Category: Crime

A 37-year-old Lagos car dealer, Ikechukwu Ogbonna, aka IVD, has been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command over the death of his wife, Abimbola, in the Lekki area of the state. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, disclosed this on Monday. He said, “He was arrested on Saturday, he’s with us.” Ikechukwu and Abimbola had been married for 16 years, with the union blessed with five children. The marriage, however, was fraught with disagreement and alleged domestic violence. At the climax of their clash, the couple separated…

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28 persons including a pregnant woman, a nursing mother and a 200-level university student have been arrested by operatives of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, with 9,437.6 kilograms of cannabis and 138,053 tablets of pharmaceutical opioids. Director of Media and Advocacy of NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, said they were arrested during interdiction operations across 12 states of Yobe, Ondo, Edo, Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Imo, Jigawa, Kogi, Adamawa, Kaduna, Kwara, Lagos and the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja. “In the FCT, operatives on October 15 stormed a village known as Chukuku,…

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A 31-year-old student of the Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin, Bashiru Azeez, has been sentenced by a Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin on Friday, to six months imprisonment over $9,891 fraud. Justice Adebayo Yusuf handed down the sentence while ruling on a fraud case instituted by the Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Bashiru who is from Oyan in the Odo-Otin Local Government Area of Osun State is a student in the Marketing Department of Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin. The accused person was charged with…

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   Ondo state police detectives have arrested a 42-year-old businessman, Kelechukwu Onuka, for the murder of his wife, Nnenna, over dispute on “unexplained” N10 million. It was gathered that the ugly incident occurred at their residence in Aratunsi area, Oke Aro, Akure, Ondo State capital. The suspect reportedly accused his wife of hiding the money from him. A family source, said the disputed money was sent to the victim by one of her relations who resides abroad. The money was reportedly sent to her to assist the relation in a…

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A 51-year-old man, Oluranti Badejo, has been arrested by Police for allegedly killing his 40-year-old wife, Folasade Badejo, at their house in Orimerunmu, Mowe, in the Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State. It was learnt that Folasade, a fashion designer, on Wednesday, got into an argument with her husband over the payment of their three children’s school fees. The argument was said to have degenerated into fisticuffs as 51-year-old Oluranti allegedly smashed Folasade’s head against the wall of their apartment. She was said to have fallen. Their eight-year-old daughter,…

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Samuel Ortom, Benue State governor, yesterday gave the federal government a month’s ultimatum to grant the state the approval to acquire AK-47 rifles for operatives of its vigilante group or the state would do the needful. Recall that the state government had asked for such approval from the federal government, following incessant killing of farmers in the state by herdsmen, but the Presidency had insisted that no state of the federation had the powers to acquire such weapons. Speaking at the passing out parade of batch B of the Benue…

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Olajide Kareem, alias Seun Egbegbe, a Nollywood filmmaker and producer, has been convicted for fraud by a Federal High Court in Lagos, after spending six years and eight months in prison custody. Egbegbe was remanded on February 10, 2017, after allegedly obtaining money by false pretence from no fewer than 40 Bureaux De Change operators in different parts of Lagos for over a period of two years between 2015 and 2017. He was accused of swindling the BDC operators by claiming that he had naira to change into foreign currencies.…

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A 21-year-old man, Chinedu Eziuzo, has been sentenced to seven months’ imprisonment by a Federal High Court sitting in Awka, Anambra State, for raping his 14-year-old sister in Adazi-Enu, in the Anaocha Local Government Area of the state. Eziuzo was said to have committed the crime in 2021, but was arrested on May 30, 2022. The judge, Dr Nnamdi Dimgba, said the sentence would commence from the day of his arrest. He was further handed down a non-custodial sentence of community service of not less than three hours daily. Share…

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The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, NAPTIP, has arrested a 49-year-old housewife, Mrs Augustina Ikyor, in Makurdi for allegedly stealing two-month-old twins. The Makurdi Zonal Commander of the agency, Mrs Gloria Bai, who made this known, yesterday, said her office acted on a distress message from the mother of the babies, who, Tuesday, raised the alarm, alleging that the suspect tricked her and took away her twin babies to an unknown destination. According to Bai, “she stated that the woman had previously demanded she sold off…

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Police have arrested three men in the Ijebu-Ode area of Ogun State, for allegedly attempting to kidnap their former employer, Ifenuga Olayinka, after he sacked them . The suspects — Peter Nse, 24; Chuckwuma Nwobodo, 48; and Michael Umanah, 30 — were arrested following a complaint by Olayinka. The Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday. He explained that Olayinka reported that he received a text message on his phone from someone who described himself as ‘Killer Vagabond of Africa.’ The…

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