Category: Crime

A lawmaker in the Zamfara state House of Assembly, a District Head and a former local government chairman have been arrested by police operatives in the state over alleged kidnapping and banditry. A BBC Hausa report alleged that Aminu Ibrahim, who represents Kaura Namoda state constituency in the Zamfara State House of Assembly, was nabbed by the police for complicity in banditry and kidnapping. Aminu Ibrahim was allegely involved in the abduction of Ibrahim Fada in Kasuwar Daji village, a man said to be about 80 years old. The Commissioner…

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School principal and clergyman, Adetunji Obatayo, aged 55, has been remanded in prison custody for raping a 14-year-old secondary school student, who narrated to an Akure Magistrates’ Family Court, Ondo state, how she aborted for him thrice. The victim, in her narration before the court, said the principal has been having intercourse with her since she started staying with him when she was 10. “Four years ago, my parents released me to live with a pastor due to his desire to train me. “On my first day in his house,…

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A collapsed building at number 13 Wilson Mba Street, Arowojobe Estate Maryland, has left five yet to be-identified persons dead while five others were rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment. According to an eyewitness, the incident occurred at about 3:58 am. Men of the Lagos State Emergency Management Authority, LASEMA, who raced to the scene for a rescue operation were able to save the lives of the survivors. The unfortunate incident occurred when a set of three terraces under construction suddenly collapsed in the midnight hours. LASEMA Permanent Secretary,…

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Akomolafe Gbenga Michael, a personnel of the Nigeria Immigration Service at the Murtala Muhammad International Airport MMIA, Lagos, has been suspended over multiple charges of alleged drug trafficking. Spokesman of the Service DCI Kenneth Udo disclosed this in a statement issued Wednesday in Abuja. According to him, the officer is currently on arraignment before a Federal High Court in Lagos. He said; “The Service wishes to inform the public that the officer in question has since been subjected to internal processes and placed under suspension following the allegation of his…

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The conversation between the leader of recently killed billionaire kidnappers in Lagos, said to be a Nollywood actor/producer, Prince Henry Ode and another member of the notorious gang planted at the market on the day of their operation, has been exposed. Police sources said they had stationed one of their members inside the popular auto spare parts market on the Oshodi-Apapa expressway, Lagos, to monitor the movement of their target, hours before they struck at the market. It was learnt that he was giving them minute by minute information on…

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N15 million ransom has been demanded by gunmen who abducted five corps members in Ifon axis of Ondo State. The kidnappers have threatened to kill them if the affected families fail to raise the ransom. The gunmen made the threat after contacting one of the victims’ families at the weekend. The victims were kidnapped along the Ifon-Owo highway in the Ose Local Council Area of the state on their way from Enugu State, where they had undergone the mandatory orientation camp of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC). According to…

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Operatives of the Kaduna State Police Command have arrested a suspect with 30 different fabricated master keys of vehicles and motorcycles in Kaduna. The command’s spokesperson, ASP Mansir Hassan, confirmed the arrest on Monday in Kaduna. Hassan said, “The suspect specialises in vehicle and motorcycle theft. “On July 20, at about 0230hrs  our personnel received a distress call that a shop was burgled. “Upon receiving information, our operatives were immediately drafted to the area.” He said that upon arriving at the scene, the suspect, Zahradeenee Suleiman, had been arrested in…

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