Police A 23-year-old armed robbery suspect, Godwin Emmanuel, has confessed to stealing a police officer’s phone from a patrol van while being transported to the Osun State Police Command. City Round gathered that Emmanuel was arrested along with two other suspects, Olajide Kareem (28-year-old) and Emmanuel Mike (33-year-old) who allegedly robbed residents along the Ilesa-Osu…
Police deny chasing man to death in Lagos canal Credit: X|Omorhemi A yet-to-be-identified man has succumbed to the injuries he sustained after falling into a canal in an attempt to escape arrest by policemen who reportedly labelled him a fraudster in the Ayobo area of Ipaja, Lagos State. City Round gathered that a friend to…
Operatives of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested a couple (name withheld) attempting to sell their two-year-old son to travel to Canada. The command’s spokesperson, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed this to the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday in Lagos. Hundeyin said that the couple, aged 28 and 22, were apprehended on Tuesday while…
A UK court on Thursday jailed a man for removing without consent a condom that he was wearing during sex, in what London’s Metropolitan Police called a “milestone” legal case. Guy Mukendi, 39, of South London, was sentenced to four years and three months in prison after being convicted in April, the London force said….
The Rivers State Police Command said it has arrested one suspect, Emeka, who was suspected to have raped a pregnant woman, Mrs Chigbewejim Steward, to death. The suspect was said to have come with a gang of men who raped the victim to death in Abarikpo community of Ahoada East Local Government Area of the…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, March 14, 2024 dragged former Kogi State governor, Yahaya Adoza Bello before Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court, Maitama, Abuja for alleged N84billion money laundering offences, alongside his nephew Ali Bello, Dauda Sulaiman and Abdulsalam Hudu. The EFCC is prosecuting the quartet on an amended 17-count charge of money laundering, breach of trust and misappropriation of fund to…
By James Ogunnaike, Abeokuta A suspected ritual killer, Adebayo Olamide Azeez, has revealed the method he employed to lure and murder seven women through a ‘hookup’ app. The 32-year-old Azeez, who confessed to being part of a ritualist gang specialising in killing women for money, was paraded at the Ogun State headquarters of the Nigerian…
By Qosim Suleiman The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) said on Monday that it is taking disciplinary action against one of its personnel for alleged N500,000 extortion. The customs officer, Ibrahim Suleiman, was said to have extorted N500,000 from a car buyer named Muhammad Ahmad along Mokwa-Jebba Road in Niger State on 22 February. In a statement posted…
A 26-year-old woman, Omorogbe Soni, has been arraigned by the Lagos State Police Command for assault, after she was captured on camera assaulting a policeman in Ajah on February 21, 2024. The incident occurred when Soni engaged in a heated argument with the policewoman and subsequently pushed her, causing her to fall to the ground….
A 500-level veterinary medicine student of Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Kaduna State, has been arrested by the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps in Bauchi State for allegedly killing a 17-year-old. The suspect, Abdullahi Ibrahim, was said to have lured the teenage secondary student with his naked picture and enticed him to meet him for…
