Crime & City Diary
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Dismembered corpse of missing tricycle operator found in Kwara
Mosunmola Ayobami, Ilorin The dismembered corpse of a tricycle operator simply identified as Musbau has been discovered in Oko- Olowo area of Ilorin, Kwara State. Musbau had been missing since last Friday. Westernpost gathered that Musbau’s head, his two wrists, private part and buttocks were severed from his body when the corpse was discovered on Monday after days of search by…
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BREAKING: Two dead in Borno IDP camp fire incident
Fire gutted the Muna Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp in the Muna area of Borno State. The incident that happened on Tuesday in the Muna Alamdari IDP camp in Maiduguri led to the death of two children. The cause of the fire could not be ascertained as att the time of filing this report. Also, the Borno State Police Command…
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Bandits contact families of abducted Kaduna residents, demand N40trn,11 Hilux Vans, 150 motorcycles
Bandits have contacted families and Kaduna community for a ransom of N40 trillion, 11 Hilux vans and 150 motorcycles for their abducted kinsmen. The Bandits on Wednesday 28 February attacked Gonin-Gora community, a suburb of Kaduna metropolis in Chikun Local Government area kidnapping 16 residents. On the following day, hundreds of youths from the community blocked the Abuja-Kaduna highway to…
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Lagos residents lament over stench from refuse dump, blame LAWMA
Residents of Albert Okolo Street, Canal View Estate, Oke-afa, Isolo, Lagos, have complained over the stench from refuse dumps in front of an uncompleted building in the area. They claimed that officials of Lagos State Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) hardly picked up their refuse. A member of the Church of Christ, Mrs Lydia Paul lamented the horrible time she had…
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9 injured in Ogun gas explosion
Nine persons injured in a gas explosion that occurred at Phoenix Metal Company in Ogijo, Sagamu Local Government Area of Ogun State. Spokesperson for Ogun State Police Command, SP Omotola Odutola confirmed the development. “According to an eyewitness account, the blast explosion was attributed to a cylinder explosion that happened at the melting point area, affecting nine staff members who…
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Lady commits suicide, jumps off boat in Lagos
Innocent Raphael A lady identified as Nimotalahi Ishola has died, after allegedly jumping off a boat in transit in Lagos . Police sources have revealed Ishola had boarded the boat from Isuti jet in Igando, alongside eleven other passengers heading to Totowu in Ogun state. Rendering an eyewitness account, the captain of the boat, revealed that Ishola had taken off…
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BREAKING: Five-storey building collapses in Onitsha
Innocent Raphael A five-storey building under construction has collapsed at Basden Street, Fegge, in the commercial city of Onitsha, Anambra State. Reports suggest a yet-to-be-identified number of persons may have been trapped under the rubble. The building which collapsed in the early hours of Sunday, while some of the construction workers were on the last floor, according to sources, was…
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Bandits kidnap 15 pupils in Sokoto
Bandits have kidnapped at least 15 pupils from a Tsangaya school in Gada Local Government Area of Sokoto State. It was gathered that the incident happened after bandits attacked Garin Bakuso village in the early hours of Saturday. A Tsangaya or almajiri school is a facility for teaching the Quoran and Islamic knowledge. Gidan Bakuso is located in the eastern…
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Police dismiss one, suspend two officers over alleged extortion in Rivers
The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has dismissed an officer and suspended two others involved in the alleged extortion of 3,000 USDT from a Port Harcourt resident. The affected officers were Inspector Michael Odey (Dismissed), ASP Doubara Edonyabor (Suspended) and ASP Talent Mungo (Suspended). A statement issued by the Rivers State Police Public Relations Officer, Grace Iringe-Koko, disclosed this on Sunday.…
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Police arrest woman for killing her baby with Sniper in Lagos
The Lagos police has arrested a mother for attempting to kill her sick child using a poisonous insecticide known as “Sniper’’. Spokesman for the State Command, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, on Saturday said that the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, reported the attempt to the police on Friday. He said the chief security officer at the hospital reported to the police…
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