The Osun State Police Command on Wednesday paraded a set of twins, Taiwo and Kehinde Adeleke, and seven other suspects arrested in different parts of the state for offences ranging from cultism to murder and robbery. Parading the suspects before journalists at the state police command headquarters in Osogbo, the …
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Ifasoji Ayangbesan, a suspected ritualist recently arrested by the police for his alleged involvement in the killing of a 26-year-old woman, Oyindamola Adeyemi in Ogun State, has confessed that he only bought the victim’s legs at N20,000. The 35-year-old Ayangbesan had been on the run since January when his other …
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A 42-year-old woman, Fatima Rahman, from Chad Republic has been remanded to the Ikoyi Custodial Centre for the alleged murder of her co-wife, Adizat, at her residence in Alejo Street, Ijede, in the Ikorodu area of Lagos State. Fatima was arraigned on Tuesday before Magistrate P. E Nwaka at a …
Read More »A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Chukwuma Machukwu-Ume, has petitioned the Inspector General of Police to immediately take measures to prosecute 30 individuals who used police uniforms to harass traders at the Area 7 Shopping Complex in Garki, Abuja. Machukwu-Ume in the letter dated April 28, 2023, said the dressing of …
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A Kenyan pastor who appeared in court Tuesday will face terrorism charges over the deaths of more than 100 people found buried in what has been dubbed the “Shakahola forest massacre,” prosecutors said. The deeply religious Christian-majority country has been stunned by the discovery of mass graves last month in …
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THE Nigeria Police Force (NPF) through their Seasoned Cybercrime Forensic and Intelligence Assets have nabbed a cyber crime kingpin one George Gift Ikata, 21. Networknews.ng learnt the suspect resides in Iwofe Rivers State hinterland but is an indigene of Abua local government area of the state. Further, it was disclosed …
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A gas leak killed 11 people in India on Sunday, an official said, in the latest deadly industrial accident in the vast developing economy of 1.4 billion people. The gas leak happened in Giaspura, an industrial area of Ludhiana in the northern state of Punjab.“Eleven deaths are confirmed,” Mandeep Singh …
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FOUR suspected robbers have been arrested by operatives of Ogun State Police Command, a month after they carried out an operation in the state. The suspects— Sherrif Kamoru (28), Rabiu Seyidu (37), Opeyemi Adebayo (26) and Ajibola Fakolade (21) —were members of a robbery syndicate terrorising Sango-Ota and its environs …
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THE Ogun State Police Command on Monday said it arrested four members of a robbery syndicate terrorising Sango-Ota and its environs. The police spokesman, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, said this in a statement in Ota, Ogun. Oyeyemi said the suspects were: Sherrif Kamoru, 28; Rabiu Seyidu, 37; Opeyemi Adebayo, 26, and …
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A 400-level student of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Oyo State, Oluwatobi Ogunmola, who was declared missing a few days ago, has been found dead. A campus source told our correspondent that his body was found hanging in a bush at Gambari, Ogbomoso, in the Surulere Local Government …
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