‘While approaching the hideout, the armed robbers took to their heels’ Operatives of Kwara State Police command have arrested three suspects who allegedly robbed and raped some female students of the Kwara State University, Malete, in the Moro Local Government Area of Kwara State. The suspects are Ridwan Abdulfatai (20); Ibrahim Akorede (25) and Aliyu
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‘A security alert being circulated on social media platforms in the Enugu State capital warned residents of Inyi, Achi, Ufuma, Umunze, Ajari and Arondiizogu to be careful and security conscious’ Gunmen on Sunday attacked Inyi police station in the Oji River council area of Enugu State, killing at least a policeman and burning the police
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‘…says she has been facing domestic violence, “There was even a time he used an axe to cut my body” A 48-year-old police officer’s wife, Mrs Bisola Olugbade, yesterday, narrated how she was brutalised by her husband, Saheed Olugbade, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, DSP, attached to Transport Section, Iyaganku Police Headquarters, Ibadan. Narrating her
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‘The suspect claimed the deceased was her granddaughter’ A 37-year old woman, Udeogu Chinelo has been arrested by operatives of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Anambra State Command for allegedly flogging her 3-year old granddaughter to death. The suspect, from Enugwu-Ukwu, but married in Nibo, Awka South Local Government
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‘Abubakar had reportedly fortified his brother with the newly prepared bulletproof charm’ Tragedy struck in Dutse Gogo community on Sunday, when a 12-year old Yusuf Abubakar, was shot dead by his elder brother Abubakar Abubakar, while testing the efficacy of a newly prepared ‘bulletproof’ charm. THE DAILY VENDOR learnt that the sad incident occurred on Sunday
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‘NAPTIP prosecutor told the court that the convicts committed the offences in November 2012’ A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has convicted and sentenced a retired policeman, Ariwayo Oloyede, aka Oyinbo, to one-year imprisonment for human trafficking. The ex-police officer was convicted alongside a Burkina Faso-based Nigerian, Christian Owanebi, who was handed seven years
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‘After a thorough search of the suspects, a gun, nine live cartridges were found in their possession’ Two suspected cultists, Sodiq Muftau, aka Mainama, and Surakat Toheeb, aka Elewedu, have been arrested by operatives of the Lagos State Police Command over alleged possession of a gun and substances suspected to be Indian hemp in the
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“The kidnap victims were taken deep into the forest at Ikpe Annang in Etim Ekpo LGA’ Two suspected kidnappers have been arrested by the Akwa Ibom state police command. THE DAILY VENDOR learnt that the kidnappers were part of the gang terrorizing people of Etim Ekpo local government area of the state. It was also
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‘Officers were said to have demanded N610,000 from the widow for investigation… she paid the money’ A 45-year-old widow, Olabisi Ayinla, has accused men of the State Criminal Investigation Department(CID) Yaba, Lagos State, of extorting N610,000 from her. Sources said that on August 27, Ayinla hired a truck to convey 15,000 litres of diesel, worth
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‘The Oyo Police Commissioner, CP Adebowale Williams has promised to make examples of the masterminds of the unfortunate attack’ Iganna community in the Iwajowa Local Government Area of Oyo State has been thrown into panic following an attack on the police station in the community. Sources claimed that the attack, which happened on Tuesday night, involved
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“The soldiers were moving in a Sienna bus when they were attacked by the hoodlums” Gunmen on Wednesday killed two soldiers and one unidentified civilian in Umunze, Orumba South local government area of the Anambra State. The incident happened around 2pm, opposite one of the new generation banks in the area. According to a source, the
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‘On that very day, the policemen were grossly at fault and we ensured that the policeman who shot the security guard faced the full wrath of the law’ A security guard, Koleosho Abayomi has demanded justice after a policeman allegedly shot him in his thigh at the Lekki Peninsula Scheme II, in the Eti Osa
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“The unknown gunmen stormed the area in two Lexus Jeeps and one Toyota Sienna bus” Unknown gunmen have again attacked a military checkpoint in Enugu State on Tuesday morning. A source said no fewer than two people are feared dead According to the report, the gunmen attacked the Army checkpoint at Obeagu-Amodu road in Enugu South
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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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Operatives of the Lagos State Police command have arrested three suspects at Poromope Estate, Ijede road in the Ikorodu area of the state. The suspects identified as Tukur Abdullah, Muazu Telim and Dahiru Idris, were caught with two buses, an unspecified number of live cartridges, three dismantled motorcycles, phones among other items. It was gathered
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