A suspected kidnapper was on Thursday morning killed by combined forces of security agencies during a midnight shootout in a sprawling forest around the Ekiti and Kwara border. A source revealed to journalists in Ado Ekiti that the suspected abductor was killed by soldiers, police and a local security task force belonging to the Fulani […]
A notorious kidnapper, Ekweme Brown, popularly known as Lucifer has been shot dead by policemen in Rivers, an official said. Rivers Police Command Spokesman, DSP Nnamdi Omoni, confirmed the killing in a statement in Port Harcourt on Tuesday. Omoni said that Brown was killed during a sting operation launched by the police to apprehend the […]
The police in Lagos on Tuesday arraigned a 26-year-old man, Frank Amos, over alleged kidnap and dishonest receipt of N200,000 from the Lagos State Government. Amos was brought before an Ebute Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court on a four-count charge bordering on kidnap, fraud and stealing. The suspect pleaded not guilty to the charges. The Prosecutor, […]
A leader of a suspected kidnap gang in Ogun State identified as Oyewunmi Musa,has narrated how his gang got N8.5m as ransom from four of their victims’ relatives. Musa who was paraded alongside 10 other members of his syndicate at the Ogun State Police headquarters, confessed that his gang had kidnapped four victims and their […]
An irate mob on Monday lynched a suspected kidnapper at the Offa Garage end of Ilorin-Offa Road. The mob after lynching the suspect left her burnt corpse on the median of the road near a popular filling station and close to the NURTW motor park. Sources said the suspect attempedt to kidnap a set of […]
The Edo State Government has said that the recent arrests by the State Police Command of seven persons in connection with the murder of Prof. Paul Otasowie, a lecturer with the University of Benin, killers of three police officers who also kidnapped Andy Ehanire, the Chief Executive of Ogba Zoological Garden, justify Obaseki’s insistence on […]
The Nigeria Police has reacted to claims by the lawyer to billionaire kidnapper, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike known as Evans, Olukoya Ogungbeje, that officers of the Inspector General of Police’s Intelligence Response Team have extorted money and valuables worth over N50 million from his client since his arrest. Ogungbeje in a petition filed at the Police Service […]
The suspected high profile kidnapper, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, popularly known as Evans, will be arraigned before an Ikeja Division of the Lagos State High Court Wednesday, according to a police source. The suspect will be facing charges of armed robbery, kidnapping, and murder among others. A police source, who did not want to be namednsince he […]