Category: Crime
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Terrorists Plan To Attack Critical National Infrastructures – Nigerian Military Reveals
The Nigerian Military has unveiled plans by terrorists to attack some critical national infrastructures in the country. This revelation was made public on Thursday by the Director of Defence Media Operations, Major General Edward Buba. He, however, added that relevant security agencies have been put on standby to forestall such attacks. General Buba also called…
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Brothers remanded over alleged murder of dad
The Yola Division of Jimeta Chief Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday ordered the detention of two brothers accused of killing their 85-year-old father, Ibrahim Yusuf-Kwada. Ibrahim Yusuf (62) and Samaila Yusuf (48), residents of Zah village in Michika Local Government Area, Adamawa State, are facing charges of criminal conspiracy and culpable homicide. Chief Magistrate Bilikisu Tijani…
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Female visitor arrested for smuggling drugs into Kuje custodial centre
The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS), FCT Command, has arrested a woman named Precious Yusuf for attempting to smuggle drugs into the medium-security custodial center in Kuje, Abuja. According to a statement released by Command Public Relations Officer Samson Duza on Wednesday in Abuja, Precious Yusuf disguised herself as a visitor to an inmate at the…
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Police arrest man attempting to sell human bones, skull for N600k
Operatives from the Iddo Division of the Federal Capital Territory Police Command apprehended Nuhu Ezra on Tuesday for possession of human bones and a skull. This information was disclosed in a release by the command’s Public Relations Officer, Josephine Adeh, on behalf of the FCT Commissioner of Police, Benneth Igweh. Adeh reported that the police,…
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Lagos businessman jailed for life raping daughter
The Lagos Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court sitting in Ikeja has sentenced a 34-year-old businessman, Oluwafemi Asekeji, to life imprisonment for sexually assaulting his 12-year-old daughter. This was disclosed in a statement by the Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency, obtained by our correspondent on Wednesday. According to the statement, the presiding judge,…
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23-yr-old drug addict stabs mother to death
A 23-year-old boy, simply identified as Samson, has been arrested by operatives of the Delta State police for stabbing his quinquagenarian (in her 50s) mother in Obiaruku, Delta State. According to the information gathered, Samson was initially sent to Asaba, the state capital of Delta, to learn a trade after his secondary school. However, he…
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Ekiti: NSCDC officer gets life jail for defiling 13-year-old girl
An Ekiti State High Court sitting in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State, has sentenced one Olukayode Dayo, a former officer of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps to life imprisonment over an offence of rape. The 39- year-old convict was arraigned before Justice Lekan Olatawura on May 13, 2022 on one count charge bordering on…
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69 Boko Haram terrorists surrender to MNJTF with their families
At least, 69 Boko Haram terrorists and their families have surrendered to the Multinational Joint Task Force authorities in Cameroon and Niger in a fresh operation. The mass surrender is a result of a successful operation by the MNJTF, a coalition of forces from countries in the Lake Chad Basin, including Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon, and…
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Unknown gunmen kill three vigilantes, abduct 10 people
Unknown gunmen, on Sunday night, opened fire on a patrol vehicle, killing three vigilance operatives and a passerby at Umuaka Community in Njaba LGA of Imo. The incident occurred near the local Afor Umuaka Market and Hilltop Primary School at about 7:20 p.m. A community leader, who pleaded anonymity, described the attack as a “devastating…
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Ritualist apprehended for attempting to slaughter 10-year-old boy
A 46-year-old man, identified as Isiaka Adeniyi, has been arrested by the Kwara State Police Command for allegedly attempting to kill a 10-year-old boy who was selling pepper in Ilorin, the state capital. The arrest took place on Tuesday, July 2, 2024, in the Oke-Foma area of Ilorin West Local Government Area, as confirmed by…