Category: Crime

A collapsed building at number 13 Wilson Mba Street, Arowojobe Estate Maryland, has left five yet to be-identified persons dead while five others were rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment. According to an eyewitness, the incident occurred at about 3:58 am. Men of the Lagos State Emergency Management Authority, LASEMA, who raced to the scene for a rescue operation were able to save the lives of the survivors. The unfortunate incident occurred when a set of three terraces under construction suddenly collapsed in the midnight hours. LASEMA Permanent Secretary,…

Read More

Akomolafe Gbenga Michael, a personnel of the Nigeria Immigration Service at the Murtala Muhammad International Airport MMIA, Lagos, has been suspended over multiple charges of alleged drug trafficking. Spokesman of the Service DCI Kenneth Udo disclosed this in a statement issued Wednesday in Abuja. According to him, the officer is currently on arraignment before a Federal High Court in Lagos. He said; “The Service wishes to inform the public that the officer in question has since been subjected to internal processes and placed under suspension following the allegation of his…

Read More

The conversation between the leader of recently killed billionaire kidnappers in Lagos, said to be a Nollywood actor/producer, Prince Henry Ode and another member of the notorious gang planted at the market on the day of their operation, has been exposed. Police sources said they had stationed one of their members inside the popular auto spare parts market on the Oshodi-Apapa expressway, Lagos, to monitor the movement of their target, hours before they struck at the market. It was learnt that he was giving them minute by minute information on…

Read More

N15 million ransom has been demanded by gunmen who abducted five corps members in Ifon axis of Ondo State. The kidnappers have threatened to kill them if the affected families fail to raise the ransom. The gunmen made the threat after contacting one of the victims’ families at the weekend. The victims were kidnapped along the Ifon-Owo highway in the Ose Local Council Area of the state on their way from Enugu State, where they had undergone the mandatory orientation camp of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC). According to…

Read More

Operatives of the Kaduna State Police Command have arrested a suspect with 30 different fabricated master keys of vehicles and motorcycles in Kaduna. The command’s spokesperson, ASP Mansir Hassan, confirmed the arrest on Monday in Kaduna. Hassan said, “The suspect specialises in vehicle and motorcycle theft. “On July 20, at about 0230hrs  our personnel received a distress call that a shop was burgled. “Upon receiving information, our operatives were immediately drafted to the area.” He said that upon arriving at the scene, the suspect, Zahradeenee Suleiman, had been arrested in…

Read More

Abayomi Oladire, a legal practitioner has reportedly been stabbed by the husband of his client, Kunle Kuteyi, for preparing a divorce suit for his wife against him, in Ondo town, Ondo state. He was alleged to have used broken bottle to stab the lawyer, while performing his legal duty to the suspect’s wife. It was gathered that the victim was on his way to a ceremony when the suspect stopped him and accused him of having an affair with his wife to the extent of helping her file for divorce…

Read More

25 victims of human trafficking have been rescued by the Delta State Police in the Ugheli area of the state. The Delta State command’s spokesperson, SP Bright Edafe, stated this on Thursday in Asaba, the state capital. He said, “On June 15, 2024, acting on credible information received by the command on the activities of one Chinyere (surname unknown) who specialised in trafficking women from the South-East and brought them to Ughelli, Delta State for prostitution, intelligence further revealed that she lured them by telling them that they were coming…

Read More

The Chief Executive Officer of Blord group of companies, Linus Williams, has been arrested by police following suspicion of terrorism funding, cryptocurrency fraud, and aiding internet fraud. The Force Public Relations Officer, ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, made this known in a statement titled, “Alleged Fraud,, Violation of CBN Act: Police Interrogates CEO Blord Group of Companies, Linus Williams.” He said, “The FCID (NPF-NCCC) is currently investigating complaints lodged against BLORD GROUP, BLORD REAL ESTATE LTD, BLORD JETPAYE LIMITED, and BILLPOINT TECHNOLOGY. “These offences include allegations bothering on crypto-currency fraud, aiding internet…

Read More

A couple (name withheld) attempting to sell their two-year-old son to travel to Canada have been arrested by operatives of the Lagos State Police Command. The command’s spokesperson, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed this on Thursday in Lagos. Hundeyin said that the couple, aged 28 and 22, were apprehended on Tuesday while trying to sell their child off. He stated that around 2.45 p.m. on Tuesday, the Isolo Divisional Police Officer received information that the couple went to Isolo General Hospital and expressed their intention to sell their baby boy. “Upon…

Read More