Category: Crime

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), has disclosed that Taraba State has emerged as a hotspot for illicit drug consumption, with the age group between sixteen and forty-six being the most affected. The disclosure, came from the state Commander of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Nanzing Sallah, while playing host to the leadership of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), Taraba council. Sallah highlighted that the prevalent drugs include Cannabis Sativa (Marijuana), Codeine, Tramadol, and Methamphetamine (Ice), attributing the alarming trend to the activities of drug traffickers…

Read More

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), raided a lounge in Osogbo, the Osun State capital where a night party organised for illicit substance abuse was planned to be held on Saturday, November 25, and arrested some of the organisers who were found with drug exhibits. The anti-narcotics agency noted that the raid followed credible intelligence that some persons were going to hold a night party tagged, “Unholy Alliance…for Stoners and Drunkards,” where different types of illicit substances were going to be sold and consumed by patrons. The…

Read More

The Ipara-Remo and Ode-Remo communities, hosting some students of the Gateway Polytechnic, Saapade in Remo North Local Government Area of Ogun State, has been invaded by some suspected armed robbers as some students were shot with female students allegedly sexually molested. It was gathered that the suspected robbers stormed the communities around 1 am two Fridays ago and last Sunday, shooting sporadically and entering into students’ hostels to cart away their belongings, molest some female students, and also shoot some others, among which was Francis Dwumfour, leaving him in a…

Read More

Stephen Nwaigwe, a dismissed Catholic priest, has been remanded in prison custody for allegedly raping and impregnating a teenager in Anambra State. An Awka Chief Magistrates’ Court, otherwise known as the Children, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Court of Anambra State, ordered the remand when the matter came up in court. Nwaigwe was among the priests expelled by a popular Catholic Faith-Based Religious Congregation in Orlu, Imo State, known as the Two Hearts of Love Congregation” in 2018, for alleged misconducts inimical to the image of the church. However, in spite…

Read More

Anthony Mgbe, a 70-year-old man from Umuagu, Inyi, Oji-River Local Government Area of Enugu State, has been remanded in prison custody by a magistrate court, sitting in Enugu, for allegedly raping and murdering a 15-year-old girl. He was docked on a two-count charge brought against him by the police. He was charged with “unlawfully having carnal knowledge of a minor, an offence contrary to Section 308 and punishable under Section 309 of Criminal Code, Cap. 30, Vol. II, Revised laws of Enugu State of Nigeria 2004. “Unlawful killing by having…

Read More

Pastor David Musa, a clergyman with the Evangelical Church Winning All, has been killed by his abductors after collecting N1m ransom in Kogi State. It was gathered that the late Pastor Musa who was abducted on Saturday, November 11, 2023 in Obajana, under the Lokoja Local Government Area of Kogi State was later killed on Tuesday. A member of the church identified as Mary while narrating how the pastor was killed said, “The pastor went to his farm that ugly day. So, his wife was waiting for him to return…

Read More

A bricklayer, Gabriel Awaye, has been sentenced to life imprisonment by Justice Abiola Soladoye of the Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, Ikeja, for the defilement of a 13-year-old girl in his room. The court found him guilty of the charges brought against him by the state government. The prosecutor had accused Awaye of committing the offences on June 2, 2021, at Agbawaye Street, Command Area of Agbado Oke-Odo in Lagos. The charges were based on the provisions of Sections 127 and 261 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State,…

Read More

Oladokun Ayomide, a final-year student of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, has been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly poisoning his girlfriend, Ugbokwe Mmasichukwu, and another lady, Odumosu Semilore. The police said the suspect administered a poison believed to be an admixture of brownie cakes, alcohol, and an unknown harmful substance after inviting his girlfriend to his residence in the Surulere community in the Camp area of the city on Friday. It was gathered that while leaving for the suspect’s residence, Mmasichukwu told her schoolmate, Semilore,…

Read More

Police in Benue State have arrested a young woman from Mbadyur council ward in Logo Local Government Area of Benue State, Sughshater Ushahemba, for allegedly killing her 11-month-old baby through poison. It was gathered from the community that the woman was said to have fed the baby with a substance suspected to be a chemical in the wee hours of Saturday. Another source quoted the woman to have said that the baby developed high temperature in the wee hours of Saturday and died. The woman was said to have been…

Read More