CRIMEBEAT

By Raymond Osho SHAGAMU: An Ogun State High Court sitting in Sagamu on Wednesday, October 30, 2019, ordered that a notorious land grabber, Kamorudeen Lamina, popularly known as Sir. K. Oluwo, be remanded at the Sagamu Corrections Center pending the time when his counsel will file application for his bail. …

By Raymond Osho IMEKO: A 30-year-old man, Solomon Ogundetu has been arrested by operatives of the Ogun State Police Command for defiling his 12-year-old daughter (name undisclosed). One Alhaji Obamuyiwa Semiu had reported at Imeko Divisional headquarters of Ogun State Police Command that the victim who is primary school pupil …

By Raymond Osho ABEOKUTA: A-33-year old man, Olabowale Samuel has been arrested by men of Ogun State Police Command for allegedly defiling a- 7-year old girl (name withheld). The suspect’s prompt arrest followed a complaint made by her father at Sagamu Police Station that he came back from work in …

ABUJA: The Department of State Services (DSS), in a combined operation, on September 30, 2019, has arrested Abdulrasheed Maina, former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT). According to a release signed and made available to the media by Dr. Peter Afunanya, Public Relations Officer, Department of State Services, …

ABUJA: The professional photographer and wife of R&B singer, Timi Dakolo, and justice-seeking socialite, Busola Dakolo has said that she did not make any personal financial demands amounting to N10 million as widely reported after she filed a suit against Pastor Abiodun Fatoyinbo at the High Court in the Federal …

The Department of State Services in Kano State has arrested, Muhammad Akazakwai, a suspected kidnap kingpin said to have masterminded the recent attack on the Deputy Governor of Nasarawa State, Emmanuel Akabe, where three policemen and a civilian were shot dead. It was reported that Muhammad Akazakwai was arrested at …

The Inspector General of Police (IGP) Mohammed Adamu has commended his men for the perseverance and painstaking efforts exhibited that led to the arrest of suspected notorious kidnap kingpin Alhaji Hamisu Bala, popularly known as Wadume. According to a report from News Agency of Nigeria (NANA), Adamu gave the commendation …

An alleged notorious phone dealer, Yusuph Da-Silva, 28, popularly called ‘Da-Gold’, in Computer Village, Ikeja and Ifako Ijaiye area of Lagos, who specialized in buying mobile phones from armed robbers, cultists and pickpockets operating in Ogun and Lagos State has disclosed that he buys over 30 phones a week and …

Justice Archibong Archibong of the Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in Uyo, on Wednesday, August 7, 2019, convicted and sentenced namesake Archibong Effiong Edem to seven years imprisonment over N28.2 million fraud. The convict was arraigned by the Port Harcourt’s Zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission …

Less than 25 minutes after unknown gunmen shot dead the Catholic Priest, Rev Fr. Paul Offu last Thursday, his bank account was emptied by a yet to be identified person who was said to have made frantic and frequent withdrawals until the last money was withdrawn, according to a reliable …