Tag: Suspect
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Detained gay pastor attempts to molest suspect in cell
A self-acclaimed reverend, Chizemdere Ezuma arrested for infecting a 16-year-old boy, Shedrack, with human immunodeficiency virus has created a stir in police custody. Ezuma allegedly made advances at a male suspect with whom he was kept in a cell at the Lagos State Police Command headquarters in Ikeja and attempted to molest him. The suspect…
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Elections: Police nab suspect who led attack on DCP in Bayelsa
From Jonas Ike, Abuja The Police on Friday said that they have arrested Hon. Sunny Adi, the mastermind and ringleader of the irresponsible, unprovoked and unwarranted attack on a Deputy Commissioner of Police, DCP Kola Okunola in Twon, Brass, Bayelsa State, on Sunday, February 24, 2019. They also said that two other persons arrested in…
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Police arrest three suspects with two new-born babies
The Nigeria Police Force has arrested three suspects in possession of two new born babies at the Idi-Iroko border post in Ogun. The suspects are: Emmanuel Elesuwa, 44, Chioma David, 33 and Chief Lilian Achumba, 5, owner of Nma Charity Home in Aba. CSP Aremu Adeniran, the Deputy Force Public Relations Officer disclosed this in…
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Why I killed Ekiti monarch – Suspect
The suspect who allegedly stabbed the traditional ruler of Odo Oro Ekiti, Oba Gbadebo Ogunsakin to death, on Friday confessed to the crime, saying he carried out the act to reclaim the throne. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the 40-year-old Omonoyi Ademola, who was said to be mentally unstable before the crime,…
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Police arrest 129 suspects for organising online gambling
The Police in southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality have arrested 129 suspects for organising online gambling, local police said on Thursday. Police in Jiulongpo District confiscated 69 computers and 265 mobile phones and froze more than four million yuan (around 595,000 dollars) involved in the case. More than 300 police raided the headquarters of the gambling…
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22 years after, Supreme Court acquits Otokoto suspect
The Supreme Court on Friday discharged and acquitted, Alban Ajaegbu, one of the accused in the celebrated case of the ritual killing of an 11-year-old boy, Ikechukuwu Okoronkwo, in 1996 in Owerri, Imo. The killing of the boy, a hawker, jolted Owerri, stoking riot and destructions by enraged residents that lasted for days in the…
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Drama as suspect breaks court windows, stabs self after receiving life imprisonment
There was drama at the Ekiti State High Court on Friday after one Ajewole Dada Fulani was sentenced to life imprisonment for rape. Ajewole, 24, was standing trial for robbing, kidnapping and raping two female students of the College of Education, Ikere-Ekiti on 7th November, 2015 along Ikere-Igbara Odo Road. The verdict was handed down…
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Drama as suspect tells magistrate ‘You’re too young to send me to jail’
There was drama in a Zimbabwean court when a suspect threatened to assault a magistrate, Caroline Tafira, whom he felt, as a female magistrate, lacked the capacity to adjudicate his case. Tatenda Mkanganwi of Tabungaidzwa village, who is charged with sexual assault, flew into a rage, stormed out of the dock and had to be…
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Police name Sen. Shehu Sani suspect in murder case
The police in Kaduna have named Senator Shehu Sani as a suspect in an ongoing homicide investigation. Consequently, Austin Iwar, the police commissioner in the state has written to the senator asking him to appear on April 30 at the Command Headquarters in Kaduna for questioning. “This is in connection with a case of criminal…
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Police arrest fleeing suspect in Imo Zenith Bank robbery one year after
The Imo State Police Command on Friday arrested the last member of the armed robbery gang that invaded a branch of Zenith Bank in the state. Recall that the armed robbery gang (numbering about four) killed two policemen and wounded another. The suspect was identified as Chinonso Gift Onwuegbuchulam, aka, Ogolo, from Obazu Mbieri in…