Category: Crime

A 16-year-old girl, Aisha Suleiman, has been arrested by the Edo State Police Command for allegedly fatally poisoning her ex-boyfriend, identified as Emmanuel, and four other young men in Afashio community in the Etsako West Local Government Area of Edo State. The tragic discovery was reported on October 26, 2024, when Emmanuel’s father, Mr Elogie Ezekiel, arrived at his son’s apartment around 6:30 a.m. that day and saw some lifeless bodies in the house. Ezekiel reportedly found the body of a young man, Nurudeen, in the corridor. Moving further into…

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One Tsolaye Eburajolo has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, who turned down a N10 million bribe offered to them for his release. This comes as the operatives recovered 26,250,000 pills of tramadol and 508,400 bottles of codeine-based syrup, with a street value of N16,683,800,000, which were intercepted by NDLEA operatives during a 100% joint examination of watch-listed containers with personnel from the Customs Service and other security agencies at the Tincan Port in Lagos and the Port Harcourt Port, Onne, Rivers State, between October…

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One Jonathan James, 31, in Bagadaza Quarters, Gombe State, has been arrested for allegedly stabbing his 65-year-old aunt, Ramatu Musa, to death with a sharp knife. The leader of the patrol team from Pantami Division, Girema Yahaya, disclosed that the incident occurred in the night. “We received a distress call at 2:15 a.m. and immediately responded to the scene. Unfortunately, the victim succumbed to her injuries and was pronounced dead on arrival at the Specialist Hospital in Gombe,” he said. According to a statement by the state Police Public Relations…

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A labourer, Sunday Emmanuel, has been remanded in prison custody by order of an Ondo State Chief Magistrate Court for allegedly killing his wife Linda. It was gathered that the defendant was arrested by the men of the state police command, for allegedly committing the crime at Ogbeni Camp in Ofosu, Idanre Local Government Area of the state in October. After Emmanuel allegedly macheted the wife to death, he also allegedly attempted to kill his three-year-old son by macheting him. The defendant, who is a farm labourer was alleged to…

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A 41-year-old Canadian lady, Adrienne Munju, was on Wednesday convicted and sentenced to 11 years imprisonment by the Federal High Court in Lagos, for importing 35.20 kilogrammes of Canadian Loud (Cannabis Sativa) into Nigeria. Justice Dehinde Dipeolu who handed down the verdict also gave her an option of N100m fine on the two counts preferred against her by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency. The judge convicted and sentenced Munju following her plea of guilt on the two counts. Earlier when the convict was arraigned, the NDLEA prosecutor, Mr Abu…

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