Category: Crime

A man identified as Adeyinka Olayinka has been reportedly stabbed to death by two prostitutes. The suspects were Kudirat Raji also known as Angela and Esther Basiru. The sad incident was said to have occurred on Tuesday 30th of May 2017, at the KS Hotel, Ifo, in Ifo Local Government Area of the state. According to the state Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, the victim, who was supervising a construction work going on in his building site at Ifo decided to pass the night on the fateful day in…

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A pregnant woman identified as Oby, is currently facing interrogation at the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly beating her maid, Miracle, to death on Lateef Aregbe Street, Ago Palace Way, Okota, in the Isolo area of the state. It was gathered that the mother of two had descended on the eight-year-old on Saturday and beaten her till she collapsed and gave up the ghost. She was allegedly plotting with some persons to dispose of the corpse when some neighbours raised the alarm and reported the case to the police. The…

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One-year-old baby became a victim of sexual assault by a three-man gang who abducted her from her mother in Katsina State. The baby was abducted from her mother, Suwaiba Ahmadu, and gang-raped at Danja Local Government Area of the state. It was learnt that Suwaiba was returning from Angwan Bawa area in the Danja LGA, when the suspects perpetrated the act. The incident occurred on Sunday, when two members of the gang allegedly met the mother along a lonely road and lured her to take a ride with them on…

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Sunday Adimagwu, a 56-year-old man, and his son, Kenneth, 21, have been arraigned before an Ikeja Chief Magistrate’s court and charged with defiling a 12-year-old girl. The father is being tried for defiling his own daughter, while the son was arraigned for allegedly defiling the same girl— his step-sister. Both the father, a driver, and the son, a trader, live at Ajangbadi, Okokomaiko, a suburb of Lagos, on the Lagos-Badagry Expressway. The prosecutor, Inspector Clifford Ogu, told the court that the offences were committed between September 2016 and April 2017 at…

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Folorunsho Oluwaseun, a 51-year-old incestuous father, who allegedly turned his 17-year-old daughter into a sex object, was on Friday granted a reprieve by an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court. Oluwaseun was released on N300,000 bail with two sureties in like sum after he pleaded not guilty to the charge. The 51-year-old electrician, who resides at 40, Popoola Str., Offin in Ikorodu, Lagos State, is facing a charge of rape. Police Prosecutor Clifford Ogu told the court that the accused committed the offence between Aug. 8, 2016 and April 2017 at his…

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  Sheik Yusuf Amzat-Salam, a 35-year-old Muslim cleric, his wife and four children were allegedly killed by hoodlums in the early hours of Tuesday in Ijebu-Ode, Ogun state. It was reported that the incident occurred at Atiba area of Odogbolu Local Government Area. The eldest child, a girl, was aged 11, followed by her twin brothers, aged 8 and the last female child, aged 2. All the victims had since been buried according to Muslim rites amid wailing. The attackers, whose motive could not be ascertained, butchered the entire household…

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A local dog saved dozens of people at a wedding party in Maiduguri, yesterday, as a teenage suicide bomber, who attempted to detonate a bomb at the ceremony was attacked by the dog. Both the dog and suicide bomber died in the explosion that resulted from detonation of the bomb, following the dog attack. The incident occurred barely hours after the police in Borno confirmed that three suspected male suicide bombers were killed in separate foiled attacks at Muna and Dusuman village on the outskirt of Maiduguri. The dog which,…

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Mr Rabiu Yusuf, the Commissioner of Police in Kano State, has warned officers and men against demanding for money or any form of favour before granting bail to the suspects. Yusuf also cautioned them against illegal investigation of cases, unlawful detention of suspects and prolonged detention, saying that they should respect human rights in the course of all investigations. The police chief spoke at a lecture/ parade with officers and men working at State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID), Divisional Crime Officers and Investigation Police Officers (IPOs) in the…

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Magaji Dansale, a 55-year-old man, has allegedly defiled his seven months old step-daughter in Marmachi village of Musawa Local Government Area, Katsina State. The baby’s mother, Zeenat Muntari, said that she separated from the baby’s father and married Dansale. According to her, she must have drunk some substances that made her to sleep for several hours, which paved way for her husband to commit the act. According to her, when she woke up to breastfeed the baby, she noticed blood in her private part, adding “I informed my husband about…

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A landlady and her son who were abducted by her tenant, Michael Obi, to raise money to settle the arrears of rent he was owing the landlady, has been rescued by police. The landlady was kidnapped in Umuike Allu area of Rivers State while she was on the farm with her son, a student of the Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Imo State. Obi, 34, said that his friend, Kelechi Ndukwu, carried out the abduction to obtain ransom from the victims which would then be used to settle the N70,000…

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