Tag: ekiti
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Amotekun arrests four suspected kidnappers in Ekiti
The Ekiti State Security Network Agency otherwise known as Amotekun Corps has arrested four persons suspected to be members of a kidnap unleashing terror in the state. The Corps Commander, Brig. General Joe Komolafe who made the disclosure on Friday while speaking with newsmen in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital. Komolafe said the suspected kidnappers were…
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Court sentences Assistant Commissioner of Police to life imprisonment
A High Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State capital has sentenced Assistant Commissioner of Police, Okubo Aboye to life imprisonment. The Police ACP was sentenced to life imprisonment alongside his mechanic, Niyi Ibrahim Afolabi who sold a stolen vehicle from kidnappers in the state to him. The Ekiti High Court also sentenced seven other persons,…
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Gunmen abduct petrol dealer in Ekiti
Gunmen on Sunday night captured a petroleum product dealer in Ado Ekiti, Alhaji Suleiman Akinbami. The sad incident happened at the victim’s filling station along Ado-Ijan Road in Ado Ekiti about 9 pm on Sunday. The Police Public Relations Officer for Ekiti State Police Command, Sunday Abutu, who confirmed the incident, said, “The command has…
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COVID-19: Ekiti re-imposes curfew, bans large public gatherings effective today
Ekiti has re-imposed fresh restrictions to movement and banned large public gatherings amid fears of the escalating second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the state. The Commissioner for Information and Civic Orientation, Akin Omole, announced on Sunday evening, in Ado Ekiti, that the state government had imposed a an 8.00 pm to 6.00 am…
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My abductors threatened marching me to Zamfara – Ekiti entrepreneur
A certain businessman, Mr Happiness Okunola who was kidnapped along the Isan-Iludun Ekiti Road on Christmas Day, gained his freedom on Monday as the efforts of Amotekun Corps and local hunters combing the expansive forest paid off. Okunola was allegedly released in a forest in Isapa community of Kwara State around 2pm on Monday. The…
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Amotekun deploys personnel on Ekiti roads
The Corps Commandant, Ekiti State Security Network Agency, Amotekun, Brig. Gen. Joe Komolafe, has placed personnel of the security outfit on alert and deployed them across the state to guarantee a hitch-free end-of-year celebrations. Komolafe said Amotekun personnel were in charge of major roads in the state to ward off criminal elements who might want…
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Abducted Chinese expatriate released after payment of N100m ransom in Ekiti
A Chinese expatriate kidnapped in Ekiti State has regained freedom after spending four days in captivity. The victim who was abducted on Friday evening, Nov 27, is one of the engineers handling the construction of new Ado-Iyin road. During the abduction, the gunmen at the construction site also killed a policeman attached to the Chinese…
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Gunmen kill policeman, abduct Chinese expatriate, injure another in Ekiti
Gunmen on Friday evening shot dead a policeman and kidnapped a Chinese handling the new Ado-Iyin road in Ekiti State. The gunmen, according to sources, attacked two Chinese nationals in the Ado-Ekiti end of the new road and shot dead a policeman in their entourage. It was gathered that while one Chinese was abducted, the…
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Nigeria’s most wanted robbery kingpin, ‘Shina Rambo’ resurfaces in Ekiti
One time Nigeria’s most wanted criminal, Shina Rambo, has resurfaced in the Ekiti capital professing that he is now a changed man working for God as a preacher of the gospel of Christ. He spoke on Sunday night on a weekend Yoruba programme monitored on Fresh FM Radio, Ado Ekiti, and anchored personally by prominent…
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Hoodlums invade Ekiti LG secretariat, destroy properties
Suspected hoodlums on Monday attacked the Ikole Local Government secretariat in Ekiti destroying properties estimated to be worth several millions of naira. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that suspects under the guise of #EndSARS protesters vandalised vehicles belonging to the local government, newly renovated office of Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) and that…