Crime

Tuesday, 14 September 2021 05:35

Gunmen blow up Kogi prison, kill 2 security guards, free inmates

Heavily armed gunmen raided a jail in Kogi state late on Sunday, blowing up the perimeter fence and freeing 266 inmates - almost everyone in the prison, authorities said. A soldier and a police officer were killed in the attack and two guards were missing, the interior ministry said. It was the second major jailbreak in Nigeria this year. The attackers used explosives to destroy the fence on three sides and fought a gun battle with guards at the medium-security prison at Kabba in Kogi State, southwest of the federal capital Abuja, authorities said. Nigeria is struggling with security problems…

Tuesday, 14 September 2021 05:32

Gunmen kill 11 in same Kaduna community pastor was murdered

An attack on Apiyejim-Kibori community in Zango-Kataf LGA of Kaduna state has left eleven people dead. The attack came less than 24 hours after the murder of Silas Yakubu Ali, a pastor of the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) in the same community. The attackers were said to have invaded the community at about 5:30pm on Sunday while it was raining. A resident of the community, who pleaded anonymity, said the gunmen shot sporadically after laying siege to the village. “They came at 5:30 pm on Sunday when it was raining. Suddenly we heard gunshots and everybody started running,” the…

Tuesday, 14 September 2021 05:31

Gunmen abduct four travelers in Ekiti

Gunmen on Monday abducted four passengers along the Ayetoro Ekiti–Otun Ekiti Road in Moba Local Government Area of Ekiti state. Sunday Abutu, the police spokesperson in the state, confirmed the incident and added that whereabouts of 32 other passengers were yet to be known. Abutu said action had begun to unravel those behind the abduction and efforts were being made to rescue the victims. “It is true there was a kidnap on Monday morning along that axis. “We heard the information and we have deployed our personnel there. “It began on Sunday evening when some suspected robbers attacked a man…

Friday, 10 September 2021 05:46

Gunmen waylay travelers on Ondo highway, abduct 12

Hours after their abduction, some of the kidnapped travellers in Ondo State have been rescued by men of the State Security Network Agency, also known as Amotekun. According to reports, the persons were kidnapped by bandits along the Ido-Ani-Ifira Expressway, in Akoko South-East Local Government Area of Ondo State on Tuesday. An 18-seater passenger bus conveying the victims was said to be heading towards Abuja from Lagos, when it was attacked. The bandits were said to have dragged the victims into the bush to an unknown destination. The state Commander of the Amotekun Corps, Adetunji Adeleye, said his men responded…

Thursday, 09 September 2021 05:50

Gunmen burn three policemen inside patrol van In Delta

Three officers of the Delta State Police Command have been shot dead, with their corpses set on fire. The officers attached to Umutu Divisional Police Headquarters, were killed at a checkpoint along the Obeti/Oliogo Road in Ukwuani Local Government Area of the state. Our correspondent gathered the hoodlums ambushed the deceased officers and burnt them inside their Toyota Sienna patrol van. “They were burnt beyond recognition in their patrol van”, an eyewitness said. The State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Bright Edafe, confirmed the killings but did not give details. Edafe also confirmed that operatives of Delta State Anti-Kidnapping and…

Thursday, 09 September 2021 05:49

Gunmen abduct three Obasanjo Holding’s top executives in Ogun

Gunmen have kidnapped three workers of former President, Olusegun Obasanjo at a village in Abeokuta on Wednesday. A source told our correspondent on Wednesday that the gunmen waylaid the three workers at the Obasanjo Holdings in Kobape in the Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area. The source said the workers abducted are the financial controller, group auditor and group store manager of the firm. The source said, “They were abducted around 4pm at Seseri village after their Hilux pick-up was shot at by the gunmen, who took them away. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, confirmed the incident. He said, …

Thursday, 09 September 2021 05:47

Gunmen kidnap 20 in Sokoto as bandits facing military onslaughts in Zamfara escape to state

Gunmen kidnapped 20 people in Sokoto State in northwest Nigeria, police said on Wednesday, in what a local government source described as a spillover from a crisis in neighbouring Zamfara State where a military crackdown is underway. Gangs of ransom seekers have been kidnapping children from their schools, villagers from their homes and travellers from their vehicles across northwest Nigeria since last December and authorities have been struggling to respond. Sanusi Abubakar, a police spokesman in Sokoto State, said gunmen had seized 20 people during an attack in the rural Dange-Shuni area. The kidnappers also seized livestock and food supplies,…

Wednesday, 08 September 2021 05:51

Gunmen kidnap 18 villagers in latest attack in Kaduna

Gunmen invaded a village in Kaduna state and kidnapped 18 residents including seven children, a community leader said on Tuesday, the latest in a wave of mass abductions disrupting every aspect of life in Northwest Nigeria. Gangs of ransom seekers have been kidnapping children from their schools, villagers from their homes and travellers from their vehicles across northwest Nigeria since last December. Suleiman Keke, a community leader in the village of Keke B on the outskirts of the state capital Kaduna, said gunmen on motorbikes arrived late on Monday night and went from house to house seizing children and their…

Wednesday, 08 September 2021 05:50

Bandits abduct Katsina College of Education deputy provost’s three sons

Three sons of Deputy Provost of Isa Kaita College of Education in Dutsinma, Katsina State, Isma’il Ado Funtua, have been kidnapped by bandits. A source close to Ado Funtua, who confirmed the incident, said the bandits invaded the campus and broke into the deputy provost’s residence around 11:30 p.m. on Monday, September 6. “Around 11:30 pm on Monday, four heavily armed terrorists entered the school premises and broke into the residence of the Deputy Provost of the college, Isma’il Ado Funtua, where they abducted three of his children,” the source, who pleaded anonymity, said. “When they arrived, his gateman was…

Tuesday, 07 September 2021 05:47

Bandits invade Katsina communities, kill two, abduct four children of village head

Armed bandits on Sunday night killed two people and kidnapped four children of a village head in separate attacks in Katsina State. Reports have it that the bandits entered Mahuta in Dandume local government area around 12:12 a.m. and started shooting sporadically to scare away people. A resident said two women were instantly killed during the attack while an elderly man died on Monday morning from wounds he sustained in the attack. “They abducted several people and as I speak with you now, many people have fled Mahuta for Dandume and Funtua. We are not yet sure how many have…

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Monday, 06 September 2021 05:51

Gunmen break into Katsina lawmaker’s home, abduct wife, children

Bandits invaded Kurami, hometown of Ibrahim Aminu Kurami, lawmaker representing Bakori constituency in Katsina House of Assembly, and abducted his wife and two children Saturday night. This happened nearly a year after the lawmaker himself was abducted. The bandits, who rode on motorbikes, blocked the Funtua-Katsina road for minutes while the abduction of the Kurami family went on at his home, a source said. “Immediately after Ishaa’i prayers we started hearing gun shots in the town. “The bandits went straight to the to the home of the House Member and made away with his wife and two children.” Meanwhile, last…

Monday, 06 September 2021 05:49

Woman, daughters abducted as gunmen break into another home in Abuja

A 45 year-old woman, Bukola Oladapo, and two of her daughters have been abducted at Pegi community in Kuje area council of Abuja. They were abducted two days after a father, Abdullahi Benda, and his 23 year-old son, Jibrin Abdullahi Benda, were kidnapped at Yangoji village, in Kwali Area council, of the FCT. Daughters of the woman involved in the fresh kidnap incident were identified as Moyo Oladapo, 17 years old, and Glory Oladapo, 14 years old. A resident simply identified as Abednego said the incident happened around 1:04 am on Sunday. He said the kidnappers, wielding AK-47 rifles, attacked…

Sunday, 05 September 2021 05:54

Gunmen kill Sowore’s brother, abduct 5 others - Police

Those who murdered the younger brother of Omoyele Sowore, Publisher of Sahara Reporters, abducted five persons, according to the police. Sowore had broken the news of Felix Olajide, his immediate younger brother, in a Facebook post Saturday morning. Describing the incident as shocking, the publisher said the law will catch up with his sibling’s killers. “My immediate younger brother, Olajide Sowore, was today shot and killed near Okada in Edo state by reportedly herdsmen/kidnappers on his way from Igbinedion University in Edo sate where he is studying Pharmacy,” Sowore wrote on Facebook. Confirming the tragic incident, Edo State Police Spoeksman,…

Saturday, 04 September 2021 05:43

US court jails Nigerian over $2.6m unemployment benefit fraud

Bamidele Muraina, a 34-year-old Nigerian, has been sentenced to 70 months in a US prison for fraudulently claiming unemployment insurance benefits worth $2.6 million. According to a press statement by the United States department of justice, northern district of Georgia, Muraina was convicted alongside 33-year-old Gabriel Kalembo. Muraina was said to have hacked into multiple tax preparation and accounting firms located in several states, including a Brunswick, Georgia-based accounting firm, between January 29, 2018, and April 2020. “Muraina obtained access to the firms’ accounts with a national tax preparation program, stole personally identifiable information from their clients, and filed more…

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