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  • Teenager kills friend over food in Lagos

    Teenager kills friend over food in Lagos

    Daniel Akindele, a teenager in Lagos has allegedly stabbed his friend, Ayo Bameke, to death in a fight over food.

    The incident took place at Abattoir Complex in the Agege area of Lagos State, sources told TheNewsGuru.

    The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of Lagos State Police Command, Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the incident.

    The police said Akindele was arraigned before the Yaba Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, on September 13, 2022, on the charge of murder.

    “The magistrate ordered the teenager’s remand thereafter,” the police told our correspondent.

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    It was gathered that Akindele and Bameke, alongside other friends, usually visited the complex to play football.

    On the day of the incident, our correspondent learnt that the duo and their friends visited the complex as usual.

    Bameke was said to have left his friends to buy food.

    He later returned to meet his friends at the complex and was said to be eating when Akindele, who was also hungry, requested to share in the food.

    The request reportedly created an argument that degenerated into a scuffle between the two friends.

    During the scuffle at the front of the Harmony Abattoir Management Services Limited, Bameke allegedly used a pair of scissors to injure Akindele.

    A security guard with the company, Segun Ijaola, while speaking to our correspondent during a visit to the scene, said Akindele overpowered Bameke, collected the scissors, and stabbed him in the chest.

    He said, “The teenagers were four in number and between the ages of 14 and 15 years. They are always together. Around 11am on that Saturday morning, they were in front of the Harmony Abattoir Management Services Limited. One of our female workers was on her way out to get something at the slab when she saw one of the boys (Bameke) lying on the ground.

    “While trying to ascertain what was wrong with the boy, she beckoned on the three friends to ask what happened. In the process, she discovered that Bameke had been stabbed in the left side of his chest with a pair of maternity scissors. Upon realising that Bameke was lying motionless on the ground, Akindele tried escaping but the woman apprehended him.

    “While questioning him, Akindele started confessing. He said Bameke was the one that used scissors to cut his hand before he collected the scissors and used it to stab the left side of his chest. Bameke was immediately rushed to Merit Hospital, Agege, by our company’s workers, but he was pronounced dead by the medical doctor. The corpse was taken to a mortuary.”

    A policemen attached to the Abattoir Police Station arrested the three friends, but during investigation, two of the suspects were released, while Akindele was detained.

    During a visit to the station, an officer, who declined to give a progress report on the matter to our correspondent, said the case had been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department, Yaba, for further investigation.

  • Armed men kidnap policemen in Ogun state

    Armed men kidnap policemen in Ogun state

    Armed men have kidnapped three policemen in Ogun State in broad daylight.

    The police officers were abducted on Thursday at Wasinmi, in Ewekoro Local Government Area of Ogun State, TheNewsGuru has learnt.

    The policemen were said to have been booked at the police division in Wasinmi before they left for their place of primary assignment, and further investigation revealed that the kidnapped cops arrived in Ogun State from Zone 2, Onikan, Lagos State, to investigate a crime.

    Led by Inspector Oladipo Olayemi, the officers were kidnapped on the road by their abductors, who allegedly accosted them at about 2:30 pm.

    The source said the commercial driver, who conveyed the cops, escaped by a whisker from the kidnappers, noting that the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in Ewekoro had led his men in search of the missing policemen.

    Contacted, the Ogun State Police Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, confirmed the incident.

    Oyeyemi said, “People were kidnapped, but only one policeman is involved.“

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    Oyeyemi added that the police are on the kidnappers’ trail, assuring the victims would be rescued.

    “We are on the trail of the kidnappers. Do you think we are going to keep quiet? We will get them and rescue the victims unhurt,” he said.

    He added that men of the anti-kidnapping unit are on the kidnappers’ trail.

  • Fraudsters hack bank, transfer N523,337,100 from account

    Fraudsters hack bank, transfer N523,337,100 from account

    Suspected fraudsters have hacked a customer’s account domiciled in an old generation bank and fraudulently transferred N523,337,100 from the account to 18 different accounts in the same bank.

    The revelation was made by the spokesperson for the Police Special Fraud Unit in Ikoyi, Lagos State, SP Eyitayo Johnson in a statement on Wednesday.

    The statement stressed that the suspects subsequently transferred the money from the 18 accounts into 225 other accounts domiciled in 22 other banks and financial institutions.

    He said the coordinated cyber-attack was carried out on Saturday, April 23, till the early hours of Monday April 25, 2022, before business opened, adding that two suspects had been arrested in connection to the crime.

    Johnson said, “The legal section of the Police Special Fraud Unit in Ikoyi-Lagos, headed by CSP E. A. Jackson, has successfully obtained an order of the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, for the preservation/forfeiture/attachment of a net sum of N523,337,100 fraudulently transferred by Internet fraudsters who hacked a customer’s account domiciled in one of the old-generation banks and posted the funds into 18 different accounts in the same bank before transmitting same to 225 other accounts in 22 banks/financial institutions.

    “In the course of the investigation, the sum of N160,287,071.47 was recovered from different banks; with two suspects arrested, while operatives are following other leads in order to apprehend the remaining members of the syndicate. The suspects will be charged to court as soon as investigations are concluded.”

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    In another development, Johnson said the legal section of the unit charged one Sikiru Olayinka along with his company, Excampo Nigeria Limited, to the Federal High Court, Ikoyi-Lagos, for offences bordering on fraudulent conversion and stealing of $123,000.00 being money wrongly transferred into his company’s domiciliary account on September 5, 2018.

    He said, “On receipt of the funds into his account, Sikiru Olawale, within hours, quickly visited the bank and transferred $120,000.00 in two tranches into accounts of his cronies. The bank made concerted efforts to recover the funds in order to channel same to the rightful account but Sikiru Olayinka refused and frustrated these efforts and continued to dissipate the money contrary to the provisions of Banks and Other Financial Institutions Act, 1991, and the Failed Banks Act, 1994.”

    Meanwhile, on Tuesday, September 15, 2022, Johnson said the PSFU arraigned one James Abidemi and his company, Diamondsmith De-Great Universal Petroleum Corporation, and others at large, before the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos for conspiracy and obtaining the sum of N396,999,080.00 by false pretences, fraudulent conversion and stealing.

    He said, “The complainant is a consulting firm with prime focus in assisting clients to source and render payment services in foreign exchange for goods and services around the world.

    “In furtherance to the memorandum of understanding between the consulting firm and the suspect, the suspect’s company, Diamondsmith De-Great Universal Petroleum, received the aforesaid sum in tranches, between May 23 to 28, 2022.

    “The money was meant for the purchase of $688,000.00 at an exchange rate of N577 per US Dollar and was supposed to remit the same as $250,000.00, $325,000.00, $100,000.00 and $13,000.00 to specified beneficiaries in mainland China and Hong Kong.”

    Johnson said the suspect provided fake telexes as proof of remittance to foreign business partners of the complainant while the money was actually diverted to another member of the syndicate, a banker based in Ghana, who dispersed the funds to several other accomplices.

    “Consequently, the PSFU has solicited the cooperation of INTERPOL to apprehend the remaining members of the syndicate that are outside Nigeria.

    “The Commissioner of Police, SFU, Anyasinti Nneka, has advised banks and financial institutions on the need to increase their cyber-security surveillance, conduct routine background checks on staff who have login privileges that could be compromised to make banks porous to cyber-attacks.

    “She equally enjoined the public on the need to investigate sources of unexpected inflows into their accounts. Where such funds are found to have been wrongly credited, the recipient should cooperate with their banks and make conscious efforts to reverse or re-route the same. Utilising such funds is a criminal offence,” the statement said.

  • Police arrest school headmaster impersonating ASP in Ibadan

    Police arrest school headmaster impersonating ASP in Ibadan

    A Grade Level 14 school teacher, Adebisi Ayodele has been arrested in Ibadan for impersonating as Assistant Superintendent of Police.

    Ayodele, who is an Assistant Headmaster in a school in Ogun State was paraded by Police before newsmen in Ibadan on Monday.

    He was alleged to have been going about parading himself as Assistant Superintendent of Police to unsuspecting members of the public for 13 years.

    Luck ran out on the suspect when he was arrested by the Special Oyo Police Operation Squad codenamed “Operation Restore Peace” on Sunday August 21, 2022, on Asejire road, Egbeda Local Government, Ibadan the capital city of Oyo State.

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    According to the police, two unexpended canisters were recovered from him.

    Answering questions from newsmen, Ayodele admitted that he had been impersonating the police for 13 years.

    Upon interrogation by the police, the suspect who has since admitted to committing the crime, confessed that his passion for the police job led him into the act.

    The Oyo State Police Command said it is still investigating the matter and that the suspect would be charged to cou

  • Nigeria Police gets electoral crime desk, arrest 24 in Nassarawa

    Nigeria Police gets electoral crime desk, arrest 24 in Nassarawa

    The Nigerian Police has set up an electoral crime desk to fight crime related to elections.

    With the conclusion of APC presidential primaries around the corner, the police in Nigeria is getting set for the full takeoff of political activities across the nation.

    The Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, approved the establishment of Electoral Offences Desk at the Force Criminal Investigations Department, Force Headquarters, in Abuja.

    This is contained in a statement made available to TheNewsGuru.com by Force Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi on Tuesday.

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    The desk has the Commissioner of Police, FCID, as the Desk Officer.

    The IGP also approved its establishment at State Commands across the nation with the Assistant Commissioners of Police in charge of the Criminal Investigation Departments as State Desk Officers.

    The statement partly reads, “The mandate of the Electoral Offences Desk Officers includes the collation and investigation of all electoral offences and complaints from members of the public or any quarters, with a view to determining culpability in line with the amended Electoral Act 2022, and proffering charges before Courts of competent jurisdiction for necessary legal action.”

    Meanwhile the police has arrested 24 political thugs in a hotel, Minki Suites, along Keffi-Akwanga road, Nasarawa State.

    The arrest was made possible when officers acted on a credible intelligence about the activities of the thugs.

    The thugs are suspected to be loyal to an aspirant in the Nasarawa-West Senatorial primary election, and came into the hotel in a convoy of seven private vehicles.

    Recovered items from the suspects include: eight pump action guns, two locally made revolver guns, 37 rounds of live cartridges, four bulletproof vests, 27 mobile phones, two pairs of vigilante uniforms, five cutlasses, 10 assorted knives, criminal charms, and other incriminating objects.

    Preliminary investigations revealed that the suspects are thugs for hire who carry out their nefarious activities under the guise of membership of the Vigilante Group of Nigeria (VGN).

  • Police rescues 13 passengers, kidnapper killed in gun battle

    Police rescues 13 passengers, kidnapper killed in gun battle

    Officers of the Nigerian Police on Sunday rescued 13 passengers whose vehicle was intercepted by kidnappers in Aniagbala, a Community on Ubulu-Uku express road in Aniocha South Local Government Area of Delta State, after a gun battle with their abductors.

     

    One of the suspected kidnappers was shot dead while one AK-17 riffle was recovered, DSP Bright Edafe, spokesperson of Delta Police Command said in a statement.

     

    According to Edafe a combined team of Police operatives attached to the Ogwashi-Uku Division and local vigilante went after the kidnappers immediately they got information that they had intercepted a 14-seater bus on the Aniagbala Community via Ubulu-Uku express road in Aniocha South Local Government Area.

     

    “Today, April 3, 2022, at about 0840 hours, information got to the Command that a gang of dare devil kidnappers had intercepted a 14-seater bus with Registration Number: M831-FJK.

     

    “The bus was intercepted on Aniagbala community via Ubulu-Uku express road in Aniocha South conveying 16 occupants.

     

    “Thirteen of the passengers were abducted and taken to the bush,” he said.

     

    Edafe said that upon receiving the information, the Commissioner of Police (CP), Delta Command, Mr Ari Ali, directed the DPO, Ogwashi-Uku Division to lead men into the bush and ensure that the suspects were arrested and the victims rescued unhurt.

     

    “Following the directives, the DPO, CSP Mohammed Naallah, swiftly led a combined team of Police operatives and Vigilantes into the bush and gave the hoodlums a hot chase.

     

    “In the course of the exchange of gun fire, one of the suspects who was hit, died on the spot while the other members of the gang escaped with bullet injuries,” he explained.

     

    The command’s spokesman said that all the 13 kidnapped victims were rescued alive and unhurt, adding that the bush was still being combed with a view to arresting the other fleeing members of the gang.

  • How Nigerian Police ignored three different intelligence reports on Imo attacks – Ex-DSS chief

    How Nigerian Police ignored three different intelligence reports on Imo attacks – Ex-DSS chief

    A former Assistant Director at the Department of State Services (DSS), Dennis Amachree on Thursday said the police were warned thrice before gunmen attacked a correctional facility and police headquarters facility in Imo State.

    Amachree revealed this in a monitored interview on Channels television on Thursday.

    TheNewsGuru.com, TNG reports that the attack, which took place on Monday, has been followed by another assault on a police facility in Imo State.

    Imo State Governor Hope Uzodinma has blamed the recent attacks on security facilities in the state on aggrieved politicians who aim to destabilise his government and that of President Muhammadu Buhari.

    But Amachree suggested on Thursday that such attacks, especially the Monday event, could have been averted if the police were on their toes.

    “There is enough actionable intelligence; actionable in the sense that it allows for space for people to execute it,” he said.

    “One week ahead of this particular event and 72 hours before the event and 48 hours before the event – so three times – the Nigeria police was informed that this was going to happen.

    “Some suspects that were being geolocated around the area were found surveilling the prisons and the police headquarters.

    “But you know, in our lackadaisical way, when the intelligence would come, they throw it by the side, and then of course when something happens, everybody runs around.”

    Amachree said the DSS could not have acted on its own intelligence because it is not “a fighting force.”

    “The actionable party is actually the police,” he said. “Because when they say a particular installation or facility is under threat, then the actionable party would go ahead to correct it.

    “The DSS is not a fighting force. They have a protective department that is basically responsible for the security of persons, VIPS. But when it comes to fighting, they always liaise with sister agencies, either the police or the military.”

    He stressed that “some people are just lazy to do their jobs” and advised that other states should learn from Lagos State.

    “Lagos, the same intelligence has been coming around and of course they have been proactive.

    “If it is happening in the North-East, it could happen in Lagos. (But) Lagos itself has taken proactive steps, especially when it comes to securing correctional facilities in the state. And I think that’s what other states should follow now because they can’t sit back and wait until it happens to them.”

  • IGP Adamu disowns suit against judicial panels, queries police legal officer

    IGP Adamu disowns suit against judicial panels, queries police legal officer

    The Nigerian Police have dissociated themselves from a suit challenging the legality of judicial panels of inquiry set up by state governors to probe the atrocities of the disbanded Special Armed Robbery Squad (SARS).

    According to a statement by Police spokesman, DCP Frank Mba, the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has directed immediate investigations into the suit.

    Even though the suit was not inspired by Adamu’s office, the police statement indicated that it came from the Legal Department.

    Mba said the Force Legal Officer has been queried and may face further sanctions if found guilty of dereliction of duty.

    Mba said Adamu has expressed the disapproval of the Force Management Team on the matter and ordered investigations into the alleged role of the Force Legal Section including its Head.

    “The IGP reiterates the commitment of the Force to fulfilling all its obligations with regards to the disbandment of the defunct SARS, the ongoing Judicial Panels and all other police reforms”, Mba said.

  • [Video] Rescued Lebanese Nollywood actor appreciates Nigerian police effort

    [Video] Rescued Lebanese Nollywood actor appreciates Nigerian police effort

    Nollywood actor Bilal Nosser, who was rescued from the hands of kidnappers by the Rivers state police command, was captured in a video that surfaced online, appreciating the Nigerian Police and their efforts. in the video, he prayed for the government to do more for the Nigerian police irrespective of the bad reports people have about the Nigerian police force

  • Court orders Police to pay N10m compensation for unlawful killing

    The Federal High Court in Ibadan, on Thursday ordered the Nigerian Police Force to pay N10 million as compensation to the family of Alidu Hakeem, a commercial driver shot dead by a policeman at Saki.

    Hakeem was shot to death by a police inspector, Ifeayin Onynbu on March 9, 2016 along Saki-Okere International Market road in Saki.

    Consequently, Hakeem’s son, Afeez, instituted a suit bordering on enforcement of fundamental human right against the police.

    Joined in the suit are the Inspector General of Police, Oyo State Police Commissioner, his Deputy and the Saki Police Divisional Headquarter.

    The plaintiff had prayed the court to award N500 million as compensation for the unlawful killing of his father.

    In the petition, the plaintiff said his father was shot in the head by Onynbu for refusing to give him an additional N100 bribe after he had collected the usual N100 paid by all commercial drivers at the police check point.

    The Judge, Justice Nathaniel Ayo-Emmanuel, in his ruling held that everyone has right to life and that deliberate killing of any individual in the society is against the law.

    The Judge held that Onynbu’s refusal to contradict or challenge any of the arguments and exhibits tendered against him, meant that the court shall accept them as the truth.

    “The applicant in this case has proved beyond reasonable doubt that Insp. Ifeayin Onynbu, the fifth respondent, committed the crime because he did nothing to defend himself despite the fact that he was aware of the case.

    “There is no evidence before the court contradicting the facts presented by the applicant in the matter.

    “I therefore believe same to be the true reflection of what happened before life was sniffed out of the deceased.

    “It is evidence from the record before this court that the applicant’s father had three wives and several children.

    “For this and many other reasons, a sum of N10 million is hereby awarded to the family of the deceased.

    “The Inspector General of Police is therefore directed to investigate this matter and bring the said Onynbu to justice,” ruled the Judge.

    Ayo-Emmanuel also indicted the first to the fourth respondents for complicity.

    He stressed that the Nigeria Police Force, Oyo State Commissioner of Police, Deputy Commissioner of Police and Divisional Police Headquarter at Saki were also responsible for the action of the fifth respondent, Onynbu.

    The Judge noted that the submissions of the first to fourth respondents were discountenanced because they were filed out of time as stipulated by law.

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