Crime Archives - Page 47 of 67

Oct

13

2022

23-year-old man kidnaps himself, demands N10m ransom from family

Lifestyle, MetroCrime, Kidnappers, Metro, Ogun State, Security

Men of Ogun State Police Command have arrested a 23-year-old man, Edward Okache, for faking his own kidnap and asking his gang to demand N10 million ransom from his family. Okache reportedly contacted four others: Asamoah Ernest, Isiah Uti, Ephraim Anyijor, and charity Lukpata to execute the fake kidnap with a view to getting N10m fund for an online business. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Abimbola Oyeyemi, disclosed this on Wednesday in a statement. The PPRO explained that the suspects were arrested following a report lodged at Mowe divisional headquarters by one Comfort Okache. He said Okache…

Oct

13

2022

By Chimamanda

Chidinma finally confesses to killing Mr. Ataga, Super TV boss

Lifestyle, MetroCrime, Lifestyle, Metro, Security, Super TV boss

A Lagos High Court sitting at Tafawa Balewa Square on Tuesday watched the video recording of the lifeless body of Super TV boss, Usifo Ataga, allegedly murdered on June 15, 2021. An undergraduate, Chidinma Ojukwu and one Adedapo Quadri are standing trial for Ataga’s murder. They were arraigned alongside Ojukwu’s sister, Chioma Egbuchu, accused of stealing Ataga’s iPhone 7. Ataga’s body was seen in the video lying on the ground facing up, with his hands spread. He was wearing a white singlet and boxer’s pants stained with blood. His head was close to a wall at the short-service apartment where…

Oct

12

2022

By Kalu Odinakachi

Policemen flee as Rivers cultists hack, rob residents

Lifestyle, MetroCrime, Cultism, Metro, Nigeria, Police, Security

There was pandemonium in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on Tuesday, after hoodlums invaded some streets in the area, attacked residents, and robbed passersby and shop owners. Our correspondent learned that the gang, numbering about 50, ransacked Eagle Island, Timber Street, and the Echue stretch of Illabouchi, all densely populated areas of the metropolis, with machetes, as residents scampered for safety. According to PUNCH Metro report seen by OHAFIATV News. the hoodlums were members of a suspected cult whose member was reportedly hacked to death last weekend by a faction of the group in the Mile 2 axis of Diobu. An…

Oct

12

2022

By Amos Oge Kalu

Abia court remands man for the murder of two

Abia State, Lifestyle, MetroAbia State, Court, Crime, Metro, Nigeria, Security

A middle-aged man, Ugochukwu Nwanaji, has been remanded in the Umuahia Custodial Centre, Abia State, over murder charges. Nwanaji was alleged to have beheaded a 65-year-old woman, Mrs. Mercy Chukwu, and a 68-year-old man, Mr. Moses Uyai, on September 14, 2016, and October 10, 2016, respectively. While Chukwu was allegedly killed at Amanato Ezukwu in the Bende LGA of the state, Moses was killed at Otampa in the Isuikwuato LGA. The prosecuting counsel from Zone 9 Police Command, Umuahia, Romanus Eke, pleaded that the defendant is remanded in custody. Granting the request, the presiding Chief Magistrate, Mrs. Ugo Nkpa, adjourned…

Oct

10

2022

By Freeman

OGUN: Yahoo boys kidnap, kill 40-year-old man for money ritual

Lifestyle, MetroCrime, Metro, Ogun State, Police, RIP, Security, Yahoo boys

Two suspected internet fraudsters, otherwise known as Yahoo boys, have confessed to the police how they kidnapped a 40-year-old man and killed him for a money-making ritual Police Public Relations Officer in Ogun, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said the suspects told the police that the victim Abdullahi Azeez, was dismembered after they took his life. The suspects, Friday Abinya Odeh (21) and Poso Idowu (20), Oyeyemi said, were arrested after a report was lodged at the Owode Egba Police Division on June 9, 2022, by the relations of the victim that he left his home at Kobape on June 8, but never…