Category: Crime

Nine kidnap victims have been rescued by troops of Operation Whirl Stroke, at Owukpa forest in Ogbadibo Local Government Area of Benue State. The rescued kidnap victims were reported to have been abducted in a commercial vehicle along Otukpa/Enugu Highway on January 11, 2024. The Force Commander, Major General Sunday Igbinowanhia, stated this in a chat with journalists in Makurdi on Thursday. According to him, the operation was in conjunction with the Nigeria Police Force, and the Benue State Community Volunteer Guard. He said, “On January 16, 2024, troops of…

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Nigerians on Monday took to social media to express bitterness against the Federal Government and security apparatus over the kidnap and killings of some residents in the Federal Capital Territory. This is coming hours after reports emerged that the kidnappers had allegedly killed three of their victims and raised the ransom being demanded to N700 million. Among those allegedly killed was a secondary school student and daughter of the Ekiti state-born chief legal officer of the National University Commission, Miss Folorunsho Ariyo. The kidnappers dumped the remains of four victims…

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23 persons have reportedly been abducted by bandits numbering about 40 in the Kawu community in Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja on Thursday. Kawu shares boundaries with Niger and Kaduna states. Speaking about the development, the Councilor representing the area, Abdulmumini Zakari, who is the deputy speaker in the council, said the gunmen arrived in the community on Wednesday, from the Kuyeri Forest in Kaduna State. He explained, “They divided themselves into groups and some went into the palace of the district head, Abdurrahman Ali, where…

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The Ondo State Security Network Agency, otherwise known as Amotekun Corps, has arrested a 21-year-old ex-convict over his alleged involvement in drug peddling and armed robbery. The ex-convict, Simon Matthew, who had just completed his one-year prison term on January 1, was arrested on January 4 by the corps. According to the Commander of the Corps, Adetunji Adeleye, while parading the suspect along with others, Matthew was convicted for the same offence he was arrested for in Akure, the state capital. He said: “The ex-convict, Simon Matthew, a middle-aged man,…

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The 75-year-old elder sister of the Attah Igala, Mathew Opaluwa, was reportedly set ablaze by a suspected arsonist. It was learnt that the woman, identified as Meimunat Sani, was set ablaze alongside her granddaughter, Hajarat, in the early hours of Thursday, in her Oketekwe residence in the Idah Local Government Area of Kogi State. A family source said a group of people invaded the home of the deceased with petrol and razed it while the monarch’s sister, her daughter, and granddaughter were asleep. “They poured the petrol on the house…

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Oluwatosin Onadipe, a graduate of Computer Science at the Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State, was said to have died after he was allegedly hit with an iron rod by an official of a motor park in Ago, Odogbolu Local Government Area of the state for preaching. This is just as his body was said to have been buried by the roadside by officials of the Odogbolu Local Government Area after his body was dumped by police officers. It was gathered from the father of the deceased, Raymond Onadipe, on…

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