Tag Archives: Crime

Folake Sokoya The operatives of the Rapid Response Squad of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested an 18 – year old serial phone thief in Oshodi. The suspect, Sadeeq Wasiu, who had been imprisoned seven times, was re-arrested in Oshodi on Tuesday after several months of being on the operatives’ wanted list. Wasiu, alias “Omo Eiye”, as he is …

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Folake Sokoya The operatives of Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of the Lagos State Police Command, have arrested a lady in Agbor, Delta State, for drugging her man friend, a medical doctor, in a hotel in Ojodu area of Lagos, carting away his car, laptop and mobile phone. The lady, Mitchel Harrold, 37, from Warri, Delta State was on Tuesday February …

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Ajibola Alao Ajibola Alao, 29, a member of a one chance gang arrested by operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of the Lagos State Police Command, has disclosed that his failure to heed his late mother’s advice not to be fraudulent caused his arrest. Alao was chased and arrested on Thursday February 2, 2017 around noon during one of …

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Olabode Adaramola A Chief Magistrate Court, sitting in Minna, Niger State, has  on Tuesday sentenced one Baba Abuja to 12 months imprisonment for contravening the Saharia law. The accused person,  was arrested and charged before Chief Magistrate Abdullahi Usman for selling alcohol in a prohibited area of Paiko town in Paikoro Local Government of the state. According to the sharia …

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Senator Buruji Kashamu has warned that before anybody could succeed to extradite him to the US to face trial for drug-related offences, “about three, four or five people will die.” Kashamu, who described as illegal the move by the US to extradite him to the US to face alleged drug charges, said he believed that the Buhari government had integrity …

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  Folake Sokoya The Ogun State Police Command has arrested one Abiodun Tunde for armed robbery. He was arrested upon information received from a member of Public  who reported that, on his way from Owode-Ijako he sighted two boys struggling to hijack a motorcycle from its rider and that the rider has been shot on the leg. Based on the …

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A 30-year-old student, Tobi Justice, who allegedly assaulted his father’s tenant by biting off his left ear, was on Thursday in Lagos released on N50, 000 bail. The Chief Magistrate, Mr. Alexander Komolafe, who gave the ruling, also granted the accused two sureties in like sum. The accused, a student of the University of Abuja, had pleaded not guilty to …

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Olabode Adaramola, Minna At least no fewer than nine bodies have been recovered from the weekend attack by Fulani herds’ men in Rafin Gona and BCC Gbagyi villages in Bosso local government of Niger state while about 6000 villagers have also been displaced in the wake of the communal crisis. The Council Chairman, Alhaji Isah Wakili stated this on Sunday while conducting national assembly members …

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Folake Sokoya Men of Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of the Lagos State Police Command, over the weekend, arrested one Segun Akuntola, who is alleged to be the kingpin of a syndicate that specializes in defrauding innocent citizens within the State. The suspect, popularly known as Okadigbo, was apprehended by the Decoy Team of the squad in his shrine at Ijora …

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Olabode Adaramola Minna Niger State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) said  it has arrested two suspected Boko Haram members in Minna metropolis, the state capita The suspected members, 20- year old  Usman Al-Amin and Sanusi Ibrahim Bala according to a statement by the Command’s Public Relation Officer, Ibrahim Yahaya were arrested at different locations within …

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