Category: Crime

Lagos State Police Command has arrested four policemen attached to Ijanikin Division for allegedly robbing one Theodore Ifunnaya of 350,000 CFA (about N221,508). The police spokesman in Lagos, CSP Chike Oti, said that the victim was a Nigerian based in Togo. Oti said that the policemen faced dismissal if found guilty, stressing, however, that the victim was not stripped naked during interrogation as being alleged in some quarters. Oti said that the affected policemen had been transferred to the Provost Section of the Command for investigation. The officers allegedly accosted…

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Unknown gunmen have reportedly killed the Chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, in Onne, Eleme Local Government Area, Rivers State, Jonah Chu. It was gathered that the gunmen stormed Onne and killed him. This is just as gunmen killed five persons in Adada-Odua community, Abua/Odua Local Government Area of same state. A source disclosed that the campaign coordinator of Tonye Cole Volunteers Group in Ward 9, Abua/Odua council, who doubles as the APC Ward 9 Youth Leader, was among the five persons killed Sunday night. Meanwhile, the embattled Paramount Ruler…

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Police at Zone 2 command, Onikan, Lagos have arrested an 85-year-old man, three clerics and one other person with fresh human hearts and flesh, in Abeokuta, Ogun state. The suspects were alleged to be specialists in using human parts for money rituals. Parading the suspects alongside other suspects, yesterday, the Assistant Commissioner of Police, zone 2, comprising Lagos and Ogun States commands, AIG Lawal Shehu, said investigation on where and how the suspects came about the human parts was ongoing. He explained that: “On December 10 , at about 9.45pm…

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The Federal High Court sitting in Osogbo, presided over by Justice Maurine Onyetenu, on Monday has sentenced former lecturer of Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Prof. Richard Iyiola Akindele, to six years imprisonment for demanding sex to pass his student, Monica Osagie. Justice Onyetenu sentenced the convict to 24 months on count one, 24 months on count two, 1 year on count three and 1 year on count four. The accused had pleaded not guilty to the charge of sexual harassment preferred against him by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other…

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14 people have reportedly lost their lives in Southern Kaduna as gunmen stormed a wedding venue. Earlier reports said 21 other people were seriously injured in the attack perpetrated in Ungwan Pa-Gwandara of Godogodo chiefdom in Jema’a Local Government Area on Sunday. Troops have been deployed in the troubled community, according to a statement issued by Senior Special Assistant to Governor Nasir El-Rufai on Media and Publicity, Samuel Aruwan, yesterday. Aruwan said the troops would further secure the area and provide the atmosphere for extensive investigation of the sad incident…

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An undergraduate of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Abiodun Olabisi, has been arrested by the Oyo State Police for allegedly stabbing her boyfriend, Lekan Adegun, to death. The victim, a graduate of the Department of Transport Management of the same institution, was waiting for his call-up letter for the mandatory National Youth Service Corps programme before the incident happened. The state Police Commissioner, Abiodun Odude, who paraded the suspects in Ibadan, said the incident happened following a quarrel between the two as a result of petty jealousy. According…

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Operatives of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested a carpenter, Habib Abdullahi, 64, for defiling a six-year-old girl in Ikorodu, Lagos. The Commisioner of Police in Lagos state, Edgal Imohimi, who paraded the suspect, said the mother of the victim informed the command of the incident, adding that the outcome of the investigation conducted revealed that the suspect took the victim into his room and sexually abused her. He added that the victim, who was irritated by the suspect’s action, upon interrogation by her mother, identified Abdullahi as the…

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Mike Oliseh, a 54-year-old assistant Pastor of the Anointed Chosen Vessel Ministry, Okota, Lagos, has been detained at the Lagos State Police Command Headquarters, Ikeja, for allegedly defiling the 12-year-old twin daughters of a church member and close friend. It was gathered that while Oliseh allegedly penetrated the private parts of the first victim, he allegedly  inserted his fingers in the private parts of the twin sister. It was learnt that Oliseh, an indigene of Delta State, and the girls’ father, Obi (not real name) lived on Ago Palace Way,…

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Ebenezer Adeyeye, a primary school teacher, has been remanded in prison custody by a magistrate court sitting in Okitipupa, in the Okitipupa Local Government Area of Ondo State. Adeyeye, was accused of defiling a five-year-old pupil inside the school’s toilet in Okitipupa. He was arrested by the men of the Ondo State Police Command on November 7, 2018. The accused was said to have lured the victim to the school toilet, where he allegedly had a carnal knowledge of her. He was arraigned on one count of rape. According to…

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