Crime
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Alleged N3bn fraud: Ex-HOS, Oyo-Ita, gets N100m bail
A temporary reprieve came for a former Head of Service of the Federation, Winifred Oyo-Ita, and two others, who were hauled up...
Two men arraigned in court for spitting on traffic police
For allegedly spittling on a traffic police on duty, two men have been apprehended and hauled up before a Chief Magistrates’...
Octogenarian-woman in fatal plunge from four-storey house
Amid a depressed atmosphere, an octogenarian-woman violently bade the world a goodbye as she punged headlong from a four-storey building in...
In Ekiti, man faces trial for sex romp with pregnant she-goat
After his arrest and interrogation, a 22-year-old man, Sunday Ogaji, who allegedly had sex romp with a pregnant she-goat in Ado Ekiti,...
Man, 25, breaks into church’s vigil, steals Holy Bible, phone, N53, 000
For allegedly breaking into and desecrating God’s temple and stealing a Holy Bible, money and phone during a vigil, 25-year-old Tope Dunsin...
Mile 2 blackspot: Lagos govt. demolishes kiosks, bus park, shanties used by bandits as hideouts
Following a Persecondnews report on the return of road traffic robbers and laying siege to blackspots in Lagos metropolis, the State Government...
Sagamu footballer killing: Trigger-happy SARS inspector for dismissal, prosecution – Police
The trigger-happy operative of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (FSARS) who allegedly killed the Assistant Captain of Remo Stars Football Club, Tiamiyu...
Teenage stealth thief hides in bank toilet, steals N340,000 at night
Outsmarting the security personnel, a16-year-old boy, Adekunle Ayomikun, sneaked into the toilet of a bank and took temporary shelter overnight to steal...
Ogun Gov. orders investigation into Remo Stars player’s killing by SARs
Upset by the killing of Remo Stars Football Club defender, Kazeem Tiamiyu, Ogun State Governor Dapo Abiodun, has ordered an investigation into the extra-judicial...
Deflowering, impregnating 14-year-old sachet water seller: Director, two others in police net
For allegedly deflowering and impregnating a 14-year-old sachet water hawker, three men, all employees of Sokoto State Urban and Regional Planning Board...
Four Civil Defence Corps officers abducted
… N30m ransom being negotiated for their release Again, gunmen who have been on the prowl in Kogi have kidnapped...
Enraged wife cuts husband’s tongue, nose
An angry wife has chopped off a piece of her husband tongue and nose in Imo state. Cherechi Okonko, a medical doctor,...
Nonplussed traffic wardens watch helplessly as deer-footed thief disappears with their loot
It was a wild goose chase for a police traffic warden whose bribes collected from motorists were spirited away by a yet-to-be apprended...
Rape of admission seeker: Unilag lecturer bags 21 years in jail
A part-time lecturer at the University of Lagos, Akoka, Afeez Baruwa, is to spend 21 years in jail for raping an 18-year-old...
2.5bn laundering: Magu wants Diezani extradited to face trial
For allegedly plundering Nigeria’s whopping $2.5 billion, former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs Diezani K. Alison-Madueke, should be extradited to face trial without...
State House, Abuja, Director assassinated
Some yet-to-be-identified assailants have killed a senior official of the State House, Abuja, Laetitia Naankang Dagan. Fagan, an Assistant Director...
