Category: Crime

  Umaru Jauro has been arraigned before a Bauchi High Court by the State Ministry of Justice, for allegedly killing his father in a mosque in Maltawa village in the Misau Local Government Area of the state. The court was presided over by Justice Aliyu Usman. The chief state counsel, Hussein Magaji, while arraigning the suspect on Thursday, told the court that the accused went into a mosque and attacked his father with a cutlass on his head and back. He added that as a result, the victim sustained serious…

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Appinner Obilor, a 70-year-old businessman was arraigned at Ikeja Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for allegedly inflicting injury on his landlord over quit notice. Obilor, a resident of Oko-Oba, Lagos, is being tried for conspiracy and assault. The accused committed the offences on July 21 at his residence, the prosecutor, Assistant Superintendent of Police Ezekiel Ayorinde told the court. He said that the accused and two others at large conspired to assault his landlord, Mr Waheed Bello over quit notice. “The accused, who spent over five years in the complainant’s house…

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Four policemen have been sentenced to death by hanging for killing a commercial motorcycle operator in 2016 on Goodluck Jonathan Boulevard, Akwa Ibom State. The four convicted policemen are, Inspectors Moses Akpaete, Idoko Sampson, Corporals Enobong Udo and Godwin Nnanna. They had since been dismissed from the force as they last served at the ‘C’ Division of the Akwa Ibom Police Command. The trial judge, Justice Ifiok Ukana, found the officers guilty of conspiracy in the murder of one Felix Akpan of Ibiakpan in Ibiono Ibom Local Government Area of…

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Ekaette Obot, a grandmother, has been arrested by the Akwa Ibom State Police Command for allegedly stealing and selling her granddaughter for N200,000. Obot claimed she sold the child to free her daughter, Blessing Okon (18) of burden. The state Commissioner of Police, Mr Adeyemi Ogunjemilusi, said in Uyo on Tuesday that Obot, who is also pregnant, told the police that as soon as she was delivered of the baby, she would sell it. He said, “This is the mother to this lady. As soon as her daughter gave birth…

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A Nigerian prince and his accomplice are accused of bamboozling hundreds of job seekers out of thousands of dollars by promising them high-paying gigs in New York. The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office said Osmond Eweka, 31, a prince from the Benin royal family in Nigeria, according to reports, and a United States citizen living in New Jersey and his friend Kamel McKay, 27, pretended to run two consulting firms in Manhattan telling clients that if they paid a fee they would be placed at various jobs across New York City.…

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A notorious kidnap gang member, Sunday Clark, who plotted the abduction of his customer, a businessman, Mr. Adewale Kazeem has been arrested by operatives of Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad attached to the Rivers State Police Command. Clark told newsmen he acted as an informant to the gang to kidnap a businessman, Kazeem, a resident of Rukpokwu in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State. The suspect, who is a professional welder, had earlier in December 2017, gone to Adewale’s house on invitation to carry out a welding job for him.…

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Osaremwinda Omobude Idumwonyi, 46, has been arrested for killing his lover, Gladys Okoha, a 38-year-old mother of three, after he allegedly found male condoms inside her handbag in Benin City, the Edo State capital. It was gathered that the victim identified who had been separated with her husband, was stabbed with a kitchen knife thrice in her stomach during a disagreement that ensued between her and her lover over male condoms found in her possession. According to sources, the suspect was angered by the suspicion that the deceased was embroiled…

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19-year-old Dorcas Adilewa has been arrested by operatives of the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly faking her kidnap to defraud her father, Taiwo Adilewa. The police also arrested Dorcas’ friend, Ifeoluwa Ogunbanjo, for her alleged involvement in the fraud. Dorcas was said to have conspired with Ogunbanjo to execute the scheme and allegedly demanded N600,000 ransom. The police said Taiwo had received a call from someone who told him that his daughter had been kidnapped and allegedly demanded the N600,000 for her release. Taiwo reportedly informed the police about…

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A 45-year-old woman, Nkiru Victoria, has been arrested for alleged buying and selling of children. Nkiru was said to have made a profit of N900, 000 for selling three siblings in Ile-Oluji area of Ondo State. She had allegedly bought the kids for N600, 000 each and resold each for N900, 000. The children spent about four months in three different homes they were sold to in Asaba, Delta State capital before they were recovered. One Esther, who had allegedly kidnapped and sold the three children earlier, had packed into…

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