Crime & City Diary
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Herdsmen attack 77-year old farmer in Ondo with machete for refusing money request
A 77-year-old farmer was at the weekend attacked by herdsmen on his farm in Akoko North-East Local Government Area of Ondo State. It was learnt that the victim, Benjamin Babatunde, was working on his farm on Friday at Ikakumo, when the assailants came to demand money from him. Babatunde, who narrowly escaped death as a result of the injuries he…
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Man in police net for kidnapping two children during Good Friday service
Men of the Ogun State Police Command on Friday arrested a man a 35 years old, Sakiru Famuyiwa at Ijeja area of Abeokuta, the state capital for attempting to kidnap two children during a church service.The suspect was arrested following a distress call received by policemen at Ibara Divisional Headquarters that, while Good Friday service was going on at Celestial…
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Police arrest 65-year old landlord for brutalising tenant’s 11-year old twins
By Kolawole Olayinka, Abeokuta A 65 years old man, Samuel Adekoya, was on Friday, arrested by men of the Ogun State Police Command for child abuse and physical molestation of 11 years old twin brothers, Taiwo Enoch Olishe and Kehinde Emmanuel Olishe. According to the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Abimbola Oyeyemi, in a statement, the suspect was arrested following a…
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Ondo Amotekun parades suspected armed robbers, kidnappers
By Temitope Adedeji, Akure About 19 suspects, including a 12-year old boy, his mother and an herbalist were on Thursday paraded by the Ondo State security network agency, Amotekun in Akure, the state capital. Also paraded were two suspects, nicknamed ‘Anini’ and ‘Oyenusi’ all claimed to be from Ijare in Ifedore Local Government Area of the state. Parading the suspects,…
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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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