Category: Crime Beat

Armed men suspected to be kidnappers have stormed LGEA Primary School, Alwaza, in Doma LGA of Nasarawa State, and abducted scores of pupils. The abductors who whisked away unspecified number of the pupils, reportedly laid siege to the school while the children were reporting on Friday. The Police Public Relations Officer of the Nasarawa State […]

The Nigeria Police Command in Plateau State has arrested a Pastor who allegedly kidnapped himself several times and collected ransom from members of his congregation. DSP Alfred Alabo, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of the command disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday in Jos. ”The Police has uncovered the nefarious act of one […]

The Nigeria Police have quizzed a traditional ruler in Enugu State for allegedly ordering the burning of the corpse of a 9-year-old househelp, Precious korshima. The traditional ruler whose name was not given, spent hours with the Police before he was granted bail. Precious who was a househelp to Mrs Ujunwa Ugwoke of Fidelity Estate, […]

A 29-year-old lady in Plateau State, Lucy Jeremiah Tapnang, has attacked a gang of kidnappers, disarming one of them of his AK-47 and setting free three kidnapped victims in Barkin Ladi Local Government Area. The State Police Command spokesman, DSP Alfred Alabo, revealed to newsmen on Monday that last Tuesday, gunmen accosted and kidnapped some […]

A 22-year-old man has been arrested by the Enugu State Police Command for allegedly killing his sugar mummy and stealing her car. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Daniel Ndukwe, said in a statement that detectives attached to the homicide section of the State CID made the arrest. He said the detectives work­ing with operatives […]

The Commissioner of Police in Adamawa State, CP Sikiru Akande, has paraded 31 suspects arrested within the past week. The suspects, shown to newsmen on Monday at the state Police headquarters in Yola, included a woman, Aisha Mohammed, aged 25 years and  charged with beating her child to death. The other suspects included a 34-year-old […]

  A High Court in Ogun state has sentenced one Adelake Bara to death by hanging for shooting and killing one Olaleye Oke, who he accused of having illicit affairs with one of his three wives. This was according to a judgement delivered on Monday by Justice Patricia Oduniyi, who held that the prosecution had […]

There Ogun State Police Command has nabbed a man who sold his wife and son in two separate transactions for a total of N2 million. Police operatives have extracted facts to the effect that the man tricked his wife into the hands of human traffickers in Mali and then gave out his son in Nigeria […]

The Ondo State Security Agency, also known as Amotekun Corps, has arrested 19 suspected criminals in different parts of the state.   Among the suspects were two youths: Timilehin, 12 years old and nicknamed Anini, Sunday, 16 years old and called Oyenusi; and 20-year-old Odeyemi Ayodele, aka Osumbo.   Men of the underworld who once […]

  A pregnant housewife has allegedly collected a ransome of over N2 million from a rich facebook lover by pretending to the lover that she was kidnapped. Acting outside the knowledge of her husband and without the lover knowing that she was married and even pregnant, the woman, Jamila Ardo, gave the facebook lover the […]