There are indications that several crime suspects including kidnappers, armed robbers and cultists have escaped from the custody of the Edo State Police Command. The suspects allegedly escaped from the detention facility of the State Criminal Investigations Department (SCID) at the command’s headquarters in Benin City. All the police officers on duty at the SCID […]
A mob on Monday set two persons ablaze over alleged robbery at Molete and Oke-Ado areas of Ibadan. The Police Public Relations Officer in Oyo State, SP Olugbenga Fadeyi, confirmed the incident in a statement in Ibadan. Fadeyi said that the incident occurred in the morning. He added that one other person was rescued by […]
Some residents of Abule -Ijoko , in the Ifo Local Government Area of Ogun State have turned the tables on a five – man robbery gang that attacked them during the week, killing one of the robbers. City Round learnt that the robbers armed with a locally -made gun and cutlasses ransacked two apartments occupied […]
A man suspected to be the chief priest to the late Benue’s militant leader, Terwase alias Gana, was among the 60 ‘criminals’ arrested and paraded by the Army Special Forces, on Wednesday. The suspected kidnappers, bandits, armed robbers and gunrunners were paraded in Doma Town, Nasarawa State. According to the army, the priest was arrested […]
A notorious robber and rapist , Adeniyi Ajayi , escaped from the custody of the Lagos State Police Command during the #EndSARS protest. A source at the command headquarters said Ajayi , aka Ogologo, shortly after his arrest by operatives of the defunct Special Anti- Robbery Squad , was arraigned and remanded by the court […]
..…I was arrested when invited for peace talk A 26 year old suspected cultist, Tolu Omojuwa has confessed that his group, ‘Eiye fraternity killed three members of a rival cult group known as Black Axe over supremacy tussle in Igbokoda, headquarters of Ilaje council area of Ondo State. Omojuwa who was paraded alongside 33 other […]
A young man suspected to be an armed robber on Wednesday night met his waterloo as he was burnt alive by angry mob along Abak Road, Uyo Akwa Ibom State. It was gathered that the victim of jungle justice was apprehended by Abak road residents while he was trying to snatch a mobile phone from […]
A dreaded gang leader in Cross River State, Kingsley Utomobong, and his gang members have been arrested for the murder of an Assistant Commissioner of Police, Egbe Edum. Edum was hacked to death by gunmen on Wednesday, December 2, at 8 Miles area, along the Murtala Mohammed Highway in Calabar. It was gathered that he […]
Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, on Wednesday, recorded another incident of a mob setting fire on one suspected armed robber. The mob pounced on the two suspected persons after they lost control of the motorcycle the rode on while making away with a phone and other valuables robbed from one Adebayo Tobi. Upon being robbed […]
The 13th Brigade of the Nigerian Army in Calabar has handed over 14 suspected criminals to the Cross River State Command of the Nigerian Police. The suspects, comprise 13 males and one female, were arrested by the Operation Akpakwu, a security outfit recently inaugurated by the Governor, Prof. Ben Ayade. Speaking while handing over the […]
