Crime

Folake Sokoya Men of Ogun state police command on friday arrested a 19yr old notorious cultist who has been terrorising Agbara and it’s environs for quite some time now. The suspect,Daniel Bartholomew who has been on the wanted list of the command for the role he played in series of cult clashes in Agbara, Lusada and igbesa area of Ogun …

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Folake Sokoya The Lagos State Police Command has dismantled what it described as a major fraud haven, situated at No. 48, Allen Avenue, Ikeja and operated by a 26-year-old cyber criminal cum fraud kingpin, Samuel Olowobola Gboyega. His arrest followed a petition addressed to the Commissioner of Police (CP), Lagos State, Edgal Imohimi, by one Antonio Kaplanis of the Embassy of …

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Victor Oluwadamilare, Special Assistant Media to Mr. Adebayo Shittu, Minister of Communications, has accused his boss of greed and wickedness. Mr. Olwuadamilare made the allegations in a letter to the minister. Dated 12 March and exclusively obtained by SaharaReporters, the former spokesperson’s letter said Mr. Adebayo owes him the sum of N13million in emoluments from November 2015 to the end …

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Niger State Police Command has apprehended Maaruf Sarki, 34, for allegedly killing his landlord, Tasiu Shittu, after which he buried him in shallow grave in Kontagora Local Government Area of the state. The Command’s Public Relations Officer, Mohammad Abubakar, confirmed this on Wednesday, adding that Sarki also stole N1.7m from the deceased, including an unregistered Honda car. Abubakar said the …

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The Presidency has confirmed the release of 76 out of the 110 abducted students in the early hours of Wednesday It said the directive by President Muhammadu Buhari to all security agencies to do everything possible to secure the release of the Dapchi schoolgirls, abducted February 19, yielded the result. In a statement issued in Abuja on Wednesday, signed by  Segun Adeyemi, the Special …

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The Islamist militant group, Boko Haram, today returned 105 out of the 110 girls kidnapped from a high school compound in Dapchi a few weeks ago, Saharareporters has said. Quoting sources,the online newspaper said that the militant group came with the girls in nine vehicles same way they took them away. According to the report, there was confusion in the …

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Folake Sokoya Lagos State command, on intelligence report, stormed Collabor Hotel at No.3, Ige Street, Iyana Ipaja and uncovered a prostitution ring of underage girls who were brought to Lagos from various states of the country for prostitution. A 15-year-old girl, Asuquo Glory,  that was the first to be apprehended,confessed that she was brought to Lagos some weeks ago and …

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Folake Sokoya Kwara State Governor, Dr Abdulfatah Ahmed, has called on the Federal Government to declare a state of emergency on drug and substance abuse in the country. Speaking during a courtesy call by the National President of Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN), Pharmacist Ahmed Yakassi, on him at Government House, Ilorin, he said the country is faced with a …

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Tayo Olanipekun Nigerian security forces ignored at least five calls made by members of the community to alert the military of the Presence of Boko Haram around Dapchi before 110 school girls were abducted by the militant group, Amnesty International has said. Around 2pm on February 19, the first call was made to the army command in Geidam, 54km from …

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Folake Sokoya  From where he sat on the floor, rolling his eyes from one side to the other, no one could easily guess how many lives the 39-year-old Adeola Williams, popularly known as Ade Lawyer, could have taken in the past 10 to 20 years until he opened his mouth to confess. Many of those present during his confession a …

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