Category: Crime

Visa ban, Asset Seizure, Other Sanctions Await Govt Officials As UK Parliament Lambast FG Over #EndSARS

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-Adewale Adetoyese Huge sanctions including visa ban, freezing of assets and stopping the funding and training for the Nigeria Police Force among others now await Nigerian government officials and security agents over their roles in the controversial #EndSARS protests. TellAfrica gathered that this is as members of the United Kingdom Parliament on Monday took turns to lambast the President Muhammadu Buhari led federal government for the attack and intimidation of protesters who took part in the #EndSARS demonstrations. The debate was sequel to a petition started by Silas Ojo which…

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Kidnappers Demand N100m For Six Police ASPs in Katsina Den

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-Adewale Adetoyese The bandits holding six Assistant Superintendents of Police captive in Katsina State for over one week are demanding N100m ransom for their release. The ASPs were among the nine who were just promoted to their current rank. They were attached to the Mobile Police Squadron 6, Maiduguri, Borno State. EyewitnessMedia gathered on Wednesday that they were demobilised from the riot unit and eight of them were on their way to the Zamfara State Police Command on transfer when they were ambushed in the Dogondaji area of Katsina State…

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Nigerian Migrant Worker Burnt To Death In Tripoli

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A Nigerian migrant worker was burnt to death in Tripoli, Libya. This was disclosed by U.N. and government officials on Wednesday as the latest in abuses that migrants and refugees face in the conflict-stricken country, AP reports. The Interior Ministry of the U.N.-supported government said three Libyans on Tuesday stormed a factory in the Tripoli neighborhood of Tajoura, where African migrants were working, the AP reports. The Libyans detained one of the workers, a Nigerian, poured gasoline on him and set him on fire, the ministry said in a statement.…

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Missing Child: Prophet ‘Sotitobire’ & Others Get Life Imprisonment

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Justice Olusegun Odusola of the Ondo State High Court in Akure has sentenced the Founder of Sotitobire. Prophet Babatunde Alfa, and 6 others of Praising Chapel on Tuesday have been sentenced to life imprisonment over the disappearance of a one-year-old boy on the church premises. Gold kolawole went missing in the church last year on November 10 during a Sunday service after his mother, Modupe Kolawole, dropped him at the children’s unit of the church. The prophet was jailed alongside six other defendants: Omodara Olayinka, Margaret Oyebola, Grace Ogunjobi, Egunjobi…

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Police Nab Woman Who Killed Own Children To Protest Husband’s Choice Of Second Wife

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-Adewale Adetoyese Men of the Kano State Command of the Nigeria Police have arrested a housewife identified as Hauwa, for allegedly killing two of her children to protest her husband’s choice of marrying a second wife. TellAfrica gathered that the police public relations officer in the state, DSP Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa who confirmed the incident added that she is currently in their custody, and the investigation had already commenced after the command CP ordered the case to be transferred to the criminal investigation unit. The deceased kids were identified as…

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21-Year-Old Of Nigerian Origin Found Mysteriously Dead On UK Beach

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The deceased, Blessing Olusegun, 21, was found dead on a beach in the United Kingdom. The mother of the deceased now seek justice as she demands the cause of her daughter’s death, whose body was found lying on a beach in East Sussex, a region in the United Kingdom, according to the Evening Standard. One of Olusegun’s close friend and work colleague, Christiana Sofolabo, described her death as “mysterious“. However, the Sussex police, while describing the death as “unexplained” have said they are not currently treating it as suspicious. Olusegun…

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A Government Official Has Been Assassinated In Ekiti State

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A Director of Administration at the Local Government Service Commission in Ekiti State, David Jejelowo has been killed by gunmen. Mr. Jejelowo was killed on Monday morning at his residence in the Igirigiri area of Ado Ekiti, the capital of Ekiti State. Our correspondent S’Teller gathered that, “the incident occurred between 12:30am and 1:00am today and the police have taken his corpse to the morgue. The immediate family are still grieving and could not be reached for specific narrative. The Police spokesperson in Ekiti State, Sunday Abutu, confirmed the killing…

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Thugs Take Over Ondo State House Of Assembly Complex

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Thugs have taken over the entrance of the Ondo State House of Assembly complex, causing critical stir among lawmakers and staff of the house of assembly. We gathered that the thugs are a sect of the members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers who were there at the instance of the Speaker of the House, Rt. Hon. Bamidele Oleyelogun. The development is allegedly part of the ongoing feud between Governor Rotimi Akeredolu and his deputy, Agboola Ajayi, both of whom are candidates of separate parties for the October…

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Pastor Who Killed Herbalist Insist He Was Sent By God

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The Police Command in Anambra has launched investigation to reveal the cause of alleged murder of a native doctor by a pastor. In a statement issued on Friday by Haruna Mohammed, the Command’s spokesman, identified the herbalist victim as 60-year-old Oliver Ugwu of Umusiome village, Nkpor near Onitsha. He said the suspect, Uchenna Chukwuma, 21, a pastor who reside at Ugwuezue street, Umusiome Nkpor near Onitsha, allegedly carried out the murder with a machete on 3 September 2020. “The suspect, who hails from Amagunze in Nkanu East LGA of Enugu…

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Onyinye, 25, Allegedly Stabs Lover To Death For Proposing Abortion

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Onyinye Chime, 25-year-old, has allegedly killed her lover, Eleyi Azubuike, in Anambra State to death, for asking her to abort her pregnancy. Our correspondent S’Teller gathered that the incident happened on Ochiagha Street, Nkpor, near Onitsha, in the Idemili Local Government Area of the state, after the deceased had advised Chime to abort the pregnancy, which she objected to. A source told newsmen that 29-year-old Azubuike also declined to give her money for upkeep. “Onyinye was not comfortable with all these. So, she complained to people about it; but we…

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