A bricklayer, recently arrested alongside four others for robbery and murder said he has lost count of the number of people he killed. The suspect who lives in Ikire, Osun State, his friend and three others paraded by the state police command in Osogbo allegedly conspired with others and killed a petrol station manager, Fatai […]
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A 24-year-old photographer, Olabode Adekunle, shares with Godfrey George his experience in the hands of kidnappers who abducted him along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway after his vehicle had a flat tyre. Excerpts: What is your name? My name is Olabode Adekunle. I live in Magboro, Ogun State. I am 24 years old. I am a photographer. […]
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An Ikeja Special Offences Court has sentenced a domestic worker, Genesis Ezebong, his brother, Micheal and one Ikade Moses, to life imprisonment for armed robbery in the Palm Groove area of Lagos State. Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo who handed down the verdict, found the trio guilty of the offence of conspiracy and armed robbery preferred against […]
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Police Inspector General, Baba Usman The Police Command in Osun on Sunday said a 19-year-old student of Ipetu-Ijesa College of Technology, Olonade Tomiwa, committed suicide in Ilesa. This is contained in a statement by the Police Public Relations Officer of the command, SP Yemisi Opalola, in Osogbo. Opalola said the deceased was found hanging dead […]
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Ondo Police Commissioner, Oyeyemi Oyediran Ondo State Police Command has arrested the suspected killers of a security guard at a petrol filling at Osi and three other murder suspects. A statement by the police spokeswoman in the state, SP Funmilayo Odunlami said they were among ten crime suspects arrested in the state between July and […]
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Govt vows to rescue victims Says State won’t be haven for kidnappers, bandits Kidnappers of funeral guests who were picked along Owo/Benin highway in Ifon, Ose local government area of Ondo State at the weekend, have contacted the victims’ families demanding ransom ranging between N3 million and N10 million. This was confirmed on Monday by […]
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Cannabis; Photo: NAN Katsina State Police Command says it has intercepted 185 sealed parcels of cannabis sativa, known as Indian hemp, and arrested a 58-year-old man suspected to be in possession of the exhibit. Police spokesperson in the state, SP Gambo Isah who disclosed this in a statement on Sunday in Katsina, said two suspected […]
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Gunmen on Saturday abducted scores of travelers on the Benin-Owo Expressway in Ifon, the headquarters of Ose Local Government Area of Ondo State. The number of victims could not be ascertained as some sources said the victims were over 40 while others gave their number as 32. One of the sources at the town who […]
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Ondo State Police Commissioner, Oyeyemi Oyediran A missing Director in the Ondo State Teaching Service Commission (TESCOM), Mr Gbenga Olofinmoyegun, has been found dead, according to the police. Confirming the incident to NAN in Akure, the state capital, on Sunday, the state police command spokeswoman, SP Funmilayo Odunlami, said that the mutilated corpse of the […]
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In the following touching story, Olamide Famuwagun captures the anguish of parents in a Lagos slum over the unknown whereabouts of their children: Hot tears rolled down the distraught face of 57-year-old tyre repairer, Oriyomi Onikoyi, while recounting the agony of his four-year-old daughter, Alimot’s disappearance in the Otto Ilogbo community in Ebute Metta, Lagos. […]
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