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Category: Crime Diary

  • Hit-and-run vehicle crushes mother, child to death in Ogun

    A hit – and – run driver on Friday crushed a woman and her baby to death with his Mitsubishi vehicle.

    The toddler was strapped to the woman’s back at the time of the incident.

    The accident occurred at the Agro Service, Odeda, corridor of Abeokuta-Ibadan highway.

    The woman’s other child who she held by the hand sustained injuries.

    Confirming the story, the spokesman of Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE), Babatunde Akinbiyi, said the vehicle marked LSR604XQ  “lost control due to over speeding and rammed into the woman and his child, killing her and the one she backed but injured the one she held to her hand.”

    Akinbiyi added that the driver, unfortunately, ran away before TRACE operatives got to the accident scene.

    According to him,  the vehicle had been towed to the Odeda Police Division while the remains of the unidentified deceased and her baby were evacuated to the Odeda General Hospital.

    However, the injured toddler was also taken to the Omo Arewa Hospital Odeda for treatment.

  • Man arraigned for alleged N1.3m fraud

    The police have arraigned a 44-year-old man, Irewolede  Banji, before an Ado-Ekiti Chief Magistrates’ Court over alleged fraud.

    The defendant of no fixed address is standing trial on a two-count charge of fraud and conversion of money.

    The prosecutor, Insp Johnson Okunade, told the court that the defendant committed the offence sometimes in the month of January 2018 at about 1100hrs at Fayose market in Ado-Ekiti.

    He alleged that the defendant had the intent to withdraw the sum

    of N1, 350,000 from United Bank of Africa (UBA) belonging to one Afolayan Semola.

    The offences, he noted, contravened section (1) 3 of the Advance Fee

    Fraud Act and Other Related Offence Federation of Nigeria, 2006 and Section 390 (9) of the Criminal Code, Laws of Ekiti State, 2012.

  • Man, 28, arraigned for allegedly raping woman to death

    A 28-year-old man, Kelvin Michael, who allegedly raped a woman to death, was yesterday arraigned in Ota, Ogun.

    Michael Tunde Akinola,  of  No. 21 Abebi St., Sango-Ota, is facing murder charge at an Ota Magistrates’ Court.

    A state counsel, Mr. Bale Nimnan, told the court that the accused committed the offence on August  14 at 11.00 a.m. at his residence in Sango-Ota.

    Nimnan said the accused had several rounds of sex with the 40-year-old woman, Monsura Idowu, which resulted in her death.

    Counsel to the accused, Tunde Akinola,  urged the magistrate to grant the accused pending advice from the State Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).

    He noted that since advice from the DPP usually takes a long time, the accused may be locked up  longer than necessary.

    Most accused persons stay between five to six years in prison pending DPP’s advice, he said.

    The offence contravened Section 325 of the Criminal Code, Laws of Ogun, 2006.

    In his ruling, Chief Magistrate Mathew Akinyemi, granted the accused bail in the sum of N500, 000 with two sureties in like sum.

    Akinyemi said the sureties must reside within the court’s jurisdiction and should be gainfully employed with evidence of tax payment to the Ogun Government.

    The case was adjourned until Oct. 19.

  • Ogun customs records N799m revenue, arrest three suspected smugglers

    The Ogun State Area Command, Nigeria Customs Service, said it recorded N799, 682, 839 as revenue in August alone .

    The figure, according to the Controller of the Command, Mr. Michael Agbara, exceeded its monthl revenue target of N727,775,499.

    Agbara, disclosed this on Tuesday at the Command’s Idiroko border office while briefing reporters about the activities of the command.

    He disclosed that his men also intercepted 6,194 bags of smuggled foreign rice and 33 smuggled vehicles within the month of August 2018, at the Idiroko border and environs.

    ‘’In a desirous effort to key into the Federal Government policy on agricultural development in the area of boosting local rice production , the above recoded seizure of 6, 194 bags of rice for the month of August 2018 is the highet monthly seizure ever made in the command since the inception of this policy.’’

    He said that the seizure was a blow to smugglers who had wanted to exploit the Eid-el-Kabir festival to perpetuate their illicit business.

    The controller also disclosed that the command also seized 395 kegs of vegetable oil, 1,954 pairs of used footwear, 340 kegs of Premium Motor Spirit, 45 cartons of frozen poultry products within theperiod under review.

     

  • 36-yr-old ex- banker, others held for robbery

    Operatives of the Federal Special Anti- Robbery Squad (FSARS have arrested a former banker, Dominion Abraham, 36, for robbery.

    The suspect, according to the officer in charge of FSARS, Peter Gana, a Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP) is a member of a four- man gang that specialized in burgling houses, warehouses, stores and shops.

    Other members of the gang are: Yusuf Badmus; Chime Njenobi, 26, and Abimbola Austin, 30.

    Confessing, Abraham said he joined the robbery gang to survive unemployment.

    Abraham made this confession on Tuesday at the FSARS operational head office inside Lagos police command headquarters, GRA, Ikeja, Lagos.

    He said: “I was retrenched in 2013 by First Bank and my salary before I left the bank was N80,000 per month. The retrenchment came suddenly, and I became idle for many months. When I finished the money on me I started looking for work in order to get money to take care of my domestic needs.

    “I registered with Redcap Taxi Company where I started driving metro taxi. I used to deliver N5,000, N4,500 and sometimes N3,500. I used to park my cab in front of Cash and Carry Plaza at Ikeja near Awolowo Way.

    ‘’My trouble started when I met one man called Idache. We are both from Benue State. He asked me how I was doing in my taxi work. After I told him how I was fairing as a taxi driver, he promised to introduce me to a group that would pay me better salary. I was happy but the first outing with the group made me to know that they were robbers. My role was to drive them to anywhere we wanted to operate or break into shops.’’

    In his confession, Yusuf said: ” I am married with four children. I joined the gang last year when we robbed in Gowon estate. We burgled a container and broke the safe in the year 2017. We were charged to court and later sent to Kirikiri Prison on remand for four months and later granted bail. This one for which I was arrested again was the fifth one.’’

    Njemobi, who hails from Imo State and once sold clothes at Sango, in Ogun State, said it was Dominion that brought the job for which he was arrested. ‘We burgled a container shop in Gowon estate,; we broke  Into the safe  and collected two phones and two laptops.

    ‘’It was the phones we sold to a trader in computer village Ikeja that police used to track us. I went to computer village and police saw me and arrested me.’’

    The suspect added that he took to burgling because he needed money to boost his business.

     

  • Police arrest 11 suspected cultists

    The police in Lagos have nabbed 11 suspected members of a cult group, New Black Movement of Africa.

    Arrested were Godwin Victor; Benjamin Daniel; Saviour Anioffion; Lawal Ibrahim; Shola Odekunle; Sodiq Olawuyi; Segun Fagbohun; Bashiru Lawal; Chinedu Francis; Wahab Adams and Ifarinde Adeniyi were arrested at the wee hours of Friday at Jakande Estate, Ajah, where they were allegedly terrorising residents.

    It was gathered that the suspects had gone to the area in search of a young man who fled their initiation ground.

    The unnamed young man, it was gathered, could not withstand the torture and other initiation procedures of the group, which made him flee.

    Afraid that he would give them away, the suspects were said to have gone to their victim’s neighbourhood, beating and robbing people.

    According to spokesman for the command, Chike Oti, the escapee’s mother sneaked out of the house and alerted the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) Ilasan, Onyinye Onwuamaegbu, a Chief Superintendent (CSP).

    Oti said: “The DPO led a contingent of policemen to the estate and arrested eleven members of the group. The police team recovered a locally made shotgun, four live cartridges, three cutlasses, one sledge hammer, ten horse whips and assorted charms.

    “In a related development, two notorious cultists, Rasheed Yusuf aka Radical and Abel Okwo were arrested during a supremacy battle between the Aiye and Eiye confraternities at Akerele Street, Oworonshoki.

    “The said Abel Okwo was charged to court two months ago by the command for cult related offences only to come back to terrorise the town again.

    “The Commissioner of Police,  Lagos State Imohimi Edgal has vowed the Command will not relent in its efforts at ridding the state of members of these unlawful societies.

    “He urged parents to hold heart to heart talks with their children, male and female alike, on the consequences of belonging to cult groups.”

  • Lady dies from strange illness after an outing with unidentified wealthy lover

    The mysterious death of a lady,Obuwe Tega, has become a subject on the lips of her classmates at the Federal Polytechnic, Auchi, Edo State.

    The beautiful lady died penultimate Tuesday after complaining of strange movement of an object in her body.

    It was learnt that her problem started shortly after she went out with her wealthy older lover.

    A source said her tragic death occurred barely two weeks after she celebrated her birthday.

    ‘’Her classmates rushed her to a nearby hospital where she was confirmed dead by doctors. Her death is so painful because she was a fun-loving lady who was warm to people around her.’’

    The source added that Tega has since been buried.

  • Why I faked police arrest –Suspected fraudster

    A teenage suspect identified as Daniel Daisi has confessed that he faked police arrest to deceive and defraud his victims.

    The Lagos-based 19-year-old indigene of Ondo State said he had relied on the trick to get money with which he would build his own tile workshop and buy important tiling tools.

    Daisi made the confessions at the police headquarters, GRA, Ikeja, Lagos on Monday as one of the suspected criminals paraded at the Command headquarters. He was brought in by the team commander of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (FSARS), Salmon .A. Opukeme, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), from the Onilekere FSARS Station in Cement area of Lagos State.

    According to Opukeme, the suspect specialised in collecting huge sums of money from would-be customers for tiling jobs only to lie to them that he was being detained by the police. He would later tell the unsuspecting customers that the police had collected the money meant to buy tiles and warned that he must not be sighted in the area where he was supposed to do the job or he would be rearrested and charged to court.

    Luck, however, ran out on him after playing the trick on a customer identified as Waliu Ogundele. Following the story that Daisi told him about the police, Waliu was said to have gone to the FSARS station at Onilekere with him to demand why he was arrested by FSARS operatives who also collected the money he gave him for tiles.

    Daisi was however said to be dumbfounded when the station officer asked him when he was detained and the offence he committed to warrant his arrest and detention for three days. And when the station officer went through the station’s crime register, he could not find Daisi’s name in it. The policeman then turned to Ogundele and told him that Daisi was never arrested not to talk of being detained.

    Further enquiries made by Opukeme, the station’s commander, also showed that Daisi was merely lying. Confronted with the facts, Daisi was said to have confessed and gave reasons why he made false allegation against FSARS operatives.

    In his confessions, Daisi said: “I am sorry I lied. I wanted to use the N5,000 and N600 he (Ogundele) gave me to solve personal problems. I wanted to buy tile tools and had been looking for money. I thought that if I lied to him that FSARS men arrested me and collected the money, he would be afraid and forget about it.”

    He, however, said it was his first time of doing so.

    “I was not sponsored by anybody. I wanted my master to be afraid and forget about the money. I went to learn tile work after passing out from senior secondary school, as I could not secure a job.

    Expressing surprise at Daisi’s action Ogundele said: “I gave him N5,000 for a tiling job. I took him to First Bank, withdrew some money and gave him N5,000. I also added N600 for transportation. Three days later, he came and told me that FSARS operatives at Onilekere Police Station arrested him, collected the money and detained him for three days.

    ”I got annoyed and told him that we would go there and they would tell me why they should seize my money. But Daisi said I should not go there to avoid being arrested too. That was even what gave me the courage to go and confront the FSARS operatives at Onilekere.

    “What I saw and heard at FSARS office and Daisi’s confession made me to look foolish. I started apologising on his behalf,but police said the allegation against them was too much. They said they would investigate him thoroughly to find out his other victims and would charge him to court at the end of a thorough investigation.

    “He must refund my money. Let the police discipline him. He is a bad liar.”

     

  • 35-year-old pharmacist needs N8.7m for kidney transplant

    A 35-year-old pharmacist, Adeola Ojo, who is to undergo a kidney transplant, is currently stranded at the National Hospital, Abuja.  Ojo, who was earlier scheduled to travel to India for the transplant had been admitted for the transplant at the Zenith Medical and Kidney Centre located in FCT Command, Gudu District, Abuja.

    According to a letter from the hospital, signed by Dr Umoetok Umoetok for the lead consultant physician and Nephrologist, Mrs Ojo, is currently on a weekly maintenance heamodualysis, erythropoietin injections and anti-hypertensive estimated to cost about N100,000 weekly.

    The letter also stated that Ojo would benefit from a kidney transplantation which is a preferred and more permanent treatment option estimated to cost about N8.7 million.

    It was learnt that Ojo, a mother of one, had been abandoned by her husband.

    Ojo’s father, Elder Johnson Adedoyin, a retired employee of the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) appealed to the public for financial assistance to save her daughter’s life.

    Donations can be forwarded to a First Bank account number-  2002394204, opened in the name of Ojo’s father-Adedoyin Johnson Olatunji. The victim’s distraught father can also be reached on 08037300555

  • Unidentified youth dies moments after taking Indian hemp, tramadol

    An unidentified youth in  Oko Oba, Agege,Lagos,died penultimate Tuesday shortly after taking Indian hemp and tramadol.

    Witnesses said the incident happened at the Abattoir end of Oko Oba.

    It was learnt that the deceased smoked Indian hemp with some of his friends, following which he also took tramadol.

    A source who asked not to be named disclosed that ‘’the deceased then sat down at a corner where he took tramadol.’’

    He was said to have palpitated severally after taking the combined hard drugs leading to his death moments later.

    The source added: ‘’ When he started behaving funny, we thought he was just acting clownishly until he palpitated for some minutes and subsequently became weak.

    ‘’ He later started foaming in his mouth and by the time bystanders rushed to attend to him he had died.’’

    The Nation learnt that his body was evacuated by men of the Abattoir Police Division.