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Lagos State Police Commissioner, Imohimi Edgal, who was the guest today on Channels Television Breakfast Show, Sunrise, talked about Tagbo’s death and why Davido is being investigated. According to him, the singer’s response to the alleged murder incident is suspicious, which is why he’s being investigated. “I asked Davido that, ‘When you left that bar, did you have anything again to do with the deceased?’ What he said was that he was only informed by mutual friends in some other bar that the deceased had died and I took his word for it. “I called for further investigations, pulled the CCTV cameras from the General Hospital, only to discover that it was Davido’s escort Hilux van, his driver, his friends that brought Tagbo Umeike (the deceased) dead and dumped in the hospital then fled the scene.” Imohimi said this response by Davido raises suspicion, and that is what is been investigated by the police. “That raises curiosity and of course that’s what we are investi...

Three out of the six officers of the National Drug and Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), were killed by unknown gunmen while on their duty post around Federal College of Education (FCE) Okene by 8:30pm. The death of the officers identified as Onwumere Nicholas, Peter Ebun and Abraham Musa has been confirmed by the State’s commandant of the agency, Idris Bello. Idris also disclosed that NDLEA will be working with other security agency in the state, to arrest the perpetrators of the heinous act.

A certain young man met his untimely end at Tetlow by School Road Junction, in Owerri, Imo state capital. He was shot and robbed by some gunmen who trailed him from Skye Bank where he withdrew some money. According to screengist.com,.... the armed robbers/assassins had traced the man from sky bank at Douglas road where he made some withdrawal to the point where they shot him inside a Lexus RX 300 Jeep, dispossessed him of his cash (1million naira) and left him in the pool of his blood.

The Federal High Court in Lagos has on Wednesday ordered the seizure of a property located in Banana Island area of Lagos State belonging to former Minister of Petroleum Resources Allison-Madueke Diezani . The property, according to Punch , was bought in 2013 for $37.5m. The property reportedly contains 24 apartments, made up of 18 flats and 6 penthouses, according to court documents presented at the court by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The court also ordered the seizure of funds amounting to $2,740,197.96 and N84,537,840.70, which was reportedly rent received on the property. Anselem Ozioko , counsel for EFCC, told the judge Justice Chuka Obiozor  that Diezani made the $37.5m payment for the purchase of the property in cash, moving the money from her house into the seller’s account in First Bank, both in Abuja. He said: Nothing could be more suspicious than someone keeping such huge amounts in her apartment. Wh...

A 74-year-old Kano resident, Ashiru Suleiman has been remanded in prison custody by a Kano Magistrate court for allegedly raping his granddaughter, DailyPost learnt. Suleiman was arraigned before the court for defiling his 4-yr-old granddaughter and making attempt to rape another 5-yr-old daughter of his neighbour. The accused person, who was charged under section 283 of the Penal Code Law, was said to have lured his victims into former Shari’ah court’s building at Rijiyar Lemo to commit the offence. The case was reported to the police by one Suleiman Muhammad, the charge sheet, said. “Suleiman criminally deceived and lured his granddaughter and his neighbour’s daughter, aged 5, into Shari’ah court premises and raped his grandoughter. He was caught while trying to rape the second girl,” it added. The court also heard that the victim was rushed to a hospital for treatment of some injuries she sustained. When the charge was read to the accused, he pleaded guilty to t...

Three policemen attached to the Bariga Police Division, Lagos State, have been detained for allegedly chaining a suspect to a generator at the station. Although the identities of the erring cops were not disclosed, they were said to be facing orderly room trial for the misconduct. This is just as the state police command identified one Samson Agbetoye, aka Goldie, and Babatunde Saka, aka Anger, as the two principal suspects involved in the killing of Rasaq Bello, aka Hamburger, a former treasurer of the state Tricycle Operators Association, a branch of the National Union of Road Transport Workers. Hamburger was murdered in Sogunle, Oshodi, on May 29 after the council primaries of the All Progressives Congress in the area turned violent. Suspected robbers were also paraded on Tuesday at the command headquarters in Ikeja along with arms and ammunition recovered from them. PUNCH Metro learnt that the three policemen arrested the unidentified suspect on Sunday in t...

The Miami Police Department has finally revealed what was found in Dammy Krane’s wallet. The singer was arrested and released on bond following accusation that he was involved in credit card fraud. A report in New Miami Times said the police found Seven fake credit cards in the singer’s pockets. Dammy Krane was arrested on June 1, 2017 at Opa-locka Executive Airport in Miami Dade, Florida and the police have slammed a nine count felony charge at Miami Dade’s criminal court for credit card forgery and grand theft against the singer. Although Contrary to Dammy Krane’s claims, he said that the booking was done by his promoter and he had no idea that it was a fake credit card he used. But the Miami Police Department has said “Krane used one of those cards to book his flight and then gave TapJet two other fake cards when he was asked for backup cards for the travel.” whose real name is Oyindamola Emmanuel Johnson-Hunga’s trouble began after he used a ...

  The police in Imo State yesterday confronted a six man dear-devil armed robbery gang in a gun duel that lasted for over a half hour in the Orlu Local Government Area of the state. While four out of the six hoodlums escaped, the Police officers killed one and arrested the only female criminal among the gang . According to an eyewitness, the incident happened at the 7up depot in the Orlu town at noon. When Punch correspondent visited the Orlu police Area command office in Orlu town , the lifeless body of the killed robber and his female accomplice were seen, as people gathered to take a look at them. Confirming the incident, the state Commissioner of Police, Chris Ezike, told Punch correspondent that an alarm was raised when the gunmen invaded the 7up depot around noon which prompted police response. Ezike said “as at 12:30 pm on Friday, a six man armed robbery gang invaded a 7up company Depot in Orlu town . An alarm was raised by the citizens whi...

  An abduction carried out by the Evans gang on February 14 this year proved to be a fatal error as the captured businessman, Donatus Dunu, became the gang’s nemesis. Dunu is a pharmacist and the owner of Maydon Pharmaceutical Company, Ilupeju, Lagos. He had barely left his office in the evening of 14 February, the lovers day, when he was blocked by a vehicle. Before he knew it, Evans’ gun-wielding men had stepped out of the vehicle and bundled the pharmacist into their vehicle and sped off to No 21, Prophet Asaye Close, New Igando, a Lagos suburb where he was kept for three months. Evans subsequently demanded the payment of one million euro as ransom. Despite pleas by the family of Dunu to make Evans reduce the ransom, even after N100 million had been paid to him, he was adamant. He insisted on the one million euro or Dunu life. While looking for the money, Dunu’s wife, who is also a director of the company, staff members organized prayers for the s...

kidnap kingpin, Chukwudi Onuamadike (aka Evans), continue to come up,in his latest statement he explained how he and his gang once hijacked a bullion van and took N200m from it. Evans, who was apprehended in one of his mansions in Magodo Estate, Lagos, last Saturday, said the bullion van robbery, which was carried out on the Aba-Port-Harcourt Road in Abia State, was one of three of such. He told journalists on Friday, “In 2007, I travelled to South Africa to deal in drugs and returned to Lagos the following year after a customer, who did not want to pay for a drug I supplied him, shot me on the shoulder. “With the little money I had from my trip to Africa, I came back to Nigeria and a friend of mine, Kingsley, introduced me to one of his gang members known as Too-Much-Money in Abia State. “Too-Much-Money got me involved in the bullion van robbery. We hijacked a tipper we found on the Aba-Port Harcourt Road to intercept the bullion van. “We forced the driver and his police escort to ...

  The mother of Chukwudubem Onwuamadike, a.k.a Evans, the notorious billionaire kidnapper recently arrested in Lagos, has gone into hiding after news of her son's arrest reached their hometown of Umudim in Nnewi, Anambra state. Evans mother who is popularly called Lady Nwosu was described by Vanguard as a no-nonsense woman. It was gathered that she assists vendors in selling their wares for a commission. Though there were reports that Evans' mother knew he was a criminal and he even bought her a car, the reality at the Umudim village seemed to tell a different story as it was discovered that Lady Nwosu only rides a motorcycle popularly called Nwanyi Nnewi. Lady Nwosu has not been seen at the canteen where she sells since Tuesday, Vanguard reports. A woman told the paper that Lady Nwosu went into hiding after people began coming in to sympathise with her over her son's arrest.  The woman who spoke on the condition of anonymity said: “She went ...

LAGOS — Barely 48 hours after the arrest of notorious kidnap kingpin, Chukwudi Onuamadike a.k.a Evans , in his palatial mansion in Lagos, police sources, yesterday, disclosed that the dreaded leader of the gang has started singing like a canary, naming high-profile accomplices. It was gathered that detectives investigating the case were kept busy, yesterday, taking him round Lagos, with a view to rounding up all those he had so far named.

According to Bayelsa-based Facebook user, Austin Bebara Abaye, the man was allegedly caught raping the young girl pictured with him. He didn't mention where the incident happened.

Three more men have been arrested in Manchester in connection with the attack that left at least 22 people dead at Manchester Arena.   Greater Manchester Police said the arrests were made in the south of the city, where a 23-year-old suspect was arrested in connection with Salman Abedi's bombing on Tuesday . The police spokesperson said, “three police warrants were executed in south Manchester in connection to the ongoing investigation'. Investigators are working to establish whether the 22-year-old acted alone or was part of a wider terrorist network, raiding several properties across Manchester.

A Federal High Court on Friday in Lagos ordered the final forfeiture of the N449.6 million found in an abandoned Bureau de Change at Victoria Island to the Federal Government. The money was recovered in Lagos by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) . The forfeiture order was made by Justice Mohammed Aikawa , following a motion on notice taken before him by the anti-graft agency. The judge ordered that the money should be forfeited to the Federal Government as nobody had come forward to claim it. On April 19, Aikawa ordered temporary forfeiture of the money and adjourned for one Mohammed Tauheed , who was joined as a respondent or any other interested party to appear. When the case was called on Friday, Counsel to the EFCC, Idris Mohammed , told court that the interim order of April 19 was advertised in a newspaper on May 11, to bring the case to the notice of Tauheed and any interested party. He said that apart from the newspaper publication, Tauheed was also...

A self-acclaimed titled chief, Nduka Nwaneri has been charged before a Lagos court for allegedly conspired with others to forge the survey plans of a 2-storey building belonging to his wife, Mary, sold the property and converted the money to personal use. The incident happened at Alapere area of Ketu, Lagos, where the man and his wife reside. Nwaneri was charged before Ikeja Magistrates’ court with conspiracy and forgery and has been remanded in prison custody. It was gathered that Nwaneri’s wife sometime ago bought a land located at 44 Akintola Street, Ketu, where she built the two-storey building. It was gathered that Nwaneri and one Onyemaechi conspired and forged the survey plan of the property and sold the house without the knowledge of his wife. Mary, the wife got to know of the shady deal and challenged the supposedly buyer of the property who presented the survey plan showing that the house belong to her husband, Nwaneri. The matter was reported to polic...

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested two grandmothers with narcotics at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) , Lagos, while on their way to the U.S and Saudi Arabia. ‎ NDLEA spokesperson, Mr Mitchell Ofoyeju disclosed this in a statement on Saturday. He said the‎ suspects allegedly ingested 108 wraps of substances that tested positive for heroin and cocaine during outward screening of passengers at the MMIA, Lagos. He said that the‎ NDLEA commander at the Lagos airport, Ahmadu Garba gave the names of the suspected drug traffickers as Ebunoluwa Adebayo , 60, and Ayisat Amodu , 59. He said that Ebunoluwa was‎ found to have ingested 83 wraps of heroin weighing 1.105kg on her way to New York, U.S while Ayisat ingested 25 wraps of cocaine weighing 275 grammes on her way to Medina, Saudi Arabia. ‎Ofoyeju revealed that the women had‎ blamed their involvement in drug trafficking on financial hardship. He said preliminary investigati...

Oil mogul and billionaire, Ifeanyi Ubah has been arrested by men of the Department of State Security Services over N11bn oil theft. Ifeanyi Ubah, the managing director of Capital Oil and Gas Limited has been arrested by the Department of State Services. The agency revealed the arrest today in a statement by spokesman, Tony Opuiyo. Opuiyo said Ubah was arrested on Friday in connection the theft of petrol kept in his tank farm in Lagos by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. The product was valued at over N11 billion. The agency said Ubah’s action amounted to economic sabotage, with “capacity to negatively impact on national economy”. Opuiyo gave additional reasons for Ubah’s arrest. He said he has further engaged in other activities inimical to national security and public order. “In furtherance of his gimmicks to undermine the government and people of Nigeria, he has incited members of the Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD), a critical player in the downstream...

The Federal Capital Territory Police Command has arrested a cab driver, Kingsley Chijioke, while robbing his passengers at gunpoint along Goffina Village, Zuba, Niger State. The Force stated that Chijioke’s accomplices however escaped on sighting police operatives. The FCT police spokesman, Manzah Anjuguri, in a statement on Thursday advised residents to be vigilant when boarding taxis. He said, “The suspect who was operating with his cohorts (now at large) was intercepted and arrested by the police patrol team along Goffina Village, Zuba while robbing two of their passengers at gunpoint. “His cohorts who fled the scene on sighting the police team, absconded with the following items which belong to their two victims: the sum of N25,000, one Lumia window phone, one techno phone, ID Cards and ATM Card.” Anjuguri stated that efforts were being made to arrest the fleeing suspects, recover the firearm used for the operation and the items belonging to the victims. He added that Chijioke a...

Yesterday night, at about 10:30PM, a young man named Ndubueze Diego a.k.a JaBoy who is said to be a fresh graduate from Imo State University was said to have been shot dead by group of men suspected to be cultists. The young man met his untimely end after he dropped a lady at DaVita Hostel, Aladinma Students Alliance located close to Imo state university back gate. The suspected cultists shot at him three times in the head and chest at a close range before they took to their heels leaving him lifeless in a pool of his blood. Before now, Imo state university has been linked many times to cult related killings. A source further revealed that there is a current rivalry war going on in the institution between two different fraternities.