A 29- year-old man, Yahya Saifullahi, was recently arrested by Immigration officers at the Malam Aminu Kano International Airport with 870 ATM cards and two bank internet tokens.
The suspect arrested aboard Ethiopia Airways’ Flight No ET 940 with Passport No. A06694052 was said to be on his way to Dubai.
A 26-year-old man, Taiwo Oluwatobi, has been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command, for allegedly luring his Facebook lover to his house, and raping her.
It wa learnt that Oluwatobi had met the 24-year-old victim, identified only as Temitope, on Facebook. He had allegedly lured her to his house in the Alagomeji, Yaba area of the state to collect N15,000, during which he raped her.
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A 28-year-old trader, Chukwuebuka Okeke, has allegedly killed his friend and roommate, Nwabuike Ezeike, 39, after a disagreement over a N5, 000 electricity bill.
The incident happened on Tuesday on Tokosi Street, Orile-Iganmu. It was gathered that the friends, who were traders on the Lagos Island, had been together for a long time.
Two families who went to the mortuary of the Benin Central Hospital on Friday to pick the bodies of their relatives received the shock of their lives as the corpses could not be found.
Harrison Agu, a 35-year-old man, has been arraigned before an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court, sitting in Lagos State, for allegedly defiling his six-year-old daughter and infecting her with a sexually transmitted disease in the process.
Agu, a father of three who resides with his family at Isheri Osun, Lagos, was charged with indecent treatment of a minor, an offence that carries a seven-year imprisonment if found guilty.
The Kogi State command of the Nigeria Police, on Tuesday, paraded 21 suspected criminal including kidnappers, armed robbers and a masquerade that have been terrorising the people of the state in recent time.
The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Williams Aya, who paraded the suspects at headquarters of the command in Lokoja, the state capital, alleged that one of the suspects in the guise of celebrating masquerade festival stabbed one Ishak Yusuf to death.
An Ado-Ekiti High Court, yesterday, sentenced one David Olugboyega to death by hanging for armed robbery involving N14,570.
Justice John Adeyeye passed the judgment following the confessional statement of the convict and the conclusion of trial by the prosecution.
Piqued by the recent outburst by the Edo state governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole on the Esama of Benin kingdom and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Chieftain, Chief Gabriel Osawaru Igbinedion, women from across the state under the aegis of Concerned Edo Women Tuesday took to the streets of Benin to protest against the governor’s attack on the Igbinedion family.
The women who were half nude and dressed in red attires expressed their displeasure and sadness over what they described as ‘disrespectful utterances by the governor on the Benin chief and father of the erstwhile governor of the state.”
No fewer than 14 pregnant girls and ladies have been rescued by men of the Abia State Police Command after they raided an alleged illegal maternity home.
The police said the martenity home was allegedly being used as a baby factory at Umukpeyi village in the Isiala Ngwa South Local Government Area of the state.
An Oredo Magistrates’ Court in Benin on Wednesday sentenced one Nosa Edebiri, 50, to nine years imprisonment for defiling an-11-year minor.
The Magistrate, Mrs Caroliine Oghuma, sentenced Edebiri after he pleaded guilty to a one-count charge.
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