Category: Crime
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Ekweremadu’s Wife To Face Life Imprisonment If Guilty
The Specialist Crime Team of the Metropolitan Police in London has arrested a former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, and his wife, Beatrice. They were arrested for alleged conspiracy to harvest the organs of a child, who is currently in protective custody. If convicted, the couple may get a maximum of life sentence or 12…
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Former Deputy Senate President And Wife Arrested By UK Police
Former deputy senate president, Ike Ekweremady his wife, Beatrice, have been arrested and charged to court for bringing a child to the UK for organ harvesting. Confirming the arrests in a statement, the metropolitan police said the pair were charged to court on Thursday following an investigation by the police’ specialist crime team. The…
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Court Sentence Three To Death Over Murder Of Fasoranti’s Daughter
The Ondo State High Court, Akure, on Friday, sentenced three persons to death for killing Mrs Funke Olakunrin, the daughter of the Afenifere leader, Chief Reuben Fasoranti. The deceased was killed by the convicts along Benin-Ore-Shagamu Expressway in the Ore Odigbo Local Government Area of the state in June 2019, on her way to Lagos…
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Police Arraign Eight Men For Impersonation In Lagos State
On Wednesday, the police had arraigned eight men in Lagos for allegedly impersonating military officers. The defendants include Akpan Joel, 31; John Johnson, 31; Busayo Akinola, 33; and Simeon Anthony, 43.Others are Adamu Sani, 30; Cyril Ogbe, 27; Godfrey Agba, 36; and Benjamin Achi, 29. The defendants, whose addresses were not provided, appeared before…
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NDLEA Nabs Drug Baron At Lagos Airport
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has arrested Chief Afam Ukatu, who is described as the billionaire drug baron behind the N3bn tramadol deal involving a suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police and former leader of the Intelligence Response Team, Abba Kyari. A statement on Monday by the spokesperson for the agency, Femi Babafemi, said he…
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Late Osinachi Nwachukwu’s Husband Arrested By FCT Police Command
Operatives of the Federal Capital Territory Police Command have arrested Peter Nwachukwu, husband of the deceased gospel singer, Osinachi Nwachukwu. The Command Spokespersons, DSP Josephine Udeh had confirmed his arrest. The mother of four children and indigene of Abia State reportedly died on Friday at an Abuja hospital after alleged domestic violence by her husband,…
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United States FBI Indicts 12 Nigerians Over Fraud Case
The Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI, and its partners across the globe, have arrested 65 suspects in the United States, including 12 in Nigeria, eight in South Africa, two in Canada and one in Cambodia. In July last year, a US court issued a warrant of arrest for Nigeria’s Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari,…
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Inmates Excited By Abba Kyari’s Presence.
The embattled former Commander, Intelligence Response Team, Abba Kyari, has rejected food offered him by the Nigerian Correctional Service after being remanded in prison custody on Monday. The suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, had chosen food prepared by his wife or other family members. Former DCP kyari, who is under prosecution for drug trafficking alongside…
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Nigerians Mourn Doctor Killed In Abuja-Kaduna Train Attack
Chinelo Megafu, who died from injuries sustained during the terror attack on the Abuja-Kaduna train late Monday. Chinelo had tweeted during the attack, saying she had been shot and asked for prayers. She tweeted, “I’m on the train. I have been shot. Please pray for me.” A colleague of hers, Dr Michael Ajidahun better…
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US Sanctions 6 Nigerians Sponsoring Boko Haram
The United States, U.S. has designated a network of six individuals connected to the Nigeria-based terrorist group, Boko Haram. The U.S Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, OFAC, made this known in a statement, on Friday. While stating that they have added the citizens to the terror-support list, stated that all six…