Category: Crime

One Khadija Aliyu has been arrested by the Nasarawa State Police for allegedly stealing a seven-day-old baby girl during a naming ceremony in the Keffi area of the state. This is just as the command also arrested an ex-convict, Hussaini Mohammed, for allegedly stealing motorcycles in the same area. In a statement by the Nasarawa State Police command’s Public Relations Officer, Rahman Nansel, on Sunday, the suspect was arrested at about 6:30 pm on Saturday. Nansel said the suspect had pretended to be pregnant and, while the christening was ongoing,…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has filed 16-count charges against former Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Adoza Bello, Umar Shuaibu Oicha, and Abdulsalam Hudu at the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory Abuja. The charges, filed on September 24, 2024, in Case No: CR/7781, include conspiracy, criminal breach of trust, and possession of unlawfully obtained property. The case is pending before the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory Abuja. Key allegations include conspiracy to commit criminal breach of trust involving N110.4 billion in 2016 and misuse of…

The Nigerian Army has cleared Colonel Ishaya Ibrahim, a senior officer of the Nigerian Army, of any wrongdoing following allegations of sexual harassment, cyberbullying, and defamation brought against him by ex-Private, Ruth Ogunleye. The army also revealed that Ogunleye had been discharged from service due to mental health issues, which were confirmed through independent medical examinations conducted by the National Hospital. This was disclosed by Major General Onyema Nwachukwu, Director of Army Public Relations, during a briefing on Tuesday. He said, “The Nigerian Army deems it necessary to address a…

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have re-arrested one Christian Ogbuji, a 48-year-old businessman, described as an “unrepentant kingpin”, on Wednesday, for alleged drug peddling. Ogbuji was first arrested at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, on May 10, 2023, upon arrival from Uganda via Addis Ababa, onboard Ethiopian Airlines flight ET 951 for ingesting 93 pellets of cocaine weighing 1.986kg. He was subsequently arraigned before the Federal High Court 12 Abuja, presided over by Justice Mobolaji Olajuwon in charge no: FHC/ABJ/CR/192/2023, and convicted on July 13, 2023.…

Ayomide Adeleye, a 23-year-old 300-level philosophy student of Olabisi Onabanjo University, OOU, who resides with his parents in Ikorodu in Lagos and was recently arrested for the murder of Christiana Idowu, 18, is currently cooling his head inside the cell of Lagos state Police Command Tactical Unit, Ikeja. He bemoaned the fate that befell him, lamenting that after his arrest, he tried to cut his fingers with any sharp object so that he would bleed to death but for the vigilant security agents that stopped him. He said “I was…

Two gunrunners have been arrested by the troops of Operation Safe Haven in Plateau State on Saturday while negotiating to sell ammunition amounting to N5m in the Bokkos Local Government area of the state. This came barely 72 hours after the troops arrested five notorious gunrunners at Bayameni community, along Bauchi Road in Jos North LGA of the state leading to the recovery of automatic weapons and about 6,000 rounds of assorted ammunition. In a statement on Saturday, the spokesman for Operation Safe Haven, Major Samson Zhakom, said the latest…

Sodiq Oyedokun, a teenager suspected to be an armed robber, has lamented how his traditional bullet proof and anti- arrest vest meant to make him disappear from crime scenes failed him. Oyedokun was arrested and paraded alongside 20 other suspected criminals by the Ondo state security outfit codenamed Amotekun in Akure, the state capital. In an interview, the suspect, said that he inherited it from his late father who was a herbalist. According to him, ” my father gave the vest to me. I kept it in our house since…

An American businessman, Marco Antonio Ramirez, has been convicted and sentenced to 74 years imprisonment by a Lagos State Special Offences Court, in Ikeja, on Tuesday, for defrauding victims of $1.2m, through an EB-5 visa scam and an additional $368,698.24, in fraud. Justice Mojisola Dada, who handed down the sentence, found Ramirez guilty on two separate consolidated charges brought against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. The court ruled that the prosecution had proved its case beyond a reasonable doubt. On the first charge, Ramirez was sentenced to…