Category: Crime

Rabi’a Labaran, a 23-year-old housewife has been arrested for stabbing her senior co-wife, Zainab Lawal, 30, to death in Daura Local Government Area of Katsina State. According to a statement by the Police spokesman, DSP Abubakar Aliyu, he said the incident occurred on Saturday night of May 24, after a misunderstanding between them. It was gathered that the deceased was later rushed to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead by a medical doctor on duty. Consequent upon this, Labaran was arrested by the police, and she confessed to having…

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A 23-year-old serial internet fraudster, Adebisi Emmanuel Olalekan, has been sentenced to 24 months imprisonment without the option of fine by Justice Abimbola Awogboro of the Federal High Court sitting in Ilorin. Olalekan, a native of Omu-Ekiti in Ekiti East Local Government Area of Ekiti State, was convicted on Wednesday, May 21, 2025 after he was found guilty of the two-count charge of offences bordering on cybercrime, including cheating and impersonation preferred against him by the Ilorin Zonal directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. In addition to…

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Federal Government has announced a cash reward of N5m for information that could lead to the recapture of the seven inmates who escaped from the Medium Custodial Centre, Ilesha, Osun State on Tuesday. Public Relations Officer of the Nigerian Correctional Service NCoS, DCC Abubakar Umar disclosed this in a statement issued Wednesday in Abuja. He said; “In order to encourage public participation, the Nigerian Correctional Service wishes to inform the general public that a reward of N5 million is being offered to anyone who provides useful information that leads to…

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One Jackson Abraham, a male suspect in possession of a stolen vehicle, has been arrested by operatives of the Ebute Ero Police Division in Lagos State during a routine surveillance patrol. The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, Ben Hundeyin, on Wednesday said that the suspect was intercepted while driving a Mitsubishi Space vehicle, ash in colour, which was reported stolen from a parking area in Ogun State. He said preliminary investigations revealed that Abraham took the vehicle without the owner’s consent, noting that both the suspect and the rightful…

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Babagana Zulum, the governor of Borno State, alleged yesterday that some politicians and members of the armed forces act as informants and collaborators for Boko Haram insurgents. The governor, who made the allegation in an interview on News Central’s Breakfast programme, also said the Nigerian Army lacks requisite equipment to fight terrorists, noting that devoid of politics, Boko Haram can be wiped out in six months. Zulum spoke on a day Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, said some of the terrorists and bandits terrorising the country are not Nigerians, even as…

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A police officer, yesterday, shot a 15-year-old secondary school student named Taiwo, while he was en-route to an examination centre in the Gbagi area of Egbeda Local Government Area of Oyo State. The tragic incident occurred when Taiwo was struck by a stray bullet in the lower part of his body. Taiwo’s father was driving him and his twin brother to the examination centre for the West African Exanination Council, WAEC, when the shooting took place. Following the incident, he rushed Taiwo to Welfare Hospital, in Alakia, before transferring him…

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Two employees of Premium Trust Bank; Kehinde Odeyemi and Matthew Adeniyi Damilola, were arraigned by the Lagos Zonal Directorate 1 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Awolowo on Tuesday, May 20, 2025, before Justice Alexander Owoeye of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos. They were arraigned alongside Samson Latshin Dakup, Bolaji Omotosho Yinka and Sunday Badeniyi Okunola on a seven-count charge bordering on conspiracy to steal. The defendants allegedly conspired to manipulate the server and domain credentials of the bank in a bid to gain unauthorised…

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Iliya Mantau, the Village Head of Mantau in Yarmaulu, Baure Local Government Area of Katsina State, has been dethroned by the Emir of Daura in Katsina State, Alhaji Faruq Faruq, over allegations of involvement in the kidnapping and rape of a woman in the community. The Emir announced this on Monday following complaints from residents of Yarmaulu, which led to a youth-led protest last week. It was learnt that the protesting youths accused the dethroned village head, Iliya Mantau, and others of kidnapping Zulaihatu and her baby, and allegedly raped…

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Barely two days after the abduction of Oba Ogunyanda Ilufemiloye, the Obalohun of Okoloke, unknown gunmen again, ambushed and killed three indigenes of Okoloke in Yagba West, Kogi State. The incident occurred on Saturday, following the monarch’s kidnapping on Thursday. The victims were identified as Ogunbiyi Dele, the Oluode of Okoloke, Moses Jimoh, and Tobi Olu, also known as India. Two of the victims were members of the local hunters’ group and were reportedly on their way to Egbe, a neighbouring town, to make purchases. The Obalohun remains in the…

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Two high-profile suspected kidnap kingpins we’re yesterday arrested by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS), during a covert operation at Hajj camps in Abuja and Sokoto, as the suspects prepared to travel to Saudi Arabia for the annual pilgrimage. Security sources disclosed that the suspects — Yahaya Yakubu and Sani Aliyu Galadi — had been on the DSS watchlist for over a year, and that screening at various Hajj camps provided operatives the opportunity to apprehend them. Yakubu, who resides in Paikon-Kore village in Gwagwalada Area Council of…

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