Category: Crime

Three men, Adejo Ogiri, Ndukwe Henry and Obuito Onyema have been sentenced to five years imprisonment by a Federal High Court in Makurdi, Benue State, for abducting and selling a neighbour’s four-year-old son in the Otukpo area of the state. The three convicts were arrested by operatives of the Department of State Services in connection with the abduction. They were thereafter handed over to the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, which charged them to court. It was learnt that the first convict, Ogiri, abducted the four-year-old…

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Lawali Gogonkade, who is a member of the Zamfara State House of Assembly, has been sentenced to four years in prison after pleading guilty to charges of N31m fraud preferred against him by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission. He was arraigned before a Zamfara State High Court sitting in Gusau on Thursday on four counts bordering on corrupt practices. He was convicted and sentenced by Justice Bello Shinkafi after pleading guilty to the charges. Gogonkade, until his conviction by the court, represented the Kaura-Namoda council area…

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Jennifer Agomuo, an undergraduate of the Imo State University, Owerri , has allegedly taken her own life after a disagreement with her boyfriend, simply identified as Johnson. The tragedy occurred in one of the hostels in the Aladinma Alliance area of the school on Wednesday night. It was gathered that the 21-year-old Agomuo was a 300-level student of the Department of Computer Science of the university. A source in the institution told our correspondent that the undergraduate poisoned herself after allegedly stabbing her boyfriend over an undisclosed issue. The source…

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A man identified as John Depuun has been arrested by police for killing her daughter for sacrifice in Benue state. The Chairman, Konshisha Local Government, Mrs Justina Ubebe confirmed the killing of the infant girl by her father as sacrificial offering in a village in Tse-Agberagba in the area. Confirming the incident to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in a telephone interview on Thursday in Makurdi, Ubebe described the act as ” strange and bizarre”. She said the act, which happened on Wednesday night, had already been reported to the…

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Two persons and a security man attached to Delta State University, DELSU, Abraka, have been arrested over a missing student, whose decomposing body has been found with her tongue and breasts cut off. Olozino Ogege, a 300 Level student of the Department of Mass Communication, was declared missing last Thursday after she reportedly went out to meet an agent, who was assisting her secure an apartment in the university town. A source, who simply gave his name as Michael, said: “Her decomposing body was found on Friday with her tongue…

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Joseph Igwemon, 34-year-old pastor of the Global Influence Ministry, has been arraigned before an Oredo Magistrates’ Court in Benin, Edo State, for allegedly abducting and having carnal knowledge of one of his church members. The accused was said to have committed the offence on October 15, 2018, in the Mission Road area of Benin metropolis. The victim was said to be a chorister in Igwemon’s church and was wedded to her husband by the accused. The pastor, who was arraigned on two counts of abduction and an act likely to…

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Police investigation into the murder of the late Chairman of Credit Switch Technology, Opeyemi Bademosi, has revealed that his cook and prime suspect, Sunday Anani, allegedly stabbed his boss to death in his room at his Parkview Estate residence, in the Ikoyi area of Lagos State. The Lagos state Police Public Relations Officer, CSP Chike Oti, in a statement on Sunday, said Anani, single-handedly stabbed his boss to death with a kitchen knife, while attempting to rob him. Oti stated that the 22-year-old suspect, who took advantage of his boss…

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Bilyaminu Halilu, a 26 year old Quranic teacher has been arrested by police in Gombe State, for allegedly raping a five year old girl who is his student. Halilu was a teacher at Raudatul Quranic Primary and Secondary School by-pass Gombe. The Commissioner of Police in Gombe State, Mohammed Mukaddas, told newsmen in Gombe on Friday that the suspect was arrested on November 1. According to him, the suspect took the girl to his office laid her on the table and had unlawful carnal knowledge of her. He said the…

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Five suspects have been arrested by the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) in Onne, Rivers state, for allegedly importing military uniforms and other items. Customs Area II Comptroller, Aliyu Galadima, disclosed this yesterday when he paraded the items at Onne Port. He said the arrest and confiscation of the items was the third by the command in about five months. According to him, the first confiscated container, loaded with military wears was impounded in July along Aba-Port Harcourt Express road.Also impounded in August was a container with 4,400 army uniforms, while…

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