Category: Crime

Osun State chapter of Amotekun Corps, has disclosed it arrested two underage boys who allegedly broke into a shop in Osogbo and stole food items and some money. Retired Brig.-Gen. Bashir Adewinmbi, the state Amotekun Commander, made this known to newsmen on Tuesday. Adewinmbi said the boys, who are 13 and 11 years respectively, gained […]

A medical doctor, Mrs Maria Fadaka, on Monday, told an Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, how a pastor, Chris Mcdouglas, allegedly defiled a 17-year-old daughter of a member of his Church. Mcdouglas, a Pastor at Peculiar Generation Assembly Church, Lagos, is facing a nine-count charge of defilement and sexual assault by penetration. He, […]

Agba Jalingo, a Nigerian journalist on trial for treason, has been remanded in Kuje prison from Monday till Thursday A judge in the Federal High Court in Abuja, Justice Zainab Bage Abubakar, remanded the journalist to Kuje prison for cybercrime. It was reported that Justice Abubakar allegedly denied Jalingo’s lawyers the opportunity to move a […]

The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority has confirmed the arrest of a fake traffic officer, Bamidele Omotutu, for extorting unsuspecting members of the public, including traffic offenders in the state. The Director of Public Affairs Department, LASTMA, Taofiq Adebayo, in a statement on Sunday, said the agency’s General Manager, Bolaji Oreagba, confirmed that the suspect […]

Yet-to-be identified gunmen have allegedly killed three personnel of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps in Imo State. The incident which happened at EkeIsu market in Obiangwu Community in the Ngor Okpala Local Government Area of the state has thrown the community into panic. A community source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told […]

No fewer than six persons have been killed in separate accidents on Friday and Saturday in Ogun State. It was gathered that the first accident occurred along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway and claimed two lives, while the second occurred at Lafenwa, Abeokuta, the state capital. Confirming both crashes, the Public Education Officer of the Federal Road […]

The operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission were seen at some areas in Akure South and Akure North Local Government Areas of Ondo State, arresting some Point of Sales operators allegedly selling naira at a high prices. It was gathered that scores of the operators were arrested on Friday and Saturday by the […]

Men of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested four members of a robbery gang after the hoodlums allegedly robbed a community in the Ode-Remo area of the state and escaped to Lagos. The suspects were identified as Habeeb Salaudeen, 24; Ezekiel Jayesimi, 30; Olamilekan Teniola, 22; and Olaitan Sonibare, 25. The police reportedly received […]

Kidnappers of two female teenagers, who were abducted in Ayede Ogbese, in the Akure North Local Government Area of Ondo State, have contacted the family of the victims, demanding N10m for their freedom. Community youths on Friday took to the streets of the town to protest against the kidnap of the victims by bandits on […]

A housewife, Nafisa Abbas, on Friday, appeared before a Grade 1 Area Court, Karu, Abuja, for allegedly causing grievous harm to her neighbour. The News Agency of Nigeria reported that the police charged Abbas, 20, with voluntarily causing grievous harm and inciting disturbance. The defendant, however, pleaded not guilty. The prosecutor, Mr Olanrewaju Osho, told […]