A robbery suspect Chimezie Stephen Osuagwu, has confessed to police that he was invited by his friend, Austin Chukwuemeka, who works in Four Brothers company in Ajah, Lagos to accompany him to rob his firm, workers salary. Daily Independent reports that Austin, brought the information that the accountant to the company had gone and withdrew some money for workers’ salary and [...]
Woman Stabs Lover to Death over Feeding Allowance in Ajegunle
Tragedy struck in the Ajegunle, Apapa area of Lagos State, after a 20-year-old woman, Gift Wahab, stabbed her lover, Ebi Amade, 28, to death. The incident occurred at the couple’s residence on Fasasi Street, Ajegunle, Apapa, on Thursday, March 19. The suspect, Wahab, who hailed from Uromi, Edo State, had been living with Ebi since 2013, after she dropped out of secondary [...]
I was offered N30,000 to convey a kidnapped woman into the bush
A 24-year-old commercial motorcyclist who confessed to being a member of a kidnap syndicate that specialized in abducting their victims from Ogun and Lagos states, has been arrested by men of the Ogun State Special Anti Robbery Squad. The suspect, Taiwo Akilo, was arrested at the weekend while on the verge of taking the syndicate’s female victim to their hide out inside a bush [...]
Armed robbers stole lorry full of chewing gum in Kenya
Police in Nairobi are looking for five thugs who stole a lorry full of PK chewing gum and tyres. According to NairobiNews the five blocked the Mitsubishi canter belonging to Jihan Freighters company on Tuesday at 7.30 p.m. at Industrial Area near Davis and Sharrif Company. The thugs, who were driving in an unmarked Toyota Probox, then ordered the driver Charles Mburu and [...]
EFCC arrests candidate over N42m scam
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC said on Thursday that it had arrested a candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) for alleged N142 million scam. This is contained in a statement signed by the commission's spokesman, Mr Wilson Uwujaren, and made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Thursday. The spokesman did not, however, disclose [...]
LP Reps candidate kidnapped in Cross River State
The Labour Party’s House of Representatives candidate for Bakassi/Calabar/Akpabuyo Federal Constituency of Cross River State, Mr Dominic Aqua Edem, has been kidnapped. Briefing newsmen on the incident in Abuja, the Labour Party Governorship candidate in the state, Mr Fidelis Ugbo, described the incident as the latest attempt by an opposing political party to intimidate members [...]
EFCC Arraigns Fake Pilgrim Board Member For N15m Fraud
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on March 19, 2015 arraigned Mohammed Ogbobio before Justice I. E Ekwo of the Federal High Court Yenagoa, Bayalsa State on a 5- count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretence to the tune of Fifteen Million Four Hundred and Ninety Five Thousand Naira (N15, 495,000.00). He pleaded not guilty when the charge was read [...]
Teenage girl arraigned for stealing jewelry worth N5m
One Mary Ogah, a teenager was on Wednesday dragged before a Lagos State Magistrate Court sitting in Ikeja, for allegedly stealing gold jewellery worth N5 million. According to the police prosecutor, the accused carried out the offence at Alausa Secretariat, Ikeja area of Lagos. Ogar was arraigned on a two count charge of conspiracy and stealing. The suspect however pleaded [...]
Woman stabs pregnant woman and remove’s her baby
LONGMONT, Colo. — A 34-year-old woman was accused of stabbing a pregnant woman in the stomach and removing her baby, while the expectant mother visited her home to buy baby clothes advertised on Craigslist, Colorado authorities said. Officers called to the residence Wednesday afternoon found the 26-year-old victim, who was seven months pregnant, stabbed and beaten, Longmont [...]
Corruption: EFCC Re-Arraigns Sokoto Ex-Perm Sec, Director
Mohammed Bello Abubakar, former permanent secretary, Ministry of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Sokoto State, and Abubakar Abdullahi Ahmed, a former deputy director in the ministry, being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on a 43-count charge bordering on conspiracy, forgery and money laundering, were on Wednesday, March 18, 2015 [...]
Zimbabwean woman wrongly accused and burnt to death by mob
A Zimbabwean woman wrongly accused of killing a young boy has been lynched by an angry mob in a shanty town near the South African capital, Pretoria. The woman was burnt alive while another man, also from Zimbabwe, managed to escape after police intervened, officials said Tuesday. "The woman died when she was burnt alive by a mob [while] the man was rescued by police and [...]
Pregnant Silverbird Staff Aisha Noble Mustapha Stabbed to death
A beautiful female staff of Silverbird Television, Aisha Noble Mustapha was gruesomely murdered on Saturday March 14th 2015 at about 7:30 pm on her way home from work in Ogudu, Lagos. It's gathered that Aishat and her boyfriend has been having frequent quarrels over issues bordering on infidelity and unfaithfulness. Last Saturday, as she was driving back from work, her [...]
EFCC Arraigns Banker, Accomplice For N1.6m Fraud
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Monday, March 16, 2015 arraigned a banker, Arome Augustine Suleiman and one Etu Yusufu Idoko before Justice Peter Kekemeke of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Apo, Abuja on a 2-count charge of conspiracy and theft. Suleiman allegedly engaged in divulging information on the account of customers as well as [...]
Court Adjourns Osita Okereke Case To May 4 For Trial
The trial of a former presidential aspirant, Emmanuel Osita Okereke and Ishmeal Chinyere slated to commence on Monday, March 16, 2015 before Justice Abubakar Talba of an FCT High Court sitting in Gudu, Abuja could not proceed as planned as the prosecution’s witness was reportedly unfit to be in court. Okereke and Chinyere are being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial [...]
Robbery attack at Lekki: How the bandits struck
It was like an epic Hollywood scene. Five young men, dressed in military fatigue uniforms and wielding AK47 automatic rifles, just emerged from the nearby waterway bordering the lagoon along Ikoyi/Lekki bridge. Their mission was obvious because they started firing from all fronts. It was the peak hour when workers were on their way home. Pandemonium ensued as people ran [...]
Female drug trafficker caught hiding drugs in vagina
A 31-year-old female drug trafficker, Onyinye Juliet Aladi, a single mother, was a pathetic sight when she was nabbed at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos, with 430 grammes of heroin stuffed into her private parts during the inward screening of passengers on an Emirate flight into the country. The woman later confessed to operatives of the National Drug [...]
Man arrested for smuggling his baby out of a hospital in a bag
A father used a plastic shopping bag to sneak his newborn baby out of a hospital in Arizona. The 2-day-old baby girl was born with meth, marijuana, and morphine in her blood stream. KSAZ reported that the father, Jason Bristol, wrapped the baby in blankets and put her in the plastic bag, because he "knew the child was going to be removed from them, so he wanted to get out of [...]
Armed Robbers Invaded FCMB in Lekki Phase1, killed 4 people
Four people were killed today after a gang of armed robbers invaded the branch of First City Monument Bank (FCMB) at Plot B, Waterfront Plaza, Admiralty Way, Lekki Phase 1, Lagos state. According to a witness, the four people were three police escorts of a passing civilian Coaster bus and a fish seller. The robbers, numbering at least 12, had arrived a few minutes before 5pm [...]
Police rescue Bond Chemicals boss, arrest 7 Suspects in Ibadan
THE Oyo State Police Command achieved a feat, on Tuesday, when it rescued the executive chairman and founder of Bond Group of Companies, Chief Adebowale Omotosho, from the kidnappers’ hideout at Ajia Village, Egbeda Local Government Area of Oyo State. Seven suspected members of the kidnap gang were arrested by the police. Their names were given as Bisi Babatunde (32), said to [...]
Governor Amaechi younger brother attacked with machete in Edo state
Governor Rotimi Amaechi youger brother, Chidi Adi Amaechi, was viciously attacked in the early hours of Wednesday,11 March. David Iyofor,the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor said “the younger Amaechi who is a student of Igbinedion University, Okada, Edo State was attacked by assailants in his accommodation in the school with machetes. He said Chidi Adi Amaechi was [...]
NURTW Chief killed by unknown gunmen in Lagos
Market women, friends and sympathizers on Wednesday converged on Queen Street in the Oyingbo area of Lagos State to mourn the Chairman, National Union of Road Transport Workers, Yaba Unit, Babajide Dosunmu, a.k.a Mados, who was killed by some yet-to-be identified gunmen. Forty six-year-old Mados, who was also said to be the Vice Chairman, Lagos Mainland branch of the NURTW, [...]
Man stabs his ex-girlfriend new lover to death in a jealous rage
A man had stabbed his ex-girlfriend male friend to death in a jealous rage. The man known as Jason Taylor,21, was convinced that his former girlfriend Jodie Emery, 26, was dating another man and decided to storm her house in age. Telling her: ‘Last chance otherwise things are going to turn sour, tell me who is there.’ Then he suddenly broke down the mother-of-two’s front door [...]
EFCC to Arraign Bukola Saraki’s Aide, Cousin for N371m Contract Scam
A former Senior Special Adviser on Millennium Development Goals to Bukola Saraki, ex-governor of Kwara State, and incumbent Commissioner for Information in the Abdulfathah Ahmed administration, Prince Olatunji Oyeyemi Moronfoye, will on March 19, 2015 be arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC before a Federal High Court, Ilorin Kwara State, for [...]
Woman who set husband on fire defend herself
A woman who allegedly set her husband on fire on Valentine day in Ekiti state, defends herself saying she didn't know how the fire started. The 36-year-old woman, Mrs Bukola Olusegun Ogidiolu, in an interview with Tribune explained how it all happened. “I don’t know how it happened. We had a quarrel and he left me and went home. I went to meet him at home and by the time I [...]
Police Rescue’s Man From kidnappers in Nasarawa
Nigeria Police rescue's a 65yr-old-man, from kidnappers in Nasarawa state on the 9th 0f march 2015. The man a building material merchant was lured from Garki area Abuja to Nasarawa State where he was kidnapped upon arrival. The kidnappers later demanded the sum of Ten Million Naira (N10 million) ransom. Police Anti-Kidnap Squad tracked the kidnappers to a compound at [...]
Ivory Coast ex-President’s wife sentenced to 20yrs imprisonment
Ivory Coast’s former First Lady, Simone Gbagbo, has been sentenced to 20 years in jail, she had been charged with undermining state security. Her husband, former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo, is awaiting trial at the International Criminal Court. More than 3,000 people died in the violence that followed the presidential poll after the ex-leader refused to accept defeat to [...]
Indonesian court rejects legal challenge of Nigerian on death row
An Indonesian court has dismissed a legal challenge by a 42-year-old Nigerian, Raheem Agbaje-Salami, who is on death row for drug peddling. President Joko Widodo had rejected clemency representations from Nigerian authorities. Judge Hendro Puspito of the Administrative Court in East Jakarta said on Monday that the court had no jurisdiction over presidential [...]
Woman hacked to death for stabbing her husband in Kenya
Angry residents killed a woman who stabbed and seriously wounded her husband in Kirinyaga County. According to NairobiNews Ms Mercy Ngangi was slashed to death on Friday night and her body set on fire at Mururi market. The man had confronted his wife in their rental house, accusing her of being unfaithful. As the quarrel degenerated into a fight, the woman took a kitchen [...]
Armed Robbers confession: our victim daughters drives expensive car
Lagos — Operatives of the Lagos State Investigative Bureau (SCIB) have arrested two members of a four-man robbery gang in Lagos which specializes in terrorizing residents of Isolo, Oshodi, Ikeja and its environs. The suspects, identified as Ihenachor Samson, 25 and Raphael Ugbekele, 33, were arrested after successfully carrying out a robbery operation in Bucknor Estate in [...]
Housewife hacks husband to death in Enugu
A housewife has been arrested in Enugu for allegedly hacking her husband to death over an undisclosed reason. The couple deceased, identified as Elijah Agbo hailed from Imirike Agu village Udenu local government Area of Enugu State. The unfortunate incident, according to the State Police command’s spokesman, Mr. Ebere Amaraizu took place last Thursday at about 9pm, after she [...]
EFCC Arraign 23 Suspected Fraudsters For Illegal Oil Bunkering
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned twenty-three suspected illegal oil bunkers, before Justice Ibrahim Buba of the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos on a 3-count charge bordering on conspiracy, illegal dealing and storage of petroleum products. The suspects : Ala Atubokiki Ibanibo, Wole Ajayi, Adesunloye Alexander, Fani Kayode, Captain Daniel [...]
Kenya Man sentenced to death for raping & killing his daughter
A Nairobi court has handed the death penalty to a pedophiliac father who defiled and killed his own nine-year old daughter at a village in Kiambu county. According to NairobiNews James Irungu Ndehi, 63, is said to have committed the offence on September 14, 2009 Justice Nicholas Ombija, in his sentence, said that “at the material time, the accused was alone with the deceased [...]
72-year-old landlady charged with stealing tenant’s N500,000
An Oshodi magistrates' court has convicted a 72-year-old landlady of stealing her tenant's N500,000 and unlawfully ejecting him out of her house. She was arraigned on Wednesday in Lagos. The landlady, named Ogboro a resident of No. 6 Shoeju St. Shogunle, Lagos State is being tried for breach of peace, conspiracy and stealing, at an Oshodi Magistrates' Court. The prosecutor, [...]
N11bn Scam: Ex-Gov Audu Attacks EFCC Operative in Court
A former governor of Kogi State, Prince Abubakar Audu, who is being prosecuted at a Federal Capital Territory High Court by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, for his alleged involvement in a contract scam to the tune of eleven billion naira, today threw decorum to the dogs when he ordered his security aide (a police officer) to assault an operative of the EFCC, [...]
My Parent knew I was an armed robber – suspect
A suspected member of an armed robbery gang, Mutiu Rasheed, who was arrested by the Lagos State Police Command, has said his parents were aware that he was an armed robber. PUNCH Metro learnt that Rasheed, along with two others ─ Ahmed Musiliu and Sodiq Dada ─ were nabbed by operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad on February 5. Our correspondent gathered that the three [...]
Married man arrested for impregnating 13yrs old girl
The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a 32-year-old married man who impregnated a 13-year- old girl in the metropolis. The suspect, Lateef Gbolahan, was said to have been arrested by police detectives attached to Oke- Odo police station for impregnating the minor called Esther. According to the police, the minor is two months pregnant. Esther, whose parents are [...]
Woman arrested in Kenya for claiming a baby that is not hers
Police in Mukurweini in Nyeri county arrested two women on child trafficking suspicions after a 53 year old lady claimed to have given birth to a baby who was determined to be four days old. The woman was said to have lied to her lover that she was pregnant so as to ensure that the man does not leave her claiming the baby would help them become a complete family. Neighbors [...]
UNICEF: 89 boys abducted by South Sudan armed group
The U.N. children's agency says an armed group in South Sudan has abducted 89 boys in a northern state. UNICEF said in a statement Saturday that the boys, some as young as 13, were abducted near Malakal, the capital of Upper Nile state. The statement said a UNICEF education team reported that the children were abducted while doing their exams in the town of Wau [...]
Police recovers 7,000 stolen PVC in Delta state
Delta State Police Command says it has recovered seven thousand Permanent Voter’s Cards carted away from INEC office at Oghara by unknown gun men. The Police Public Relations Officer, Mrs. Celestina Kalu, told newsmen in Asaba that detectives from the Command swung into action following reports by one Shakira Adewale of INEC that armed robbers broke into INEC office and [...]
Police restores order after fight between gangs breaks out in Oshodi
Nigeria police have restored law and order in Oshodi after some two rival gangs engaged in supremacy battle yesterday night, Killed one person and burnt two buses. Police have arrested ten people, recovered three cutlasses and two vehicles. [...]