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by Citizens Platform A gang of robbers specialized in hijacking of commodity trailers have been apprehended by soldiers at the boundary town between Ekiti and Kogi States. Commander of the Internal Security outfit in the 32 Artillery Brigade in Akure, Ondo State, Col Muhammed Zubairu, who coordinated the arrest said the robbers have confessed to [...]
By Citizens Platform One of the wives of HRM Oharisi III, a traditional ruler in Ughelli kingdom Queen Gladys Oharisi was yesterday kidnapped by yet to be identified unknown gunmen. Eyewitness says the Queen who is a student of the Delta State University, Abraka was was intercepted on her way from school with a Toyota [...]
By Citizens platform A man identified as Ganiu Adeleke, 32 was on Friday arraigned before an Ibadan Chief Magistrates’ Court for allegedly biting off part of his neighbour’s ear. According to the prosecutor, Sgt. Foluke Adedosu, Adeleke committed the crime in the company of another person who is now at large. She alleged that the [...]
By Citizens Platform Godwin Ameah, a suspected marijuana dealer has been arrested by the Special Task-force, STF, in Jos, Plateau state with fifty-six 100kg bags marijuana. He was paraded on Friday at the STF headquarters in Jos before journalists. He was thereafter handed over to officials of the Nigeria Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA. According [...]
By Citizens Platform One Jackson Fabouwei, a.k.a Jasper Junior, a militant and suspected mastermind of the attack on some policemen in the creek of Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State in April, on Friday narrated how he and his gang killed eleven of the cops. The attack was reportedly was targeted at an ex-militant leader, [...]
By Citizens Platform The Supreme Court on Friday affirmed the life sentence slammed on a dismissed Naval Chief, Felix Olanrewaju Odunlami, by the General Court Martial and the Court of Appeal, Lagos, for murdering a commercial motorcycle rider in Lagos. In a lead judgment delivered by Justice Bode Rhodes-Vivour, the apex court held that the appellant’s defence [...]
By Citizens Platform Two men, Moses Paul, 30, and Ogunremi Kehinde, 30 have been remanded in Ikoyi Prison, Lagos State after being arraigned before a Magistrate’s court in Yaba for allegedly killing one Murisiku Abdullahi in October 2012. Both men allegedly beat the victim mercilessly with their fists till he was unconscious at Hi-tech Construction Company Nigeria, [...]
By Citizens platform The Lagos Police Command says it arrested two suspected kidnappers who allegedly kidnapped two persons, including a five-year-old boy. The spokesperson for the command, DSP Ngozi Braide, on Thursday in Lagos said the victims were rescued and that the child had been returned to his parents. “On May 29, at about 12 [...]
By Citizens Platform The Zone 5 Police Command, Benin, has demoted a police inspector, and dismissed another policeman, a station guard, over the rape of one Mrs. Esse Ozegbe, detained in the same cell with two men at the Abraka police station in neighbouring Delta State. A suit has also been instituted against the Nigerian [...]
By Citizens platform The Spanish police have nabbed a group of people who smuggle women from Nigeria into Spain and force them into street prostitution using voodoo rituals. According to the Police, the pimps usually come to Nigeria to look for young girls for the illicit trade in European countries. The unsuspecting girls who believe [...]
