Category: Crime

The Imo State Police Command has arrested two women, Chizoba Eze and Amaka Eze, for allegedly buying newborn twins, Emmanuel and Emmanuela, for N1.8m in Umuahia, Abia State. The women, who were said to be from Enugu State, were paraded on Monday by the Imo State Police Public Relations Officer, Andrew Enwerem, who said the suspects were intercepted on Owerri-Aba Road. The suspects were paraded on Monday alongside six others, who also allegedly abducted and sold nine other children. The police spokesperson, who decried the rise in abduction of children,…

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Taiwo Akinola, a 29-yr-old man has been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command over alleged attempt to kill his mother for ritual purpose through an advanced cyber fraud known as Yahoo Plus. The victim, Mrs. Alice Akinola, had her skull smashed with a plank studded with nails and then a pressing iron during the alleged attack by her son, Taiwo Akinola, inside their flat located at 2, Raji Ajanaku Street, Alaja Road, Ayobo area of Lagos, at about 8.30p.m., Sunday. As at yesterday, doctors at an undisclosed hospital were…

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The Ughelli Police Area Command has arrested a woman for allegedly stabbing her husband to death during a domestic fight after she accused him of engaging in extra-marital affairs. The suspect, Ese Eregarhe, 32, purportedly used a kitchen knife to stab her husband, who is in his late 30s at their Agbarha-Otor residence in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State. Confirming the incident, a senior officer at the Ughelli Police Area Command said that the suspect had accused the victim of having a string of girlfriends who keep…

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Friday Uko, a father of seven, has been sentenced to death by hanging by an Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in Ikot Ekpene Judicial Division for kicking and killing his pregnant wife, Mrs. Patience Uko. Friday, a native of Ikot Ossom in Obot Akara Local Government Area of the state, was sentenced to death on one count of murder. Delivering his judgment on Thursday, the presiding judge, Justice Ntong Ntong, explained that from the available evidence, the convict kicked his wife, who was three months pregnant, on August 14,…

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The Rivers State Police Command has rescued a woman identified as precious from a group of ritual killers, who shot and killed one of their victims for ritual purpose. The woman, while narrating her ordeal said though she initially thought that she was abducted by kidnappers, it was when they killed the lady and made a call that she knew that they were ritual killers. Precious, who spoke with newsmen at the state police command in Port Harcourt, said she saw many persons, who were abducted earlier, including children, adding…

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The Police Public Relations Officer in Ogun state, Abimbola Oyeyemi, has confirmed the death of a 40-year-old woman, Monsurat Idowu, who reportedly died after alleged marathon sexual interourse with her 28-year-old lover Kelvin Micheal in Sango, Ogun State. Oyeyemi in a statement said the suspect has been arrested by men of the Police Command. Oyeyemi said “the arrest of the suspect was as a result of complaint by one Benjamin Okereke of the State hospital Ota who reported that the suspect brought the deceased to the hospital dead, and since…

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A 40-year-old landlord, Adegbite Taoheed, has been arrested by men of Ogun State Police Command for leading a gang of robbers to rob his fellow landlords in Soyoye, Abeokuta North council of the state. Taoheed, a member of the landlords’ association in Oke-Odo, was reported to have recruited other persons to rob the residents of valuables. Parading the suspects, who had been shot, at the headquarters of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad in Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, said the robbers stole an SUV belonging…

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As a result of complications from high intake of tramadol, a kidnap suspect in Ondo state Tuesday gave up the ghost after nine days of being unconscious. He died after 30 drips were infused into him at the Owo General Hospital where doctors battled to revive him. Police detectives that have been waiting for him to come back to life could not get any information from him including his identity. The suspect was arrested on August 5, after he fell following the intake of tramadol during a botched kidnap attempt…

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Andrew Ogbuja, a senior lecturer at the Department of Catering and Hotel Management, Benue State Polytechnic, Ugbokolo has been remanded by a Makurdi Upper Area Court on Monday for allegedly defiling his 13-year-old housemaid. Andrew who was arrested last Friday, pleaded with the judge to temper justice with mercy and grant him bail to enable him to go back home and resolve the matter amicably. The accused, who spoke through his counsel, David Ojile, promised to take full responsibility for the treatment of the victim, saying it was a family…

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An Ibadan Magistrates’ Court sitting in Iwo Road has sentenced one Sunday Ajayi, a 35-year-old bricklayer, to jail for six months after being found guilty of breaking into the Oyo State Government House in the Agodi area of Ibadan and stealing property worth N535,000 from members of the police bomb squad stationed on the premises. Police prosecutor, Sunday Ogunremi, told the court that the convict scaled the fence and went to the policemen’s apartment where he stole the valuables on July 31, 2018. The charge read in part, “That you,…

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