Category: Crime

A suspect alleged to have kidnapped four teenagers in the Surulere area of Lagos State has been arrested by Police. The Lagos State Police command’s spokesperson, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed this in a statement on Tuesday. Hundeyin said that the teenagers, all boys, had been reunited with their families. He also stated that operatives from Surulere Division of the command carried out the arrest of the 51-year-old suspect, one Austin Kanu. The police image maker in the state said that the victims were between the ages of 16 and 18,…

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Fatima Abubakar, a 25-year-old housewife, has been arrested by the Borno State Police Command, for allegedly killing her husband, Goni Abbah, with poison. The state Commissioner of Police, Mr Abdu Umar, who disclosed this in Maiduguri, the state capital, said the suspect was arrested on October 19 at Anguwan Doki. Umar said the victim, who was the Chief Imam of the area, had returned from a mosque when the suspect, who was his second wife, allegedly put poison in his food. He explained that as soon as Abbah started eating,…

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Police in Oyo on Monday, confirmed the release of Prof. Adigun Agbaje, a former Deputy Vice-Chancellor, at the University of Ibadan, from the dens of his abductors. It’s Public Relations Officer, SP. Adewale Osifeso made this known in Ibadan. Agbaje, along with other travellers, including two female students of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta, were on Friday night kidnapped by gunmen in military uniform around Dominica University, on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. According to Osifeso, Agbaje is currently undergoing debriefing, saying an update will be provided on the matter. He, however, did not…

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Aisha Alkali-Wakil, also known as Mama Boko Haram, as well as one Tahiru Saidu-Daura and Lawal Shoyode, has been convicted by Justice Aisha Kumaliya of the Borno State High Court, Maiduguri on Monday. A statement by the Maiduguri Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, said the defendants were prosecuted on a three count charge of conspiracy and cheating to the tune of N34,593,000. It read, “Delivering judgment today, Justice Kumaliya found the defendants guilty on the three counts and convicted them accordingly.” According to the judge, “On…

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Police have arrested a senior lecturer at the Federal University of Lafia, Nasarawa State, Dr. Fred Ayokhai, for brutalizing a 20-year-old girl, Blessing Mathias, who allegedly fought his daughter over a man. Ayokhai, who lectures in the Department of History and International Studies alongside others suspected to be his family members was captured in a viral video stripping the victim naked. It was gathered that Blessing sometime last week confronted Ayokhai’s daughter, Emmanuella for trying to ‘snatch’ her boyfriend, simply identified as IG. She confronted Emmanuella in Lafia and had…

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The convoy of Apostle Johnson Suleman of the Omega Fire Ministries was today attacked by unknown gunmen near Auchi at the Water Tank Junction along the Warake -Auchi Road, on his way to Auchi, leaving seven persons made up of three policemen and four domestic staff dead. The incident reportedly happened at about 5pm when an unidentified group of gunmen who eyewitnesses said had been in a Toyota Avalon Car and a ash coloured Sienna vehicle without number plates opened fire at the homecoming convoy of Apostle Johnson Suleman. In…

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A former Lagos State Attorney-General and Commissioner of Justice, Olasupo Shasore, SAN, was yesterday arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, before a Federal High in Lagos for allegedly laundering $200,000. Shasore was alleged to have induced one Olufolakemi Adelore, in accepting a cash payment of the sum of $100,000, without going through a financial institution. He was also alleged to have made the cash payment to Ms Adelore through two persons; Auwalu Habu and Wole Aboderin. According to the charge, the senior lawyer made a cash payment…

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Two boys, Farouk Mohammed, 16, and Kasali Jamiu, 19, have been remanded by a Lagos High Court sitting at the Tafawa Balewa Square on Thursday, at the Special Correctional Centre for Boys, Oregun, and the Ikoyi Custodial Centre, respectively. Justice Sherifat Sonaike remanded them after they were charged with the murder of a Redeemed Christian Church of God pastor, Babatunde Dada, 46. The duo were first charged on January 12, 2022, before a Yaba Chief Magistrate’s Court alongside two others, Mumuni Toheeb, 21, and Mubarak Soliu, 20, for allegedly receiving…

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Chidinma Ojukwu, an undergraduate of the University of Lagos, Akoka, was arraigned before a Lagos High Court sitting at the Tafawa Balewa Square, alongside Adedapo Quadri and Chioma Egbuchu on October, 12, 2021, on nine counts over the alleged murder of the Chief Executive Officer of Super Tv, Usifo Ataga. The court resumed watching the recorded video footage on Tuesday, showing the confessional statement of Ojukwu before Justice Yetunde Adesanya. In the video, she said she did not know who killed the deceased as she had gone out on the…

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Unknown gunmen reportedly attacked a Celestial Church of Christ at Felele, Lokoja, Kogi State, leaving two persons dead and three others injured on Sunday. An eyewitness, who asked not to be identified for security reasons, said the gunmen, who were fully armed, stormed the church and started shooting continuously. It was learnt that two people died on the spot, while the injured were taken to the Federal Medical Centre, Lokoja. He said, “When they entered, they started shooting at everyone outside the church. I went and hid inside a cassava…

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