Category: Crime

Police in Ogun state have arrested two women for allegedly operating a baby factory in Agbado, in the Ifo Local Government Area of the state. The state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, who confirmed the development in a statement on Monday, said the suspects, Christiana Iyama and Margaret Ogwu, were arrested on August 27, 2022, following information received by police. Oyeyemi said, “Upon the information, the DPO Agbado Division, SP Awoniyi Adekunle, mobilised his detectives to the area where the said Christiana Iyama and Margaret Ogwu were arrested.…

The Federal Government has uncovered 14 assets, including shopping malls, residential estate, polo playground, lands and farmland belonging to a former commander, Intelligence Response Team, Abba Kyari, a Deputy Commissioner of Police. Kyari was said to have failed to disclose his ownership of the properties in different locations in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja and Maiduguri, Borno State. Over N207m and Є17,598 were also discovered in his various accounts in GTB, UBA and Sterling Bank. In the fresh 24-count charges filed against Kyari by the Director of Prosecution and Legal…

A 48-year-old pastor, Michael Abiodun, has been arrested by men of the Ogun State Police Command in Owode- Egba, in the Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area, for allegedly defiling and impregnating a 12-year-old member of his church (name withheld). The state police spokesperson, Abimbola Oyeyemi, disclosed this in a statement on Friday. Oyeyemi explained that the cleric was arrested following information received by policemen at Owode Egba divisional headquarters. He noted that the police gathered that the victim’s mother joined the church for a solution to a spiritual problem which led…

Mrs Joy Sunday, a 40-year-old woman, has been arrested by the police for conspiracy over the kidnap of her husband in Akwa Ibom State, on Friday. She confessed to partaking in the act because her husband starved her of sex and money for too long. It was gathered that the kidnappers demanded N10m as ransom and later reduced it to N2m which was paid before the police arrested them while sharing the loot. The suspect who was among 29 others paraded for various offences including kidnapping, robbery and child theft…

Cultists allegedly killed a Chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, Sulaimon Onaolapo, aka Ariku, in the Kosofe Local Government Area of Lagos State. In a video which trended online on Sunday evening, no fewer than four suspected cultists were seen using cutlasses to hack Onaolapo till he died. The incident, however, caused tension as resident in the community on Monday, expressed fear over a reprisal by Onaolapo’s loyalists. While some residents said Onaolapo was killed over cult-related activities, other members of the community said the NURTW boss…

A cleaner, Sunday Ohiagu, at the international wing of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, in the Ikeja area of Lagos State has been arrested by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency for running a drug syndicate. The agency’s spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, in a statement, said Ohiagu was arrested on Tuesday following the arrest of a Dubai-bound passenger, Obinna Osita. He said Osita, an intending Air Peace flight passenger, was arrested with three bags, two of which contained eight blocks of cannabis sativa weighing 4.25kg concealed in cassava product, garri and…

Three women have been arrested by the Enugu State Police Command for an alleged conspiracy, trafficking of newborn twins and subsequent killing of their mother. This was contained in a statement issued on Friday by the command’s spokesman Daniel Ndukwe. The statement noted that the suspects; Ukorie Cynthia (25), Onyia Pauline (56) and Aroh Ijeoma (39) were remanded in the Enugu Maximum Correctional Centre on Friday. The statement stated that the trio were first arrested by operatives of the command attached to the Central Police Station Enugu July 26, 2022…

A 23-year-old woman, Mary Olatayo, has been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly selling her three-week-old baby boy for N600,000. The state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, in a statement on Thursday, said the suspect was arrested following a complaint from the father of the baby. He said, “The man said Mary got pregnant in the process and he rented an apartment for her where she lived till she delivered a baby boy. He explained further that the lady suddenly disappeared with the baby from…