Category: Crime

Three Nigerian students have been arrested by narcotics police in Cyprus, over sale of 13 packets of drugs believed to be synthetic cannabinoid and ecstasy. The three have been identified as Raymon Stephen Ekerete, Mary Jane Ahunna Onuegbu and Isabella Abosede Brown. According to Police officer Mahir Türe, Ekerete one the suspects arraigned in court for additional detention, was arrested in front of his apartment building, while Onuegbu was arrested in her room. Scales used in drug weighing and materials used in the packaging the drugs were also retrieved from…

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A US-based Nigerian businessman was dazed in Lagos, when land agents led him to the lagoon after the part-payment for 150 plots offered for N787.5 million. Kennedy Chukwuemeka Nwabuoku told detectives led by DCP Abutu Yaro, at the Force Criminal Investigations and Intelligence Department (FCIID), Alagbon, how he had paid N577, 590, 792 in installments among other charges, plus another N18million for bush clearing in February, and how the agents were sending him pictures and videos of caterpillars in action at the purported site at Ifedele Agunbiade Village, Sangotedo, in…

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Suspected billionaire kidnapper, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, popularly known as Evans, on Friday raised an alarm that prison authorities for three days in a row, have denied him food. Evans made the revelation during an argument which ensued between him and prison officers immediately he was ushered into the courtroom. His counsel Olukoya Ogungbeje, also attested to the fact that his client is being starved. According to Evans, the prison authorities deprived him of change of clothes, food, and access to having his bath since Wednesday. “This is unfair, I have not…

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The Zone 2 police command has arrested a 37 year old man Emmanuel Ebuzoma for allegedly defrauding applicants seeking employment with the Nigeria police force. The chairman police service commission had on 2nd of November 2017 petitioned the Assistant Inspector General in charge of Zone 2 AIG Adamu Ibrahim about a fraudster using his name to scam unsuspected members of the public. The AIG referred the petition to the public complaint bureau of the Zone. The detectives swung into action and the suspect Emmanuel Ebuzoma an indigene of Delta state…

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​The Nigerian Police Force has rejected a report obtained from the 2016 World Internal Security & Police Index which ranks the force as the worst Police system in the world. The report places the Singapore Police Force as the best in the world followed by Finland, and then Denmark. Nigeria’s police force is ranked worst on the index followed by DR Congo, Kenya, Uganda and Pakistan. Countries with protracted civil conflicts were not ranked on the index. The Nigerian Police Force has however rejected the report. In a statement signed…

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Likita Manu, a 40-year-old man, has been arrested by the police in Niger State for allegedly killing his 100-year-old mother, Inne Kaiyo, for alleged witchcraft. Manu was said to have accused his aged mother of killing his daughter, Magajiya, with witchcraft. He was said to have allegedly descended on his mother, beating her with a stick, after his daughter died. According to the police, Manu was joined in the beating by his 80-year-old father, Kwacha, who is also being detained. Kwacha claimed that Magajiya was the ninth person that Kaiyo…

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Timothy Afolaranmi, the brother to late Mercy Afolaranmi , who allegedly committed suicide over poor grades has debunked reports about her sister taking her own life, insisting that she was murdered. According to Timothy, there was no way his 16-year-old sister could have committed suicide as she was a devout Christian. Recall that Mercy, a 100 level Microbiology student at Abafemi Awolowo, Ile Ife, Osun State, reportedly took “rat poison mixed with battery extract” because of her poor grades. The Chief Security Officer of the Institution, Babatunde Oyatokun, reported that…

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A student at the University of Hartford in Connecticut was charged with criminal mischief and expelled from school after boasting about having contaminated her roommate’s toothbrush, face lotion and other belongings in an effort to drive her from the room. NYC Times reports. The student, Brianna Brochu, 18, was in court on Wednesday for charges that originated with an Instagram post in which she said that she had finally accomplished what had apparently been a long-held goal: ridding herself of her dorm roommate, Chennel Rowe, whom she referred to as…

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For dumping a day old baby boy near a house in Yauri, Kebbi, 23-year-old Gambo Suleiman has been arrested by the Kebbi State Police Command. The unmarried lady was reportedly reportedly dumped the baby behind a building at about 5 pm on Sunday evening, as an eyewitness identified as Malam Musa Yauri confirmed that the baby has been handed over to Yauri Local Government Authority, who in turn, handed over the baby to the Kebbi Orphanage Home, for proper care. The State Police PRO DSP Mustapha Suleiman, who confirmed the…

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