Category: Crime

Ajele Oloyede, an operative of the Nigeria Police Force, has reportedly died on Thursday from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the Igbesa area of Ogun State. While it remains uncertain whether the deceased’s actions were intentional or accidental, the command said that an investigation had been launched to determine the circumstances surrounding the incident. It was learnt that the incident occurred on Thursday at a ceramics company in Igbesa, where the officer had been assigned as part of the company’s security details. According to the command’s spokesperson, Omolola Odutola, the…

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A suspected cultist, Segun Ogunfunmilayo, has been arrested by the Osun State Police Command for allegedly shooting a grocery seller in Ede over an unpaid debt. According to the state Police Public Relations Officer, Adeola Adeoye, the incident occurred on March 8, 2025, at around 9:00 p.m. in the Bihari/Ishola area of Ede. Ogunfunmilayo had reportedly purchased an energy drink from the victim, promising to make a transfer. However, when the seller did not receive the payment alert, he confronted the suspect, who allegedly pulled out a pistol and shot…

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Lagos State Police Command on Tuesday confirmed the location where the Lagos State University graduate, Adedamola Ogunbode, was buried, following the arrest of the principal suspect, Olaoluwa Ajisomo. It was learnt that the prime suspect, rumoured to have fled to the Benin Republic, was leading police detectives in locating the burial site of the deceased. The command’s spokesperson, Chief Superintendent of Police Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed both developments on Tuesday. The deceased, a Political Science Education graduate from LASU, had been missing since January 16, 2025, amid speculation that his mutilated…

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A 34year-old altar servant has been allegedly identified as the brain behind the abduction of the two Catholic Church priests in Numan LG, Adamawa State. They were said to have been kidnapped weeks ago. The suspect, Tahamado Jonathan Demian, whose job as an altar servant, is to provide sundry services to a Roman Catholic priest while performing mass, has also been providing extra information for kidnappers, unknown to the church. It will be recalled that the two clerics that were kidnapped; Rev. Fathers Matthew David Dusami and Abraham Samman, were…

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Darlington Akporugo, a 47-year-old Nigerian, has pleaded guilty to wire fraud and conspiracy for a romance scheme that targeted victims across the United States, many of whom were elderly, U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei announced. Akporugo, who was arrested a month before his wedding, admitted to being a central figure in a long-running romance scam that defrauded victims from Chicago to Kentucky. Working with accomplices, he used online relationships to manipulate victims into sending money to bank accounts under his control. To further the scheme, Akporugo and his co-conspirators used…

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Two men, Anu Olaniyi and Abidemi Alibaloye, have been sentenced to life imprisonment each by an Ekiti State High Court, Ado Ekiti Division on Tuesday, for gang-raping a 13-year-old girl. The convicts, who committed the offences on December 28, 2020, were arraigned in court on the charges of conspiracy and gang-rape. During the hearing, the victim told the court, “I was sent on an errand on December 28, 2020, when one of the convicts intercepted me and purposely directed me to his friend’s place where they both forcibly had carnal…

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Former Comptroller-General of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), has been killed by kidnappers in Abuja. A counter-insurgency expert, Zagazola Makama revealed that, Parradang was abducted in the Area 1 axis of Abuja in the early hours of Tuesday. Makama said after being trailed from a bank where he had withdrawn money, the assailants took the cash from him before eventually killing him. “The tragic incident has raised fresh concerns over security in the Federal Capital Territory, particularly regarding the increasing cases of kidnappings and targeted attacks,” Makama said in a…

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A pastor in charge of Celestial Church of Christ, CCC ILERI OLUWA PARISH, LASU 2, Shepherd, Sup. Evang. Whepetoji Babaniyeh has been arrested for killing Ogubode Quadri Adedamola. Adedamola, a 28-year-old graduate of Political Science from Lagos State University and CEO of Horlar Edu Consultancy runs a private business at the LASU Campus. The news first broke via  Celestial Reality, a Facebook page that specialises in reporting Celestial Church events. It was reported that, Adedamola had gone missing on January 16. Findings revealed that, he was traced to the church…

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20-year-old Safiyanu Dalhatu has been arrested by the Bauchi State Police Command for allegedly beating his mother to death. This was disclosed in a press release issued on Tuesday by the command’s Police Public Relations Officer, Ahmed Wakil. He explained that, “On February 24, 2025, Peace and Security Committee members in the Abujan Kwata area of Bauchi reported an incident to the ‘A’ Divisional Police Headquarters. “At about 3pm, Safiyanu Dalhatu, a 20-year-old male resident of Abujan Kwata, allegedly assaulted his biological mother, Salama Abdullahi, a 40-year-old female of the…

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