Category: Crime

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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,…

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…

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…