Category: Crime

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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A 34-year-old, Emmanuel Onuma, has been arrested by the police for breaking into the Automated Teller Machine gallery of his erstwhile employer and stealing N14m. Onuma was said to have carried out the heist at the Garki, Abuja branch of the new generation bank on October 19, 2018. Parading Onuma alongside other suspects in Abuja on Wednesday, the Assistant Commissioner of Police, Operations, Federal Capital Territory Police Command, Valentine Olumese, said the ex-banker was dismissed in August for fraudulent activities. “On November 1, in furtherance of an ongoing investigation, police…

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Police in Edo State have arrested an 18-year-old man, Samuel Akpobome, for allegedly killing his mother for money rituals. Akpobome confessed on Wednesday that he strangled the victim, Christiana Ighoyivwi, while she was asleep in her residence on Market Road, Ologbo, Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area of the state. The teenager, who was paraded by the Commissioner of Police, Mr Johnson Kokumo, along with over 80 other suspects arrested for various offences, stated that he later had sexual intercourse with his mother’s corpse. Akpobome, who hails from Delta State and is…

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David Shakari, a 32-year-old man in the Kaura Local Government Area of Kaduna State, has been arrested by operatives of the Inspector-General of Police Intelligence Response Team for rape. The 32-year-old father of one reportedly raped his mother and ex-wife’s mother who are in their 50s and 60s respectively. It was gathered that Shakari had attended a festival sometime in August 2017 in the community and returned home drunk in the night. Shakari, who lived with his mother, reportedly met the woman asleep and forcefully had sex with her. He…

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A Togolese cook who allegedly murdered his boss, Chairman of Credit Switch Technology, Chief Ope Badamosi, has been declared wanted by the Police in Lagos. Cheif Badamosi was found dead in his apartment on Onikoyi lane, Parkview estate in Ikoyi area of Lagos on Wednesday. The fleeing cook, whose age is put between 25 and 30 years , was identified only as Sunday. It was gathered that detectives at the Homicide Section of the State Criminal Investigation Department, SCIID, were on the trail of the agent that brought the suspect…

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Gombe Zonal Office of The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, has arrested one Sunday Ogar for allegedly diverting 15 bundles of mosquito net, each containing 50 pieces. The nets were reportedly meant for distribution in 40 general hospitals in the Dukku Local Government Area of Gombe State before they were diverted. The spokesman for the anti-graft agency in the Gombe zonal office, Bello Bajoga, in a statement said the arrest was made on Tuesday after the EFCC received intelligence report that some nets meant for distribution had been diverted for…

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Sola Ewulo, a 38-year-old commercial bus driver has been arrested for allegedly defiling a neighbour’s two-year-old child that was kept in his care at Taiwo Street, in Agbado-Ijaye area of Lagos. It was gathered that the child’s mother went to buy some provisions in the neighbourhood, leaving her daughter in the care of the suspect. On arrival, she said she could not find her daughter or the suspect. A moment later, she said she saw the toddler on the corridor, struggling to walk and at the same time scratching and touching…

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Five Catholic nuns have been abducted by gunmen suspected to be kidnappers in Delta State. The nuns are of the Order of the Missionary of Martha and Mary in Agbor, under the Issele-Uku Diocese. It was learnt that the victims were returning from a burial ceremony in the East when the hoodlums struck around the Railway Line near Agbor, Ika South Local Government Area of Delta State. The hoodlums reportedly intercepted the private vehicle of the nuns, and shot at their vehicle, injuring two nuns on the leg before making…

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Andrew Ogbuja, a 51-year-old lecturer in the Department of Catering and Hotel Management, Benue State Polytechnic has been remanded in prison custody by the Chief Magistrate’s Court One, Makurdi, Benue State, on Thursday for allegedly raping his 13-year-old housemaid, Miss Elizabeth Ogbanje, was on Thursday. He was charged with criminal conspiracy and culpable homicide. Ogbanje was also Victor’s wife’s cousin. When the case came up, the First Information Report read to the accused stated in part, “That on October 22, 2018, a case was reported by one Evangelist Enuwa Soo…

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A supposed peacemaker, Saheed Odusote, who claimed to have acted in self-defence, has been arrested for allegedly stabbing a boxer, Olumide Agbolade, with a bottle. It was learnt that Agbolade and his colleague, Taiwo Makanjuola, had a heated argument on September 7, around 9pm, which led to a fight. Odusote was said to have intervened in the fight by breaking a bottle and stabbing Agbolade in the left side of his face. However, Makanjuola said in his statement to the police that he did not send Odusote to stab Agbolade.…

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