Category: Crime

Auwal Sankara, Commissioner for Special Duties in Jigawa, has been declared wanted by the Kano State Hisbah Board for alleged adultery. The Commander General of the board, Aminu Daurawa, disclosed this at a news briefing in Kano on Monday. Daurawa said that the commissioner was allegedly caught in an uncompleted building with a married woman. He said that this was made possible through intelligence tracking after receiving a series of complaints from the woman’s husband, Nasiru Bulama, accusing the commissioner of allegedly engaging in an illicit affair with his wife.…

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Kolawole Muyiwa, a part-time lecturer of the Department of Primary Education and Early Childhood Development of Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education, Oto-Ijanikin, Lagos, on Monday, appeared before the Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, presided over by Justice Ramon Oshodi, on trial for the alleged rape of a student. It was learnt that the Lagos State Government had on February 6, 2023, arraigned the lecturer over the alleged rape of the victim, to which he pleaded not guilty. Muyiwa, according to the prosecution counsel, B. T. Boye and I.…

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A Canada-based Nigerian nurse, identified as Usman Grace Khadijat Olami and two businessmen, identified as Ihejirika Emmanuel and Iwuagwu Victory, have been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency for alleged drug trafficking. Ihejirika, who frequently travels to Thailand, claiming to import fish into Nigeria, was arrested on October 15, 2024, while attempting to board an Ethiopian Airlines flight to Thailand via Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. A statement by the agency’s spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, on Sunday, stated that when Ihejirika was taken for a body scan, the result…

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Emmanuella Monday, a 15-year-old school girl in Delta State, has cried out for help from her hideout, after escaping from a man who her mother allegedly gave her to, urging relevant authorities to rescue her from her ‘abusive’ mother who she accused of allegedly trying to force her into child prostitution in exchange for money. Emmanuella, who claims to be in Senior Secondary School 2 at Triumphant School, Effurun, in Uvwie Local Government Area of Delta State, alleged that her biological mother had contracted her to unnamed men to take…

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After herdsmen allegedly ravaged farmlands in Manchok community of Kaura Local Government Area of Kaduna State, some farmers said they had lost crops worth millions of naira. The farmers, who cried out for help in Manchok on Friday, said that the sad development has predisposed them to hunger. One of them, Mrs Martina David, a mother of four, said she invested nearly N1.3 million naira in the cultivation of sweet potatoes only to lose the investment within two days after the farm was allegedly destroyed by herders. Looking visibly shaken…

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Three police officers allegedly involved in the death of a student of Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin Qoyum Abdulyekeen Ishola on 4th September 2024, have been dismissed by the Kwara state police command. The concerned three officers, Inspectors Abiodun Kayode, James Emmanuel and Sergeant Oni Phillip were dismissed from service with effect from October 4, 2024, after an internal trial, pending their arraignment in court. The command also urged members of the public, to always exercise patience and trust in the legal process, as it remains dedicated to maintaining law and…

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