Crime

The Investments and Securities Tribunal (IST), sitting in Abuja, has awarded general damages of N3 million in favour of an investor in the capital market for losses and hardship suffered in the hands of his stockbrokers. This is contained in a statement signed by the Acting Director, Corporate Affairs, IST, Kenneth Ezra. According to the statement, delivering judgment in a …

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Folake Sokoya Lagos State Commissioner of Police, CP Edgal Imohimi, on Thursday, visited the Aguda-Surulere office of the Lagos State Neighbourhood Watch to commiserate with them over the death of one of their colleagues,Mr Moshood Bolaji. Bolaji was killed on Wednesday at about 9:30 pm, at Umunede Bar in Mallam Isah close, Aguda-Surulere,by a gang of five cultists. Similarly, the …

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Tayo Olanipekun The Amnesty International (AI) has given a scathing report on Nigeria for 2017, accusing the country of carrying out extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances, attacks on journalists, forcible evictions and crackdown on protesters. In its report released on Thursday, AI said torture and other ill-treatment and unlawful detention by the police and the State Security Service (SSS) continued, much …

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 By: Amos OKioma A team of Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC) in the early hours of Tuesday shot a neighborhood watch member in Ikarama, Yenagoa Local Government Area in Bayelsa and subsequently trigged a youth protest.. It will be recalled that an operative of the NSCDC had in 2017 shot at a medical doctor damaging his vehicle over …

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Folake Sokoya Kwara State Governor, Dr Abdulfatah Ahmed, has warned that he will deal decisively with perpetrators of the communal clash between the people of Offa and Ijagbo in Offa Local Government and Oyun Local Government respectively of the state. Governor Ahmed, in a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Abdulwahab Oba, expressed concern over the “unwarranted and absolutely …

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The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, CP Edgal Imohimi yesterday said that the command recovered over N90m worth of drugs while parading 13 suspects arrested for cross border and cybercrime. Imohimi while addressing journalists at the command said that the cross border crime suspects, all Beninois specialise in snatching exotic cars in Nigeria and driving them to Benin Republic for …

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The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a six-man syndicate that specialised in robbing Lagosians of their mobile phones and turning over the SIM cards to hackers who get hold of the account details of its owners and transfer its balances to their accounts. The best things about the site: Large selection of popular casino games – over 200 of …

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The ringleader behind the killings carried out by suspected Fulani herdsmen in Benue State recently has been arrested by men of the Nigerian police. The arrest was made possible following strict orders by the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris to his Intelligence Response Team (IRT) and other operational apparatus of the police. The Deputy Inspector General of Police …

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Lagos State government has arrested four officials of a waste management company, Ayomide Olayinka Ventures, for dumping waste on the street along the Central Business District (CBD) of Lagos Island at night. The suspects were arrested by security operatives in the early hours of Tuesday while using their compactor with registration number FST 908 XG to perpetrate the act. Those …

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An ex-convict, Surajudeen Adeleke Balogun has been arrested by men of the Ogun State police command for impersonating an Ogun State Director of Finance on Facebook. The suspect, a fashion designer from Ijebu Ode in Ogun State posed on Facebook as a staff of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) staff with the picture of the said Finance Director through …

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