Category: Crime

A popular transporter, Muihili Adebayo who operates within Akure-Lagos route, is the latest victim of abduction by armed bandits. The assailants attacked him on Wednesday night at his residence in the Shagari area of Owo Local Government Area, Ondo State; killing his son and injuring his wife while he was reportedly taken away by the gunmen. It was gathered that, Adebayo’s wife was shot in the hand while resisting the kidnappers, but one of their children was killed during the struggle. The injured woman was later rushed to the Federal…

Operatives of the Lagos State Police Command uncovered and dismantled and internet fraud training facility, commonly referred to as “Yahoo School”, operating at Iju area of the state. This was confirmed in a statement by the spokesperson of the state police command, CSP Benjamin Hundeyin on Tuesday. Hundeyin said that the police apprehended four yahoo experts and six trainees. “During the successful operations, the police detectives apprehended four yahoo experts, of ages 22, 23, 25, and 26, who were running the notorious school. “The other six suspects, who are between…

A woman and her syndicate have been arrested by operatives of the Zone 2 Command of the Nigeria Police Force for allegedly trafficking young girls to Mauritania as commercial sex workers for N50,000. The Zonal Public Relations Officer, Umma Ayuba, disclosed in a statement on Tuesday that the suspects were arrested at their hideout in the Meiran area of Lagos State on March 22. She disclosed that the syndicate worked with other accomplices in Mauritania to traffic young ladies as commercial sex workers. According to Ayuba, the suspects confessed to…

A large cache of live ammunition cleverly concealed in jerrycans filled with palm oil has been intercepted by the Federal Capital Territory Police Command, while the suspects linked to the smuggling operation have been arrested. The breakthrough came after operatives from the Nyanya Division, in collaboration with officials of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, apprehended Nuhu Aminu, a 32-year-old man from Katsina State, at the Nyanya bus terminal. A statement on Monday by the command spokesperson, Josephine Adeh, said upon searching his consignment, officers discovered 488 rounds of…

Twelve inmates have reportedly escaped in a jailbreak in the early hours of Monday in Kogi State. Kogi State Government confirmed this in a statement issued by the Commissioner for Information and Communication, Kingsley Femi Fanwo. He commended the swift response of security agencies to the jailbreak at the Federal Correctional Center in Kotonkarfe, where 12 inmates escaped. Fanwo praised the swift response of security agencies and described the escape as ‘unfortunate,’ assuring citizens that the State government is taking decisive steps to prevent a recurrence. According to him, the…

An Indian lady, Ms. Neetu Neetu aged 42, was arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport (MAKIA), Kano, with 72 parcels of heroin, factory sealed in wafer wraps and packaged as chocolates. The class A drug consignment weighing a total of 11 kilogrammes was recovered from Neetu’s luggage after a thorough search, following processed credible intelligence, during an inward clearance of Qatar Airways flight QR1431 from Bangkok, Thailand via Vietnam and Doha at the arrival hall of the Kano…

64-year-old Barrister Donald Mbamah, has been arrested by the Imo State Police Command on Friday over the alleged shooting to death of a 16-year-old student of Urban Development Secondary School, Owerri, Paul Victor. The Imo Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Henry Okoye, disclosed this in a statement in Owerri. An eyewitness stated that the diseased had jumped over the fence into the suspect’s compound on Monday to retrieve a football when he was shot at the buttocks. He was rushed to the hospital where he was pronounced dead. However, the…

Farmers took to the streets of Akure in Ondo state on Wednesday to protest the alleged killing of five people by suspected herdsmen at Aba Oyinbo community in Akure North Local Government Area. It was gathered that the assailants invaded the community in the early hours of Wednesday, opening fire on the victims. The fresh killings come barely two weeks after no fewer than 14 people were reportedly murdered by gunmen in four communities—Ademekun, Aba Pastor, Aba Sunday, and Alajido—all in the same local government area. Angry protesters stormed the…