Category: Crime

Adio Adeyemi, a medical doctor, of Kaiama General Hospital, in Kwara state has been arrested by Police over alleged kidnap and murder of two ladies. Adeyemi was alleged to have kidnapped and killed his girlfriend identified only as Ifeoluwa, and another housewife, Nofisat Halidu, in 2021. Ifeoluwa was declared missing in the Tanke area, while Nofisat, a housewife in Kaiama, was reported missing by her husband, one Mr Halidu. The police confirmed the incident in a statement by the Police Public Relations Officer, SP Ajayi Okasanmi, on Sunday. The statement…

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The village head of Tekpeshe community in the Abaji Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory, has been threatened by marauding bandits, who two weeks ago abducted 17 persons in the community, to pay a ransom of N8 million for his son’s release without delay or he would be brought into the crime of kidnapping. Sources said the bandits contacted the Waziri of Tekpeshe, Ibrahim Tanko, and issued the threat after the village head and his family members pleaded that they could not raise such huge amount of money as…

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Kidnappers who reportedly abducted some family members of the Bauchi State House of Assembly member representing Dass Constituency, Bala Ali, have killed the lawmaker’s eldest son. Abdul Burra, the spokesperson for the Speaker of the House, Abubakar Suleiman, who shared proceedings of the Assembly’s plenary on Tuesday, said the member representing Burra Constituency, Ado Wakili, disclosed this during the House’s sitting under personal explanation. According to him, the lawmaker, who extended his condolences to the members on the murder of his colleague’s son, described the incident as tragic. Responding to…

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A Professor, Zainab Abiola, has been arrested by police for brutalizing a police officer, Inspector Teju Moses on Tuesday in Garki, Abuja. Professor Abiola and her domestic staff, comprising the housemaid, Rebecca Enechido, and a male suspect at large, were said to have brutalised the orderly. The Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), Chief Superintendent of Police, Muyiwa Adejobi confirmed the arrest of Abiola and Enechido. It was said that Abiola, a legal practitioner and human rights activist had attacked the female officer following her refusal to breach professional ethics by…

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Prosper Israel, a dismissed personnel of the Department of State Services, DSS, alongside nine other suspected robbers, were, yesterday, paraded by the Abia State Police Command, for robbery. The suspects were part of the alleged 14-man robbery gang that ambushed a bullion van near Ntigha Junction of the Enugu-Port Harcourt expressway, on July 26, 2022. During the robbery, the cash officer of a new generation bank was killed on the spot, while the suspects carted away an unspecified amount of cash being conveyed by the bullion van. Three police personnel…

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Kidnap kingpin, Chukwudimeme Onwuamadike, alias Evans, was yesterday sentenced to 21 years imprisonment, by a Lagos Special Offences Court, Ikeja, for kidnapping a businessman, Slyvanus Ahamonou and collecting $420,000 ransom from his family.     The trial Judge, Oluwatoyin Taiwo, sentenced Evans along with his accomplice, Victor Aduba, an ex-soldier after finding them guilty for kidnapping and unlawful possession of firearms.   The court found them guilty of a four-count charge, bordering on kidnapping and unlawful possession of firearms.     The prosecution witnesses, Ahamonou and his wife, Chimebere had…

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Officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency on Monday uncovered a major warehouse where 1.8tons of illicit drugs worth over $278, 250,000, an equivalent of about N194, 775,000,000 in street value were seized in a secluded estate in the Ikorodu area of Lagos State. The NDLEA’s Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, in a statement on Monday, said at least four drug barons including a Jamaican and the warehouse manager were arrested in the well coordinated and intelligence led operation that lasted two days across different locations in…

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A J5 vehicle coming from Onitsha enroute Kaduna-Zaria was intercepted by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency on patrol along Okene-Abuja expressway, on Saturday, September 17, with 18 pieces of pump action rifles and 1,300 cartridges. While the two suspects conveying the arms and ammunition, Chukwudi Aronu, 51, and Shuaibu Gambo, 23, were arrested, another suspect, Anthony Agada, 37, conveying 1,000 cartridges, was also nabbed in a bus coming from Onitsha to Abuja on the same day. The anti-narcotic agency spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, revealed in a statement on…

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A church in the Shikal community, Langtang South Local Government Area of Plateau State was yesterday invaded by masquerades, disrupting service, as they flogged bewildered worshippers, destroying the church property. It was gathered that the masquerades arrived at the church premises while service was ongoing and started flogging worshippers as they scampered for safety. The invaders later turned to the church’s musical instruments and other property and destroyed them. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Alfred Alabo, confirmed the incident but gave no details. He said: “The DPO of the…

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