Crime

Folake Sokoya The Ogun State Police Command has arrested 2(two) suspected armed robbers,ADEMOLA OLADUNJOYE, m, 40, and OLAWALE IDOWU, m, 20, after they attacked and robbed a woman at Olumide Ajayi Street,off Block, Ilogbo Road, Otta, in Ado Odo Otta Local Government of Ogun State on Sunday, May 29. Police operatives attached  to the Respond Squad of the Otta Area Command, who responded to a distress call, …

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Folake Sokoya The Ogun State Police Command has arrested a young man,Samson Tella,25,for stabbing his friend,Abiodun Abdulkareem,25,to death on Tuesday May17, 2016 at Iyesi Otta,in Ado Odo Otta Local Goverment of Ogun State. The Police Operatives attached to Onipanu Division of the Ogun State Police Command arrested the suspect after the ugly incident when a friend to the deceased reported …

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FOLAKE SOKOYA The operatives of Rapid Response Squad (RRS) yesterday, evening prevented a mother of four from committing suicide by jumping into the Lagoon with a 12 – month old baby. The lady, Halimat Adegoke (not real names), 27, was restrained by two Response riders from plunging into the Lagoon from the top of the Third Mainland Bridge. A cab …

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Foremost media NGO, the International Press Centre (IPC), Lagos, has condemned the assault on The Nation newspaper reporter, Sampson Unamka, who was allegedly slapped severally by police officers, and threatened to be charged for attempting to take pictures of a police officer who was beating up a motorist and a passenger in Mushin area of Lagos recently. The Director of …

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A report from Osun State Head of Service, Sunday Olayinka Owoeye  Sunday has announced the release of kidnapped officials of the South Western state. “This is to inform the general public that to the glory of God, the three staffers of the State of Osun Civil Service, Mrs. ‘Bimpe Ogunlumade, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Mr. Tajudeen Badejoko, Director of …

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The Osun State Government has alerted the public on the unfortunate kidnap of three of its officials Friday April 22, 2016 in Kogi State. According to a statement signed by Head of Service of the state, Mr. Sunday Olayinka Owoeye, the kidnapped officials are the Permanent Secretary Ministry of Finance, Mrs. Adebimpe Ogunlumade; Director, State Audit, Mr. Tajudeen Badejoko, and …

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Few months after the former Secretary to the Federal Government (SGF), Chief Oluyemisi Falae, was abducted and later released by Fulani herdsmen in his Ondo State farm, no fewer than 10 Fulani herdsmen have again invaded his Ilado farm, near Akure, the Info State capital. This time, the invaders killed one of the men of the  Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), …

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Abia State command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), has paraded seven persons arrested in March for being in possession of suspected psycho-tropical substances. According to the state commander of the agency, Mr. Bamidele Akingbade, the suspects were caught at various locations in the state with substances weighing 14.23 kilograms. The suspects, Uzochukwu Nnanna,35, Kingsley Ugwubueze,31, Agbaeze Kalu,40, …

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The peace that had existed in the ancient town of Ilorin, Kwara State, was at the weekend shattered when four persons were killed in the Kwara State capital. Fight reportedly broke out between members of two rival cult groups over supremacy claim. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Sunday last week, suspected members of cult groups struck at Ikokoro/Sakamo …

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The peace that had existed in the ancient town of Ilorin, Kwara State, was at the weekend shattered when four persons were killed in the Kwara State capital. Fight reportedly broke out between members of two rival cult groups over supremacy claim. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Sunday last week, suspected members of cult groups struck at Ikokoro/Sakamo …

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