Category: Crime

Three members of an Abuja based family, Mistura Olasinde and her two daughters, Hauwa and Fatima, residents of Starwood Estate, Galadimawa, in the Federal Capital Territory, were abducted on Friday, September 8, 2023. Mistura’s husband, Surajudeen Olasinde, a staff member of the Nigerian Nuclear Regulatory Authority, who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria, revealed that the incident happened at Kabusa Garden Estate while his wife and children were driving home in their Toyota Highlander from Garki to Starwood Estate located in-between Galadimawa and Lokokogoma areas of Abuja, where they…

Pictures of Gift David Okpara Okpolowu (a.k.a. 2-Baba), the leader of the Iceland Cult gang who has an N100 million bounty on his head for allegedly leading the attack that led to the brutal murder of a Divisional Police Officer, DPO Bako Angbashim of Ahoada Division in Rivers State have emerged. Rivers governor, Siminalayi Fubara, had on Saturday evening placed a bounty of N100 million on the head of 2-Baba over the murder of the DPO around the Odiemudie Community in the Ahoada East Local Government Area of the state.…

A Rivers State-based vigilance group, ONELGA OSPAC, said its men arrested three persons, including two pastors, over the death of a 24-year-old man, Lucky, in the Port Harcourt area of the state. Lucky reportedly died after an operation to remove his hunchback. An officer with the Planning and Advisory Committee of the security group, codenamed OSPAC, told Sunday PUNCH that the suspects were nabbed while trying to flee Port Harcourt. One of the suspects, who was said to be the pastor of a new generation church in Osiakpo, near Omoku…

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have arrested a drug kingpin, Ngene Onyedikachi, who was responsible for recruiting fake couple smugglers arrested in Lagos on August 1, 2023, while hard drugs of various forms were seized across the country in different operations. The fake couple, Onyebuchi and Nonyelum were arrested by operatives of the NDLEA for ingesting 184 wraps of cocaine weighing 3.322kg with 100grams of the drug also concealed in the woman’s private part. Meanwhile, the agency, on Sunday said it arrested some other suspects, Peter Iwebema,…

The Ogun State Police Command said its operatives at the Owode Egba division, on Friday, arrested a suspected vandal, Adewole Adekunle. The suspect, said to be based in Eleko, Ajah, Lagos State, was allegedly found with some vandalised transformer parts which belonged to the Showo Community, Kobape, along Sagamu-Abeokuta Expressway and owned by the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company. These were disclosed in a statement by the state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Omolola Odutula. According to Odutola, the suspect was arrested following complaints by villagers who tipped the police around…

A100-level course 9 police cadet, A.S. Jika, dropped dead at the Nigeria Police Academy, Wudil, Kano State, on Saturday, after being continuously starved and malnourished for over two weeks. Some of the cadets accused the Commandant, Assistant Inspector-General, Sadiq Abubakar, of high-handedness and financial mismanagement of feeding allowance meant for the students. Jika, who hailed from Adamawa State, and was in the Department of Computer Science, collapsed inside the toilet in the early hours of Saturday. A cadet, who spoke on condition of anonymity to avoid being victimized, said the…

The Medical and Dental Consultants Association of Nigeria Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital Chapter has called for an immediate action over the kidnap of Professor of Neurology, Prof Ekanem Phillip-Ephraim, who was kidnapped from her home in Calabar, Cross River State, and taken into captivity. In a release signed by chapter’s chairman, Dr. Femi Akodu, the association said: Today makes it 50 days since our very senior colleague and Professor of Neurology, Prof Ekanem Phillip-Ephraim, was kidnapped from her home in Calabar, Cross-River State, and taken into captivity. With no…

A pastor of a Pentecostal Church (name withheld) in Nnewi, Anambra State, identified as Pastor Prosper Igboke, has committed suicide after he jumped down from a two-storey building in Nnewi. Sources in the area said Igboke jumped down from the two-storey building and died instantly after he was jilted by his lover, whom he had spent so much on. A relative of the deceased who spoke to journalists on Saturday, said the 30-year-old man from Leru community in Umunneochi Local Government Area, Abia State, had trained his lover in the…

A widow, Adewunmi Taiwo, who tried to export 5.70 kg of Codeine to the United Kingdom, was on Tuesday sentenced to six months imprisonment by a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos. Justice Akintayo Aluko sentenced her after she pleaded guilty to a charge of unlawful exportation of Codeine preferred against her by the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency. The NDLEA prosecution counsel, Abu Ibrahim, told the court that she committed the offence on July 27, 2023. He said the incident took place at Skyway Handling Company export shed, a…

Dr. Akintoye Akindele Opens Up On Business Dispute With Abiola Family, Says Fraud Allegations Untrue The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Duport Midstream Company Limited, Dr Akintoye Akindele, has opened up on a business dispute he has with the family of the late MKO Abiola. In a short video he released on Tuesday, the businessman said his business rivals are trying to weave unfound fraud allegations around him through cronies, describing all fraud allegations against him as untrue. He said, “It’s about a business dispute with my former partners and…

A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory in Maitama has granted N500m bail to a Lagos businessman, Dr. Akintoye Akindele, accused of offering a N50m bribe to men of the Nigeria Police Force. Akindele, who has been in police custody for weeks, was arraigned on Tuesday on a charge. The suit was marked: CR/595/2023 and was filed in the name of the Inspector General of Police. The prosecution claimed the defendant offered to bribe policemen, who were investigating a case of funds diversion brought against him, to enable him…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission said it had re-arrested an Abuja-based businessman, Stephen Akpa, for alleged N500m fraud. The commission disclosed this in a statement by its Media and Publicity arm which was posted on its website. According to the commission, Akpa was initially arrested on December 2, 2022, at his office located in the Idu area of Abuja following a petition accusing him of obtaining N500m under false pretences. It added that the suspect jumped the administrative bail granted him ahead of his planned arraignment on five counts.…

On September 5, 2012, Angela Nworgu, then head of the Special Control Unit against Money Laundering, SCUML, of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), disclosed that NGOs are now used as conduits for money laundering and the support of criminal operations. Several years later, the revelation she made in her opening remarks at the annual seminar for Designated Non-Financial Institutions (DNFIs) with the theme “Strategic partnership Among DNFIs for Effective Implementation of AML/CFT Regime in Nigeria” held at the EFCC Academy, Karu, Abuja, is still relevant. According to Nworgu,…

A Lagos socialite, Farida Abdulkabir, popularly known as Farida Sobowale, has seek forgiveness from her children over her attempt to plunge into the Lagos lagoon on the Third Mainland Bridge. In a video clip that went viral on Thursday evening, the owner of Phreedah Body Care and Spa in Surulere, Lagos, was seen being pacified by several men with her black-coloured Sport Utility vehicle parked beside her. The rescuers in the footage could be seen holding the entrepreneur, persuading her not to take her life. City Round gathered that Abdulkabir…

Bishop Timothy Otu, the General Overseer of Agape Evangelical Ministeries (City of Miracles)Located in Obikabia Junction Aba, Abia State has been arrested by the Police after a married female Evangelist and mother of five identified as “Evangelist Happiness”who lodged in with him at Jubilee Guest House Ovom, Ogborhill was found dead in the hotel room. The incident reportedly happened around 11pm on Saturday 12th August 2023 after the Bishop who booked the room with her absconded after deceiving the receptionist that he was going to buy food at that time…

There is a fresh plot by terrorists (bandits) to attack the Abuja-Kaduna train link anytime from now, the Department of State Services, DSS, has said. This was contained in a security alert report by the Services on Wednesday. Recall that on 28 March 2022, an Abuja–Kaduna train was attacked in Katari, Kaduna State, Nigeria. In response, the Nigeria Railway Corporation briefly halted operations along the route. But in this fresh development, the DSS has issued a security alert cautioning train passengers to be extra careful in a memo sent to…

Director Defence Media Operations, Major General Edward Buba has urged urged citizens to be wary of propaganda by terrorists and remain patriotic. The defence spokesman made the call in Abuja while briefing newsmen on the reported ambush of military men by suspected bandits in Zungeru area of Niger state. He said 36 officers were killed in an ambush by suspected bandits in Nigeria’s North-Central state of Niger State. Insurgents reportedly ambushed troops in the Zungeru area of the state which led to the death of troops of the Nigerian Army.…

Men of a special unit of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency intensified their anti-drug operations last week and over the weekend with the clampdown on some drug kingpins in Lagos State, recovering multi-billion naira worth of drugs. The agency’s Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, disclosed this in a statement made available to journalists on Sunday. According to the statement, a female head of one of the syndicates, Ebele Nwankwo, was arrested last Wednesday at her residence, House 6, C Close, 3rd Avenue, in the Festac area of…

The man who jumped into the lagoon at the Lekki-Ikoyi Link Bridge area of Lagos on Tuesday has been identified as Buka Abana. This is just as rescue workers succeeded in retrieving Abana’s corpse on Thursday after days of searching. PUNCH Metro learnt that the 30-year-old, believed to be a drug addict, had left his Lekki Phase I residence about two days before the incident. It was further learnt that his family members who had formed a search party for him later received information that he was sighted around the…

The Katsina State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency says it arrested over 100 drug suspects in the state between July 10 and August 10. The News Agency of Nigeria reported that the agency’s new state commander, Hassan Sani-Abubakar, disclosed this at a press conference on Thursday in Katsina. Sani-Abubakar said after the investigation, the suspects would be charged in court. According to him, from his assumption of office on July 10, the command has also seized about 70 kg of different exhibits across the state. Sani-Abubakar, a…

The body of a young nurse was discovered without a womb after a night outing in Ibadan. The nurse, Omoniyi Boluwatife, was found dead and evacuated by the Police in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. Boluwatife, a graduate of Lead City University was on Tuesday inducted into the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria, according to reports. She had reportedly gone to celebrate her recent induction into the nursing profession at a nightclub on Tuesday night before she died. In a recent viral video, the body of Boluwatife was seen…

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says its operatives attached to courier companies in Lagos state, have intercepted various quantities of illicit drugs concealed in an MP3 player. Femi Babafemi, NDLEA spokesperson, said the drugs were mixed with heroin, methamphetamine, dimethyl sulfone, and cannabis and concealed in different objects bound for Europe. The NDLEA spokesperson said 272 grams of dextromethorphan, mixed with heroin and going to Greece, were recovered from white neck beads, adding that 665 grams of cannabis being shipped to Hong Kong, were hidden in bars of…

Ondo State Police Command says it has arrested a 45-year-old man, Bankole Oginni following the death of a woman who was said to be his ex-lover. According to the police, the 45-year-old woman, (whose identity had not been revealed by the police) was found dead in the house of the suspect while some parts of her body had been removed. The police added that it was the daughter of the deceased that reported the matter, after seeing the lifeless body of her mother tied down with a rope and some…

Mr Adeniyi Sanni, a senior aide to the senator representing Ogun West in the National Assembly, Solomon Adeola, has been shot dead. The spokesperson for the senator, Kayode Odunaro, in a statement in Abuja said the incident happened on Saturday morning. He said the lifeless body of Sanni was found with gunshot wounds dumped at Toyota bus stop in the Oshodi area of Lagos State. Odunaro said the deceased had earlier called his wife to request the details of his vehicle papers when he was stopped by security operatives at…

The Ondo State Police Command on Friday said it had begun the trial of a man, identified as Bode, for killing one Tunde Akinmoyewa with a dane gun at Laoso Village in Ondo West Local Government Area of the state. According to the police, the 27-year-old man, who was described as an ex-convict, was shot dead by his friend while testing a new locally-made gun last Tuesday. However, a source stated that the deceased was shot dead by his friend while testing a bulletproof charm at the village. The source…

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have thwarted plans to smuggle over five million pills of Tramadol said to be worth N3.7bn into the country. The agency’s Director, Media, and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, disclosed this in a statement made available to journalists. Babafemi said the feat was achieved through the collaboration of men of the Nigeria Customs Service and others working at the airport’s DHL cargo warehouse. He, however, did not disclose when the pills were intercepted.