Category: Crime
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Man kills, buries girlfriend in Lagos
The decomposing body of a bar attendant, Oritoke Manni, has been found at a site in Otolu town, Akodo, in the Lekki Local Council Development Area of Lagos State. PUNCH Metro gathered that Manni went missing after visiting her boyfriend, Segun Titilayo, at his house in the area. When efforts by Manni’s family members to…
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Two ladies remanded over failed murder attempt on Oyetola
An Osun State Magistrates’ Court sitting in Osogbo, Wednesday, ordered the remand of two ladies for allegedly attempting to murder the state governor, Adegboyega Oyetola. The state Police Command that arraigned the suspects also accused them of stealing and vandalising Justrite, a mall in Osogbo. The suspects, Tajudeen Suliyat and Ayomide Abdulazeez, both aged 20,…
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Man who created, circulated Buhari’s fake wedding video lands in court
The Department of State Services (DSS) has arraigned one Kabiru Mohammed, for creating and sharing a fake wedding video between President Muhammadu Buhari and Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Farouq. The Nation reports that Mohammed, 32, who was arraigned at a Chief Magistrates’ Court at Nomansland in Kano on Tuesday,…
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Edo deputy governor’s younger brother abducted
A younger brother of the Deputy Governor of Edo State identified as Frederick Shaibu has been kidnapped by gunmen while taking his kids to school in Irhiri, Benin. As of the time of filing this report, it was gathered that the kidnappers are yet to make contact with the family. A family source told newsmen…
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Lagos man faces trial for assaulting LASTMA official
A man is to face prosecution for assaulting an official of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authourity (LASTMA) in Lekki. Emmanuel Ben was said to have injured, Ismaila Lukman, a LASTMA official on Sunday at the Jakande Junction in Lekki while on duty. Lukman said he was controlling traffic manually owing to the destruction of…
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Gunmen kill pregnant woman in Kaduna, abduct husband
A pregnant woman has been reportedly killed by gunmen suspected to be kidnappers in the late hours of Tuesday, at Rigachikun, a suburb of Kaduna metropolis. A source from the area told The Nation that, the woman and her husband were kidnapped and taken away from their residence, but the wife, was killed by the…
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Police nab fleeing looters in Abuja
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja Police Command has arrested 12 suspected looters while attempting to escape with looted items. Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Yusuf Mariam, in a statement in Abuja in Sunday, said they were arrested during a joint patrol at an estate in Gosa. “In furtherance with its unswerving effort to protect…
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Suspected arsonists who torched BRT buses, TVC station arrested
The police in Lagos on Tuesday paraded 520 suspects arrested for their roles in last week’s violence. Six policemen and four others were killed in the state during the mayhem unleashed on Lagos, the police added. No fewer than 38 policemen were injured; 16 police stations were torched and 13 vandalised by hoodlums who hijacked…
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Hoodlums kill 2 #EndSARS protesters in Edo
Hoodlums on Friday killed two #EndSARS protesters in Benin, the Edo State capital. One of the male victims was shot dead while the other was macheted by hoodlums at Ring Road near the palace of the Oba of Benin. The Nation learnt the protesters had converged on Ring Road, when hoodlums, who accused the protesters…
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Police arrest 3 for gang-raping Ogun 16-year-old, filming crime
The Ogun State Police Command has arrested three men for the alleged gang-rape of a 16-year-old girl. The police said the suspects also filmed the act to threaten the victim. The suspects; Oluwaseun Damilohun 20; Oriyomi Damilohun,19; and Oluwasegun Idowu,18; reportedly laid ambush for the teenager when she went to take her bath at a…