Category: Crime

Following the looting of food warehouses in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, on Sunday, by suspected hoodlums, the police have beefed up security at the warehouses belonging to the National Emergency Management Agency nationwide. This was as soldiers foiled an attempt to raid a factory warehouse at the Idu Industrial District, Jabi, Abuja, on Sunday morning, arresting five of the attackers. Footage of the incident showed the arrested suspects lying on the ground as armed soldiers stood over them. The factory was involved in the production, processing, and packaging of…

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A couple, a former soldier and a printer, have been arrested by the Zone 2 Police Command, Onikan, Lagos, for allegedly producing fake currencies. Police paraded the suspects, including the couple, aged 50 and 46, at the command’s headquarters on Friday in Lagos. The Zonal Public Relations Officer, Tunni Ayuba, who spoke on behalf of the Assistant Inspector-General of Police in charge of the zone, Mr Olatoye Durosinmi, said that the arrest of the printer led to the arrest of the couple and the former soldier. Ayuba said the team…

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A huge heroin consignment weighing about 51.90 kg has been seized by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos State. The Chairman of the NDLEA, Buba Marwa, disclosed this while briefing journalists on Tuesday in Lagos. The agency also arrested members of an organised criminal organisation that specialises in trafficking heroin across Nigeria, South Africa, Mozambique, Europe and America in an operation leading to the seizure of the consignment, which weighed 51.90 kg on February 12, 2024. Marwa said the operation was the…

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Morris Fadehan, an evangelist with the Celestial Church of Christ, Grace of Comfort Parish, Ile-Ife, Osun State, was allegedly killed by one of his assistants over an unresolved dispute. The assistant identified as Lekan Ogundipe was said to have attacked the clergyman at the church altar, located in the Omitoto area of Ile-Ife, stabbing him with sharp objects and attempting to burn his body on Monday before he reported the matter to church elders. A security source in Ile-Ife confided in the medium that the suspect had an unresolved argument…

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Emmanuel Orekoya, a Pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, was on Tuesday arraigned before the Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court for allegedly raping and impregnating his 17- year-old daughter. The defendant is facing two counts of unlawful sexual intercourse and sexual assault preferred against him by the Lagos State Government. It was also gathered that the defendant in the process of having sexual intercourse with his daughter, allegedly impregnated her. The state’s prosecution counsel, Mrs Abimbola Abolade, told the court that the defendant committed the offences…

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Investigation has commenced into an alleged attempt by a woman to sell her five-year-old son in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State Capital. It was gathered that the woman identified as Onyinye took the boy to a popular market in Bishop Okoye Street in the Mile 3 area of Port Harcourt on Saturday. Drama however ensued when some traders confronted the woman and realised her true intentions which she attributed to hardship. The traders who doubted if the child was hers however bundled the woman and took her to the police…

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Members of an organised criminal network behind the recent importation of two containers laden with illicit drugs as well as assorted arms and ammunition from Durban, South Africa to the Tincan seaport in Lagos have been unmasked by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency. The NDLEA made this known in a press statement by its Director, Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi. The agency said among those already arrested as members of the syndicate were a clearing and notification party of the two containers, Falowo Samuel Kayode; a dock…

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A popular Akure based Evangelist, Adewale Adelu, and five others have been sentenced to death by hanging by an Akure High Court, in Ondo state, for robbing two different banks in the state, 13 years ago. The convicts were said to have robbed the banks and carted away N34m. Delivering judgement, Justice Yemi Fasanmi, sentenced the convicts which include, Ikechuckwu Maduagwu, Adewale Adelu, Fayemi Olubusuyi, Ropo Adeleye, Dele Otopka, and Bayo Omotosho, for robbing two commercial banks in Akure and Idanre on November 19 and December 8, 2011 in Akure…

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A lawyer, Mrs Adachukwu Okafor, has been denied bail by the Children, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Court, sitting at the Chief Magistrate’s Court in Awka, Anambra State for allegedly inflicting physical injuries on the body of her 11-year-old housekeeper and ordered her remand at the State Criminal and Investigative Department custody in Awka. Okafor, who resides at Chris Igwilo Street Akapka GRA, Onitsha, Anambra State, was arraigned before the Children, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Court in Awka, on Wednesday on a-two count. The court was presided by Her Worship, Genevieve…

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A 300-level student of a private tertiary institution in Ogun State, Havarde College of Science, Business and Management Studies, simply identified as Ajoke, has reportedly taken her life after the school allegedly failed to meet up with the accreditation requirements of the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria. It was gathered that the deceased student had on Monday evening, consumed insecticide and slumped on her way to her boyfriend’s house. It was learnt that the institution’s failure to secure accreditation of the NMCN for its nursing courses frustrated the 300-level…

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