Category: Crime

N40 trillion has been demanded by terrorists who abducted 16 residents of Gonin Gora area of Kaduna metropolis. On Wednesday, February 28, terrorists attacked the Gonin-Gora community, a suburb of Kaduna metropolis in the Chikun Local Government Area, kidnapping 16 residents. The ransom demand comes just four days after 287 schoolchildren were abducted in Kuriga, another community in Chikun. John Yusuf, a community leader in the area, revealed this information during a telephone interview on Monday in Kaduna. He said, “The bandits have contacted us. They are demanding N40 trillion,…

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Operatives of the Edo State Security Network have arrested a man identified as Emmanuel Ovwarueso for allegedly beheading his daughter for money ritual in Benin City, Edo State. The suspect was arrested in Uteh, Upper Mission, where he resides last Thursday at about midnight with the head of the deceased in a polythene bag. He was said to have tied and gagged his wife and carried out the killing in her presence. His wife said, “My husband’s attitude changed recently. He kept saying I should not look at him like…

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Victor Abayomi, a chef to the former governor of Lagos State, Akinwunmi Ambode, has been remanded on the order of a Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court, on Monday for allegedly stealing valuables worth millions of naira at the former governor’s Ikoyi residence. Chief Magistrate Mr Peter Nwaka, who made the order, remanded the defendant for 30 days at the Ikoyi Correctional Centre. Abayomi is facing two counts bordering on conspiracy and theft preferred against him by the State Security Service. The SSS prosecuting counsel, Joshua Babalola, told the court that Abayomi…

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A 26-year-old lady, Obasanmi Esther Iyanu, who produces and distributes skuchies has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, during a raid on her hideout in Osogbo, the Osun state capital. At least, 16.5 litres of the illicit substance and different quantities of molly and cannabis were recovered from her during the raid. This is just as NDLEA operatives in Lagos state also on Wednesday 6th March arrested Aba Thomas at Igbo Elerin area of the state. During a raid, 84 litres of skuchies, 1.1…

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The Federal Government has said schools in 14 states and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, are at risk of attacks by bandits and insurgents, following the resurgence of the mass abduction of pupils. The National Coordinator of Financing Safe Schools in Nigeria, Hajia Halima Iliya, confirmed on Sunday, that the data of at-risk schools had been collected for intervention. Iliya declined to identify the states, but the Commander of the National Safe Schools Response Coordination Centre, Nigeria Security, and Civil Defence Corps, Hammed Abodunrin, said they included Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno,…

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A mother attempting to kill her sick child, using an insecticide has been arrested by police in Lagos. The Police spokesman in the state, Superintendent Benjamin Hundeyin, on Saturday said that the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, reported the attempt to the police on Friday. He said the chief security officer at the hospital reported to the police that the mother brought her one-year-and-seven-month-old daughter to the hospital for treatment. He added that the mother confessed to a doctor at the hospital that she gave the child an insecticide to…

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48 suspected Internet fraudsters and a herbalist have been arrested by the Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for offences bordering on conspiracy and obtaining Money under false pretence in Lokoja, Kogi State capital. The Ilorin zonal Command office of EFCC covers Kwara, Kogi and Ekiti states with the zonal headquarters in Ilorin, Kwara state capital. A statement by Dele Oyewale, head of Media and Publicity of the EFCC, in Ilorin on Thursday said the suspects were arrested upon credible intelligence on Tuesday, March 5,…

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Over 280 pupils and teachers of Government Secondary School and LEA primary school at Kuriga, Kaduna State were abducted by bandits on Thursday, triggering national outrage. The Jama’atu Nasril Islam, Amnesty International, the Parent Teacher Association of Nigeria, the Nigeria Union of Teachers, and the House of Representatives condemned the attack and asked the government to rescue the victims immediately The bandits reportedly invaded the Kuriga area of the Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State on Thursday, shooting at their victims before taking away at least 280 of the…

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The National Assembly, particularly the Senate, has declared very disturbing, unfortunate, and sad the killing of over 50 people in fresh attacks on some communities in Benue State by suspected terrorists and unabated security challenges across the country. It also urged the service chiefs and heads of other security agencies to, as a matter of urgency, deploy security personnel to address the continuing and ongoing attacks by armed terrorists parading as herdsmen on communities in Kwande, Ukum, Logo, and Katsina-Ala Local Government Areas of Benue State to flush them out…

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A mother of three children has allegedly committed suicide in Enugu State over what some sources attributed to the unbearable economic hardship and rising cost of living in the country. It was gathered that the incident happened on Saturday, March 2. The woman, whose identity had yet to be ascertained, had gone to the Ogui Police Station in the Enugu North Local Government Area of the state and reportedly dropped her three kids, without leaving a word with anyone. An eyewitness who refused to be mentioned said that the middle-aged…

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