Category: Crime

In order to conceal her infidelity, a 38-year-old mother of two, Esther Irawo, who is a resident of No. 6 Sule Street, Wera Estate, Ikorodu, Lagos State, has allegedly killed her friend, Femi Afolabi, 38. Irawo was said to have accused Femi, of informing her husband that he saw her with another man in a hotel and allegedly threatened to deal with him for trying to ruin her home. The deceased’s father, Adeyemi Afolabi, a 72-year-old retired soldier, said he heard Femi shouting from his room that Irawo was trying…

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Friday Kanu, a 35-year-old bricklayer, has been arrested by the Osun State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps for allegedly defiling a minor. The suspect, it was learnt was arrested in Ilesha following complaints that he molested a nine-year-old pupil, and reportedly confessed to the crime while being interrogated. The victim, it was gathered, was living with her sister, who is married to Friday, at Imadin, Ilesha, when the suspect first raped her. On March 18, 2019, Friday was said to have taken advantage of his wife’s…

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Police in UAE have arrested five Nigerian men in connection with a daring armed robbery at a money exchange house in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. The suspects, in their 20s, according to the police, stole currencies worth over Dh2m during a seven-minute robbery at the Al Tauwain branch of the Al Ansari Exchange around midnight on March 20. The police said they had recovered foreign and UAE currencies worth Dh2.3m from the suspects. Giving details of the incident at a press conference in Sharjah, the Commander-in-chief of the Sharjah Police,…

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Two members of a kidnap cum robbery gang and two of their informants, Sunana Douglass and Jordan Laguma, have been arrested by the Inspector-General of Police Intelligence Response Team. Douglass, 43, reportedly connived with the gang operating in the Shadam Local Government Area of Plateau State to kidnap his friend and benefactor identified simply as Dandong. It was learnt that he received N1m as his share from N15m ransom the kidnappers collected from the victim, who has two filling stations in the state. It was gathered that the detectives went…

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Founder of Jesus Intervention Household Ministry located in the Ejigbo area, Reverend Ezuma Chizemdere, has been arrested by the police in Lagos, for allegedly sodomising teenage boys and infecting one of them with human immunodeficiency virus in the process. The reverend was reported to be a member of a syndicate perpetrating the alleged crime in the neighbourhood. It was learnt that a good Samaritan had reported a case of defilement at the Ejigbo Police Station on January 22, 2019 consequent upon which one Prince Chinecherem was arrested and charged to…

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Two pastors, Chukwuka Stephen and Ejim Stephen, have been arrested by operatives of the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly killing their brother-in-law, Peter Chukwuyem, in the Papa-Ibafo area of the state. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said in a statement on Thursday that the suspects, while living with Chukwuyem, were using the frontage of his house to conduct church services. He stated that Chukwuka and Ejim became embittered when Chukwuyem stopped them from conducting church services in the frontage of his house, adding that when the…

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An okada rider was shot dead by a police officer yesterday at Kilo, Surulere area of Lagos State, bringing to three the number of reported extra-judicial killings in the state this month. Earlier in March, a policeman had shot a bus driver dead in Mosan, Ayobo area of Lagos for refusing to part with money. Two weeks after, a teenager was killed by a stray bullet in a shootout between policemen and some cultists in Ikorodu. The victim of yesterday’s killing, a motorcyclist identified as Ademola Moshood, was a few…

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The High Court sitting in Akure, On do state, on Wednesday, sentenced one Adeyemi Seidu to death by hanging for killing his girlfriend, Khadijat Oluboyo. Khadijat, the daughter of the immediate past deputy governor of the state, Alhaji Lasisi Oluboyo, was killed by the convict at his house in July 2018. It was reported that after killing the deceased, Adeyemi buried her corpse in his room for five days but the deed was later exposed by his father, who reported the incident to the Ondo State Police Command. The convict…

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Uche Owen, the proprietress of Cendom International Nursery and Primary School, Olodi-Apapa, has been ordered by Justice Yetunde Idowu of the Lagos State High Court in Ikeja, to pay N25m as damages to a five-year-old pupil of the school, Destiny Kalu after he was flogged for owing the school fee Destiny, through his father, Inyima Kalu, had in 2013 sued Owen and his class teacher, Uduak Sam, for inflicting severe injuries on his right eye through flogging over the non-payment of his school fee. According to his statement of claim,…

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The woman in a nude video that went viral on the internet on Tuesday, Ogochukwu Okafor, in Anambra State has demanded justice. The mother of a six-year-old son, who spoke to newsmen in Awka, described the incident as ‘unfortunate’ adding that the video had ruined her reputation and career. The victim, a widow said she dropped out of school after she lost her husband. She said she holds an Ordinary National Diploma, OND, certificate and was currently unemployed. Okafor said she could never be assuaged by any amount of plea…

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