Category: Crime

A 23-year-old man, Daniel Isong, who allegedly escaped from a hotel without paying for beer and pepper soup he consumed, on Thursday appeared before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court. Isong , is facing a three-count of obtaining under false pretences, breach of peace and stealing. The prosecutor, Insp. Victor Eruada, had told the court that the accused and one other person at large committed the offences on Sept. 12 at Urban Hotel located on Yaya Street, Ogba, Lagos. Eruada said the accused fraudulently obtained bottles of beer and plates of pepper…

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Ifeanyi Dike, kidnapper and murderer of eight-year-old Chikamso Mezuwuba who escaped from police custody has been re-arrested by the police. The killer was re-arrested yesterday morning in far away Plateau State by men of the state Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). Dike, an undergraduate of the University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT), killed Chikamso, on August 19, this year, and was arrested and handed over to the Police. He later escaped under suspicious circumstances from the custody of a Police officer, Johnbosco Okoroeze, who has been dismissed from the Force and is…

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Moses Otimba, a 47-year-old man has been arrested by the Police in Bayelsa State for allegedly impregnating his wife’s 18-year-old junior sister and killing the five days-old-baby boy they had from the unholy relationship. Otimba was paraded with Joy Matthew, younger sister to Mrs. Otimba at police headquarters. The suspect was said to have allegedly killed the baby five days after birth and buried it in a shallow grave by the seashore. Otimba, an indigene of Ogbogoro Community in Yenagoa Local Council of the state, was said to have carried…

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Police in Ondo state paraded three suspected ritualists who confessed that they were contracted to kill students of Adeyemi College of Education (ACE), Ondo, for a sum of N15 million. The suspects, John Adenitire (30), a.k.a Emir; Fisayo Fasanu, a.k.a Abore and Abdulrafiu Tijani, a herbalist, disclosed that the price placed on human parts attracted them to the business. They, alongside other 15 suspected armed robbers, were paraded by the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Gbenga Adeyanju, at the command headquarters yesterday in Akure. Their victims, Miss Oladepo Blessing and Oluwasemilore…

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Stephen Ogho-Oghene Akpata, an Australian returnee, has been arrested by the police in Bayelsa State for allegedly killing his wife, an employee of Glo network, Onyinye, after making love to her for about an hour. Akpata, who confessed to committing the dastardly act when paraded by the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Amba Asuquo, was arrested in Lagos following his failed attempt to flee to Ghana. Asuquo said the incident was first reported to the police on August 16 around 2:00p.m. when one Moses Awo complained that Onyinye, 33, failed to report…

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A 20-year-old woman, Ajoke Owolabi has been arrested by the Ogun State police command for allegedly kidnapping a seven-year-old girl, Racheal Olorunshola, and keeping her in custody for 19 months. The little girl, according to a statement by the command’s spokesman, Mr. Abimbola Oyeyemi, in Abeokuta yesterday, said the suspect kidnapped the girl while returning from school and the parents have been looking for her since then. Oyeyemi disclosed that the girl was “suddenly brought home to her parents by a Good Samaritan last month. Few weeks later after her…

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Halilu Abdulahi, a suya seller, on Wednesday at an Ebute Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, pleaded guilty to an attempt to slice the throat of a four-year-old girl. Abdulahi, 40, was arraigned before Chief Magistrate A. O. Ajibade on a two-count charge of attempted murder and unlawful assault. The accused pleaded guilty to the charges preferred against him. The Prosecutor, Sgt. Hafsat Ajibode, told the court that the accused committed the offences on Aug. 18 at 5.35 p.m. at No. 1, Denton St., Ebute Meta. She said the accused lured…

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Mr. Edgal Imohimi, the Acting Commissioner of Police, Lagos State command, has ordered a full-scale investigation into the alleged corrupt practices preferred against the Officer in-Charge (O/C) of the Anti-Kidnapping and Cultism Unit of the command, Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP) Adejobi Akinade. It would be recalled that a group, Network on Police Reform in Nigeria (NORPIN) had in a petition to the new Commissioner of Police, on September 1, 2017, accused CSP Adejobi of unlawful detention, demand of N70,000 bribe for bail and sexual molestation in a case of…

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Two grandfathers and their accomplice we’re paraded by the Anambra State Police Command on for car theft. They were allegedly caught while trying to sell a Toyota Tacoma SUV stolen in Owerri, Imo State. Twenty-five bunches of keys, including a master key, one Federal Road Safety Corps jacket, FRSC banner and two number plates were recovered from them. Parading the suspects at the Police Headquarters in Amawbia near Awka, the State Police Public Relations Officer, Nkeiruka Nwode, gave the names of the suspects as Monday Uche (64), Sunday Ofoekwe (42)…

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Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike also known as Evans has been arraigned in court after 82 days in detention. The suspected billionaire kidnapper has pleaded guilty on a two-count charge of conspiracy and kidnapping. This follows his arraignment yesterday before Justice Hakeem Oshodi at the Lagos High Court, Ikeja. Evans was arraigned alongside his five accomplices: Uche Amadi, Ogechi Uchechukwu, Okwuchukwu Nwachukwu, Chilaka Ifeanyi and Victor Aduba by the Lagos State Government. Evans, Amadi and Nwachukwu pleaded guilty to the charges, while Uchechukwu, the only female defendant, Ifeanyi and Aduba pleaded not guilty…

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