Category: Crime

Culpable Homicide: Court grants Doguwa N500m bail

Aminu Imam

…Bars him from Kano guber election A Federal High Court in Kano has granted N500 million bail to Alhassan Ado Doguwa, majority leader of the House of Representatives. Following the widespread violence that led to deaths and arson in Tudun-Wada local government area of Kano during last week’s election, the police had arraigned Doguwa before a Magistrate’s Court on charges of criminal conspiracy, culpable homicide, arson and illegal possession of firearms among others. However, counsel to the accused, Nureini Jimoh (SAN), applied for an ex-parte order before Justice Muhammad Nasir…

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Human right violations by Soldiers: Investigation panel arrives Maiduguri

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

The Special Independent Investigative Panel on Human Rights Violations in the Counter Insurgency operations in the North East (SIIP-NE), has arrived Maiduguri for its assignment. The panel was constituted by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) following allegations by a foreign media organisation against the military operation in North East. The panel Chairman, Justice Abdu Aboki led members of the panel to the Theatre Command Headquarters of Operation Hadin Kai in Maiduguri, to solicit their cooperation in  unraveling the truth in the allegations of rights violations against the Nigerian military.…

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Gunmen miss Rev, Father abduct Catechist in Ikulu-Pari, Kaduna

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

Gunmen on Thursday abducted Mr Kefas Ishaya, the Catechist of St. Monica Catholic Church, Ikulu-Pari, in Chawai Chiefdom of Kauru Local Government, Kaduna State. The gunmen picked the Catechist when they could not get his boss, Rev Fr Joseph Shekari, who was not in when his residence was attacked. Fr Shekari, who was abducted in similar circumstances in February 2022, had travelled out of the village and was not available for a second ordeal in captivity. The Parish had held its annual Thanksgiving Service on Sunday and its members suspect…

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Alleged kidnapping: Police arrest 10 suspects, others in Jigawa

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

The Police Command in Jigawa says it has arrested ten suspects for alleged kidnapping and other offences in the state. The Police Commissioner, Emmanuel Ekot announced this while parading the suspects in Dutse on Tuesday. He said the police arrested four suspects, aged between 24 and 30, in connection with alleged kidnapping of one Alhaji Ahmadu Garba, on Nov. 11 at about 12:30 a.m. at Kwadabe village in Kiyawa Local Government Area of the state. Ekot said the command’s Special Investigation Bureau (SIB) acting on credible information trailed and succeeded…

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Buhari, presidential candidates condemn Raheem’s killing

Aminu Imam

President Muhammadu Buhari, as well as leading presidential candidates for Nigeria’s 2023 general elections have condemned the alleged extra-judicial killing of a Lagos-based lawyer, Bolanle Raheem by a trigger-happy Assistant Superintendent of Police, Drambi Vandi. The President, in an issued statement by his media aide, Garba Shehu, on Tuesday, condemned the “heinous and senseless”. Buhari said he was deeply shocked and saddened to learn of the brutal killing, and directed the Police authorities to take “the strongest possible action” against the culprit already held in detention. He assured the Late…

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INTERPOL arrests over 70 suspected fraudsters linked to Black Axe cult in Nigeria

Aminu Imam

The International Criminal Police Organisation, (Interpol), says it has arrested 75 persons linked to one of Nigeria’s biggest cult groups, Black Axe. In a report, Interpol said it coordinated a global operation, codenamed: ‘Operation Jackal’, specifically against Black Axe. The operation involved 14 countries across four continents from September 26 to September 30, 2022. The international police described the group as one that is “rapidly becoming a major security threat worldwide”. “Black Axe and similar groups are responsible for the majority of the world’s cyber-enabled financial fraud as well as…

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NDLEA intercepts over N1bn worth of 2.4m Tramadol pills from Pakistan at Lagos airport

Aminu Imam

Officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have intercepted over 2, 465, 000 tablets of tramadol worth N1 billion at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos. The tramadol tablets in 225mg and 250mg, weighing 2,356kg, were reportedly being imported from Pakistan. The NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi, in an issued statement yesterday, revealed that following credible intelligence, the Agency had shown interest in the consignment of 52 cartons that came into Nigeria from Karachi, Pakistan, with six different airway bills via an Ethiopian Airline flight, comprising seven cartons…

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Drama, as pickpocket breaches tight security, steal ex-VP Namadi Sambo’s phone in Abuja

Aminu Imam

A pickpocket has allegedly stolen the mobile phone of a former Nigerian vice president, Namadi Sambo, at the Nigeria Air Force (NAF) Conference Centre in Abuja. A former federal lawmaker, Senator Shehu Sani, who made this known yesterday, said someone breached the tight security line and stole Sambo’s phone at the on-going Solomon Lar’s book launch in Abuja. “It’s incredible that someone can breach the tight security line and steal the phone of the former VP Sambo at the on-going Late Governor Solomon Lar Book launch in Abuja”, he wrote…

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Lagos: NDLEA discovers N8.8bn worth of drugs in VGC mansion, impounds 13m Tramadol pills

Aminu Imam

…Arrests billionaire drug baron The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA), has said it has uncovered a large consignment of drugs worth N8.86billion from one of the mansions of the Chairman of AutoNation Motors Ltd, Ugochukwu Nsofor Chukwukadibia, in a highbrow residential estate in Lekki area of Lagos.   The substances are contained in hundreds of cartons kept in a house in Victoria Garden City (VGC) estate, which is mostly occupied by the rich, located along the Lekki-Ajah corridor. In an issued statement released yesterday by the agency’s Director of Media,…

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DSS arrests soldier ‘supplying guns to kidnappers’ in Abuja

Aminu Imam

Operatives of the Department of State Service (DSS) have reportedly arrested a soldier attached to the Muhammadu Buhari Cantonment in Tungan-Maje, in Abuja, for allegedly hiring and selling guns to kidnappers. The soldier was reportedly arrested last week during an operation carried out by the DSS in collaboration with members of the Vigilante Group around Dankogi Park, in Zuba, near the Federal Capital Territory, (FCT). According to a source, who spoke to newsmen, the DSS from Gwagwalada office sought the assistance of the local security group in Zuba to arrest…

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