Category: Crime

A pastor, Desmond Eke, has been sentenced to eight years imprisonment by Justice T. N . Nzeukwu of the Imo State High Court, for raping his church member’s wife. Eke, the founder of Deliverance Ministry of the Good Shepherd, Umuehieta Avu, Owerri West Local Government Area of Imo State was found guilty of taking advantage of the woman who had vested so much trust in him. The convict was tried on three counts that bordered on raping the victim who is also a member of his church and administering a…

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Two students of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic and Resign Regal Academy, Timothy Oluwabukola and Anthony Odemerho, who allegedly hacked MTN Nigeria Communication computers and stole airtime and data valued at N1.9bn have been granted N50m bail each by a Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday. Justice Akintayo Aluko granted them bail after hearing two separate bail applications filed by the defendants. In addition to the bail sum, Aluko ordered the defendants to provide two sureties each, one of whom must be a civil servant in the federal or Lagos State…

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An intelligence report about a building that serves as a birth house in Rumuokwurusi town in Obio-Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State, where newborn babies were allegedly sold, has led to the arrest of one Happiness Monday who sold her new born baby for N400,000, alongside the midwife. The Rivers State Police Command boss, CP Olatunji Disu, directed the Commander of the Monitoring Squad, CSP Grace Wonwu, to unearth the baby sale gang. Police sources hinted that when the policemen arrived at the house on July 6, 2024, a…

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Three domestic workers of Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia have been arrested by the Lagos State Police following the discovery of the judge’s daughter, Aribemchukwu’s dead body outside the gate of their Park View Estate home in the Ikoyi area of the state on Wednesday. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the arrest while on Wednesday. A family source privy to the incident disclosed in a social media post that the incident happened on Tuesday night while the lifeless body of the daughter was found in the early hours…

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Many people have reportedly been killed by a suspected Boko Haram suicide bomber who detonated a bomb at a marketplace in Kauri, a rural community in the Konduga area of Borno State, North East Nigeria. The incident occurred around 9 pm on Wednesday, July 31, at the market area, which operates at night every day and is usually bustling with people. The areas, mainly settlements of roadside communities situated along the Bama-Maiduguri road, have been frequently terrorised by Boko Haram. This recent attack is one of several that the communities…

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A lawmaker in the Zamfara state House of Assembly, a District Head and a former local government chairman have been arrested by police operatives in the state over alleged kidnapping and banditry. A BBC Hausa report alleged that Aminu Ibrahim, who represents Kaura Namoda state constituency in the Zamfara State House of Assembly, was nabbed by the police for complicity in banditry and kidnapping. Aminu Ibrahim was allegely involved in the abduction of Ibrahim Fada in Kasuwar Daji village, a man said to be about 80 years old. The Commissioner…

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School principal and clergyman, Adetunji Obatayo, aged 55, has been remanded in prison custody for raping a 14-year-old secondary school student, who narrated to an Akure Magistrates’ Family Court, Ondo state, how she aborted for him thrice. The victim, in her narration before the court, said the principal has been having intercourse with her since she started staying with him when she was 10. “Four years ago, my parents released me to live with a pastor due to his desire to train me. “On my first day in his house,…

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