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Category: Crime Diary

  • Police bust baby-snatching syndicate in Anambra

    Police bust baby-snatching syndicate in Anambra

    Emma Elekwa, Onitsha

    Police said they have smashed a child-trafficking ring in Anambra State, arresting five suspects and rescuing eight children.

    Command spokesman Haruna Mohammed said in a statement yesterday that the syndicate specialised in snatching children from their parents at point, or using stealth and other strategies to take the kids away.

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    He listed the names of the suspects to include Mrs Joy Lazarus, 40, who hails from Abia State; Janet Gideon, 22, (Imo); Gideon Bobby Godspower, 26, (Rivers) Wisdom Ndubuisi, 26, (Rivers) and Chukwudima C. Nwogu, 29, (Abia).

    He said the syndicate operated in various parts of the country, adding that the suspects would be taken to court after investigations.

  • Troops hit bandits in Benue, Nasarawa, Taraba

    Troops hit bandits in Benue, Nasarawa, Taraba

    Our Reporter

    The Defence Headquarters has said troops of Operation Whirl Stroke have made great gains in the fight against terrorists, bandits and other criminal elements in the Northcentral part of the country.

    Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen.  John Enenche said in a statement on Tuesday that troops of Sector I on Monday engaged some bandits at their camp in the forest boundary between Benue and Nasarawa states and destroyed the camp.

    Enenche also said troops raided the hideout of remnants of the late Gana militia elements around Adu in Chanchanji council ward of Takum Local Government Area of Taraba.

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    He said the raid was sequel to actionable intelligence on the hideout of the militia elements in the area.

    Enenche also said the militiamen exchanged gunfire with troops but were overpowered, causing many of them to flee.

    The coordinator further disclosed that troops also raided another bandits’ hideout at Chanchanji in Takum Local Government Area of Taraba and Sai in Katsina Ala Local Government Area of Benue.

    Three suspects were arrested, he said.

    The suspects were being interrogated, it was gathered.

    “The military high command congratulates the gallant troops for the feats recorded and encourages them to sustain the onslaught against the criminal elements,” he said.

     

  • Six abducted FRSC officers still held in Nasarawa

    Six abducted FRSC officers still held in Nasarawa

    Linus Oota, Lafia

    COMMISSIONER of police in Nasarawa State, Bola Longe has said that that six out of the 10 kidnapped officers of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) are still in the hands of their kidnappers.

    Longe was speaking on Tuesday at Government House Lafia after a meeting with traditional rulers, security agencies and Governor Abdullahi Sule.

    Two officials of the FRSC were on Monday confirmed dead, six badly wounded and a number of them missing after gunmen attacked two buses conveying 26 officials in the state.

    The officials were going to the FRSC Academy in Udi when they were attacked along Udege Junction in Mararaban-Udege area of the state.

    Longe said police rescued four of the officials, adding  that six were “with the kidnappers”.

    The police chief said there were efforts to rescue those still held by the kidnappers.

    Governor Sule urged security agencies to sustain the successful onslaught against banditry in the state.

  • Man held for raping minors in Kano

    Man held for raping minors in Kano

    Our Reporter

    OPERATIVES of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) have arrested a 53-year-old businessman, Salisu Dala, over alleged sexual abuse of two underage girls.

    The NAPTIP Zonal Commander in charge of Kano, Mr Shehu Umar, confirmed the arrest in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) on Tuesday in Kano.

    Umar said the suspect was arrested, following information on Sept.11.

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    “On receiving information, operatives of NAPTIP swung into action and arrested the suspect and rescued the two victims.

    “The suspect confessed to have sexually abused the two girls(13 and 14 years old respectively).He has been in the act for the past four years with different underaged girls”

    The commander noted that the victims, hawked the local “Fura da Nono” and “Dambu’ delicacies.

    Umar said the suspect gave the victims between N500 to N700 after sexually abusing them.

  • Six murder suspects held in Lagos

    Six murder suspects held in Lagos

    Precious Igbonwelundu

     

    OPERATIVES of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested six suspects over the murder of a 35-year-old man, Kayode Olorunroba.

    Olorunroba, a resident of 3, Werewere Street, Alagbado was killed on Friday night at AVID Sharwama Spot, during an altercation with another customer.

    It was gathered that the unnamed customer shot  Olorunroba in the presence of his friend, Kazeem Okikiola, who lured the deceased to the Sharwama spot.

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    According to the police, the shooter fled the scene and Okikiola failed to report the incident to police. He was said to have rather taken Olorunroba to a herbalist in Ogun State where they extracted the pellets and thereafter took him to his brother’s house at Ipaja where he died.

    But discreet investigation directed by Commissioner of Police Hakeem Odumosu led to the arrest of a suspect identified as Olayinka Oyedokun while five others, Chimezie Amaechi, Okikiola Kazeem, Femi Victor, Taiwo Morokola, and Omole Wasiu- were also apprehended.

     

  • Gunmen kidnap 10 FRSC officials in Nasarawa

    Gunmen kidnap 10 FRSC officials in Nasarawa

    Precious Igbonwelundu

     

    TWO officials of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) were on Monday confirmed dead and 10 others missing after gunmen attacked two buses conveying 26 officials in Nasarawa State.

    The convoy headed for the FRSC Academy in Udi was said to have come under attack at Udege Junction in Mararaban area of the state.

    A source said those missing were kidnapped by the gunmen suspected to be bandits.

    According to a statement by FRSC Corps Public Education Officer, Assistant Corps Marshal Bisi Kazeem, the officials were drawn from Sokoto and Kebbi state commands.

    He said one of the officials was reported to have died during the attack while another passed on at the hospital.

     

     

     

  • Porn star, others remanded in Osun 

    Porn star, others remanded in Osun 

     Toba Adedeji, Osogbo 

     

    AN Osun State Magistrates’ Court sitting in Osogbo on Monday remanded a 27-year-old porn star identified as Tobiloba Jolaoso and five other in Ilesha Correctional Centre for allegedly making sex movie at Osun Osogbo grove.

    The Nation reports that Jolaoso was arrested by police following complaints from a traditional worshipper Amoo Awosunwon.

    Jolaoso, Ladiva Aije, Juliet Semion, Ahmed Olasunkanmi, Adeniran Eritosin and Tunde Jimoh were arraigned before the magistrate on eight-count charge of conspiracy, publication of obscene film, an insult to religion, breach of peace, and damage of police station window.

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    Prosecutor John Idoko told the court that the accused persons and others now at large, on July 25, 2020, took pictures at Osun Osogbo shrine with half-naked young girls which they published in a manner that insulted their religious belief.

    The defendants pleaded not guilty and were remanded.

    The magistrate, Mr Isola Omisade adjourned the case to September 17, 2020.

  • Two brothers, others held for fraud in Ibadan

    Two brothers, others held for fraud in Ibadan

    Segun Showunmi, Ibadan

    Two brothers, Ayoola Timilehin, Olusola Timilehin, and others have been arrested by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Ibadan zonal office, for internet fraud.

    They were arrested at their hideout yesterday at Alaka in Elebu area of Ibadan, Oyo State.

    The Head, Media & Publicity of the anti-graft agency, Dele Oyewale noted that the suspects were arrested based on intelligence linking them with opulence without any identifiable means of livelihood

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    A member of the gang displaying some of the materials used to dupe people and a calabash of black soap

    The other three suspects arrested with them were Temitope Kumuyi, Babatunde Oyelakin and Olanrewaju Ibrahim. They are all aged between 20 and 30 years.

    Items recovered from them included four cars, laptops, exotic phones and a stamp bearing the identity of the bursary section of Queensland University’s School of Medicine, Australia.

    Oyewale said the suspects will be charged to court as soon as investigations were concluded.

     

  • 270 crime suspects arrested in Kano

    270 crime suspects arrested in Kano

    Fanen Ihyongo, Kano

    Police in Kano have  arrested 270 crime suspects for various offences.

    Among the suspects were 45 armed robbers, eight kidnappers and 35 vehicle thieves.

    Other suspects included eight drug dealers, 28 fraudsters and 146 thugs, among others.

    Nine victims were rescued and several items, including firearms, cars, food stuff recovered during the raids.

    Among those rescued were four victims of solitary confinement, one victim of abduction and four victims of kidnapping.

    Commissioner of Police Habu Sani, who paraded the suspects and recovered the items, said the arrests were made in six weeks.

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    Several weapons were recovered from the suspects.

    Also recovered, among other things, from ‘Yahoo Boys’ were one Plasma television set, Hisense Model valued at N90,000, a Laptop HP Model G7 valued N120,000, an iphone 11 valued at N350,000 and an iphone 6x valued at N85,000.

     

     

     

     

     

     

  • Osun returns 15 girls trafficked to Lebanon 

    Osun returns 15 girls trafficked to Lebanon 

    Toba Adedeji, Osogbo 

     

    OSUN State Government on Wednesrday received 15 citizens trafficked to Lebanon.

    Commissioner for Women, Children and Social Affairs, Mrs Olubukola Olaboopo and the Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Diaspora Matters, Mrs Titi Fadahunsi-Ajayi received the 15 girls.

    In an address, Olaboopo said, “You have had the experience firsthand, and you are going to be the state’s ambassador on issues of trafficking. The State Government expects you to put in diligence in serving your motherland. You have seen the other side of life, and of course, you can see that there is no greener pasture anywhere, but home.

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    “We want to know your qualifications to know how the government can assist you. Besides, we have organised an empowerment Programme for you, and your resource persons are on ground to take you through the training.

    The Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Diaspora Matters, Mrs Titi Fadahunsi-Ajayi, commended Governor  Adegboyega Oyetola for his quick response that led to the rescue and return of the girls.