Abiodun Taiwo, Abeokuta Determined to prevent road crashes, especially at night and incidents of armed robbery, Ogun State government has embarked on ‘Let there be Light’ project aimed at installing and activating street lights in major towns across the state. Governor Dapo Abiodun, who made this known at a test run of the project on […]
The police command in Kano State says it arrested 154 suspects for armed robbery and other crimes in the last three months. DSP Abdullahi Haruna, spokesperson for the command, said this in a statement on Sunday in Kano. Haruna said the suspects were arrested at different times and locations in various raids conducted under the […]
Chioma Joseph, Lagos. A 23-year-old dismissed soldier, Friday Domozu, who allegedly led a notorious kidnap cum armed robbery gang that abducted a six-year-old girl, Farida Yahaya, and later beheaded her in Kogi state, has been arrested. Preliminary investigation revealed that the girl and her 14-year-old brother, Abdulraheem Ibrahim, were abducted from their parents house in […]
The Police on Wednesday said 25 suspects have been arrested in connection with kidnapping, armed robbery, murder, cattle rustling, unlawful possession of weapons and other violent crimes across the country. Force Public Relations Officers (FPRO), Frank Mba, disclosed this at a media briefing in Abuja. He said that a total of five AK-47 rifles with […]
Three armed robbers were on Wednesday set ablaze by angry mob in a failed bank robbery which occurred at First Bank, Okeho in Kajola Local Government Area of Oyo State. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered that the robbers, who were armed with AK 47 riffles and dynamite, attempted to rob the bank in […]
The Inspector-General of Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT) has arrested a student of Adamawa State Polytechnic, Felix Agrema, and four of his gang members, notorious for armed robbery, kidnappings and killings in Southern Taraba. Felix claimed he joined the gang, led by his elder brother, Joe Agrema, still at large, in March 2020. Preliminary investigations […]
Lagos – Justice Oluwatoyin Ipaye of Igbosere High Court in Lagos, on Wednesday, sentenced two men, Williams Udoh and Ubong Isaiah, to death by hanging for armed robbery and rape. She also sentenced Udoh to 21 years imprisonment for raping a married woman during their robbery operation. The duo had been arraigned by the Lagos […]
An Igbosere High Court in Lagos state on Tuesday discharged and acquitted a man, Jelili Dimeji, of a four-count armed robbery charge brought against him five years ago. The Lagos state government had accused Dimeji of robbing some valuables from an apartment in Ikotun in 2015. In her judgment during virtual proceedings, Justice Oluwatoyin Ipaye […]
…Threaten to invoke curses on robbers, kidnappers, others Following the unabated security challenges in Delta state, traditional rulers at the weekend raised concerns over the upsurge in kidnappings, armed robbery, rape, land tussle, cultism and herdsmen attacks, warning that they may be forced to invoke curses on the perpetrators. The traditional rulers accused the security […]
Lagos state Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, has stated that 1,182 suspects were arrested by operatives of the command for armed robbery, kidnapping, murder and other crimes, since he assumed office. Reading a scorecard on the activities of the command in the last 119 days, Odumosu said the command recorded 10 cases of suicide, while […]
Police in Plateau have killed a notorious kidnapper at Shimakarr village of Shandam Local Government Area and arrested three other suspects over criminal conspiracy and armed robbery in the state. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Isaac Akinmoyede, disclosed this while presenting the corpse and other suspects to newsmen on Wednesday in Jos.Akinmoyede […]
A High Court in Jos on Monday sentenced two men, Dayabu Ahmad 20, and Umar Aliyu, 21, to death by hanging for armed robbery. Justice S.P Gang, found the convicts guilty of criminal conspiracy and armed robbery. Court sentences artisan to 6 months imprisonment for stealing phones Delivering judgment, Gang held that going by the […]
A Kano Chief Magistrates’ Court, on Friday, ordered the remand of three men, Bala Muhammand, 35, Abdulmumin Suleiman, 47, and Abubakar Sani, 25, in custody for alleged armed robbery and possession of a gun. The defendants were arraigned on a five-count charge bordering on criminal conspiracy, armed robbery, kidnapping, cattle rustlers and illegal possession of […]
A serving soldier in the Nigerian Army, Daniel Okeke, notorious for the snatching motorbikes and armed robbery around the Ojo axis of Lagos has been arrested by men of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), of the Lagos State Police Command. The suspect who is attached to the Nigerian Army Corp of Supply and Transport, Bonny […]
A group, Mass Action for Good Governance (MAFGG), has pleaded with both the National Assembly and the federal government not play politics with the April 5, bloody armed robbery attack in Offa, Kwara State. Speaking with newsmen in Ilorin, the state capital, the group said while the police are entitled to carry out its legitimate […]
The last has not been heard about the indictment of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki in the April 5 Offa bank robbery as police on Wednesday said Saraki is still under investigation. Force Public Relations Officer, ACP Moshood Jimoh in a statement said “the Senate President, Sen. Bukola Saraki is still under investigation in connection […]
The heads of the various security agencies in Bayelsa State have resolved to raise their level of synergy in the fight against crimes and criminalities, particularly in the areas of armed robbery, piracy, cultism and kidnapping. This was part of the decisions reached at the 42nd State Security Council meeting held in Government House, Yenagoa. […]
An Ekiti State High Court Wednesday sentenced a man, Kingsley Okorowande, to death by hanging after being found guilty of armed robbery. Justice Lekan Ogunmoye who handed the death sentence, said the prosecution has proved the case against the convict beyond reasonable doubt therefore held that the offence committed by the convict was contrary to […]
The Bayelsa State Police Command on Thursday paraded 31 suspected criminals arrested for committing various offences ranging from cultism, kidnapping, armed robbery, etc. Parading the suspects during his maiden press briefing since assumption of duty in the state, the State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Don N. Awunah said, the strategic and operational support of the […]
A robbery suspect arrested by the operatives of Rapid Response squad (RRS) of the Lagos State Police Command has confessed that he robbed drunk club – goers of their phones, purse, gold rings and chains every early Saturday morning. The suspect, Nathaniel Peters, 28, was arrested in Abule Egba early Saturday morning during a search […]