Category: Crime

Former Deputy Senate President, Barr. Ike Ekweremadu. By Advocatenewsng.com. THE United Kingdom Metropolitan Police have formally charged two Nigerians, a serving Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Ike Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice Nwanneka with conspiracy to facilitate travel of another person for organ harvesting. The suspects were arrested and charged over their plan to bring a child into the country to allegedly harvest the said child’s organs. The two arrested suspects were identified as Beatrice Nwanneka Ekweremadu,…

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Olayinka. By Editor. Former Governor of Ekiti State, Mr Ayodele Fayose’s Spokesperson, Lere Olayinka, has petitioned the police, alleging threat to his life by agents of the State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi.Olayinka, in a petition by his counsel, Sunday Olowolafe, dated November 19, 2020, said the attack by armed thugs led by one Dele Omojola (Marshall), on a guest house in Ado Ekiti on October 24, 2020, was mainly targeted at him.He added that “From the utterances of the…

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Funke and husband, Bello in a joyful mood. By Editor. From today going on, the toga of ex-convicts will no longer be worn by the renowned nollywood actress, Funke Akindele and her husband, Abdulrasheed Bello, as the Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has granted them state pardon after their non-custodial conviction and sentence by a Magistrate Court for violating Covid-19 lockdown protocols in Lagos State. The governor also approved the release of 56 other inmates from various correctional…

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Kidnappers on Kaduna/Abuja Highway. By Editor. A suspect, Mustapha Mohammed, 26, has revealed that the incessant kidnappings and killings along the Abuja-Kaduna Expressway and other routes in northern parts of Nigeria have stopped because he and his other partners in crime were afraid of contracting COVID-19. The suspect disclosed that as soon as the COVID-19 was checked or eradicated, kidnapping and other heinous crimes will resume along the routes.These routes have witnessed several kidnappings and killings. Aside from civilians being…

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Kidnappers in action. By our Correspondent in Abakaliki.A seven months old baby identified as Chizaram Nnaluo, was kidnapped at  Aniekwena Street, in Abakaliki on Saturday, May 23, 2020 by hoodlums who invaded the place shooting sporadically into the air to scare people away.As they succeeded in scaring people away, they rushed into the room where the toddler was lying peacefully and took him, jumped into already packed motorcycle and sped off.But luck ran out on them when neighbours summoned…

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By Charles Onyekwere, AbakalikiA Federal High Court sitting in Abakaliki, Ebonyi state presided over by Justice Choebe Ayua has sentenced a twenty-eight year old Christopher Achi to two years imprisonment for tampering and removal of Electic cable, property belonging to Enugu Electricity Distribution (EEDC).The convict, was arrested at Ihenu Uburu Community, Ohaozara Local Government Area of Ebonyi state, an offence punishable under section 1(10) miscellaneous offences Act Cap M17 LFN 2004. The development was made known to journalists on…

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