Category: Crime

The Igueben train station in Igueben Local Council area of Edo State, was on Saturday attacked by kidnappers who reportedly abducted 31 persons. A statement by the Public Relations Officer of the Edo State Police Command, Chidi Nwabuzor, on Saturday night, read: “This is to inform the gentlemen of the press that today, January 7, 2023, at about 1600hrs, unspecified number of herdsmen armed with AK 47 rifles attacked the train station at Igueben, Edo State and kidnapped unspecified number of passengers who were waiting to board the train to…

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A 50-year-old woman has been arrested by the Bauchi State Police for allegedly killing her co-wife. The Police Public Relations Officer of Bauchi State Command, Ahmed Wakil, said this in a media statement on Friday. He said that the suspect, Amina Guguwa, of Miya Village, Warji Local Government Area of Bauchi State, strangled her co-wife, Amina Koli, 60 years old, following a physical confrontation on January 1, 2023. “Amina Guguwa, the suspect, criminally used force on the victim by strangling her neck tightly and as a result she died on…

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The corpse of Oreoluwa Fatinoye, son of Kehinde and Bukola Fatinoye, the couple killed in a house fire, has been found three days after they were killed, in the Ogun river. The couple were killed by yet-to-be-identified hoodlums in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, on New Year’s Day, shortly after they returned from the 2023 crossover church service. The assailants then burnt their corpses and house, located within the Ibara Government Reservation Area, Abeokuta. Kehinde worked with the Central Bank of Nigeria, while his wife, Bukola, worked with the Federal…

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A middle aged man simply identified as Kehinde has slumped and died during an alleged sex romp with a lover at a hotel somewhere in the community. Multiple sources in Ikere-Ekiti revealed that the deceased, a popular native doctor in the community had lodged in the hotel with his lover, whose identity could not be immediately ascertained. It was gathered that the said lover was a wife of a cleric in one of the fast growing churches in the town. According to one of the sources “What I can say…

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Mrs Salami, mother of slain Lagos lawyer, Omobolanle Raheem, who had her life snuffed out by a bullet from an AK 47 service rifle allegedly fired by a policeman on Christmas day in the Ajah area of Lagos, has revealed that her daughter was pregnant with twins.  Omobolanle’s mother revealed this yesterday, when the Lagos State Commissioner of Police paid a condolence visit to the bereaved family. “ She recalled in tears how she hawked oranges to train her in school “This is just as late Bolanle’s widower, Gbenga Raheem, …

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Police in Ogun have arrested a 49-year-old man, Ganiyu Shina of Oguji Street, Obantoko, Abeokuta, for bathing with blood at a community river, in Kotopo area of Odeda Local Government, Ogun State. The suspect was arrested when members of the community sighted him at the River bank, where he parked his Nissan commercial vehicle, came out with a local sponge and a container filled with blood, and started bathing with it. Immediately he discovered that some people were watching him, he took to his heels but was chased and apprehended…

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AbdulAzeez Ismail and Ajala Moses Oluwatimileyin aka Jacklord, were yesterday, sentenced to death by hanging for culpable homicide by a Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin, the state capital. The convicts were arraigned with six others in June last year before the court for the alleged rape and murder of a student of the University of Ilorin, Miss Olajide Gloria Blessing Omowumi, at her residence in Tanke area of the Ilorin metropolis.  The deceased said to be staying with her elder sister in Tanke area, until her death, was…

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Ekpe Ogbu, the abducted Benue State Commissioner for Housing and Urban Development, alongside three others abducted on Sunday, have been released. It was gathered that the victims were released around 3.30pm on Tuesday, after three days in captivity. One of the commissioner’s political associates, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said they were dropped along Otukpo/Ado Road. The state Commissioner of Police, Wale Abass, who confirmed the release of the commissioner and others, said no ransom was paid. Ogbu, alongside his driver, aide and one other, was abducted on Sunday…

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Kidnappers of Ekpe Ogbu, Benue State Commissioner for Housing and Urban Development, have contacted his family and demanded a ransom of N5m. A family source revealed that the abductors contacted the commissioner’s family through his driver’s phone. The commissioner, alongside his driver, aide and one other, was kidnapped on Sunday at Adankari village along the Otukpo/Ado Road. Earlier, the state Police Public Relations Officer, Catherine Anene, explained that the incident happened around 6.20pm on Sunday at a forest along Otukpo/Ado Road. In a statement on Monday, Anene said police officers,…

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