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According to a report by the UK Guardian, Ike Ekweremadu, a former Deputy President of the Nigerian Senate, his wife, and a doctor have been found guilty of organ trafficking by a UK court, in what is described as the first verdict of its kind under the Modern Slavery Act. They were convicted of facilitating…
Operatives of the Department of Security Service (DSS) have arrested Damilare Bello, a member-elect of the Ogun State House of Assembly representing Sagamu constituency 1. Bello, who is a candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), is accused of being the mastermind behind the Sagamu mayhem which resulted in the vandalism of several banks during…
Daniel Chigozie, 30, of Abela in Sango Ota, Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area, Ogun State, was arrested by Amotekun Corps operatives for allegedly selling his nine-month-old son to three different buyers. The commandant of the Amotekun Corps in Ogun State, David Akinremi, stated that the security agency received intelligence that the father had serially traded his…
The Department of State Services, DSS, arraigned four suspected terrorists in Ogun State on Wednesday. They appeared before a Chief Magistrate’s Court in Isabo, Abeokuta, the capital of Ogun State. On December 9, 2022, the suspects Aliu Abubakar, Abubakar Usman, Abubakar Amadu, and Adamu Aliu were apprehended. They were arraigned in a suit marked MISC/15/2023,…
According to reports, suspected thieves broke into the newly inaugurated 100-bed Mother and Child Hospital in Iperu, Ikenne Local Government Area of Ogun State, just a month after commissioning. The hospital was commissioned on February 1, 2023, by the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo. The thieves made away with electronic equipment worth millions of naira,…
Ifeoma Ossai, a 33-year-old unmarried woman, has been apprehended for murdering her 50-year-old landlord, Monday Surulere Oladele. This occurred due to a minor disagreement over the electricity bill, which left Ossai in a state of rage. She allegedly inserted both hands into her landlord’s genital area and seized his manhood, using it to pull him…
The lecturer, Gabriel Agabi allegedly impersonated the INEC collation officer for Yache ward in Yala Local Government Area of Cross River State On Sunday, the police arrested Gabriel Agabi, a middle-aged man, for alleged impersonation and possession of 17 Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) devices that were not programmed for the ward where he was…
A middle-aged woman in Abeokuta, Ogun State has alledgedly set herself ablaze in her rented apartment over her inability to settle a loan of N70,000 she took from a microfinance bank popularly known as LAPO. Available reports say the decead known as Mama Dada got burnt beyond recognition as the entire building located at the…
According to reports, the suspect pretended to be ill and fled after entering the hospital. According to recent reports, the main suspect in the horrifying murder of Kehinde and Bukola Fatinoye in Abeokuta, the capital of Ogun State, may have escaped from police custody. Even while attempts to gain a response from the police public…
The murderers of Kehinde and Bukola Fatinoye, according to the governor of Ogun State, will not escape justice The state’s police commissioner, Lanre Bankole, has been given specific instructions by the governor, according to the governor, to guarantee that the criminals are apprehended. Kehinde and Bukola were discovered dead at their home in the state…
