The police in Lagos on Sunday said they have uncovered a suspected baby factory and rescued 19 pregnant girls. The police stated that they acted on an intelligence report and swooped on the operators at their base on 14 Adisa Street, Ayanwale area of Ikotun. Police spokesman, Bala Elkana, said two suspects had been arrested. […]
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Mother of former Nigeria coach and football star, Samson Siasia, who was kidnapped ten weeks ago, has been released. Mrs Ogere Siasia, 76, and two others were seized back in July in Bayelsa, southern Nigeria, where kidnappings for ransom are frequent. Siasia, who had pleaded for help last week, told the BBC he was ‘relieved’ that his […]
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It was shock and disbelief in Ondo State as news broke that the abducted lecturer of the State University of Science and Technology, Okitipupa, OSUSTECH, Prof. Gideon Okedayo, has been found dead. Okedayo, of the institution’s Department of Mathematical Science, and his driver were kidnapped by unknown gunmen along Auchi – Igara Road in neighbouring […]
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Edo State Police Command on Saturday said it had recovered the official car of Prof. Gideon Okedayo, a lecturer with the Ondo State University of Science and Technology (OSUSTECH), Okitipupa who was kidnapped on Thursday. Okedayo was kidnapped along with his driver in his official car, a Toyota Corolla marked 06X 47 OD, at Akoko […]
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Lagos State Police Command on Thursday arraigned 83 persons who allegedly participated in the attack and looting of South African-owned mall, Shoprite, in protest against continued killings of Nigerians in South Africa. The defendants were arraigned before the Lagos State Magistrates’ Court at Yaba on six counts bordering on conspiracy, riotous assembly, arson, stealing, malicious […]
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The Uyo zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission said on Tuesday that it had arrested over 60 Internet fraudsters and secured 37 convictions since its inception in the state. The Zonal Head of the commission, Mr Garba Dugum, said this in Uyo while briefing newsmen on the collaboration between the EFCC and […]
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Benin Zonal Office, on Monday announced the arrest of 113 internet fraudsters in Edo, Delta and Ondo states. Those arrested, in collaboration with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, include a female suspected cyber fraudster who allegedly worked in collaboration with foreign counterparts on the dark web. Benin Zonal […]
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Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission from its South East Zonal office in Enugu State on Friday morning stormed Owerri, the Imo state capital arresting a number of cybercrime suspects. This is coming less than six days the anti-graft agents swooped on boys suspected to be into cybercrime at their abode at the […]
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The police in Ekiti state have arrested a 39 -year-old man who allegedly killed her landlady, after raping her to death in Ado Ekiti. The 39-year-old tailor and mother of three was killed last week Thursday allegedly by the accused. The command also arrested two serial rapists who allegedly raped a girl at Olorunda area […]
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Police Public Relations Officer of the FCT Command, DSP Anjuguri Manzah, has appealed to victims of rape to speak out and cooperate with police prosecutors to get justice. Manzah who made the called in an interview on Thursday said such would help to weed the society of perpetrators of such crime. He was speaking on […]
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