Crime & City Diary
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Edo police kill six suspected kidnappers on Lagos-Benin bypass
Edo State Police Command on Thursday said six suspected kidnappers were killed by its operatives along the Lagos-Benin bypass. The command stated this a statement in Benin, noting that the suspects were killed while in the process of kidnapping passengers of an 18-seater bus enroute to the Eastern part of the country. According to the statement, police operatives were on…
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11,536 schools closed due to insecurity in Nigeria since December 2020 – UNICEF
UNICEF says security challenges in Nigeria have forced a total of 11,536 schools to be closed in the last two years. The global body disclosed this in a statement to mark the eighth-year anniversary of the abduction of the Chibok girls on Thursday. According to UNICEF this has affected 1.3 million school children. UNICEF representative Peter Hawkins said the abduction…
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Customs seize 8 cutlass containers
The Niger Customs Service has seized eight 20-foot containers containing 206,000 brand new machetes, sodium bromate, baking powder and Indian hemp at the Tincan Island Port. Customs Area Controller, Tincan Island Command, Comptroller Adekunle Oloyede, revealed this in the First Quarter Revenue and Performance Report. He said the containers came in from Ghana and lacked end-users certificate. Oloyede said the…
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N22.9bn fraud: Supreme Court affirms six-year jail term for former pension director, Yusuf
The Supreme Court on Wednesday, 13 April, 2022, affirmed the six years jail term imposed on a former Assistant Director in the Police Pension Office, John Yakubu Yusuf, who was prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission over a N22.9billion fraud. The apex court in a judgment read by Justice Tijjani Abubakar also ordered the convict to refund the…
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Undergraduate convicted for cybercrime in Ibadan
By Richard Thomas Ibadan The Ibadan Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has secured the conviction and sentencing of one Ogunleye Olawale Sylvester to six months community by Justice Ladiran Akintola of the State High Court, Ibadan, Oyo State for internet fraud. The convict, who is a second year student of Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago Iwoye, was…
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BREAKING: Fire guts electricity pole at Maryland
There was fire outbreak in the early hours of Wednesday at Maryland in Lagos State. An eyewitness said that the fire outbreak was caused by bridge of electric cables close to the Independence tunnel. Although, no casualty was recorded as at the time of filing this report, one of the cables fell across the tunnel and caught fire, impeding free…
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Military intercepts N60m ransom, nabs security personnel involved in the courier
Nigerian troops have intercepted N60million ransom for the freedom of some captives in the custody of armed bandits in Kaduna State. PRNigeria gathered that some of the couriers of the ransom payment are suspected to be security personnel. The troops in the intelligence-driven military operations also rescued kidnapped victims, including some women and children. The operations, simultaneously undertaken by ground…
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Alleged N266.5m fraud: EFCC docks fake Army general who claimed Buhari nominated him as COAS
The Lagos Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission(EFCC), on Monday, April 11, 2022, arraigned one Bolarinwa Abiodun, a fake Army General, before Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, on a 13-count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretence, forgery of documents and possession of documents containing false pretence to the tune…
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Son of Osun APC chairman recounts how father was murdered
By Deborah Oladejo, Osogbo Aregbesola Ogbara, the son of the slain Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Atakumosa East Central Local Government Area of Osun State, Chief Gbenga Ogbara, has recounted how some unknown gunmen killed his father in his presence. In a short video clip obtained by our correspondent on Monday, the son of the deceased party helmsman, said…
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Osun police commissioner promises to investigate killing of Afolabi Abiola
By Deborah Oladejo, Osogbo Osun State Police Command has resolved to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of one Afolabi Abiola, who was allegedly shot dead by a police officer in the state. Osun State Commissioner, Olawale Olokode in a statement signed by the command’s Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Mrs. Yemisi Opalola on Monday said the command has begun…
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