A 28-year-old woman held up a Beirut bank Wednesday with a toy gun and walked out with thousands of dollars to pay for treatment for her ill sister, in a desperate heist cheered by many in crisis-hit Lebanon. It was the latest in a series of heists in Lebanon, where the savings of depositors have
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5 Dead As Armed Robbers Attack Banks in Kogi [Photos]
Robbers on Tuesday afternoon attacked the First Bank and Zenith Bank branches at Ankpa town, Ankpa Local Goveenment Area of Kogi State. The robbers were said to have operated for nearly an hour without resistance as they besieged the facilities in several vehicles including buses and saloon cars shooting sporadically. Eyewitness account claimed that they blew up
Read moreThree Bank Robbery Suspects Sentenced to Death by Hanging
Three men, Nuhu Jimoh, Ndubisi David and Aderibigbe Oluwaseun, arrested for armed robbery, have been sentenced to death by hanging by an Osun State High Court. In his judgement on Thursday, Justice Jide Falola of the High Court sitting in Ikirun, Osun State, found the men guilty of launching a coordinated attack on First Bank,
Read moreAtiku Commends Security Operatives for Foiling Abuja Bank Robbery
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has commended the security operatives for arriving at the scene of Abuja bank robbery on time to foil the attack. Atiku, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2019 general elections, called for improved security of the country and its people next year. “I am proud of
Read moreBank Robbery Goes Wrong, One Suspect Killed, Four Others Captured
The Federal Capital Territory Police Command and soldiers from the Guards Brigades on Saturday foiled a bank robbery in Mpape, a few metres from Maitama, Abuja. During the face-off, the security forces gunned down a suspect who attempted to escape and arrested four others on the premises of a bank where they holed up for
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