Category: Crime

Two Nigerian military Super Tucano fighter jets have killed scores of Islamic State of West African Province, ISWAP, terrorists in Somalia, near Sambisa Forest, which is thought to be where the terrorists treat wounded fighters.

According to PRNigeria, in addition to killing many ISWAP fighters at the site, the airstrikes also raided Abdallari, a terrorist enclave located northeast of Maiduguri.

A defence intelligence source told PRNigeria that the bombardments also neutralised several terrorists and destroyed structures.

According to the source, the Air Component of Operation Whirl Punch carried out onslaughts on the terrorists’ hideouts in Niger and Kaduna State.
He said: “For instance, strikes were undertaken in Kaduna on 7 September 2022 following series of intelligence from various sources on terrorists’ hideouts at Gidan Waya, in Chikun Local Government Area (LGA).

“There, the Air Component of Operation Whirl Punch discovered terrorists’ structures hidden under clusters of trees at the location with terrorists’ activities noticed within the vicinity.

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“Subsequently, the targets were acquired and attacked with bombs. Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance (ISR) footage and feedback from locals, as well as Nigerian Army troops deployment within the location, revealed that the terrorists’ hideouts were destroyed, while several terrorists were neutralized or suffered varying degrees of injuries.”

When contacted, NAF Spokesperson, Air Commodore Edward Gabkwet, confirmed the strikes in all the operating theatres.

Mr Gabwet said: “For the NAF, its ability to continually dominate troubled parts of the country in collaboration with the surface forces in order to eliminate terrorist elements and restore normalcy should never be in doubt.

“Nigerians are enjoined to continue to provide security agencies with credible intelligence that will enable the agencies track and neutralize the terrorists and all criminal elements especially as schools across the nation prepare to resume.”

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) arrested Okolie Paulinus Nwabueze, a Nigerian returning from Brazil, for importing 92 wraps of cocaine, which he ingested and eventually excreted after days of observation in the agency’s facility.

Nwabueze, a father of two, was apprehended at Abuja’s Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA).

The 53-year-old trafficker, who hails from Mmaku village, Awgu Local Government Area of Enugu State, was arrested on Friday, September 2, upon his arrival on a Qatar Airline flight en route Brazil-Doha-Abuja, according to NDLEA Director, Media & Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, in a statement issued today.

“He claimed to have left Nigeria to Mozambique in 2004 and finally relocated to Brazil in 2017, where he obtained a residence permit before deciding to import the illicit substance for a $4,000 fee,” the agency stated.

In the same vein, the NDLEA said it arrested a 25-year-old pregnant woman, Haruna Favour, in Auchi, Edo State, on Friday, September 9 with 82 pinches of methamphetamine and various quantities of loud, arizona and colorado variants of cannabis and codeine-based cough syrup.

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The NDLEA statement added that a 42-year-old man, Aliyu Bello Kwasare, was arrested at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport (MAKIA), Kano, for attempting to export a consignment of a new psychoactive substance, Akuskura, to Saudi Arabia.

“The indigene of Kware LGA, Sokoto, who lives in Goron Dutse area of Kano, was arrested on Monday 5th September during the outward clearance of passengers on an Ethiopian Airline flight to Riyadh.

“In addition, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, (MMIA), Ikeja, Lagos, no fewer than 1,099,000 tablets of Tramadol 225mg have been seized through inter-agency collaboration between the NDLEA and the Nigerian Customs,” the statement added.

The NDLEA Chairman, Mohammed Buba Marwa, commended the officers and men of the NAIA, MMIA, DOGI, MAKIA, Kano, Kogi, Edo, Ondo and Gombe Commands for their resilience and charged them and their compatriots in other commands to remain focused and vigilant in their areas of responsibility.

Boderi Isiya, a notorious bandit leader, has narrowly escaped capture, while his lethal second-in-command, Musti, has been killed by troops.

Several other terrorists were reportedly killed by soldiers in a recent operation.
Musti and Boderi were allegedly responsible for a security breach at the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) in Kaduna in 2021, as well as the kidnappings of students from the Federal College of Forestry Mechanization, the Emir of Bungudu in Zamfara State, Alhaji Hassan Attahiru, and several other citizens.

The troops engaged the bandits in the Tollgate general area of Kaduna State’s Chikun Local Government Area (LGA). The bandits fled, only to run into another ambush set up by troops in the Sabon Gida area.

The Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai praised the troops for the feat.

Other slain terrorists in the operation include one Yellow Mai-Madrid and Dan-Katsinawa.

Weapons were recovered from the scene.

By Hope Abah Emmanuel

At least four people were reportedly killed in separate attacks on two communities in Benue State’s Guma Local Government Area.
On the phone, villagers told our correspondent that the incident occurred between Friday evening and Saturday morning.
“Two women were killed yesterday behind Yogbo Primary School, and another within the community” (Friday). Unfortunately, the chairman of the local government is from that village.
“The attackers killed one person at Ukohol today (Saturday).” “They also burned down many houses in several villages that were attacked in the area,” a villager said.

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Other villagers reported that residents had fled the affected areas out of fear of further attacks.
Guma’s chairman, Mike Ubah, confirmed the incident to our correspondent in a text message.
Ubah said, “Four people were killed. Three of them at Yogboh while the remaining one was killed at Ukohor within the said period.”
Meanwhile, the police spokesperson for the Benue State Command, Catherine Anene, did not respond to calls or text messages sent to her mobile on the incident.

By
Jude Aguguo Owuamanam

There is concern in Owerri over the kidnapping of Eze Jewel Ndenkwo, a prominent traditional ruler in Imo state.

He was kidnapped in front of one of his businesses in Owerri, the state capital, around 7 p.m. on Friday.

The kidnapped monarch is the traditional ruler of Isiala Umudi Autonomous community in the state’s Nkwerre Local Government Area. He owns a number of businesses, including Udekings Nigeria Limited.

He was allegedly kidnapped in front of his office in Tetlow, Owerri. His kidnappers have yet to make contact with his family.

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Though the police spokesperson, CSP Micheal Abattam, is yet to respond to the incident, the State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, has confirmed it, saying the government is making effort to curtail crime and criminality in the state.

The monarch was abducted at a time when two of the wedding guests kidnapped in Isiala Mbano area of Imo two weeks ago, regained freedom.

The victims are Collins Alaefula, Mmadu Promise and Victor Chibuike. They were said to have paid ransoms before they were left off the hook.

Brother to one of the victims, Fortune, told newsmen on Saturday that his sibling, Promise, and one other were released on Friday.

The Akwa Ibom State Police Command has made progress in their search for the kidnappers of Mr. Monday Ekoriko, the Principal-General of Madonna Community Secondary School in Oruk Anam Local Government Area of the state.

This is because the kidnappers have made contact with the family and are demanding N50 million in ransom or risk being killed if the demand is not met within the time frame specified.

Last Saturday, Ekoriko was abducted by unknown gunmen at his country home, Udianga Enem village in Etim Ekpo LGA, on his way to attend a church service at the United Evangelical Church, which he built himself.

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Speaking with newsmen on Friday, in Uyo, the state capital, his eldest son, Menyene, said “they (the hoodlums) called me on phone and the number was hidden, saying we should hurriedly arrange N50 million before my father could be released”.

“The discussion was so brief and sharp with a threat that some people have paid for my father to be killed, that only a higher amount would safe him”,
Menyene added that his father’s Lexus SUV which the kidnappers used in whisking him away had been recovered after it was abandoned at the Ekparakwa axis of Oruk Anam LGA.

The Youths’ Leader of the community, Comrade Udeme John, described the incident as sad and enjoined the Police and other security agencies to intensify their efforts with a view to rescuing the teacher alive and unharmed.

The Police Public Relations Officer, Odiko Macdon, confirmed the recovery of the teacher’s SUV, assuring that “operatives of the command are closing in on the criminal elements”.

“We can confirm the recovery of the car, the Police have nothing to do with ransom, but I can assure you that very soon the hoodlums will be apprehended and brought to justice because the Commissioner of Police Olatoye Durosinmi, who is personally directing the operation has zero tolerance for crimes”, he assured.

The suspected female ritualist, simply known as Toyin, who was rescued from being lynched by an angry mob after being apprehended during an alleged attempt to abduct an eight-month-old baby in Lagos State’s Ebute-Metta area, has died in hospital.

SP Benjamin Hundeyin, the state Police Public Relations Officer, confirmed the development to our correspondent on Thursday.

Toyin, he said, was hospitalised at the Federal Medical Center in Ebute-Meta after being badly burned by the angry mob that caught her engaging in the illegal act.

“The lady died in the hospital,” said Hundeyin.

According to the report, the suspect entered the private residence of a relative of the baby’s mother in search of her husband, Akeem.
After being informed that her husband was not on the premises and subsequently advised to leave, Toyin left the building but lurked around the area.

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Upon realising that the only adult with the children had left, she went back into the building and was said to have attempted stealing a baby.

An 11-year-old girl, who was in the company of the children, prevented her and raised the alarm, causing residents of the community to apprehend Toyin.

The suspect was taken under the bridge in the Ijora area, where angry residents allegedly attempted to lynch her but the police later intervened and took her away.

Hundeyin had said Toyin sustained severe burns during the attack and was hospitalised.

A pregnant woman and her baby boy were killed when a long truck carrying cement bags ploughed into their home in Adewusi village in Odeda, Ogun State, via the Kila, Abeokuta-Ibadan highway.
In Ogun, a truck crushes a pregnant woman and a minor to death.
Ernest Nwokolo, Abeokuta, September 9, 2022

A pregnant woman and her baby boy were killed when a long truck carrying cement bags ploughed into their home in Adewusi village in Odeda, Ogun State, via the Kila, Abeokuta-Ibadan highway.
Four other people, including a minor, were injured at home in the accident, which happened around 1 p.m. on Friday.

The victims were said to be the occupants of the building that the truck rammed into.
The Public Relations Officer of the Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps(TRACE), Babatunde Akinbiyi, who confirmed the accident, said the pregnant woman and the minor, had been deposited at Odeda General Hospital morgue.
He added that the injured were rescued to Ajitola Hospital at Kila for treatment.

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“This is a sad and an unfortunate incident coming against the backdrop of reported crashes that happened back to back for the past 3days across the state.

“The dead victims in this unfortunate incidence were all occupants of the building, living and domiciled there in..

“While TRACE commiserate with the family of the deceased, articulated drivers are enjoined to avoid speeding and also ensure they maintain as well as service their vehicles as at when due to avoid this avoidable crashes,” he stated.

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has accused Asari Dokubo, an ex-militant leader, of mobilising his alleged gangs to kill innocent indigenes of Imo State and other parts of the South-East.

Emma Powerful, the secessionist group’s spokesperson, made the allegations in a statement on Thursday.

IPOB warned that it was running out of patience and that it would retaliate against Dokubo and his alleged criminal gangs in the near future.

The group claimed that the ex-militant leader lacked the authority to put a stop to the secessionists, claiming that even the Nigerian military was powerless to do so.
He said, “Asari Dokubo being somebody who hates Ndigbo and Biafra agitation championed by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB members worldwide brought out his criminal gang to kill innocent Biafrans in Imo State in the name of chasing IPOB and Nnamdi Kanu.

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“We therefore, warn the Izon people to caution Asari Dokubo. If Nigeria Government with all their military arsenal can’t stop IPOB, Asari Dokubo and his criminal gangs from kalabari are small fry to IPOB.

“Now that Asari Dokubo is displaying his ignorance and killing skills on our innocent citizens, nobody should blame IPOB when we lunch offensive attack against him and his Kalabari criminals in Imo State who followed him because we must get them

It was reported that Asari Dokubo and the IPOB leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu were in war of words prior to the rearrest of the latter by the Nigerian government.

The Anambra State Government has halted operations in a section of Wintess Garden Annex in Awka, the state capital, where a sex party is said to have taken place last weekend.

Viral videos of a party held in Wintess Garden Annex, Ifite Awka, circulated on the internet, showing participants having sex among themselves.

Mr Donatus Onyenji, Commissioner for Culture, Entertainment, and Tourism, who signed a seal order, stated that the action was taken to allow the government and security agencies to conduct additional investigations into the matter.

Onyenji stated that the closure was in accordance with the Anambra State Tourism and Development Authority.

2016 Hospitality Law

Part of the letter to the hotel read: “Our attention has been drawn to the social media video of live sex and pornographic content (sex party) conducted on 3rd September at an open place in your hotel/facility.

“This and other such indecent operational standard and unholy acts of public show of indecency must not be allowed in any hotel in Anambra.

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“Government of Anambra hereby directs the management of Wintess Garden Hotel to shut-down operations pending further investigations and review of the application.”

The sex video, which was widely circulated, had been attributed to students of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, because of the proximity of the hotel to the campus.

Meanwhile, the institution had denied the involvement of its students in the act, insisting that school had not been in session, and that their students were not on campus.

The gunmen who killed a Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps officer, Segun Ayebulu, along Oke Ako Road in Ekiti State’s Ajoni Local Council Development Area, have released the three kidnapped relatives after receiving a N5 million ransom.

The kidnappers allegedly called the family on Sunday and demanded N30 million in ransom, but later reduced it to N10 million.

Following the family’s pleas, the ransom was later reduced to N5m on Tuesday evening.

According to a family source, the three abductees, who included the slain officer’s five-year-old and eleven-year-old children as well as a relative, were released around 5 p.m. on Wednesday after the ransom was paid.
“They were released this evening after the family paid about N5m around a bush in the Ayede axis. The suspects also collected N100,000 for recharge cards, sachets of milk and alcoholic drinks,” the source said.

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Confirming the development, the Regent of Oke Ako, Princess Tinuade Ogunbiyi, said, “My people called to inform me that they have been released. I cannot say how much was paid to secure their release.”

The Corps Commander, Ekiti State Amotekun Corps, Brig. Gen. Joe Komolafe (retd), also confirmed that the three persons who were whisked away by the kidnappers on Saturday had been released.

The Edo State Police Command paraded a medical doctor, Abass Adebowale, on Wednesday for allegedly injecting a cab driver, Emmanuel Agbovinuere, to death in the state’s Benin City area.

After committing the crime, Adebowale allegedly dumped Agbovinuere’s body in a bush and stole the victim’s Toyota Voltron car.

He was said to have driven the car to the Osogbo area of Osun State, where he was apprehended by police on Monday.

Chidi Nwabuzor, the state Police Public Relations Officer, told the press at the police command’s headquarters in Benin City, Edo State, that Adebowale is a graduate of the University of Ilorin, Kwara State, and works as a medical officer at the Kaiama General Hospital.
He said, “The Edo State Police Command in an attempt to rid the state of crime and criminality arrested a medical doctor, Abass Adebowale, 36, for killing Emmanuel Agbovinuere, 39, a cab driver.

“The victim and the suspect met in July this year at an undisclosed hotel in Benin and that is where their relationship started. On Sunday, September 4, the suspect came from Kwara State and they met at the same hotel, where as a customer, he took him around to where he was to do his business.

“The cab man complained of leg pain and the doctor promised to help and injected some poisonous drugs in his system. That was what killed him instantly. For him to conceal the crime, he left the corpse in the man’s Toyota Voltron car, but later took the corpse to Ondo Road, Oluku, Edo State, and dumped the corpse there.

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“When the Anti-Kidnapping Unit got notice of what happened, they mobilised and he was arrested in Osogbo, Osun State, with the deceased car.”

Adebowale, during the parade, said the victim’s death was not deliberate, adding, “I pray that the family find a place in their hearts to forgive me.”

Agbovinuere was said to have been survived by his wife, Mary, 27, and two children.

Meanwhile, the Osun State Police Command’s spokesperson, Yemisi Opalola, in a statement, confirmed Adebowale’s arrest.

Opalola said, “The suspect in the course of his stay in Benin after selling his car, injected his friend with a substance suspected to have killed him on September 03, 2022.

“He subsequently dumped his corpse in a nearby bush and took away his white Toyota Camry muscle. Luck, however, ran out on him when the vehicle driven by the suspect was intercepted by police operatives along Ejigbo/Ogbomoso Road. The police operatives were working on information from the Benin command.”

According to the National Hospital in Abuja, contrary to popular belief, it was the police who apprehended the phoney UN doctor posing as a humanitarian aid worker in the country.

Remember that one Obiako Chukwuemeka, who was impersonating a medical doctor working for the United Nations as a humanitarian aid worker, was allegedly identified by the National Hospital and taken to police, where he was immediately detained.
Confirming the arrest of the fake doctor, the National Hospital, through its Public Relations Officer, Dr Tayo Haastrup, stated that, contrary to reports, the fake medic was apprehended by police after his activities were discovered to be suspicious.

“No, it was actually the police that arrested him”, he said, promising to provide details of what transpired later.

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It was gathered that the fake doctor told police upon arrest that he was working in partnership with the hospital.

The origin and age of the fake detained doctor are yet unknown.

“The National Hospital Abuja, handed over a fake doctor, one Obiako Chukwuemeka who disguised as a UN doctor on humanitarian aid, to the police at Central Police Station on Thursday.

“He is currently in our custody, and will soon be charged to court”, a newspaper had quoted a police source as saying.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) charged Olakunle Oluomo, Speaker of the Ogun State House of Assembly, on Tuesday with allegedly diverting N2.5 billion from the Assembly.

The Clerk of the House, Taiwo Adeyemo, and the Director of Finance, Oladayo Samuel, were also arraigned alongside the Speaker.

They appeared in front of Justice Daniel Osiagor of the Federal High Court in Lagos.

The EFCC accused Oluomo and others of forging receipts and signatures in order to divert large sums of money totaling billions of Naira.

They have pleaded not guilty to the 11-count charge that has been brought against them.

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Meanwhile, the Speaker and others have been granted bail by the court.
Oluomo, who is the first defendant, was granted bail in the sum of N300 million, with two sureties in like sum.

One of the sureties, the court said, must be a Level-16 civil servant in the Federal Civil Service.

The other defendants were granted bail in the sum of N100 million each, with two sureties each in like sum, one of whom must not be less than a Level-14 officer in the civil service.

The court held that all the sureties must possess landed properties within the court’s jurisdiction, with evidence of three-year tax clearance, while swearing to an affidavit of means.

Oluomo and other defendants have been asked to submit their travel documents at the court registry.

Ogun State Police have apprehended three suspected kidnappers in a forest along the Imeko/Iwoye-Ketu road.

The trio, Aliu Abubakar (29), Umaru Tukur (24), and Yau Isah (25), were apprehended on August 29 during a police rescue operation.

The armed men, numbering around eight, had blocked the Termac/Iwoye road on that day and shot sporadically.

According to police, the hoodlums injured one Bode Ogunleye and Muhammad Basa while kidnapping Alhaji Fatai Abdulsalam, Alhaji Dauda Orelope, and Alhaji Rafiu Isah.
In a statement on Tuesday, the Ogun police spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said upon the receipt of the distress call, the DPO of Imeko division had mobilized his men and those of the Amotekun corps, the So safe corps, hunters, vigilantes as well as Fulani/Yoruba youths and stormed the forest in search of the victims and their abductors.

“Due to the intense pressure, the kidnappers abandoned their victims and took to flight, leaving an unregistered Bajaj motorcycle behind at their hideout in the forest,” Oyeyemi said.

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He explained that the victims were rescued unhurt, while the security operatives found three of the suspects where they were hiding in the forest.

“When they were searched, the key to the abandoned motorcycle at the scene of the kidnap was recovered in the pocket of one of them along with three cutlasses,” It was learnt.

Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, Lanre Bankole, has ordered the transfer of the suspects to the anti-kidnapping section of the command’s CIID for discreet investigation.

Kidnappers who abducted some funeral guests in Ondo State have sought a ransom of N90 million before releasing the victims

The kidnappers were said to have demanded between N3 million and N10 million on each victim in order to free them.

The victims were abducted in Ifon, Ondo State, a border town with Edo State, while returning from a burial service in Ewatto, Edo State.

According to Mrs. Bamidele Ademola-Olateju, the Ondo State Commissioner for Information and Orientation, the state government was not participating in the ransom negotiation when she made this announcement at a news conference in Akure.

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According to Olateju, paying a ransom gives kidnappers more authority to continue in their crime.

“The victims went for a burial at Ewatto town. They were returning in a 32-seater Coaster bus hired from Rufus Guwa Polytechnic when they were attacked by suspected kidnappers. The kidnappers shot into the air and took 18 of the passengers.

“Those remaining called the Amotekun Corps who got to the scene within 15 minutes. Among those in the bush, seven were found and two others escaped.”

The Birnin-Gwari Emirate Progressives Union (BEPU) has said that bandits blocked roads, killed two persons and kidnapped scores of people in Birnin-Gwari Council after the visit of the new General Officer Commandant (GOC) of 1 Division of the Nigerian Army Kaduna and his team of gallant troops last Thursday.
In a statement by Ishaq Usman Kasai, the Chairman, Birnin-Gwari Emirate Progressives Union (BEPU), the union appreciated and commended the Government and the troops on renewed effort towards combating insecurity in Birnin-Gwari Local Government Area.

It however noted that, bandits blocked Birnin-Gwari to Funtua road, following the earlier surveillance by the GOC and his team.
According the union, the bandits blocked the road since Thursday, 1st September, 2022 which coincide with Birnin-Gwari Market Day, killed a commercial driver and kidnapped scores of travellers who are yet to be freed. The road is still a no-transit zone.

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They also stated that the bandits attacked Damari community on Saturday 3rd September, 2022 around 10:00pm with one person killed and shops looted.
The statement reads in part: “The Union witnessed that the new General Officer Commandant (GOC) of 1 Division of the Nigerian Army Kaduna personally led a team of gallant troops and went on ground surveillance on Wednesday 31st August, 2022 through Kaduna to Birnin-Gwari and Birnin-Gwari to Funtua roads respectively where some successes were recorded including neutralizing and arresting of some bandits who were intercepted in some communities around the roads.
around Kaduna to Birnin-Gwari road. This is significantly reducing tension and is a welcomed move towards addressing problem of persistent attacks on travellers on the Birnin-Gwari to Kaduna road.
“Regrettably, BEPU observes that the Armed bandits blocked Birnin-Gwari to Funtua road following the earlier surveillance by the GOC and his team. The bandits blocked the road since Thursday, 1st September, 2022 which coincide with Birnin-Gwari Market Day, killed a commercial driver and kidnapped scores of travellers who are yet to be freed. The road is still a no-transit zone.

“As it is now, most communities that are along that road such as Kwasa-kwasa, Marabar Kwasa-kwasa, Nacibi, Farin Ruwa among others are being deserted for fear of any eventuality.
“Again, the armed bandits attaked Damari community on Saturday 3rd September, 2022 by 10:00pm where one person was killed and shops looted. This came after the people who were sacked by armed bandits earlier in August have started returning to the community.

“Layin Lasan Community was also attacked by the same armed bandits in the evening on Sunday 4th September, 2022 where scores of residents were kidnapped and moved to neighbouring forests. Various communities are continued to be attaked by armed bandits silently and unreported.

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“This therefore means that, though security personnel were mobilized particularly on Kaduna to Birnin-Gwari road which is addressing the level of attacks on travellers on the road, insecurity is worsening along Birnin-Gwari to Funtua road and in many communities particularly in the Eastern part of the Local Government.

“Strategically, there is significant need for mobilization of troops to the Western part of Birnin-Gwari particularly in the Kakangi and Randagi axis which shares boundaries with Zanfara and Niger States. This is necessary because it has become the escaping routes for the bandits. In fact, many of these bandits are camping in the Mashigi axis, occupying some sacked communities.”