CRIME
Suspected Ritualist Who Beheaded OAU Student Says He Learnt Using Human Head For Money On Facebook
A 35-year-old suspect, Akeem, who detectives in Ogun State Police Command arrested after he allegedly murdered an 18-year-old student of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Quadri Salami, to get body parts for sale, has revealed how he learnt about the use of human heads from Facebook groups. The mystery surrounding the disappearance of Quadri for almost a month unraveled when Akeem...
Ogun Police Arrest Three For Allegedly Stealing Car, Motorcycle
The Ogun State Police Command has arrested three people suspected of stealing a car and a motorcycle in the Mowe and Ifo areas of the state. A source in the command disclosed this in an exclusive interview with PUNCH Online on Thursday. The source told our correspondent that a suspect identified as Matthew Segun smashed the head of a motorcyclist with...
Fayoade Assumes Duty As Lagos Police Commissioner
The new Commissioner of Police deployed to Lagos State Police Command, Adegoke Fayoade, has assumed duty. A statement by the Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed this on Thursday. The PUNCH reports that Fayoade is taking over from Idowu Owohunwa, who was recently promoted to the rank of Assistant Inspector General of Police and redeployed to the AIG...
New Female Tenant Kidnaps Two Children Of Landlord, Neighbour In Ogun
A yet-to-be-identified woman has allegedly kidnapped two minors who are children of her landlord and neighbour in the Sango Ota area of Ogun State. The woman was said to have disappeared with the two kids three days after she moved into the apartment. The command’s Public Relations Officer, Omolola Odutola, confirmed the incident on Wednesday. Odutola said the landlord, Johnson Oshinowo, reported...
EFCC Declares Ex-Power Minister, Agunloye, Wanted
A former Minister of Aviation, Dr Olu Agunloye, has been declared wanted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. The minister who hails from Akoko North Local Government Area of Ondo State was declared wanted by the anti-graft agency over an alleged case of corruption and forgery. The PUNCH reports that the EFCC in September quizzed Agunloye over an alleged $6 billion Build,...
Gunmen Kill One, Kidnap Seven On Lagos-Ibadan Highway
Some gunmen dressed in military uniform allegedly kidnapped seven persons along the Fidiwo axis of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway on Monday just as one person was shot dead while escaping the attack. A source who does not want his name in print told PUNCH Online that the vehicle conveying the victims was accosted by the armed men who fired sporadically, abducted...
Tension In Rivers As Gunmen Kill 4 Soldiers
Some yet-to-be-identified gunmen on Tuesday killed four soldiers attached to 5 Battalion of the Nigerian Army in Port Harcourt, who were on a routine escort duty for an oil company at Enweh West manifold, Ahoada East Local Government Area of Rivers State. A statement issued in Port Harcourt on Tuesday by Major Danjuma Jonah, Acting Deputy Director, 6 Division, Army...
Kaduna Air Strike: Obi Insists On Investigation As He Visits Victims
Following the recent accidental military air strike at Tudun Biri village in the Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State, the 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has called on the Federal Government to provide adequate funding for the military and other security agencies in order to enhance their operations. Obi made the call when he visited...
Gunmen Attack Night Club In Oba Anambra, Kill Seven
Seven people including members of a local vigilante group were feared killed in an attack by gunmen on Porsche nightclub at Oba, in the Idemili Local Government of Anambra State on Sunday. Confirming the incident in a phone call, the spokesperson for the Anambra State Police Command, DSP Tochukwu Ikenga, said the police recovered some bodies from the scene. He...
EFCC Arraigns Couple Over N410m Fraud In Kano
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned one Aisha Salihu Malkohi, and her husband, Abubakar Mahmoud, who is now at large, before Justice Aisha Mahmud of the Kano State High Court for allegedly defrauding one Farida Ibrahim to the tune of N410,518,000. The Financial Crimes agency disclosed this in a post made on its X (formerly Twitter) account...
