Category: Crime

The Nigerian Police Force, through its Lagos, Abuja, and Plateau State Commands, has arrested three suspects for allegedly staging their kidnapping. The police said the suspects, including a couple in Lagos, staged their kidnapping to extort money from their family members. The Public Relations Officer of the Nigeria Police Force, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, in a statement posted on a verified police X handle, @policeNg, on Tuesday, said the arrested couple, who allegedly faked their kidnapping, intended to obtain a N5m ransom from relatives. Adejobi said Albarka Sukuya in Plateau State was…

Olubunmi Ajayi, a 30-year-old mother, has been arrested by Ogun State Police yesterday, for attempting to drown her five-month-old baby, Imole Anifowose, in RSS river, Sagamu. One Olusola Sonaya, who was fortunate to be around the river, was said to have assisted in rescuing the baby after her mother threw her into the water. Spokesperson of the state Police Command, SP Omolola Odutola, noted that the baby was rushed to Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital (OOUTH), Sagamu, adding that the said baby is in stable condition. She said “Following an…

24 suspected internet fraudsters undergoing training in a hidden academy in Uyo, the capital of Akwa Ibom State, have been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The raid, conducted on Monday, January 22, 2024, targeted a storey building in the D-Line Ewet Housing Estate believed to be a hideout for training aspiring “Yahoo boys,” a Nigerian term for internet fraudsters, according to EFCC in a statement. EFCC stated its officials stormed the building and apprehended all 24 suspects, who were found occupying the upper floor, which had…

A father, Ademola Oladimeji, has been sentenced to life imprisonment by Justice Abiola Soladoye of the Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, on Monday, for sexually assaulting his three children. The children were aged five, seven, and nine. While delivering judgment, the judge held that the evidence of the prosecution witnesses were believable and truthful. She also held that their evidence established the offence of sexual assault by penetration and not defilement. According to Justice Soladoye, the pieces of evidence of the three survivors were corroborated by the investigative…

Members of the Al-Kadriyar girls family have revealed that they paid ransom to bandits for the release of five of the six girls who were amongst a total of 23 persons kidnapped on January 2, 2023, in the Bwari area of the Federal Capital Territory. While four persons were killed by the bandits last week, the remaining 19 persons regained their freedom on Saturday night. Uncles to the Al-Kadriyar girls, Abbas and Sherifdeen Al-Kadriyar, in an interview debunked reports by the FCT police and Nigerian Army sources that the girls…

The suspected owner of a consignment of tramadol concealed in a bottle of dietary supplements, which caused a furore at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Ikeja, on Tuesday, has been arrested by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency. The NDLEA’s spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, revealed on Sunday that the suspect was arrested on Friday. A viral video claimed that the suspect being tortured on his knees while being slapped by another on Tuesday was an employee of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria. The man was being tortured by a passenger for…

The Rivers State Police command has arrested one twenty-six-year-old Sarah Nwankpo for the murder of her male friend, Igbodike Anthony, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. She admitted to having stabbed the deceased during an argument over more sex, in his apartment Obiri-Ikwerre area residence. During interrogation, it was discovered that she had sneaked out of her boyfriend’s place for the deceased’s residence on December 22, 2023. Sarah is a Senior Secondary School 3 drop-out who left her hometown in Ezza South Local Government in Ebonyi State, in 2016, in search…

Over 30 million naira has been demanded as ransom by the kidnappers of Barrister Cyril Adikwu’s wife and two in-laws who were abducted from the Army Estate in Kurudu, Abuja. Recall that kidnappers invaded the estate on Thursday night at about 10:00 p.m. and took away his wife and two in-laws. Speaking about the incident, Barrister Cyril Adikwu who had escaped while the kidnappers came to his residence in the estate, said he was in communication with the kidnappers and they had demanded a ransom of over 30 million naira…

The Adamawa State Police Command has arrested some suspects in connection with the beheading of a young lady in a hotel in Yola, the state capital. Also arrested were three employees of the hotel, identified as Jacob, and Yifarta, who are receptionists, and Isah, a security guard, who were on duty at the time of the incident at the hotel. The police stated that the handset which belonged to the deceased and the drug used to sedate the lady were recovered from the crime scene. It was gathered that the…