Category: Crime

Director of Logistics of National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Federal University, Oye-Ekiti Chapter, Adeyemi Israel Abiodun, has been sentenced to one-year imprisonment for internet-related fraud. He is among 40 persons arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC and convicted on separate one-count charges before four judges of the Oyo State High Court, Ibadan. Their offences bordered on impersonation, obtaining money under false pretence, obtaining property by false pretence and forgery contrary to Sections 419, 467, 484, 516 and 508 of the Criminal Code Law Cap 38, Laws…

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The Ogun State Government on Monday announced that a 17-year-old kidnapped victim, Oluwatomiwa Akinlaja, escaped from captivity in Ikorodu, Lagos State. Akinlaja, a student of the Redeemer’s University in Osun State, was reportedly abducted last week at the Sagamu Interchange, Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. It was gathered that Akinlaja was on his way to join his parents at the Redemption Camp along the highway, when he fell into the hands of the hoodlums. He was going for the 70th convention of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, tagged ‘Perfect Jubilee,’ which took…

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Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a 50-year-old Mgbeobuna Victor Eberechukwu for ingesting 77 pellets of cocaine at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport (AIIA), Enugu. The suspect was arrested on Saturday, August 6, following his arrival from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, onboard an Ethiopian airline flight. The suspect, who hails from Anambra State, passed out the 77 wraps of the illicit drug in eight excretions spanning four days. In a related development, spokesperson for the Agency, Femi Babafemi, in a statement, yesterday, said 11.90 kg consignment…

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A notorious kidnapper, Hamisu Bala, popularly known as Wadume, and two others, have been sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment by Federal High Court in Abuja. Others charged with Wadume are Auwalu Bala (aka Omo Razor), Uba Bala (aka Uba Delu), Bashir Waziri (aka Baba Runs), Zubairu Abdullahi (aka Basho) and Rayyanu Abdul. The judge also sentenced Delu, Abdullahi, and Abdul to seven years’ imprisonment, while she discharged and acquitted Omo Razor and Baba Runs, for lack of evidence. Justice Nyako’s judgement was delivered on July 22, and made available to…

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Anambra State Police have arrested a lesbian for killing a man identified as Ikechukwu Onuma popularly known as ‘Ayaaya Onye-Obodo’. The unidentified woman killed the husband of her female lover, who was a staff of the College of Health, Onitsha, stabbing him to death with a knife. It was gathered that the incident happened at the deceased residence, along Ogboli road, Onitsha, Anambra State, on Tuesday, at 9:20pm. The deceased came home unannounced on Tuesday night to meet his wife in bed with another woman, making it out. Sources in…

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A pastor, Erinmole Adetokunbo, and his accomplice, Adedoyin Oyekanmi, has been sentenced to death by Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of the Lagos State Special Offences Court sitting at Ikeja, on Tuesday, for killing a seven-year-old boy in the Ikorodu area of the state. Justice Taiwo gave the verdict after the defendants changed their pleas from not guilty to guilty. The men were arraigned on October 30, 2017, before the Lagos State High Court on two counts bordering on conspiracy and murder. According to the charge sheet, Oyekanmi and Adetokunbo, on June…

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Three persons were reportedly killed while scores were abducted by bandits on Sunday night in an attack on Bali town, the headquarters of Bali Local Government Area of Taraba State. Several sources in Bali said that the attackers who rode on motorcycles attacked and killed a personnel of Taraba Marshall at a checkpoint near General Hospital before proceeding to individual houses to kill and abduct people. The Tiv central leader and Chief of Tiv in Bali, Zaki David Gbaa (Ter Tiv Bali II) said that two of his subjects were…

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A teenager and one other have been arrested by the Niger State Police Command over the kidnap and murder of a 13-year-old boy, Yasir Salisu. The state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Abiodun Wasiu, in a statement in Minna, said the victim went missing on July 29. Wasiu said the suspects, Nafiu Umar, 18, and Usman Sabiu, 22, confessed to kidnapping the victim to collect ransom from his father. “Usman Sabiu confessed to have conspired with Nafiu Umar and abducted the missing person to the house of Nafiu with the…

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  Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have intercepted about 2.7million tablets of tramadol 225mg weighing 1,650 kilogrammes worth N1.37 billion at Apapa port in Lagos. The consignment packed in 55 cartons of Tapentadol and Carisoprodol types of tramadol was seized during examination of a container marked SUDU 7538656 on Saturday, July 30, following credible intelligence. NDLEA’s Director, Media & Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, in a statement, yesterday, said the action comes on the heels of similar efforts by anti-narcotic officers at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA)…

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37 suspected drug users and dealers have been arrested by the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) and 820 ampoules of pentazocine injections was seized in Katsina State. The NDLEA Commander in the state, Mr Mohammed Bashir on Friday in Katsina said that the suspects were arrested within a 24-hour operation. He explained that five of the 37 arrested were suspected drug dealers, while 32 were drug users, including a woman and a cripple. Bashir said that all the 32 suspected drug users would be tested “and the result would…

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