Category: Crime

Ekpe Ogbu, Benue State Commissioner for Housing and Urban Development, has been abducted by gunmen. He was kidnapped alongside Honourable Agbo Ode, one of his in-laws and the driver. It was gathered that they were kidnapped along David Marks Farm, after Akpa Otobi while on their way from Otukpo to Utonkon in Ado Local Government Area of the state. The commissioner was said to have attended a Church programme, where Senator Abba Moro, representing Benue South Senatorial district, dedicated his newly inaugurated Campaign Council to God at St. Augustine Catholic…

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Police in Jigawa State have arrested a woman, Balaraba Shehu, and her boyfriend, Amadu Sale, for burying their newborn baby alive. The command’s spokesperson, DSP Lawan Shiisu, who confirmed the development, said Balaraba after delivering the baby out of wedlock conspired with Amadu to commit the crime. Shiisu said the baby’s body was exhumed from a grave the mother dug near a toilet within their residence. According to him, “On December 2, 2022, at about 2350hrs, report at command’s disposal revealed that one Balaraba Shehu, 30-year-old, of Tsurma village, Kiyawa…

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Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA in Ibadan, Oyo State and Rivers State have arrested a 60-year-old grandmother and a pregnant woman for being in possession of drugs. The spokesman of the agency, Femi Babafemi, said: “During the operations, 5,527.15 kilograms of methamphetamine and cannabis Sativa as well as 132,090 tablets of tramadol and 2,000 bottles of codeine were seized by the NDLEA across five states and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja in the past week. “The grandma, Mrs Ibinosun Sandra Esther, was arrested in Ibadan, Oyo…

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N15.5 million cash being moved from Daudawa village in Faskari Local Government Area of Katsina State to terrorist groups in Zamfara State has been intercepted by troops deployed under Operation Hadarin Daji. Director, Defence Media Operations, Major General Musa Danmadami, who disclosed this, yesterday, said the huge amount of cash was intercepted during troops’ stop and search operation on November 17, 2022, adding that troops arrested 5 bandits collaborators at the community and recovered a vehicle and five mobile phones from the suspects. Danmadami disclosed that in an operation to…

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Senator representing Uyo senatorial district, Senator Bassey Akpan, has been sentenced to 42 years imprisonment for corruption by the Federal High Court sitting in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State. Akpan, who is also the governorship candidate of the Young Progressive Party (YPP) in the state, was prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commissíon (EFCC). He was sentenced yesterday by Justice Agatha Okeke of the Federal High Court on a six-count charge bordering on money laundering and receipt of exotic cars worth N204 million. Akpan, popularly known as OBA, has been…

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  Emmanuel Odo, a 23-year-old native doctor, has been arrested for allegedly killing his client, Benedict Onunze, while testing a gunshot-protection charm he prepared for him at Umuaram, Ikem, in Isi-Uzo Local Government Area of Enugu State. The Enugu State Police Command’s spokesperson, Daniel Ndukwe, said the native doctor, who killed his client, has confessed to the crime and has been arrested. The statement made available by Ndukwe read: “On 16/11/2022 at about 11pm, Police operatives serving in Isi-Uzo Police Division of the command, arrested Odoh Emmanuel (male and a…

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A 56-year-old cocaine trafficker, Lawal Oyenuga, who was on a mission to deliver 400grams of the class A drug concealed in a pair of palm sandals in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia has been arrested by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency on Sunday. The agency’s spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, in a statement, also said a wanted notorious kingpin, Wasiu Gbolahan, aka Teacher, who recruits mules for the cartel, was also arrested. Babafemi said, “The NDLEA operatives attached to the screening point of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, had on Thursday,…

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A suspected baby factory located at Ado Kasa in Karu Local Council has been uncovered by operatives of Nasarawa State Police Command. The operatives also rescued six young girls and a baby of about six months at St. Bridget Orphanage Home in Karu.    A spokesperson for the Command, Ramhan Namsel, said detectives attached to the Area Command, New Karu, acting based on a tip off, invaded the suspected baby factory.    The police said the suspects include: Mr. Eze Ezeogu Norbert, Mrs. Nnaemeka Eze, Mrs. Okechukwu Ogechi and Mrs.…

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