Crime

Students of Osun State University (UNIOSUN) in Osogbo, the state capital, yesterday protested the killing of their colleague, a 400-Level student, Oluwafemi Timilehin Shonibare, by suspected ritualists. Shonibare’s mutilated body was reportedly found near a bush on Jafaria Street at Oke-Baale area of Osogbo, 10 days after his disappearance. For hours, the roads leading to Olaiya Junction from Okefia through …

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Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State has assured residents that his administration is doing everything within its power to put an end to the spate of serial killings by  the notorious cult group known as ‘Badoo’ in the Ikorodu axis of the state. Ambode, who  gave the assurance on Thursday while commissioning a rehabilitated fire service station in the Epe …

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Tayo Olanipekun Gov.Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State has assured residents that his administration is doing everything within its power to put an end to the spate of serial killings by  the notorious cult group known as ‘Badoo’ in the Ikorodu axis of the state. Ambode, who  gave the assurance on Thursday while commissioning a rehabilitated fire service station in the …

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A monarch in Lagos State, Yusuf Ogundare, who is the Baale of Shangisha, has been kidnapped. According to available information, the monarch was kidnapped yesterday by men who posed as land buyers. The men, who were later discovered to be armed, had approached Ogundare, seeking to buy a parcel of land. According the Baale’s brother, Mohammed Adams, Ogundare was invited …

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The Plateau Police Command on Thursday confirmed the arrest of a 40-year-old man, Victor Dashit, who allegedly strangled his eight-month pregnant wife, Irene. “Victor is in our custody and investigation is on-going. We shall soon take him to court,” its spokesman, Terna Tyopev, said. He said that Dashit, a staff of the National Industrial Court, Jos who resides at New …

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The Federal Government says it will soon made public names of suspected treasury looters. Attorney-General of the federation (AGF),Abubakar Malami, made the promise while speaking with State House correspondents, on Wednesday. But he said that would only happen after the government had “fulfilled judicial principles”. A federal high court in Lagos had compelled the government to release information about high-ranking public …

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A Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja, has ordered Sen. Buruji Kashamu to submit himself to the police for investigation in an alleged attempt to carry out a politically-motivated assassination on a House of Representatives member, Mr. Oladipupo Adebutu. The court refused to stop the police from investigating Kashamu, who is representing Ogun East Senatorial district in the National Assembly, …

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For some days, arrested billionaire kidnapper, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike aka Evans, has been out of the news. The billionaire criminal has revealed why he did not operate in Yoruba land other than Lagos while his reign of terror lasted. On June 26, he said he liked operating in states like Enugu, Abia, Lagos and Edo States because he is from Anambra …

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More than 40 days after six students of the Lagos State Model College, Igbonla in Epe area of Lagos were kidnapped by unknown gun men, they are yet to be rescued. A Non-Governmental Organisation, NGO, the Centre for Children’s Health Education, Orientation and Protection (CEE-HOPE) has urged the Lagos State Government to effect the release of the students as further …

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July 4, 2017, is a day members of the Celestial Church of Christ, Orisun Ayomi parish, would not forget in a hurry. The church located on Anibaba Street, Owode Weighbridge along Ikorodu road in Lagos, played host to members of the deadly Badoo gang which has been terrorising residents of Ikorodu for over a year. According to the head of …

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