Tag Archives: Crime

50-year-old man, Muritala Olaniyan, on Friday pleaded guilty to stealing his neighbour’s mobile phone while buying goods from his shop. Olaniyan admitted before a Surulere Chief magistrates’ Court in Lagos that he stole the Samsung phone from Mr Godwin Enoch at 9a.m. on May 12 at Sari Iganmu, Lagos. The prosecutor, Sgt. Christopher Okoliko, had told the court that the …

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The Nigeria Police Force said it has received 498 cases of professional misconduct against its personnel across the country from January to March. The Head, Public Complaints Rapid Response Unit, NPF, Abayomi Shogunle, disclosed this in a report, on Thursday, in Abuja. Shogunle said the number of cases of misconduct against the police decreased by 52.8 per cent in the …

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The political family in Bayelsa State has continued to mourn the death of a former Acting Chairman of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state, Pami Hobobo. Police spokesman in the state Asinim Butswat confirmed the assassination today in Yenagoa, the state capital. “One Pamo Christopher Hobobo of PDP Road, Yenagoa was found dead in his house at …

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An Ile-Ife Magistrate’s Court in Osun on Wednesday granted N100, 000 bail to each of three accused persons charged with assault and stealing of oranges. The accused persons are: Bisiriyu Ojuade, 55; Salisu Ojuade, 45, and Simiat Ojuade, 43. Magistrate Olalekan Ijiyode also ordered the accused persons to swear to affidavits of means with each of them affixing their two …

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Karmo Grade 1 Area Court, Abuja, on Monday, sentenced a 20-year-old applicant, Sabiu Abdulkadir, to one-month imprisonment for stealing 15 pairs of slippers valued at N13,500. Abdulkadir of Idu village, Abuja, was arraigned on a count of theft, an offence he admitted committing. The judge, Abubakar Sadiq, however, gave the convict an option to pay N4, 000 fine and warned …

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Folake Sokoya The Ayangburen of Ikorodu, Oba Abdul Kabir Adewale Shotobi has stated the resolve of all the traditional institution in the area to partner with security operatives in curbing crimes and criminality. The monarch made this remark while receiving Lagos State commissioner of police Fatai Owoseni at his palace on Sunday, to discuss on how to prevent future occurrence …

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Olabode Adaramola The Police in Niger state have confirmed the arrest of a notorious cattle rustler, identified as Haruna Garba, as well as the recovery of one AK47 rifle, with five rounds of live ammunition and 13 empty shells is expelled ammunition. It stated this in a Press statement made available to newsmen in Minna , the state capital over …

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Notorious Fraudster who claims to be IGP’s “Brother” nabbed by the Police in Niger state A middle-aged man, who has been parading himself as the “brother” of the Inspector General of Police (IG) Ibrahim Idris Kpotum has been arrested in Minna, the Niger state capital. The man, whose real name was given as Baba Muhammed, was arrested at the Sauka-Kahuta …

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Olabode Adaramola A Minna high court II would on Tuesday hear the case of alleged fraud and abuse office brought before it by the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), against former Niger state Governor Dr. Muazu Babangida Aliyu. The immediate past governor who was between 2007 and 2011 elected into office on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) …

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The Nigerian authorities must immediately scrap plans to execute death row inmates in Kirikiri prison in Lagos, Amnesty International said today amid macabre reports from inmates that the prison’s gallows were being prepared and one inmate had been isolated possibly in preparation for execution. This follows a statement by the Attorney General of Lagos State during a press briefing on …

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