Crime

Officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport (MAKIA) have apprehended a 59 year old fish farmer while trying to board an Ethiopian airline flight to Johannesburg, South Africa through Addis Ababa. According to a release made available to nationalwire.com.ng by NDLEA’s Head of Public Affairs, Ofoyeju Mitchell, twenty-five kilogrammes of substances …

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The Lagos State Police Command has reported a murder incident at Oke Ota via Ibeshe, Ikorodu in the early hours of Sunday 30th July 2017. In a release made available to National Wire and signed by the Lagos State Police Command’s Public Relations Officer, ASP Olarinde Famous-Cole, Police operatives responded to a distress call at Oke Ota, Ibeshe, Ikorodu area …

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Tayo Olanipekun The Lagos State Police Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni, on Friday disclosed that 20 kidnappers were killed in gun battle with the Marine Police in the process of rescuing the kidnapped students of Lagos State Model College, Igbonla, Epe area of Lagos. Owoseni spoke at a press conference addressed by the Lagos Deputy Governor, Dr. Oluranti Adebule, along …

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The Police have arrested a gang of kidnappers allegedly responsible for the kidnap of mother of the Kogi State governor, Mr. Yahaya Bello. Also arrested were armed robbers and kidnappers which have been terrorising communities in Abuja, Niger and Kogi States in recent times. The Police also recovered two AK47 rifles from the hoodlums on 10th July sequel to the …

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Barely two days after the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Burutai ordered the Nigerian troop to arrest the leader of the terrorist group; Boko Haram, Ibrahim Shekau, the Police in Kano State have arrested five suspected Boko Haram terrorists in Gayawa village of Ungoggo Local Government Area of the state. Kano State Police Commissioner Rabi’u Yusuf on Sunday …

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It was a shocking revelation on Monday at the headquarters of the Osun State Police Command, Osogbo when a 39-year old woman, Mrs Omotayo Salawudeen, confessed that she had s3xual intercourse with her late husband, Alhaji Salawudeen Hakeem, before killing him. Speaking during a chat with journalists after being paraded by Osun State Commissioner of Police, Mr Fimihan Adeoye, Omotayo, …

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The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Fatai Owoseni has said that there would be no rest for criminals in Ikorodu and the entire Lagos metropolis. Owoseni made this known while his men combed the Ikorodu area in search of cultists of the inglorious Badoo group which have unleashed untold terror on residents of the Ikorodu division of Lagos State. …

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Folake Sokoya In its bid to rid the Lagos metropolis of criminals, the state Police Command this evening carried out a mop up exercise to clear the state of criminal elements in various neighborhoods. The Police Command in its Saturday operation stormed the Ifako- Ijaiye area of Agege, rounding up several hoodlums. The team comprising the Nigeria Airforce, Nigeria Security …

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Seven alleged members of the Badoo cult, accused of bestial killings in Ikorodu area of Lagos, were on Friday docked before an Ebute Meta Magistrates’ Court. They were charged with conspiracy and membership of an unlawful society. The accused , Afolabi Kessington, 25,Ismaila Shaibu, 36, Mutiu Nurudeen, 26, Ibrahim Bello, 25, Lukman Mohammed, 35, Gift Itafa, 50 and Sheriff Adewunmi, …

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The Permanent Secretary, Bureau of General Services, Mrs Olufunke Oluwakemi Kolawole has been murdered around Okene, in Kogi State, on her way to Abuja on Thursday. Kolawole had left Osogbo in the early hours of Thursday for Abuja, to felicitate with her friend, who is the Solicitor General in the state on her confirmation as a judge before he was …

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