Gunmen with AK-47s seized more than 30 persons from the Tom Ikimi rail station in Igueben, Edo state, Nigeria, on Saturday. The attack is the latest evidence of escalating insecurity in Africa’s most populous country, challenging the government ahead of a February presidential election. Armed herders assaulted Tom Ikimi station at 4 p.m. on Saturday Read More…
The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) apprehended two accused kidnappers and liberated a female prisoner who was being kept inside their car near the Presbyterian Church in Yaba, Lagos. This was said in a statement released on Wednesday in Lagos by Mr. Bolaji Oreagba, General Manager of LASTMA. The two suspected kidnappers were reportedly Read More…
Away from the grandiose promises of politicians in these testy times of electoral campaigns in the midst of insecurity, let’s just pause for a moment and consider how parts of our country came to look like Libya where warlords determine life expectancy. I am not aware that any of the leading presidential candidates has shown Read More…
A 28-year-old female serial kidnapper has been detained by police in Lagos State for allegedly abducting two children. In a statement released on Sunday in Ikeja, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, spokesman for the police, confirmed the arrest. According to him, the suspect abducted a boy aged three in Lagos and a boy aged seven in Oyo Read More…
DIG Johnson Kokumo, who is in charge of Force Criminal Investigation Development (FCID), told drivers and other people using the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway on Friday that they were safe. Following frequent incidents of kidnapping and robbery of unwary travellers in recent years, Kokumo provided assurance during his inspection visit to the route. On the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Read More…
A teenager named Emmanuel Adeleke was freed from his kidnapper by the Lagos State Police Command. SP Benjamin Hundeyin, the command’s spokesperson, made the statement on his verified Twitter account on Wednesday. The youngster, who is between the ages of 11 and 14, was reportedly rushed to the hospital for treatment because he was disoriented. Read More…
A dethroned ‘Baale’ (Chief) in Shangisha in Magodo area of Lagos State, Mutiu Ogundare and his brother, Opeyemi Mohammed were sentenced by an Ikeja High Court on Tuesday to 15 years imprisonment each for faking an own kidnap. The court had on June 15 discharged and acquitted the third defendant, Ogundare’s wife, Abolanle. Justice Hakeem Read More…
Chukwudimeme Onwuamadike alias Evans was on Monday sentenced to 21 years imprisonment by an Ikeja Special Offences Court, in a second case of the kidnapping of a businessman Sylvanus Ahamonou and collecting 420,000 dollars as ransom from his family. His accomplice, Victor Aduba, an ex-soldier was also sentenced to 21 years imprisonment on a four-count Read More…
Toyin, a suspected female ritualist who was rescued from being executed by an angry crowd who caught her during an alleged attempt to snatch an eight-month-old baby in the Ebute-Metta area of Lagos State, has died in the hospital. SP Benjamin Hundeyin, Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, who confirmed the development, said Toyin was Read More…
Lagos State Police say they detained Ayomide Fawehinmi, a 22-year-old man for attempted child trafficking. SP Benjamin Hundeyin, the Police Public Relations Officer in Lagos, who confirmed the arrest in a statement on Monday, said the suspect had been rescued from a mob in Empire Area of Surulere. Hundeyin said police operatives attached to Surulere Read More…
