Tag Archives: Crime

Olabode Adaramola A man who abducts, rapes 12- year old boy to death gets one month jail term,N30,000 fine in Niger state. A man, Abubakar Maishai, who abducted and raped a 12-year-old boy, identified  as Aminu hhas been sentenced to a ridiculous one month behind bars in addition  to paying a paltry sum of  N30,000 fine in Kontagora area of …

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One Adesanya Tobi, 26, on Wednesday appeared in an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court charged with breaking into a shop and stealing 44 pieces of cow skin popularly called `kpomo’, valued N80,000, Tobi, whose address was not provided, pleaded not guilty to the two counts of breaking and stealing preferred against him. The prosecutor, Sgt. Eruada Victor, said the accused committed the …

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The Director General at BMTC Group, Hon. Saheed Ibile has expressed dismay at the recent media trial of the suspects of the recent communal clash in Ile- Ife, noting the trial allegedly orchestrated by the Nigeria Police Force is the height of affront and assault to the collective integrity and value of the Yoruba people. Similarly, he said that, as …

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Folake sokoya Lagos State Police Command recently arrested three suspected members of a kidnap gang in connection with series of abductions in Epe area of the state. A female Police Sergeant attached to Ketu Division, identified as Bola, was among the abducted at Omu-Ijebu, a border town between Lagos and Ogun states, while a lawyer and owner of a farmland …

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folake sokoya Chukwu – Emeka Egbemude, one of the four suspects arrested by the operatives of Rapid Response Squad of the Lagos State Police Command for tricking expensive phone sellers to desolate locations and robbing them afterward, has disclosed that his father warned him not to use his house as a base for internet crime. Egbemude, 22, a 200 level …

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Olabode Adaramola The Police in Niger state have said that part of the successes recorded in its special operations on Armed Bandits in parts of the state in the first quarter of the year is the arrest of 306 sundry suspects and the recovery of 11 AK 47 rifles with 982 rounds of live ammunition. It also listed the recovery …

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Folake Sokoya The men of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested one Adeoye Ikugbayigbe, for killing a 72year old woman, Funmilayo Shada and severing her head. The suspect was arrested after the son of the deceased, Ekundayo Shada lodged a complaint at the Abigi police Divisional Headquarters on March 17, 2017, that while he was on his way to …

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A 49-year-old man, Ajibade Adefioye, was on Wednesdayarraigned before an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court for allegedly raping andimpregnating his landlord’s daughter. The accused, who resides at 32, Shittu St., Dopemu, Agege,a suburb of Lagos is standing trial for rape. The prosecutor, Insp. Clifford Ogu, told the court thatthe offence was committed at the apartment of the accused. Ogu said that …

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A 38-year-old trader, Folake Ayinde, on Wednesday pleadedwith an Agege Customary Court in Lagos to dissolve her 14-year-old marriage toa policeman, citing threat to life and constant battering by the husband. Folake, who lives at No.7, Baba Amara St., Ibafo, Ogun,alleged that the husband was irresponsible and troublesome. “He is not responsible, he does not take care of me andour …

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FOLAKE SOKOYA The Centre forAnti-Corruption and Open Leadership, CACOL, has said the judiciary is appearingto be firming up in its responsibility to dispense justice againstcriminalities as two former police officers involved in the killing of two ofsix Igbo traders in APO Quarters, Abuja in 2005 (APO six) were sentenced forculpable homicide. The Executive Chairman,CACOL, Debo Adeniran, who spoke on behalf …

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