Barber, plumber, 12 others arrested for robbery, rape

Kunle Olayeni, Abeokuta

Police in Ogun State have arrested 14 suspected criminals over alleged involvement in armed robbery, rape, cultism and illicit drugs.

Police raid markers, arrest Naira hawkers

Taiwo Jimoh

The Lagos State Police Command in combine operation with officials of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) at the weekend arrested eight suspected Naira hawkers.

Man threatens eight-year-old girl with death after defilement

Taiwo Jimoh

A 34-year-old man, Bolarinwa, has been arrested by the Alade Police Station, for allegedly defiling an eight-year-old girl at the Somolu area of Lagos State.

Panic as gunfire rocks Ibadan as NURTW factions clash

Sola Adeyemo, Ibadan

There was panic on Saturday at the Egbeda Local Government Area of Ibadan as two factions of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) members clashed.

Inspector killed after kidnappers ambushed IRT operatives

Juliana Francis

Operatives of the Inspector-General Of Police, (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, Special Intelligence Response Team (IRT), nationwide, have been plunged into mourning, following the death of one of their colleagues, Inspector Mohammed Hassan on Saturday.

Tenants murdered landlord, dump body in well, disappear his car

Taiwo Jimoh

Iba Police Station, Iba Town has arrested Daniel Isaac (38), who alleged absconded with his landlord’s car after murdering him at the Ikotun area of Lagos State.

Kidnappers in tricycle abducted woman while jogging in Lagos

Taiwo Jimoh

A housewife, Mrs. Gbemisola Alabi, was on Sunday morning abducted while jogging at the Sangotedo, Ajah area of Lagos State.

Alleged N2bn fraud: Kwara director, six bank MDs arrested

Juliana Francis

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), Ilorin Zonal Office, yesterday, said that it has arrested a Kwara director and six microfinance bank managing directors over alleged N2billion SME fraud.

Court jails ex-vanguard Chief Accountant 7 years ...ex-circulation manager bags 3 years

A Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja has sentenced a former Chief Accountant of Vanguard Newspapers, Bhadmus Abiodun, to seven years imprisonment for fraud.

Suspect: I’m sorry God, forgive me for kidnapping

Igbeaku Orji, UMUAHIA 

Mr Sunday Emmanuel (24), who was arrested for kidnapping, has admitted to his involvement in the crime, begging God to forgive him.

Father, son arrested for abducting teenager in Lagos

Taiwo Jimoh

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested father and son, for allegedly abducting a 19-year-old boy.

The suspects, Alhaji Muhibudeen Akorede and Thoa Akorede, kidnapped the teenager, Mathew Chukwuebuka at Ibadan, Oyo State.

Immigration officer, 14 others arrested over alleged passport racketeering

Juliana Francis

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Lagos Zonal office, has arrested a Nigerian Immigration Service officer, Adebimpe Kehinde, for his alleged involvement in passport  racketeering.

Girl 13, attempts suicide after defilement by engineer

…Bursar drugs 15 yrs. old, impregnates her

Juliana Francis

An installation engineer, Festus (41), has been arrested for allegedly sexually violating three girls of the same secondary school.

Police, residents brainstorm on ridding community of cultism, criminals

Emmanuel Ifeanyi, Aba

The Abia State Police Command and some members of Aba communities, have started brainstorming on how to rid the society of cultism and other criminalities.

Suspect: We were told my brother’s skull would be vomiting money

Juliana Francis

Mr. Samuel Olaniyi (65), who was arrested for exhuming and beheading his late brother, has told the police that he did it after a native doctor convinced him and his friends that the skull would vomit money, making them rich beyond imagination.

Kidnapper refuses to release five-year-old after N1m ransom

Pauline Onyibe, Yenagoa

 A distraught mother, Mrs Williams Koroye, yesterday said that her church member, who abducted her five-year-old daughter, has refused to release her even after collecting N1million ransom.

Television presenter: Robbers threatened me with their machetes

Taiwo Jimoh

A television presenter has narrated how some suspected armed robbers threatened her with machetes and collected her valuables from her.

Woman battered by inspector detained for lodging complaint

Juliana Francis and Kunle Olayeni, Abeokuta

A woman, Abidemi, has accused a police inspector, Ijisakin Amos Temitope of Adatan Police Station in Ogun State Police, of battering her.

Alleged N7.6bn Fraud: Ex-Abia Gov, Kalu Opens Defence

A former governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu, on Monday, July 22, 2019, opened his defence in an alleged N7.6billion fraud trial involving him and two others before Justice Mohammed Idris of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos.

COZA: IGP orders immediate take-over of Investigations

Juliana Francis

The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, yesterday, ordered the Deputy Inspector-General of Police (DIG) in charge of the Force Criminal Investigation Department (FCID), Mr. Michael Ogbizi, to immediately take-over the on-going investigations into the case of rape reported by Mrs Busola Dakolo against Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo of Commonwealth of Zion Assembly (COZA).

Detainee killed after vandalising 16 vehicles at police station

Kunle Olayeni, Abeokuta

Policemen at Sango Police Station, on Monday, were accused of arresting a young man for sporting tattoo and later shooting him to death.

COZA: Aisha Buhari, Ezekwesili, question police invitation to Timi Dakolo, wife

Tony Okuyeme, Emmanuel Onani and Adedayo Odulaja

The wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, Aisha Buhari, frontline activist and former Minister of Education, Dr Oby Ezekwesili, Sunday, reacted to the invitation letters served on Timi Dakolo and his wife, Busola by the police.

My brother started sleeping with me at 13, says 15 years nursing mother

Juliana Francis

A 15-year-old nursing mother, Blessing, has revealed how her elder brother, Frank (35) started having sex with her when she was 13 years old, leading to her becoming a mother at 15.

‘How do I tell his fiancée that police have killed him?’

Taiwo Jimoh

Residents of Ajisegiri Street, Ilupeju area of Lagos State will never forget July 15, in a hurry.

That was the day anti-cultism policemen, from Mushin, stormed the community and opened fire like they were in a Wild West Hollywood Movie.

Mob kills man wrongfully accused of stealing phone

Five people, including a woman, have arrested for allegedly being among mob that killed a man wrongfully accused of stealing a mobile phone at Langbasa area of Ajah, Lagos State.

‘I make N18, 000 daily stealing, selling phones'

 A suspect, Mr. Lawal Daodu (31), has told operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS), Ikeja, Lagos State Police Command, that he makes approximately N18000 daily from stealing and selling phones.

Cyclists’ robbery gang: How we monitored bank customers, ATM withdrawals

Juliana Francis

Operatives of the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu’s Special Intelligence Response Team (IRT), have smashed a robbery gang, which specialised in using motorcycles to trail and rob bank customers in Lagos State.

Husband’s death: Help me to leave prison, wife begs …says ‘I need to care for my nine children’

Daughter missing, son sleeps under bridge –Lawyer

Ese Ologe and Funke Idowu

Mrs. Christiana Ado was 14-year-old when her family married her off to Romanus through proxy.

Christiana married the absent groom without knowing him from Adam. In fact, it was Romanus’ mother who approached Christiana’s family and asked for her hand in marriage.

EFCC Ibadan office secures 83 convictions, recovers N116m

Juliana Francis

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibadan zonal office, yesterday said that it has, in the last six months, secured 83 convictions and recovered N116,945,981.68.

NAPTIP DG, Board vow to tackle illegal labour recruiters to stem human trafficking

The fight against massive exploitation of Nigerians by traffickers who have continued to traffic them to some destination Countries most especially Middle East and Arabian countries has received a major boost as the newly inaugurated Board of the Agency has vowed to tackle illegal recruitment of unsuspecting Nigerians for sexual and labour exploitation.

Governor orders police chief to investigate rape allegation

Adewumi Ademiju, Ado -Ekiti

The Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, yesterday, ordered the Ekiti State Commissioner of Police, Asuquo Amba, to launch an investigation into the alleged rape of a woman in the state.

Missing secondary schoolboy found after 24 hours

Taiwo Jimoh

A 17-year-old boy, Nduka Ogbonna, a senior student of Command Secondary School, Ijebu-Ode, who was declared missing by his parents on Monday, has been found the following day.

Bureau de Change operator remanded for N16m fraud

Juliana Francis

Mr Alaramma Zakari has been arraigned before Justice A.T. Badamasi of a Kano State High Court, on a one-count charge bordering on criminal breach of trust.

‘I work as LAWMA at day time, rob at night’

Taiwo Jimoh

Operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), Ikeja, Lagos State Police Command, have arrested a worker with the Lagos State Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) for alleged robbery.

Forgive me Lord, for I’m guilty, cries alleged killer of call girl

Taiwo Jimoh

The 26-year-old man, Bidemi Mojuba, who was captured on a video after allegedly murdering a lady identified as Christy, yesterday, admitted to have killed the victim under the influence of drugs and asked God to forgive him.

‘My landlady killed her husband and his mistress, not me’

Taiwo Jimoh

A South Korea returnee, Promise Oguegbu (25), has denied being responsible for the murder of a Chartered Accountant, Rasaki Balogun (56) and his mistress, Muyibat Alabi.

Oguegbu was arrested over the murder of Balogun and Alabi at No.16 Oke Street, Victory Estate, in the Ejigbo area of Lagos State.

‘Shun corruption’ -Lagos CP Muazu warns Policemen

Lagos State police commissioner has warned policemen to shun every form of corruption and exploitation of suspects especially in the areas of bail, emphasizing that bail is free.

SCID Lagos Gets New Ultramodern Statement Taking/Interview Room

In furtherance to ensuring a safer and crime-free Lagos, the Lagos state Commissioner of Police, CP Zubairu Muazu has on Tuesday commissioned an ultramodern and state-of-the-art facility for interviewing and recording statement of crime suspect(s) at the State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID Panti, Yaba, Lagos.

Condemned to the toilet

Mother, child sleep in toilet as flood takes over community

When rain is mentioned, or it becomes cloudy, it elicits mixed reactions from some people in Lagos. Ordinarily, there shouldn’t be any problem with rain, but there are lots of troubles attached to it. In a dumpsite located in Igando area of Lagos, a woman and her daughter are feeling the heat of the rains. JULIANA FRANCIS reports

Our pains, agonies, by widows

It sounds unbelievable but true. In this 21st century, with advancement in science and technology, many women are still being forced by tradition and culture to undergo obnoxious widow’s rites, which violate their fundamental human rights. In this report, JULIANA FRANCIS, takes a look at the experiences of widows, conflicts between the Nigerian laws, culture and tradition.

Fraudster posing as woman forfeits phones, laptop, jailed

 Juliana Francis

Mr. Sanwiyu Abolore Toyosi (27) has bagged five months imprisonment for posing as female and defrauding unsuspecting victims via the internet.

Harvest of rape suspects: My father raped me and my two friends, 15-year-old tells police

Taiwo Jimoh

A 15-year-old girl has accused her father (68), of sexually violating her and two of her friends at the Imota area of Lagos State.

Driver who reported leased car stolen, arrested after bank alert

Taiwo Jimoh

An Uber driver, Ademola Quadri (39), has been arrested after police investigators found a bank alert of N560, 000 among the messages on his phone.

NO ANGER LIKE A WOMAN SCORNED: Woman had sex with husband’s killer less than 24hour after his murder

Juliana Francis

A man, who introduced himself as Nnaa Kingsley, has narrated how he was invited by a housewife, Mrs. Doughlas Ajemine (41), to teach her husband Inedugoba Tyger (40) a lesson over an alleged domestic violence, but ended up killing him at the Abalama area of Rivers State.

How 17-year-old girl became inmate of Kirikiri Prison

Ese Ologe

Mrs. Victoria Udoh (43), a widow, has narrated how her 17-year-old daughter, Marvelous, became an inmate in the female Kirikiri Prison, Lagos State.

16 people killed, women raped as communities clash over dredging

Taiwo Jimoh

Tension has enveloped two communities in Lagos State, the Ajah-Ijebu and Ajah-Ilaje, both in Eti-Osa Local Government Area, following bloody clashes that left more than 16 people dead, including a policeman.

Video: IGP urged to unmask men that stripped three women

Juliana Francis

IGP, Adamu

The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has been urged to launch investigation in order to find those that stripped three women and dehumanized them for allegedly being members of a ‘one-chance-gang.’

Daura District Head rescued after 60 days in kidnappers’ den

…11 terrorists, kidnappers arrested

Juliana Francis

Operatives of the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu’s Specialise Intelligence Response Team (IRT), Tuesday, rescued the Magajin of Daura, Alhaji Musa Umar, after spending 60-days in kidnappers den.