The Delta State Police Command on Sunday rescued 13 passengers from the kidnappers who hijacked a 14-seater bus along Aniagala Community via Ubulu-uku express road in Aniocha South LGA. A statement signed by DSP. Bright Edafe, the State Police Command Spokesperson says that the incident happened around 8:00a.m. Sixteen passengers were kidnapped and taken into the bush. Upon the instructions of the state Police Boss, CP. Ari Muhammed Ali, the DPO Ogwashi-Uku Division to lead men into the bush and ensure that the victims are rescued unhurt and also arrest the suspects. The statement stated further that the Divisional Police Officer,…
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A bus load of illicit drugs were intercepted at the Mile 2 area of Lagos on Sunday, April 3, 2022 by the Operatives of the Rapid Response Squad, RRS. Preliminary investigations reveal that the drugs which were loaded in a Lagos colour LT bus, with the registration number AGL 205 YD belonged to one Alhaji, better known as General in Mushin. The drugs according to a member of the drug syndicate said that they picked up the consignment, which has a street value of about N10,000,000.00, at Alaba Rago around 2200 hours yesterday for shipment to Mushin. According to the…
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA have arrested one Mrs. Remi Aluko for dealing in illicit drugs. This is a follow-up to a discovery in Oyo state, where a 17.6kg cannabis was transferred along with a suspect, Ramon Dauda to the state command of NDLEA by the Oyo/Osun Area Command of Nigerian Customs Service. Narcotic officers on patrol along Lagos-Ibadan expressway on Thursday 31st March also intercepted a consignment of 10kg cannabis and 12.1grams of amphetamine in a commercial bus. A follow-up operation in Ilesa, Osun State led to the arrest of the owner of the drug exhibits, Mrs.…
Again there was pandemonium around Ojuelegba area of Lagos as another truck fell off the bridge. About three passengers were reported trapped while sympathisers are assisting them. The truck laden with a container fell over from the Ojuelegba Bridge, inbound the National stadium. A sedan vehicle was trapped underneath with eyewitnesses claiming three victims are trapped underneath. The accident was said to have occurred around 8:30p.m on Saturday night.
Justice Ayokunle Faji of a Federal High Court in Lagos has sentenced a clearing and forwarding agent, Napoleon Osariemen, to 30 years imprisonment for unlawful importation of 2kg of cannabis sativa popularly called marijuana. The judge sentenced the convict after finding him guilty of the charge filed by National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA. Osariemen, his company, NAPOSA Cargo Logistics Investment Limited and Olasupo Olakemi, were first arraigned before the court in a charge FHC/L/475c/2016 in 2016 and all defendants pleaded not guilty to the charges of dealing with drugs and were admitted to bail in various terms. In his…
The defence in ongoing defilement trial of Nollywood actor Olanrewaju Omiyinka James alias Baba Ijesha, on Friday closed its case before an Ikeja Sexual Offences Court in Lagos State. While the trial judge Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo fixed June 6, for the adoption of final written addresson the case. At resumed hearing of the matter on Friday, the last of the defence witnesses, Mr. Olukayode Ogunbanjo, alias Pastor Jerosi, told the court that he had worked with the defendant for over 15 years in the entertainment industry. While being led in evidence by co-defence counsel, Kayode Olabiran, the Nollywood actor and a comedian…
A-20-year old girl (names withheld) on Thursday told an Ikeja Special Offences Court judge, Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo how her biological father, Akin Isaac alledgedly impregnated and aborted her pregnancy. Testifying on Thursday, the survivor said her father defiled her at age 17 during the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020. According to the prosecution witness, while being led in evidence by State Prosecutor, Y. A Alebiosu, she said prior to living with her father, she was staying with her grandmother. She narrated that her father asked her to come and live with him in 2019 so she can then go to a…
The absence of a co-defendant stalled the commencement of trial of the Managing Director of Cast Oil and Gas, Olatunji Amusan. The Special Fraud Unit, SFU, of the Nigeria Police is eager to commence the trial in the alleged $6.3million USD pressed against him. But the absence of the fourth defendant stalled the plan. The defendants including Sunny Amos Effiong and Augusta Energy S. A. Geneva in 2019 were accused of stealing 10,000 metrics tons of Automotive Gas Oil, AGO, valued at $6.3m. According to the charge, the defendants conspired to defraud Top Oil & Gas Development Ltd and its chairman, Chief…
A driver, Tunde Abela, 34-years-old who claimed he was victim of a robbery attack in the hands of Amarachukwu Asonta, 27-year-old female officer of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, and her colleague, Adebayo Ajayi, 32, has narrated how he was attacked by the NSCDC official on January 30, 2018 before Justice Oyindamola Ogala of the Lagos State High Court, Ikeja. The prosecution witness, Mr.Abela told the court that the male defendants was armed with guns at the time he was accosted. He alleged that both defendants were the culprits that highjacked from him an Iveco Container Truck…
The Lagos State Police Command through the Rapid Response Squad, RRS, is closing on on those behind violent crimes in Agege area of the State with the arrest of their notorious members of Awawa group. The suspects are: Abubakar Mohammed, 26, Nofiu Odusanya, 19, and Idowu Daramola, 22. This is in line with the directive of the Commander of RRS, two weeks ago when he directed the squad’s Decoy Team to gather intelligence on some of the people behind the increasing crime and violence around Agege and effect their arrests. The suspects are alleged to be members of the seven…