Category: Crime

Four soldiers and 13 other persons have been arrested by the Police in Rivers State for alleged armed robbery, hijacking of food trucks and diverting them to other locations. The police said among those also arrested in the criminal act was a member of the syndicate and operative of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps. The spokesperson for the command, Grace Iringe-Koko, disclosed this in a statement in Port Harcourt on Monday. Iringe-Koko said the feat followed a thorough investigation after the policemen made an initial arrest for suspected…

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Students of the Niger Delta University, Yenagoa, were among the seven persons found dead inside a music studio on Tuesday morning after inhaling what is suspected to be generator fumes. It was gathered that the music studio along Transformer Road in the Amarata area of Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, was operated by one of the deceased identified as Akpos Barakubo. The deceased were said to be working in the studio on Monday night but fell asleep due to exhaustion without putting off the generator resulting in the sad incident.…

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Bandits have reportedly kidnapped about 20 residents of Dawaki, a community near Kubwa in the Federal Capital Territory. The attackers were said to have raided houses on Frank Opara Street before security operatives responded to distress calls. The Chairman of Dawaki Rock Heaven Community, Tunde Abdulrahim, who spoke to newsmen on Monday, said the incident happened at about 7.30pm on Sunday. Abdulrahim said the armed men, numbering about 50, invaded the community and broke into about six houses. Commenting on the attack, the FCT police spokesperson, SP Josephine Adeh, said…

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Four members of a drug cartel who runs a cocaine cartel from India in Lagos have been arrested by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, with a Sports Utility vehicle and two houses belonging to the syndicate, sealed for forfeiture to the Federal Government. This is just as a couple, Kazeem Omogoriola Owoalade (alias Abdul Qassim Adisa Balogun) and Rashidat Ayinke Owoalade (alias Bolarinwa Rashidat Ayinke), also members of the cartel have been declared wanted by NDLEA in connection with cocaine trade. Spokesman of the agency, Femi Babafemi who…

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A man, Musa Suleman, who posted his four-year-old daughter’s sensitive photos online, has been arrested by the Edo State Police Command. The spokesperson for the state police command, Chidi Nwabuzor, made this known on Tuesday. Suleman was arrested on Sunday for posting half-naked pictures of the minor via her recently deactivated Instagram account, @officialsarah_ig , as she posed erotically and engaged in adult content. In a viral video, the suspect admitted during an interrogation by the police that he was the handler of the page and that his motive was…

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A yet-to-be-identified man who reportedly tried to detonate a bomb within the premises of a bank in Plateau State has been arrested. The incident reportedly took place on Monday, May 13, in Dadin Kowa town in the Jos South area of the state. According to a post on X on Tuesday, the vigilante security at the bank thwarted the attack when they noticed the suspect. Angered by the situation, a mob attacked the suspect and reportedly demanded his execution. It is unclear whether the suspect has ties to any terrorist…

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Eleven suspected criminals who were arrested in the highbrow Lekki area of Lagos state have confessed that they belonged to a vicious gang of homosexuals that kidnap, extort and rape their male victims. They disclosed that their victims were only healthy-looking males and that they never had anything to do with females during their operations. All the suspects narrated how they joined the gang and how they carried out their atrocities which usually ended with video recordings of their sexual orgies with which they extorted various sums of money from…

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A Lance Corporal, Mubarak Yakubu, has been arrested by the Nigerian Army on Thursday for the illegal possession of ammunition and explosives. He was arrested during a routine search operation by the Military Police K9 Team, at the Borno Express Terminal in Maiduguri, Borno State. A statement by Major Gen Onyema Nwachukwu, Director of Army Public Relations said, “The soldier, Lance Corporal Mubarak Yakubu was found in possession of 756 rounds of 7.62 mm special ammunition and four 36 hand grenades, ingeniously concealed within a small bag of rice”. “This…

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A septuagenarian landlord, identified simply as Adesina, has been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly defiling and impregnating his tenant’s 14-year-old girl (name withheld) at Akegbeyale Street in Ifesowapo Akute, Ifo Local Government Area of the state. It was learnt that the residents and other tenants were thrown into a state of shock when the septuagenarian suspect was found on Tuesday, April 9, 2024, having sexual intercourse with the 14-year-old girl at about 10:15 pm in the house bathroom. The minor, according to a police source who…

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