Crime & City Diary
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Don’t Use Road Blocks For Extortion- IGP Warns FCT Police
The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Usman Baba, has warned police officers in the Federal Capital (FCT) against using crime prevention measures such as roadblocks and raids as an avenue to extort Nigerians. Baba gave the warning during a one-day duty tour to the FCT police command on Tuesday. Speaking during the tour, Usman Baba specifically warned Divisional Police Officers (DPOs),…
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Canadian High Commissioner, sailors take part in chess tournament at Oshodi under bridge
Canadian High Commissioner, Kevin Tokarr, and some sailors participated in a chess tournament with some children at the Oshodi Underbridge in Lagos on Tuesday. Sharing it on his Twitter handle, Chess in Slums initiative founder Tunde Onakoya described it as a historic day. “On this day in history, the Canadian high commission visited Oshodi under bridge. We received the Canadian…
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Osun NSCDC Boss Calls For Synergy To Combat Crime
By Deborah Oladejo, Osogbo The Commandant of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Osun State, Emmanuel Ocheja has called for synergy among security agencies and the citizens so as to have a safe state. Ocheja who made the call aduring the 2022 International Civil Defence Day, noted that if there is synergy among security agencies, the crime rate in…
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Son kills father with pestle in Ondo
By Temitope Adedeji, Akure A 23-year old barber, Victor Akinwa has been remanded in prison for allegedly using a pestle to kill his father. He allegedly committed the offence at about 1:30pm on November 20, 2021at Basic Road, Idanre in the Ondo magisterial district. He was charged before an Akure Chief Magistrate’s Court for murder. The prosecutor, Obadasa Ajiboye, informed…
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Kunle Poly remanded in Ikoyi prison
An executive of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) in Lagos, Alhaji Azeez Adekunle Lawal, popularly known as “Kunle Poly”, has been remanded in Ikoyi prison. A Yaba Chief Magistrate’s Court on Monday, ordered that he be detained at Ikoyi prison for another 30 days. This followed the expiration of the initial order given for him to be…
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Police arrest 5 suspected cultists in Ijebu Ode
Kolawole Olayinka, Abeokuta Men of Ogun State Police Command have arrested five dreaded cultists who have been on the wanted list of the command in their hideout along Molipa road Ijebu Ode. According to a statement by the Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, on Sunday, the suspects were arresterd while planning another violent attack. The suspects, Segun Olabiyi aka…
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NDLEA in massive raid nationwide across Lagos airport, Kano, Abuja, Adamawa
At least, 649,300 capsules of Tramadol 225mg and 809,850 Euros cash were among consignments from Pakistan, Austria and Italy intercepted at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja Lagos where various quantities of Heroin and other illicit drugs were also blocked from being exported to the United States, United Kingdom and Canada by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement…
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One dies in Lagos Island as youths attack NDLEA officers after arrest of drug kingpin
One person was reported to have died and scores injured on Lagos Island when youths and officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) clashed during an enforcement operation. It was gathered that the clash spread to Freeman, Pattey, Tokunboh, Sandgrouse axis on the Island. Confirming the development, the NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, claimed that the officials were attacked…
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Residents protest delayed suspects’ trial 4 years after Offa robbery
Mosunmola Ayobami, Kwara Some residents of Offa in Offa Local Government Area of Kwara State on Friday stormed Government House, Ilorin to protest the seeming delay in the trial of suspects in the April 5, 2018 armed robbery incident in the ancient city. It would be recalled that 33 persons, including policemen were killed by daredevil armed robbers who invaded…
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