Category: CRIME
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Missing placenta: Ondo Nurses Association distances self from arrested suspects
The Ondo State Chapter of the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) has dissociated any of its members from the case of alleged missing placenta of a new born baby at Emure-Ile Comprehensive Health Centre in Owo Local Government Area of the State. In a Press Statement signed by the Chairman of the…
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Update: Kidnapped Chief Imam Regains Freedom In Ondo
Report reaching us indicates that the Chief Imam of Uso community in Owo Local Government Area of Ondo State, Alhaji Ibrahim Bodunde Oyinlade who was abducted yesterday, has been regained his freedom. He was released by his abductors this evening around the town along Owo-Akure Highway.
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NDLEA nabs two Qatar-based drug lords at Lagos Airport
Qatar-based drug kingpins, Eyah Celestine Nnamdi, alias Murphy and Ugwuoke Peter Oluchukwu have been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA following the interception of their methamphetamine consignment at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja Lagos. Ugwuoke was the first to be arrested on 9th June during the outward clearance…
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Tragedy: Assembly member dies few days after inauguration
A member representing Chikun Constituency in the Kaduna House of Assembly under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, Madami Garba Madami, is dead. Madami died in the hospital where he was receiving treatment on Saturday, three days after the inauguration. The 10th State Assembly members were inaugurated on June 13, 2023, and the late…
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NDLEA uncovers Meth Lab in Lagos residential community, recovers packs of illicit drug
. Intercepts UK-bound skunk in native black soap; tramadol pills in women hairOperatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have uncovered a secret laboratory producing deadly illicit substance, Methamphetamine, in a residential community located in Ikeja Lagos state where already packaged sachets of the drug and various precursor chemicals used in the production were recovered.The clandestine laboratory located at No. 4 Bode Oluwo Street, Mende,…
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Timothy’s Murder: Hotel Receptionist bags two-year jail term
The receptionist on duty at Hilton Hotel, Ile-Ife, Osun State, on the day an ex Masters student of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Timothy Adegoke, arrived at the facility, Adedeji Adesola, has been sentenced to two years imprisonment. Adesola’s sentence was pronounced at the sitting of the court on Wednesday by Osun State Chief Judge,…
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Ondo Police nabs palmwine tapper over death of Octogenarian
The Ondo State Police Command on Saturday said it had arrested a man, identified as Sunday, in connection with the death of an 80-year-old woman in the state. The body of the octogenarian was found inside her farm in the Costain axis of the local government following suspicion that she had been raped before her…
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SERIOUS ASSAULT ON POLICE OFFICER: IGP CONDEMNS ACT, ORDERS IMMEDIATE ARREST OF SEUN KUTI
The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba, CFR has ordered the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Command to arrest Afrobeat singer, Seun Kuti, who was captured on video assaulting a police officer in uniform. The IGP has equally ordered a speedy and full investigation into the remote and immediate cause(s) of the assault and…
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Court orders remand of security man for alleged murder
A Chief Magistrate’s Court sitting at Oke-Eda, Akure, the Ondo state capital, has ordered the remand of a 28-year-old security man, Sunday Michael, at the Ondo Correctional Centre over the alleged killing of 32-year-old Akintomiwa Owoseeni. It was gathered that the accused, who was arraigned on a lone count of murder, was arrested by men…
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Court remands suspects over alleged murder of Akure driver
A chief magistrate court sitting in Akure, the Ondo state capital, has remanded two of the five suspects brought before it over the alleged murder of 25-year-old Temitope Olorunfemi on the allegation of being a “yahoo boy”. The two suspects, Victor Amos, 30, and Pelumi Farotimi, 42, were ordered to be remanded at the Olokuta…