CRIME
Police Arrest Officers Who Extorted $3000 As Arrangement For Orderly Room Trial Continues
The Rivers State Police Command has said that three of its officers who kidnapped and extorted the sum of $3,000 from two men would face an orderly room trial and query respectively. The spokesperson for the command, Grace Iringe-Koko, who disclosed this while parading the suspects before newsmen in Port Harcourt on Monday, said the action is part of internal...
Man Arrested For Allegedly Selling Company’s Car To Fund Relocation
The police in Lagos State have arrested a man who attempted to sell his company’s car to raise money to relocate his family to Ghana. The Command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the arrest to NAN on Tuesday. Hundeyin said that the State Criminal Investigation Department got information on January 16, at about 1 pm concerning a Toyota Hilux...
Abia Former Chief Of Staff, ACB Agbazuere Arrested
The Abia State Police Command has arrested Prof ACB Agbazuere, Former Chief of Staff and candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) for Isiala Ngwa North and South Federal Constituency in the 2023 General Election. He is presently being held at the CP's Office Bende Road Umuahia. He was arrested while preparing to honour the Panel on Recovery of Government Properties...
Gunmen Kill Anambra Couple, Dump Bodies In Their Vehicle Boot
Some yet-to-be-identified gunmen have killed two persons suspected to be husband and wife and dumped their corpses in a car boot of their vehicle, a Toyota Camry with the registration number: EE-621-EU. The two fresh blood-dripping corpses were seen by passers-by at a lonely place along the Tempo Junction, Umunya axis of the Enugu-Onitsha Expressway in the early hours of...
Lagos Pastor Who Raped Assistant Gets Life Imprisonment
The Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, on Friday, sentenced Bishop of I Reign Christian Ministry, Lagos, Feyiropo Daniels, to life imprisonment for raping his 23-year-old assistant. He was also jailed 3 years for sexually assaulting a 19-year-old member of the church. Justice Rahman Oshodi held that the cleric should spend the rest of his life at the Kirikiri custodial...
ABSU Deputy Vice Chancellor, Prof. Emezue Kidnapped
The Deputy Vice Chancellor of Abia State University Uturu, ABSU, Prof. Godwin Emezue has been abducted by unidentified gunmen. Prof. Emezue was abducted in a filling station around Umuopara in Umuahia South LGA where he has gone to refill his tank, along with his wife. Sources told ABN TV that no fewer than three men had accosted him at the fuel...
Police Arrest 5 Robbery Suspects Who Pretended To Be EFCC Officials In Abia
Personnel of Abia State police command have arrested five suspected armed robbers who pretended to be officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and dispossessed some students of the Michael Okpara University of Agriculture Umudike (MOUAU) of their phones at gunpoint, and forced them to transfer a total of 120,000 naira to their account. The crime was allegedly...
Police Confirm Abduction Of Abia Varsity Deputy VC, Assure Safe Rescue
Abia State Police Command has confirmed the abduction of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the state-owned university, Abia State University Uturu (ABSU), Prof. Godwin Emezue on Friday by unidentified hoodlums, assuring that he will be safely rescued. He was kidnapped at about 7pm while purchasing fuel at a petrol station in Umuekwu Amachara, Umuahia South LGA, Abia State, PPRO of the...
EFCC Docks Impeached Ogun Speaker, Oluomo, 2 Others Over N2.5bn Fraud
A Federal High Court sitting in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital, has adjourned the case against a former Speaker of the Ogun State House of Assembly, Olakunle Oluomo, and two others till 29th February and 1st of March, 2024. Oluomo alongside two other principal career officers of the Assembly, Dayo Samuel and Adeyemo Adedeji, were dragged before a Federal High court...
Ogun Banker Faked His Abduction Over N1.7m Debt — Police
The Ogun State Police Command on Tuesday confirmed that one Olumide Openaike, a staff member of a Microfinance Bank, Kemta Oloko, reported to have been missing and found in Mokwa, Niger State staged his abduction over N1.7m debt. The spokesperson of the state police command, SP Omolola Odutola, confirmed this to our correspondent on Tuesday. The wife of the banker, Temitope,...
