Crime & City Diary
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Breaking: Court rejects Bello’s bid to transfer N80.2 billion fraud case
Yahaya Bello The Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice John Tsoho, has dismissed an application by former Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, seeking to transfer his N80.2 billion fraud case from Abuja to the Kogi State division of the court. Justice Tsoho upheld the arguments presented by Dr. Kemi Pinheiro (SAN), counsel to the Economic and Financial Crimes…
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Court jails 72-year old man for defiling minor
A Lagos State Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court on Monday sentenced a 72-year-old security guard, David Jackson, to life imprisonment for defiling a 7-year-old neighbour’s daughter. Justice Abiola Soladoye sentenced Jackson to life imprisonment after she held that the prosecution had proved the three ingredients of defilement against the convict. Justice Soladoye, in her judgment, held that the survivor…
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BREAKING: Containerised truck crushes female biker in Lagos
A containerised truck has crushed a female biker to death at the Iganmu bridge in Lagos. The incident occurred at about 6:15 am on Monday (Today) near Sifax inward Iganmu bridge. The accident caused a serious gridlock along the road leading to Ijora axis. Confirming the incident, the Special Adviser to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Transportation, Hon. Sola Giwa, said…
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BREAKING: Bandits attack Kaduna Community, kidnap 2 journalists, family members
Bandits, late Saturday night, attacked Danhonu community in Millennium City of Chikun LGA, Kaduna State, abducting two journalists working with The Nation and BluePrint Newspapers in Kaduna. Alhaji AbdulGafar Alabelewe and AbdulRaheem Aodu were kidnapped alongside their wives and children. Alhaji Alabelewe is currently chairman of University Correspondents Chapel of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Kaduna State Council. One of…
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Ogun youths protest alleged killing of betting agent by policeman
Hundreds of youths in Imala/Elega area of Abeokuta, Ogun State, took to the streets on Saturday to protest the alleged killing of a betting agent, identified as Abiodun Aanuoluwapo, by a trigger-happy police officer late Friday night. The youths called on the state government and the police authority to ensure that the officer who killed the late Aanuoluwapo is brought to…
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Suspected Herdsmen attack Amotekun officers in Ondo
Herdsmen have injured persons including, operatives of the Ondo State Security Network in Akure North local government area. The attack took place while Amotekun personnel were trying to enforce the anti-open grazing law in at Igoba, along Ado Road. They were moving away cows grazing on a farm when armed Fulani herdsmen attacked the officers with stones, bottles, cutlasses, and guns. Spokesman…
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Kogi: Armed robbers kill FRSC officer returning from bank
Armed robbers on Friday attacked an official of the Federal Road Safety Corps, simply identified as Abu, who was returning from a bank and heading towards his house in the Zango area of Lokoja, Kogi State capital. Abu was dispossessed of a yet-to-be-ascertained sum of money after shots were fired at him. Eyewitness accounts stated that the armed robbers trailed…
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BREAKING: Lagos Police neutralises 9-man kidnapping gang
…..recovers 9 AK-47 magazine, 4 AK-47 rifles, 4 locally made pistols, others The Lagos Police Command has foiled kidnapping attempt by a 9-man gang of kidnappers terrorising Isolo, Okota, Ejigbo and Mushin areas of the State. The Command said the kidnappers were killed in a gun battle with police on Thursday night in Lagos’ Ladipo neighbourhood. Nine AK-47 magazines, three…
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TRAGIC: Man, 61 electrocuted in Lagos flood
The Lagos State Police Command, has revealed that a 61-year-old man died from electrocution during the flood incident on Wednesday. SP Benjamin Hundeyin, Lagos police spokesperson, posted on his X handle on Thursday. The incident happened at Orile-Iganmu on Wednesday amid the downpour that paralysed commercial activities and vehicular movement in parts of Lagos. “During the rain yesterday in Orile-Iganmu,…
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Manslaughter: 12years after, Court jails bus driver for killing LASTMA officer
A Lagos State High Court in Ikeja has jailed a commercial bus driver, Elijah Shokoya, to 12 years imprisonment for killing an officer of the Lagos State Traffic Management Agency. Justice Oyindamola Ogala sentenced Shokoya after finding him guilty of the offence of manslaughter. The judge held that the prosecution had proved beyond reasonable doubt the one count of the…
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