Deadly affair: Lady attacked with acid after rejecting marriage proposal

 When Miss Ogochukwu Nwosu, 35, was leaving her residence on October 6, 2016, she didn’t know that danger was lurking around.

Alfa: Yes, I belong to Ogboni fraternity, but I didn’t kill toddler

The 32-year-old Islamic cleric, Kazeem Allison, who was accused of killing three-year-old- boy Chiagozie Okereke for ritual purpose at White Sand area of Isheri Oshun, Lagos State, last Tuesday, has denied the allegation.

‘Alfa killed my three-year-old son, says it’s no big deal’

Chinasa and husband

Mrs. Chinasa Okereke, whose three-year-old son was allegedly killed for ritual purpose by a Muslim cleric at the White Sand area of Isheri Oshun, Lagos State, has narrated how the cleric told her that the murder of the little boy was nothing new.

Three women arraigned for child kidnapping, stealing

Three women, Gladys Augustine (28), Eze Rita (50) and Ugochinyere Nweke (56) were yesterday arraigned before an Ikeja Magistrates Court on charges of child kidnapping and stealing.

‘We change expired dates on tyres within minutes’

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested two suspects, who allegedly specialised in changing the expiring date on tyres and chassis numbers of vehicles.

DSS officer dismissed for robbing N310m, rearrested for kidnapping

Detectives attached to the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr. Ibrahim Idris’s Special Intelligence Response Squad (IRT), has smashed a kidnap gang that was coordinated by a dismissed operative of the Department of Security Service (DSS).

‘We collected N200, 000 from DPO to free female Sergeant’

Three suspected kidnappers, who abducted a female sergeant and a lawyer at the Agbowa area of Lagos State in February, have revealed how they carried out the abductions and collected ransom.

How Dokpesi’s DAAR Communications Got Over N2.1bn from ONSA - Witness

A prosecution witness in the trial of  Raymond Dokpesi, former Chairman of DAAR Communications Plc, on Wednesday, March 29, 2017 told Justice John Tsoho of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja how over N2.1billion was credited to the account of DAAR Communications Holdings Plc by the Office of National Security Adviser, ONSA, under Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd).

EFCC Re-arraigns FUTA Vice Chancellor, Bursar for N156m Fraud

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, March 30, 2017 re-arraigned the duo of the Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Professor Adebiyi G. Daramola and the Bursar, Emmanuel Ayodeji A. Oresegun before Justice W. R. Olamide of the Ondo State High Court, Akure on a 9-count charge bordering on obtaining money under false pretense, abuse of office, misappropriation of funds and  conspiracy to steal to the tune of N156,984,455.33 (One Hundred and Fifty Six Million, Nine Hundred and Eighty Four Thousand, Four Hundred and Fifty Five Naira, Thirty Three Kobo).

Why I fought with kidnappers-Father of abducted undergraduate

Damaged door being repaired

Father of 16-year-old Rachel Chukwuemeka, a student of Caleb University, who was abducted last week, has revealed why he risked his life and fought with the kidnappers.

OPC REPLIES IGP, WANTS HIM SACKED FOR TRIBALISM

Dr. Frederick Fasehun, Founder of the Yoruba socio-cultural group, Oodua People’s Congress (OPC), has called for the sacking of the Inspector-General of Police, Alhaji Ibrahim Idris, over charges of tribalism and prejudice.

How I duped Lekki house owners, says Accountant

….who abandons audit firm for crime

Operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS), Ikeja, Lagos State Police Command, have arrested an accountant, Mr. Olaitan Shofolahan, who abandoned an audit firm job for crime.

Suicide victim joyful as police donate money, food

The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Fatai Owoseni and his policemen at the command, on Friday made a 64-year-old, who attempted to kill herself by jumping into lagoon along Carter Bridge, to weep for job.

Epe: Kidnappers demand N10m ransom for Caleb undergraduate

Suspected kidnappers, who swooped on a family at the Epe area of Lagos State, abducting a 16-year-old student of Caleb University, have demanded for N10million ransom.

Three brothers held for using sniper as beans preservative

…offer police N500, 000 bribe to squash case

Owoseni

Detectives attached to the Lagos State Police Command have arrested three brothers for using sniper, a harmful insecticide for humans, as preservative for beans.

Oji’s family chases sympathisers, journalists away

Fatai Owoseni

Family members of Dr. Allwell Oji Chiawolamoke, who dived into the Third Mainland Bridge Lagoon on Sunday, leading to his death, Thursday chased sympathisers and journalists away from their Ijeshatedo home, in Somolu area of Lagos State.

Police to analyse call records of doctor

Owoseni

The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr Fatai Owoseni, yesterday disclosed that the command was already making moves to analyse the phone conversations of Dr. Allwell Oji, who jumped into the Third Mainland Bridge Lagoon on Sunday.

‘We asked victim to kneel down, beheaded her’

*Suspect: Three of my kids died after my first kill

 *One Chance: ‘We carried victim as passenger, beheaded her’

A 55-year-old suspect, Toafeek Adam, who was caught in possession of a decapitated woman head and other body parts, has revealed how he and members of his gang, used a passenger bus to carry a woman and later chopped off her head for ritual purpose.

Security Summit: Towards improving policing, public relationship

The first Biannual Special Training and Capacity Development Seminar, organised by Police Command, Zone II, Onikan, Lagos State, is one heck of a training, which selected police participants wouldn’t forget in a hurry.

Bomb scare: Abandoned bag causes panic in US Embassy

*It’s not a bomb-Police

There was mayhem on Thursday at the United States Embassy in Lagos State, after workers and visa seekers noticed an abandoned bag and panicked, thinking it was a bomb.

COALITION OF CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS IN NIGERIA KICK AGAINST SHAMEFUL SIEGE ON AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

Wednesday, March 22, 2017

We, the undersigned leaders and representatives of various civil society organizations spread across Nigeria wish to express our collective dismay over the ignominious display by a group of rented crowd masquerading as members of a civil society organization under the name ‘Global Peace and Rescue Initiative (GOPRI)’. 

Policeman kills passenger for disobedience, hides corpse

The Abia State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Leye Oyebade, has ordered the immediate arrest and detention of a policeman, who allegedly shot a man in cold blood at the front of Christ the King Cathedral (C.K.C), Asa road, Aba.

It won’t well with policemen who take bribe-CP

The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Fatai Owoseni, yesterday said it shall never be well with policemen who extort citizens of the state under the pretence that the money was for him or the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr, Ibrahim Idris.

Farming without soil to boost food production in Nigeria

Efforts of the federal government at boosting the agricultural sector for food sufficiency would soon receive a leap, as plans have been concluded by a Nigerian entrepreneur to introduce hydroponic farming into the country.

43 suspects arrested for mixing diesel with kerosene

Operatives of the Lagos State Task Force have arrested 43 pipeline vandals and recovered 2.5 million litres of adulterated diesel along Alausa, Ikeja axis of Lagos State.

Multiple frauds: Ex-banker, network service provider worker arrested

Olugbenga

A former banker, Ajisafe Olugbenga and his partners in crime have been arrested for involvement in multiple bank frauds in Lagos State.

Doctor's suicide: Family, friends besiege Third Mainland Bridge

*Outrage trails picture of wrong doctor

Family members and friends of the medical doctor, Dr. Oji Allwell Chiawolamoke, who dived into the Third Mainland Bridge Lagoon on Sunday, besieged the scene yesterday, wearing mournful looks.

NIS Recruitment Scam: Court Refuses Moro’s Request to Travel Abroad For Medicals

A Federal High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja presided over by Justice Nnamdi Dimgba on Friday, March 17, 2017 turned down the application of Abba Moro, former interior minister, to travel abroad for medical appointment.

Man Bags Six Years Jail Term For N7.8m love Scam

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Friday , March 17,  2017, secured the conviction and sentencing of an Internet fraudster, Akintunde Vincent Abiodun, a.k.a. Christopher Williams, before Justice Oluwatoyin Ipaye of the Lagos State High Court, Ikeja.

Magu Dedicates 2016 Person of the Year Award to Nigerians

Ibrahim Magu, the acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has dedicated the 2016 Person of the Year Award bestowed on him by the Leadership Newspapers, to Nigerians, calling for more support in ridding Nigeria of financial crimes.

N1.162bn Fraud: Court Adjourns Dariye's Trial to April 27

Justice Adebukola Banjoko of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT High Court, Gudu, has adjourned to April 27 and 28, 2017 for further hearing in the trial of Joshua Dariye, a former governor of Plateau State.

PARADE OF SUSPECTS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE UNFORTUNATE CLASHES, DISTURBANCE OF PUBLIC PEACE AND MAYHEM THAT OCCURRED IN ILE-IFE, OSUN STATE

It will be recalled that consequent on the unfortunate clashes, disturbance of public peace and mayhem that occurred in Ile-Ife, Osun State on the 8^th of March, 2017 which resulted in the loss of innocent lives, destruction of properties worth Millions of Naira, and the need to put an end to the crisis, the Inspector General of Police, IGP Ibrahim K. Idris deployed Police Special Intervention Force, comprising Five (5) Units of the Police Mobile Force (PMF specially trained Anti Riot Policemen), Five (5) Cells of Counter Terrorism Unit, Conventional Policemen, Special Anti Robbery Squad, Intelligence Response Team, Technical Intelligence Unit, SIB, detachment of EOD, Police K9 (Sniffer Dogs Section), with their Headquarters in Ile-Ife, led by the Commissioner of Police in charge of PMF, Force Headquarters, Abuja.

IGP DEPLOYS POLICE SPECIAL FORCE TO ZAKI-BIAM, OTHER TROUBLED SPOTS

Worried by the killings of innocent people by invading unknown gunmen at Zaki Biam in Benue State on 20^th March 2017  and destruction of properties worth Millions of Naira, the Inspector General of Police, IGP Ibrahim K. Idris  has deployed Police Special Tactical Force, comprising Police Mobile Force (PMF specially trained Anti Riot Policemen), Counter Terrorism Units, Conventional Policemen, Special Anti Robbery Squad, SIB, detachment of EOD, Police K9 (Sniffer Dogs Section), Police Air wing (Aerial Surveillance Helicopters) and other undercover operatives with their Headquarters in Zaki Biam, Ukum LGA, Benue State.

Fake CSP uses uniform to extort residents

A fake Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP), who allegedly has been terrorising residents of Surulere, Lagos State, has finally been arrested.

Naval officers attacked, beaten to coma after horse whipping policewoman

…army detains six soldiers over alleged brutality of woman

Less than 72 hours after some naval officers swooped on a hapless policewoman at the Mushin area of Lagos State, whipping her black and blue, another woman, this time, a civilian has been brutalised by soldiers at Ikorodu, also in Lagos.

My son’s killer was paid N500 –Mother

Simon

Chiagozie

A grieving mother, Mrs. Chinasa Okereke, has revealed how a 15-year-old boy was paid N500 by an Islamic cleric to abduct her three-year-old son for ritual at the White Sand area of Ijegun, Lagos State.

I kidnapped 3 years old to help my fiancé, says suspect

Miss. Grace John, who abducted a three-year-old girl at the Alagbado area of Lagos State, seven days after she applied as apprentice in a bead making shop, yesterday disclosed that she did it to help her fiancé.

Police foil Bishop, wife’s abduction in Lagos

*Kidnap kingpin killed, nine-year-old defiles girl, 6

The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Fatai Owoseni, yesterday disclosed that his men foiled the abduction of a popular Pentecostal Bishop and his wife, along the Isheri Osun area of the state.

Vampire’s most trusted medicine man arrested

Operatives of the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris’s Special Intelligence Response Team (IRT), have arrested one of the most trusted medicine men of the late Henry Chibueze, aka Vampire.

‘Female sergeant didn’t want to go after corrupt policemen’

A single mother, woman Sergeant Blessing Umoru, was among the four policemen that died in auto crash along Isiu village, Itokin, Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State on Sunday afternoon.

Umoru was a member of the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Fatai Owoseni’s X Squad, ‘A’ Team.

Woman sergeant kidnapped, abductors demand N5m from DPO

A female police sergeant, attached to Ketu Police Station, Ikosi Ejirin Local Council Development Area of Lagos State, has been abducted.

12 women arrested as police swoop on naira notes vendors, bankers

The Lagos State Police Command, in conjunction with Central Bank of Nigeria, has arrested 12 women for selling naira notes.

Kidnappers trailed to Lagos after N3m ransom

Three suspected have been trailed from Ibadan, Oyo State, to Lagos after kidnapping a lady and collecting N3million ransom.

Murder in church: ‘Killers raped my mom, smashed her head with pestle’

The daughter of the woman, who was murdered inside a church, at Agbowa, Ikosi Ejirin Local Council Development Area of Lagos State, along with her two grandchildren and housemaid, has disclosed the last moments of her family horrifying death.

N2.8bn Fraud: Trial of Ex-NBC Boss, Mba, Others Begin

The trial of a former Director-General of the Nigerian Broadcasting Commission, NBC, Emeka Mba who is facing a 15-count charge of money laundering and procurement fraud to the tune of N2.8billion commenced on Tuesday, February 28, 2017 with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, presenting its first witness, John Ejim.

IG urges entertainment industry to join in promoting security

The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Ibrahim K. Idris,  on 27th February, while playing host to some members of entertainment industry under the aegis of “Voice of Change Nigeria” led by their leader, Emeka Ike paid a courtesy call on him at the IGP Force Headquarters Abuja, hailed them for supporting the Force in crime fighting in the country.

N1.4bn Fraud:Daudu, Jailed Kogi Law maker loses Appeal

The Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal today dismissed the appeal filed by a former member of the Kogi State House of Assembly and former Caretaker Chairman, Ogori/Magongo Local Government Area of the state, Gabriel Daudu, asking that his conviction for a N1.4 billion fraud by a Federal High Court Lokoja be set aside.