Tag: Criminal
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Police arrest, parade kidnappers of Greenfield Varsity students
The Force Intelligence Bureau Special Tactical Squad (FIB-STS) operatives, following directives from the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba, to clampdown on the perpetrators of crimes and criminality, as well as cutting off their supply of arms have successfully effected the arrest of 31 suspects connected with major violent crimes including Kidnapping, Culpable Homicide,…
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Sanwo-Olu signs new law prohibiting media parade of suspect by police
The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Tuesday, October 5, signed the Administration of Criminal Justice (Amendment) Law (ACJL) 2021. The state’s attorney-general and commissioner for justice Moyosore Onigbanjo, in a statement on Tuesday, said the governor signed the law on September 30, 2021. Mr Onigbanjo said the law was first passed in Lagos in…
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Apologise to Igboho, stop chasing him like criminal – Wole Soyinka tells FG
Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka has asked the Federal Government to apologise to Sunday Igboho after officials of the Department of State Services invaded his home and killed two of his associates. The DSS invaded Igboho’s house in Ibadan, Oyo State, early on Thursday based on intelligence it said it had received that he was stockpiling…
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Ortom expresses shock over killing of Benue’s most wanted criminal
Benue State Governor; Samuel Ortom has expressed shock over the interception of a government convoy, arrest and killing of Terwase Akwaza, aka Gana by military authorities. Governor Ortom made his feelings known on Wednesday at the Government House Makurdi while briefing Journalists on the state of the second amnesty programme of his administration which covers…
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Lawyer docked over alleged criminal intimidation
The police on Thursday arraigned a lawyer, Sunday Aroh, in a Kubwa Grade 1 Area Court, Abuja, over alleged criminal intimidation. Aroh was docked on charges bordering on criminal intimidation and inciting disturbance. The prosecutor, John Okpa told the court that one Suleiman Abdullahi reported the matter at the Kubwa Police Station on June 29.…
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Biafra: Nnamdi Kanu is a criminal – Northern Governors
…says Southeast politicians responsible for zone’s backwardness The Northern governors have described the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, as an ‘ordinary criminal’. The governors who made the remarks on the sidelines of their visit to the East following the crisis in the area said backwardness of the region is not because of…
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Police gun down criminal who led assassination attempt on Sen Melaye
Operatives of the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, on Sunday killed a notorious criminal identified as ‘Luckman’ who allegedly led his gang to Senator Dino Melaye’s house at Ayetoro-Gbede in an assassination attempt in April. TheNewsGuru.com reports that Luckman had been on the wanted list of the Kogi State Police Command after some of his members…
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I am not into ‘Yahoo Yahoo’, I’ll not appear before Osun magistrate – embattled Iwo monarch
…says allegations against him was a deliberate attempt to tarnish his name The Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulraheed Akanbi, has said he will not appear before a Magistrate’s Court in Osogbo, Osun State, which on Tuesday last week, issued a bench warrant for his arrest. The monarch also declared that he was not involved in…