Crime & City Diary
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BREAKING: Security Agencies rescue 17 abducted commuters in Katsina
A combined security force has rescued 17 abducted passengers mostly males from the clutch of violent extremists in the Solar General Area of Batsari Local Government Area of Katsina State. A military source said the success followed a distress call received on May 11, 2024, at about noon. He said the Nigerian Army Team 9 Troops, in collaboration with the…
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NDLEA seizes 3 trailer loads of opioids, codeine bottles
…as elderly couple arrested for drug dealing in Ekiti, Benue… By Innocent Raphael The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) operatives have intercepted a significant haul of opioids in Lagos, seizing three trailer loads containing over 3.4 million pills and 344,000 bottles of codeine syrup at Abule Ado. NDLEA made the disclosure on Sunday among details of other operations in…
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Unknown gunmen assassinate FIRS employee in Abuja
By Innocent Raphael Tragedy struck in Maitama, Abuja, on Friday night as unidentified gunmen fatally shot Khalid Bichi, a middle-aged man and employee of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS). The incident reportedly occurred before 9 pm while Bichi was out to purchase food. Eyewitness reports indicate that the assailants, whose identities remain unknown, approached Bichi and opened fire, striking…
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EFCC cautions banks to stop supporting fraudulent customers
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has cautioned compliance officers of banks in Nigeria to stop disclosing the anti-graft agency’s investigative activities to their customers. EFCC Chairman, Ola Olukoyede, made the call through the Acting Zonal Director of the Ibadan Zonal Command of the EFCC, ACE I Hauwa Garba Ringim, during a stakeholders’ meeting with Compliance Officers of Banks…
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2 die in Lagos tanker fire accident
Two persons have died in a tanker fire accident in the Surulere area of Lagos State. The Director/CEO of the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service Margaret Adeseye, in a statement issued on Saturday, said the agency received a distress call late Friday about the tanker accident at the Ijesha end of the Cele link bridge in Surulere, Lagos. “At…
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Arrested Lagos gays narrate how they kidnap, extort, rape male victims
These are indeed evil days and strange things are happening. At the Lagos State Police Command Headquarters, Ikeja, eleven suspected criminals who were arrested in the highbrow Lekki area of the state have confessed that they belonged to a vicious gang of homosexuals that kidnap, extort and rape their male victims. Shockingly, they disclosed that their victims were only healthy-looking males…
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Body of trapped LAMATA worker found after 5 days search
Rescue authorities in Lagos State have found a drainage worker Tajudeen Amololo dead after a five-day search. The man was trapped in an underground tunnel at the Onipanu Bus Stop around Fadeyi in Lagos while he was desilting the drainage. While rescue agencies had launched a search and rescue operation since then, the drainage worker was later found dead after…
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EFCC nabs 25 over internet fraud in Ilorin
By Mosunmola Ayobami, Ilorin The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested twenty-five persons for offences bordering on suspected internet fraud. According to EFCC Ilorin Zonal Office, the suspects were arrested during two separate sting operations at various locations in Ilorin, Kwara State following intelligence about the activities of some suspected internet fraudsters operating within the State. The Commission…
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Ogun Police nabs motorcyclist for sexually assaulting female passenger
A motorcyclist, Afeez Mustapha, has been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a female passenger in Ogun State. Spokesperson for Ogun Police Command, Omolola Odutola, confirmed the arrest in a statement posted on X on Friday. Odutola noted that Mustapha was conveying the female passenger to a destination when he suddenly changed direction by taking another route different from that of…
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Oyo Police intensifies security on Lagos-Ibadan expressway
… As HURIWA condemns abduction… By Innocent Raphael The Oyo State Police Command has bolstered security efforts by deploying additional personnel along the route. This is in response to the recent surge in kidnapping and robbery incidents along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway. Olu-Ode of Oyo State, commonly known as Ege, confirmed the proactive steps taken by stating, “We have engaged with…
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