Category: Crime

A 62-year-old man, identified only as Wadada has allegedly defiled a five-year-old girl in Akute Odo, in the Ifo Local Government Area of Ogun State. It was learnt that the victim, who stayed with her mother in a church, had gone to fetch water at the suspect’s borehole, when she was defiled. He was alleged to have pacified her with N20. The victim’s mother, upon seeing the money, reportedly queried how she came about it and she confessed that it was given to her by the suspect after defiling her.…

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Iliyasu Lawal, 28, Nura Iliyasu, 29, and Idris Suleiman 28 were on Wednesday arraigned by police, in a Wuse Zone 2 Magistrates’ Court FCT for allegedly trespassing the premises of the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The trio, who are residents of Kaduna State, were accused of attempts to commit suicide inside the presidential villa. Mr Augustine Urom, the Prosecuting Counsel, had averred that Lawal, on September 12 allegedly climbed an MTN telecommunication mast within the presidential villa to commit suicide while the others watched. Urom further told the court that the…

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An employee of the Public Works Volunteers in Benin, Edo State, identified as Fred also known as Biggie, has been arrested by the police for allegedly raping a mother of seven to death. The incident was said to have occurred at the Ramat Park axis, along the Benin-Agbor Road, in the Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area of the state, on Thursday. The deceased, identified as Magdalene, was said to be a trader in the area and a mother of seven children. Angry youths barricaded the expressway with bonfires, grounding traffic and…

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Police has arrested a 54-year-old driver of the chairman of an outsourcing firm located on Awolowo Road, Ikoyi, Lagos State, after a sex worker allegedly fled with his boss’ Kia Sorento sport utility vehicle valued at N5.4m. The prostitute, identified only as Nina, reportedly fled with the vehicle at a filling station in Ikoyi immediately the driver, Victor Dossa, came down to fuel it. It was learnt that Dossa, who lives on Ikoyi Crescent, usually took the vehicle to his house after taking his boss home at the close of…

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A 17-year-old teenager with down syndrome was allegedly defied by a class teacher, Wasiu Kabiru, in the Surulere area of Lagos. It was gathered that the victim was a student at the Down Syndrome Foundation, Surulere, where Kabiru was a teacher. The 29-year-old allegedly had sex with her in the school toilet. The victim said, “One day, I was inside the toilet when Brother Kabiru came to meet me and he used his eyes to tell me to keep quiet. He removed his shirt and trousers and also removed my…

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Hussaini Musa, an 80-year-old herbalist, was yesterday paraded alongside 2 others by the Katsina State Police Command in connection with the beheading of a Police officer attached to 56 PMF, Special Duty, Operation Safe Haven, Jos, Plateau State. The Katsina State Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Wakili, while addressing newsmen shortly before parading the suspect at the police headquarters yesterday, said the herbalist was arrested with two others for beheading Sergeant Unana Ishaya. Wakili stated that the suspects plucked out the sergeant’s eyes after beheading him, as part of requirements given…

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Operatives of the Inspector General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team (IRT), has arrested one Olatunde Adetunji, a 31-year-old member of a notorious armed robbery gang that specializes in robbing bank customers within Ikeja and Isolo areas of Lagos State. Also arrested was a 54-year-old woman, Bashirat Akinmushire, a.k.a. ‘Area Mama’, who is a member of a notorious cult group in Isolo. She was also alleged to be a member of the gang. It was gathered that Adetunji ran into trouble recently when he allegedly led some members of his…

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A 13-second video showing the Majority Leader of the Osun State House of Assembly, Mr Timothy Owoeye, stark naked has gone viral. The clip, which is making the rounds on the social media, showed Owoeye, who is representing Ilesa East, the constituency of Governor Rauf Aregbesola, being queried by some persons over what he was looking for in the dead of the night. The lawmaker was seen trying to cover his private parts with his left hand, as he pleaded with the men, whose faces were not covered in the…

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The police has arrested a matron at a private hospital on Shibiri Road, Ajangbadi, Lagos State, Mrs. Victoria Ukwu, in connection with a mutilated body of a one-year-old twin, Favour Orogbu. Two nurses at the hospital, Navico Clinic and Maternity, who were on duty on the day of the incident, were also apprehended. The right cheek of the victim was reportedly sliced off by a yet-to-be identified person after she died at the facility last Friday night. But the matron was said to have claimed that it was a rodent…

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10 suspects including a 52-year-old head of a local masquerade group, Igunuko, based at Ifako-Ijaiye area of Lagos State, Ariyo Elegbede, has been arrested over the death of one Sergeant Collins Esiabor. Esiabor was allegedly lynched on August 29, at Ifako Ijaiye by suspected members of a secret cult gang, over an ‘unprovoked’ reason. One 82-year-old herbalist, Babatunde Rufai, who treats gunshot victims, is also among those arrested. While the leader of the Igunuko was arrested for allegedly participating in the actual lynching of the policeman, the herbalist was said…

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