbotikuyo, Agege, Lagos. He said that the defendant unlawfully scalded her neighbour, Mrs Blessing Christopher with hot water. Ogu alleged that the defendant attacked the complainant after she greeted her husband. The prosecution said that the complainant is currently on admission being…

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Yusuf Atanda, a 27-year-old businessman was yesterday arraigned by the police, who charged him with impersonating Pastor Enoch Adeboye and two other church general overseers to defraud members of the public. According to the police, Atanda created fake Facebook accounts of Adeboye of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor D.K. Olukoya of Mountain of Fire and Miracle Ministry, and Pastor T.B. Joshua of the Synagogue Church of All Nations, to defraud people. The defendant, who resides at Okokomaiko in Lagos, is being tried for cybercrime before Magistrate M.O Tanimola…

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