A man identified as Michael Ogundele, a 30-year-old resident of Idiroko, in Ipokia Local Government Area of Ogun State, has shot his sister’s boyfriend, one Tobi Olabisi. Ogundele was arrested by the police following a report at Idiroko divisional police headquarters by a community leader identified as Alfa Akeem in Ihunbo town. The Police Public
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A kidnap victim, Sheu Anafi, has been rescued by operatives of the Ogun State Police Command. The operatives also arrested a suspected kidnapper, Ibraheem Abubakar, around the Kara Bridge end of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. The state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday. Oyeyemi said the arrest was
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An Octogenarian, Stephen Jack has been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly defiling an 8-year-old girl (name withheld). This was disclosed in a statement by the state police spokesperson, Abimbola Oyeyemi, on Saturday in Abeokuta. Oyeyemi said the 84-years-old who resides at Okun Owa area of Ijebu Ode was arrested following a
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The Benin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday March 24, 2021 arraigned the trio of Afekhai Aliu, Felix Victor and James Blessing Anne before Justice Efe Ikponwonba on a six count charge bordering on obtaining by false pretence. They are alleged to have defrauded one Ikhaigbode Jimoh Oya by
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Baoku Gbuyi, a 29-year-old herbalist, and a 27-year-old, Bricklayer Olamide Odulaja, have been arrested by detectives of the Ogun state police command. They were nabbed over the killing of a housewife Modupeola Folorunsho and her 4-year-old son Peter Folorunsho for money-making ritual. A statement released by DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, spokesperson of the state police command,
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A woman in the Ijebu North local government area of Ogun State, Morenike Salami, is currently battling for her life after some marauding herdsmen attacked her while visiting her building site and in the process, cut off one of her fingers and shattered her jaw. The attackers, said to be about eight in number, had
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The Ogun State Police Command on Thursday said it recovered N2,722,750 cash and drugs worth over N10 million after a drug cartel was raided in the Mayas area of Lafenwa, Abeokuta. The state Commissioner of Police, Edward Ajogun, disclosed this at the police headquarters, Eleweran, Abeokuta while displaying the exhibits. The police commissioner also explained
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Two persons suspected to be husband and wife were on Tuesday crushed to death in an accident involving a Toyota Camry car, Sino truck and a motorcycle around Odogbara, in Ogun State on Tuesday morning. Mr Babatunde Akinbiyi, Spokesperson, Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps in the state, confirmed the incident to the News Agency of
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Three persons are feared dead after being hit by stray bullets reportedly fired by operatives of the Nigeria Customs Service in Ayetoro, Yewa North Local Government Area of Ogun State. One of the victims, Sola, was reportedly shot while riding a motorcycle. The incident happened at the Kikelomo area in Ayetoro early morning on Tuesday.
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The Ogun state Police Command has arrested the suspected operator of baby-making factories in Mowe and Ofada in the Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of the state, one Mrs Florence Ogbona. The command had recently busted two baby factories and freed more than 20 victims, including pregnant teenagers and children. The Police Public Relations Officer
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The police authorities in Lagos have recovered a stolen mace from the Ogun State House of Assembly, Abeokuta. In a statement issued on Friday by the Police Public Relations Officer, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, the mace was retrieved at Abule Ado area of the state by operatives attached to the Trade Fair Section. “The police operatives attached
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Suspected hoodlums on Thursday burgled the office of Speaker of Ogun State House of Assembly, Olakunle Oluomo and carted away the mace. Our correspondent gathered that the yet-to-be identified hoodlums, broke into the speaker’s office overnight to perpetrate the act. This incident was the second time unknown persons would break into the assembly within the
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Suspected hoodlums on Thursday abducted four police operatives and shot the Divisioner Police Officer at Aba Tuntun village in Ijebu-Igbo, Ijebu -North local government area of Ogun State. Our correspondent gathered that the trouble started after a team of policemen disarmed some hoodlums following a complaint by the village head that some hoodlums were in
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Four Lagos-based suspected cultists and two others have been arrested by men of the Ogun State Police Command in Odogbolu. The suspects were arrested while allegedly making arrangements to purchase a locally-made pistol for an operation. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, disclosed this on Wednesday in a statement. Oyeyemi
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The suburb of Ofada, Mowe, in the Obafemi-Owode local government area of Ogun state, were on shock as police command in the state busted a hidden baby factory and rescued 10 pregnant girls and babies. The state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Abimbola Oyeyemi, confirmed this on Wednesday, December 2, saying the operator of the
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