Category: Crime
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Suspected gunmen kill UI lecturer
Suspected gunmen have reportedly killed Opeyemi Ajewole, a Professor of Social and Environmental Forestry at the University of Ibadan, Ibadan in Oyo State. Ajewole was reportedly murdered last night by yet-to-be-identified gunmen. The PUNCH gathered that he was killed while returning home. A member of the faculty, Oladoyin Adebowale, said he was killed at…
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NDLEA Intercepts 140.7 KG Of Cannabis Sativa In Borno
***Arrests Two Suspects By: Ali Musa Biu After weeks of Surveillance, following a tip off officers of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency NDLEA from the Biu Area command in Borno State, may have made a breakthrough in the war against hard drugs and narcotics. Our correspondent reports that, about 150 kilograms of drugs, suspected…
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NEWS Timothy Adegoke: Another defendant sentenced to two years imprisonment
Adedeji Adesola has been sentenced to two years imprisonment by an Osun State High Court in Osogbo. Adesola was found guilty of altering the receipt issued to Timothy Adegoke before his death at Hilton Hotels in Ile-Ife, Osun State. This judgment follows the high-profile sentencing on Tuesday, in which Rahman Adedoyin, the Chairman…
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“Police Inspector and Three Others Arrested for Alleged Extortion of N20m from Yahoo Boys in METROBayelsa”
The Zonal Command of the Nigeria Police Force, Zone 16, has taken action by arresting and detaining four police personnel involved in an alleged abduction and extortion case in Bayelsa State. The incident occurred when two suspected internet fraudsters, commonly referred to as Yahoo boys, were targeted by the accused policemen. According to reports,…
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Police arraign three for banishing Anambra widow
Map of Anambra State Some suspects who allegedly banished a widow from the Umunankwo community in the Ogbaru Local Government Area of Anambra State have been arrested and arraigned before the Children, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Magistrates’ Court in Awka, the state capital. The suspects and defendants identified as Lazarus Uzor, Anozie Uzor and Valentine…
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EFCC arraigns Lagos businesswoman Ramalan-Yaro, company for N140bn fraud
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Monday arraigned Saadatu Ramalan-Yaro, a businesswoman, for the second time in Lagos State, two weeks after her first arraignment. The businesswoman was brought before Justice Obiora Egwuatu of the Federal High Court in Abuja on charges of money laundering amounting to over N140 billion. She is accused of…
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Kidnapper attempting to shoot victim kills gang member
By Tope Alabi The Kano State Police Command has arrested three suspected kidnappers — Idris Abdullahi, Tukur Yusuf and Ilyasu Aminu — for attempting to kidnap a man and his son in Yarimawa village, Tofa Local Government Area of the state. The State Commissioner of Police, Muhammed Usaini Gumel, who spoke to journalists, on Tuesday, said…
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Police bust illegal immigration ring using real passports
France’s border police this week busted an illegal immigration ring leasing out real French passports to migrants from sub-Saharan Africa so they could enter the country, a police source has said. The scam first came to light in November, when border agents at the main Paris airport stopped a man who had travelled from…
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Kwara: Police arrest 16 suspended kidnappers, cultists
Kwara: Police arrest 16 suspended kidnappers, cultists By Stephen Olufemi Oni, Ilorin Three out of five suspected kidnappers have been arrested by the operatives of the Kwara state Police Command in conjunction with local vigilantes at the Banni forest in Ilorin, the state capital. According to the spokesman of the Kwara state Police Command, SP…
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Man, 35, jailed for raping minor in Kwara
Man, 35, jailed for raping minor in Kwara By Stephen Olufemi Oni, Ilorin A 35-year-old man, Hussain Kamilu, has been arrested by the Kaiama Division of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) for allegedly raping an under aged girl, Mariam Suleiman, aged 15 years, at Adogo village in Kaiama local government area…