Category: Crime

Two men were arrested by the operatives from the Okokomaiko Divisional Police headquarters, on Saturday, after intercepting a Volkswagen LT bus at the Afromedia area alleged to be conveying some cartons of expired drugs. It was gathered that 70 cartons of Feed Fine Cyproheptadine Caplets 4g, all with 2016 as the expiry date, were found inside the bus. This was confirmed in a statement made on X formerly Twitter by the Lagos Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, on his X page on Sunday. The statement confirmed that the two…

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Oba Adebayo Fatoba, the Alara of Ara in the Ikole Local Government Area of Ekiti State, has narrated how he managed to escape from gunmen who attacked and killed two of his colleagues last Monday. Fatoba, along with two other monarchs from the state – Onimojo of Imojo Ekiti in Oye LG and the Elesun of Esun Ekiti in Ajoni, Ikole Local Government of Ekiti State, were attacked by the gunmen while returning from a meeting. The other two monarchs were killed by the assailants while Fatoba was lucky to…

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Pupils and teachers of Apostolic Faith Group of Schools, Emure Ekiti, who were abducted last week, regained their freedom in the early hours of Sunday. Families of the abductees in Ekiti on Sunday said that they disregarded the government’s warning because they feared the victims might be killed or harmed if they failed to pay the ransom. Some parents and other relatives of the victims, said the kidnappers freed the abductees after collecting N15m and other items including fried rice,  malt drinks, energy drinks, and cigarettes. Although the Proprietor of…

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The palace of Olukoro of Koro in Ekiti local government area of Kwara State was on Thursday night invaded by gunmen who killed the traditional ruler of the community, General Segun Aremu (rtd). The gunmen also whisked away the wife of the monarch and two others. The state government has confirmed the killing of the monarch and the abduction of three others including his wife. “Kwara State governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has condemned the killing of Olukoro of Koro in Ekiti Local Government, HRH retd General Segun Aremu. “The monarch was…

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The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ola Olukoyede, has revealed that the anti-graft agency traced the sum of N7bn, suspected to be proceeds of money laundering, to a religious organisation. He said another religious group was found to be laundering money for terrorists. The EFCC chairman made the revelation on Wednesday at the Musa Yar’Adua Centre, Abuja, during a one-day dialogue on “Youth, Religion, and the Fight against Corruption.” He said some of the religious organisations, institutions, sects, and bodies in the country had been found to…

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N100m ransom has been demanded by the abductors of five pupils of Apostolic Faith Group of Schools, Emure Ekiti, and four teachers who were taken away on Monday. The principal of the secondary section of the school, Boje Olanireti, confirmed the ransom demand, in an interview with  The PUNCH on Tuesday. The abduction epidemic has continued to defy the efforts of the security agencies as cases of kidnappings were being recorded in various parts of the country daily. On Monday, gunmen killed two Ekiti monarchs-the Onimojo of Imojo, Oba Olatunde…

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James Emmanuel, a 35-year-old man has been remanded in prison custody by an Ondo State Chief Magistrate Court, sitting in Akure, on Thursday, for allegedly raping a 55-year-old woman, Mrs Deborah Abiodun, to death. James was arrested by the state police command for allegedly killing the woman who was his co-worker at the Oke-Odu Area, of Akure on January 17, 2024. It was gathered that James, after allegedly raping the woman to death, hit her head with stone and dumped her corpse inside a waste pit. The defendant was later…

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A 38-year-old woman identified as Chinyere Chukwu, has been arrested for attempting to sell her two sons in Anambra. Chukwu, who hails from Okija in the Ihiala Local Government Area of the state, was said to have connived with her 17-year-old daughter, identified as Joy, to sell off her two sons “due to the economic hardship in the country.” Chukwu, while being interrogated, explained that she had 11 kids and decided to sell two of them when she could not cater to them. The state Commissioner for Women and Social…

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  The NigeriaDrug Law enforcement Agency, NDLEA has declared ex-beauty queen Ms. Aderinoye Queen Christmas wanted after she escaped during a raid on her Lekki residence, where cannabis and drug-related items were found. The agency made this known in a statement saying, “An ex-beauty queen, Ms. Aderinoye Queen Christmas also known as Ms. Queen Oluwadamilola Aderinoye has been declared wanted by the Agency after she escaped from her Lekki, Lagos residence when NDLEA operatives raided her apartment at Oral estate, Lekki on Wednesday 24th January following credible intelligence she deals…

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