Crime Archives

Police: How Tiwa Savage’s domestic staff plotted her kidnap

Apr 15, 2023Apr 22, 2026 topnews

The Nigerian Police Force Criminal Investigation Department, Alagbon, Ikoyi in Lagos confirmed the arrested some persons in connection with the alleged attempt to kidnap popular singer, Tiwa Savage. The department’s spokesperson, CSP Oluniyi Ogundeyi said, the news of the attempt to kidnap the musician broke out on Friday through social media. The reports revealed that the musician’s private security vigilance and the Nigerian police saved her from the suspects. It gathered that the failed plot was allegedly planned by Savage’s new domestic staff, who had been entrusted with vital information…

Our lynched son is a driver, not “Yahoo boy” -family of deceased

Apr 13, 2023Apr 22, 2026 topnews

The news of a 35-year-old man, Tope Olorunfemi, who was lynched to death by a mob for crushing two people to death and injuring four others, has caused a reaction from his family members, as they denied the report that he was an internet fraudster. The mother of the deceased, Mrs Mojisola Olorunfemi, said Late Tope was an Uber Driver and was never an internet fraudster known as Yahoo boy. The mother explained that the vehicle of his son had issue and rammed into a commercial motorcyclist and he was…

Workers trapped inside collapsed 7-storey building at Banana Island

Apr 12, 2023Apr 22, 2026 topnews

A seven-storey building that collapsed at First Avenue, Banana Island, Ikoyi area of Lagos during construction, has trapped workers under the rubble. It was reported that, some of the workers jumped from the top floors, just before the building collapsed. And some kids walking around the site narrowly escaped. It was alleged that the building was unapproved and that the collapse occurred when casting was being done. A statement by Mukaila Sanusi, Deputy Director, Public Affairs, Lagos State government reads: “An unapproved seven-floor building under construction has collapsed in Banana…

IPOB: Eze Igbo remanded at Ikoyi Prison over inciting statement

Apr 6, 2023Apr 22, 2026 topnews

The Eze Igbo of Ajao Estate, Fredrick Nwajagu has been remanded at the Ikoyi Correctional Centre in the order of the Lagos State Magistrates’ Court in Yaba, on Wednesday. Nwajagu was arrested last Saturday following a viral video, in which he threatened to invite members of the Indigenous People of Biafra to Lagos to secure properties of Igbo people living in the state. The 67year-old was arraigned on Wednesday before the magistrate court, presided over by P. E. Nwaka. The police charged him with two counts, bordering on misconduct and…

Police: Portable regains freedom from Correctional Center

Apr 4, 2023Apr 22, 2026 topnews

Controversial singer, Habeeb Okikiola, a.k.a Portable has regained his freedom from the Ilaro Correctional Centre where he was remanded earlier on Monday. An Ogun State Magistrates’ Court sitting in Ifo in the Ifo Local Government Area of Ogun State had earlier in the day granted him bail in the sum of N300, 000. He was arraigned on a five-count charge bordering on assault, among others by the Ogun State police command. Magistrate A.S Shoneye, while delivering his ruling on the application for bail by his counsel, Adodo Destiny, said the…

Police: Portable to face 6-count charge

Apr 2, 2023Apr 22, 2026 topnews

The Nigerian Police Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Muyiwa Adejobi has said the controversial singer, Habeeb Okikiola a.k.a Portable will be facing at least a six-count charge when he appears at the court following his unruly conduct and incitement against police officers. In a Twitter post, the FPRO explained why the police were slow to act against MC Oluomo, who threatened some electorates during the 2023 elections but were swift to pick Portable. “He will be charged to court for beating up a guy in Otta, who filed a petition…

Man to die by hanging for killing grandma, pregnant daughter

Mar 28, 2023Apr 22, 2026 topnews

Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja, on Monday sentenced a domestic worker, Joseph Ogbu, to death by hanging for killing his employer, an 89-year-old grandmother, Adejoke John, and her daughter, Oreoluwa, at their home in the Surulere area of the state. Justice Modupe Nicole-Clay handed down the verdict after she found the convict guilty of three counts of armed robbery and murder. After Ogbu was arrested, the Lagos State Government arraigned him on October 22, 2019. He was charged with three counts of armed robbery and murder preferred against…

Four men to die by hanging for kidnapping Emzor Pharmaceutical MD’s sister

Mar 24, 2023Apr 22, 2026 topnews

On Thursday, March 23, 2023, Justice Lateef Lawal-Akapo of a Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja, sentenced four men to death by hanging for armed robbery and kidnapping of Mrs. Gloria Emole, the younger sister of Emzor Pharmaceutical Managing Director, Chief Ebuka Okafor. The convicts are Victor Chukwunonso, Ifeanyi Maduaka, Obinna Nwankwo, and Richard Nwabueze. The trial judge, Justice Lawal-Akapo, held that the prosecution was able to prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt. The first convict Chukwunoso was a former employee of the victim’s elder brother who was…

UK court finds Senator Ekweremadu, wife, others guilty of organ harvesting

Mar 23, 2023Apr 22, 2026 topnews

Former Nigerian Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, his wife and doctor have been convicted of organ trafficking, in the first verdict of its kind under the Modern Slavery Act. Ekweremadu, aged 60, his wife, Beatrice, 56, and Dr. Obinna Obeta, 51, were found guilty of facilitating the travel of a young man to Britain with a view to his exploitation, after a six-week trial at the Old Bailey. According to reports credited to the UK Guardian, they criminally conspired to bring a 21-year-old Lagos street trader to London to…

Musician, friend kill BDC operators in Lekki

Mar 21, 2023Apr 22, 2026 topnews

Collins Etaredafe, a musician popularly known as Top Boy, has gone into hiding after allegedly killing two Bureau-De-Change operators at his residence in the Lekki area of Lagos State. It was gathered that Etaredafe, who was with a yet-to-be-identified friend, invited the BDC operators into his apartment under the guise of changing some dollars. Following their entry into the building on Saturday, March 18, 2023, it was learnt that the BDC operators were allegedly killed and their corpses dumped in a drainage located at the front of Etaredafe’s residence. A…