Category: Crime

Operatives of the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Intelligence Response Team (IRT) have arrested a notorious armed robber, Kunle Akerele, a.k.a. Poly, who gave chilling details of how his gang usually cuts off victims’ fingers and wrists to force them into submitting their valuables. Akerele and other members of his syndicate: Toyin Adewale, Nurudeen Akorede (Sypon), Oluwaseyu Makinde, Tunde Yusuf (To Door) and Bankole Mohammed, alias Hunter were arrested at Ikotun. Akerele’s arrest was led by Abba Kyari, a Deputy Commissioner of Police. The suspects, who were paraded on Wednesday…

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Rachael Godwin, a 32-year-old physiotherapist at the National Orthopaedic Hospital, Igbobi, Lagos, , on Wednesday, narrated how her boyfriend, a suspected Internet fraudster simply identified as Olumide, forced her to wear pants, which he allegedly used for money rituals. According to her, Olumide, in connivance with his colleague, forced her to wear pants for money rituals. Godwin said she met Olumide in January 2018 on a Bus Rapid Transit vehicle travelling from Ikorodu to Ikeja. She added that she did not know how she fell in love with him soon…

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The Ogun state police command has arrested a 29-year-old man, Owolabi Folorunso Adewale, for allegedly killing her 99-year old aunty whom he accused of using her spiritual power to change his Baba Ijebu lotto winning number, at Maraisa Lane, Igan road in Ago-Iwoye area of Ogun State. He was arrested on Monday. It was gathered that the suspect, who is a regular player of Baba Ijebu lotto, also alleged that each time he was on the verge of winning, the butchered aunty, Ebunola Aroboto, would alter the numbers spiritually. In a…

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Men of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested a three-man ‘one-chance’ robbery gang after being identified by one of their victims, Mrs Taye Olotu, at a motor park in the Atan-Ota area of the state. The suspects were reported to have posed as drivers and passengers in the park, when the victim, who had earlier been robbed in February by the gang saw them and reported to the police, who subsequently arrested the suspects. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Abimbola Oyeyemi, confirmed the arrest in a…

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A 20-year-old man, Agugu Adau, has been sentenced to death by hanging by a High Court sitting in Jos, for killing his mother. Justice Nafisa Musa handed the sentence after he found the defendant guilty. “Based on the evidence before this court, the prosecution has proved beyond reasonable doubt that you, Adau, mercilessly took the life of your own mother. The judgment of this court upon you is that you will be hanged by the neck until you die, may God have mercy on your soul,” Musa declared. The convict…

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Ahmad Abdur-Rahman, Kaduna Commissioner of Police, has confirmed the death of 29 persons and burning of 40 homes during Tuesday’s attack by unknown gunmen on Katmai village in Kajuru council area of the state. During a press briefing in Kaduna, the CP said he, alongside the Garrison Commander, 1 Division of the Nigerian Army, Brigadier-General O.J. Akpor, and other senior military and police officers had undertaken an assessment tour of all the communities in the axis for confidence building and peace move. “I also held a peace meeting with the…

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The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission has arraigned Jinga Mayo, the Executive Secretary of the Christian Pilgrims Welfare Board, for embezzling funds meant for the committee members of the Adamawa State Christian Pilgrims Board. A statement by the spokesperson for the ICPC, Mrs Rasheedat Okoduwa, said Mayo was arraigned before Justice Nathan Musa of the High Court 1 in Yola on three counts bordering on stealing. He was charged for making a false claim on the sum of N69.2m he received to pay the committee members for…

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Gabriel Ogba, a middle-aged man, was on Monday arraigned at a Special Offences Court in Ikeja, Lagos State, for allegedly raping his two adult daughters and their 13-year-old sister. Gabriel is standing trial for sexually molesting his daughters aged 25 and 20 years, and their underage sister at their residence in Oke-Ogbe town, Atura bus stop, Badagry, Lagos, and almost setting ablaze his wife, Tope Ogba, when she reported him to the authorities. Tope, while being led in evidence by the state counsel, K. A. Momoh-Ayokanbi, said she did not…

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The case involving a Danish citizen, Mr. Peter Nielsen over the alleged murder of his Nigerian wife, Zainab Nielsen, an upcoming musician also known as Alizee and her three-year-old daughter, Petra, may have once again put to test the ability of the Nigerian Police to thoroughly investigate such a high profile case. The sensational trial of Mr. Peter Nielsen had continued on 20 February 2019 before Justice Mobolanle Okikiolu-Ighile sitting at the High Court of Lagos State, Igbosere. The trial is being followed by the international media, where prosecution was…

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