by Admin | Jan 19, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI After “torturing” a man to death, Nigeria’s secret police, SSS, exploited the influence of the Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu, to pay a paltry N15 million compensation to the victim’s family, PREMIUM TIMES has learnt. At about 2.30 a.m. on April 4, SSS operatives on the trail of a suspect accused of cloning the phone number of the Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, stormed No 37, Aje Street, Pleasure, in the Iyana Ipaja area of Lagos in commando style. Residents of the address said the operatives scaled the fenceof the compound, screaming and threatening as they knocked down doors and shattered ceilings. They rough-handled residents, who thought they were armed robbers as they did not introduce themselves, dragged them from their beds, ordered them out of their apartments and forced them to sit on the dusty ground of the compound. About an hour later, when they were done harassing the residents, Saheed Eyitayo, 34, a friend to the suspect the operatives were looking for, laid in the dust motionless – beaten to a pulp by the operatives. One resident, who described the entire experience as “nightmarish,” told PREMIUM TIMES that Mr. Eyitayo was so battered that he couldn’t stand unaided – three operatives had to drag him into one of the vans the armed men brought with them. Unfortunately, that was the last time he would be seen alive in public. The operatives were led to the residence by Adejoke Ogunbona, the wife of the wanted man, Rilwanu Jamiu. While on the run for the alleged crime, Mr. Jamiu, who is now facing trial alongside another suspect, had spent...
by Admin | Jan 19, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Mohammed Abdulkadir, the Commissioner of Police, Sokoto State Command, has confirmed the kidnap of the Director of Finance, Isa Local Government and three others in the state. Mr. Abdulkadir told the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, in Sokoto on Wednesday that the victims were kidnapped by some unknown gunmen along Sokoto-Isa road on Monday. He added that the gunmen were holding the victims captive in the Gundumi forest, located in Goronyo Local Government Area of the state. The Police Commissioner said: “The command has since deployed a team of police officers in uniforms and plain clothes to the forest in search of the victims. ”The abductors are yet to establish any communication either with their respective families or the command. ”In the same vein, the abductors have not demanded for any ransom, but efforts will be sustained to free the victims.” Mr. Abdulkadir appealed to the people of the state to offer useful and intelligence reports to the security agencies to facilitate the release of the...
by Admin | Jan 18, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI A Kano Magistrates’ Court, sitting at Audu Bako Secretariat on Monday ordered the remand of a 27-year-old man, Aliyu Muhammad for allegedly defiling four boys. Muhammad of Bichi Local Government Area of Kano State, was charged with unnatural offence, punishable under Section 284 of the Penal Code. Magistrate Muhammad Jibril, ordered the remand of the accused in prison custody and adjourned the case till Feb. 9, for mention. Earlier, the prosecutor, Asp. Rufa’I Inusa, told the court that Ado Mu’azu, Musa Nura and Mati Isa, all of Bichi Local Government Area, jointly reported the case at Bichi Police Division, on Nov. 5, 2016. He said that on the same date at about 5 p.m., the accused deceived and lured the complainants’ 11-year-old, 8-year-old, 11-year-old and 10-year-old sons. “He lured them at the same address into his room on different occasions and forcefully had carnal knowledge of each of them through their anus.‘’ The victims were rushed to Bichi General Hospital for treatment. The accused pleaded not guilty to the...
by Admin | Jan 18, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI A 44 year-old Nigerian citizen was arrested locally for defrauding hundreds of people by using their bank details to make purchases online and then resell these products on the black market. The National Police estimates that he was gained more than 50,000 euros in this way. The investigation began in September 2014 after receiving the first reports of victims whose banking data had been used illegally for various internet shopping portals. Police work was arduous and complex, but eventually determine that all the fraud in Spain was the work of a single author, but that he used different identities and operated using WIFI connections in private homes, cafes and public spaces, thus trying to hinder their location. After months of investigations, officers of the Economic Crime group of the Brigade of Judicial Police Station Gijon found that the suspect had fixed his residence in Gijon, “where he received shipments getting their illicit activity,” sources said the police station. A job as a lure “The person under investigation belonged to a criminal organization operating transnational nature of the internet and dedicated to credit card fraud and debit cards. The network operated by credentials and numbers for bank cards using different methods, from cloning, ‘phishing’ or ‘hacking’ of online data, “says the police. After obtaining this data, the fraud is facilitated through servers and private links to other members of the organization in exchange for financial compensation. The Nigerian resident in Gijon, allegedly, took this information and using it, effected purchases of technological devices such as televisions, tablets, laptops or mobile phones. Each week they conducted three or four...
by Admin | Jan 18, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Three persons were reportedly killed by suspected herdsmen in Samaru-Kataf, Zango-Kataf Local Government Area of Kaduna State on Tuesday night. Sources in the area said the attackers struck late in the night, shooting and killing three residents of the area, while injuring many others. The Kaduna Police Public Relations Officer, Aliyu Usman, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, told our correspondent as of the time of filing this report that he had yet to receive information about the fresh attack. “I can’t confirm it now. But what I can confirm to you right now is that a 24-hour-curfew has been restored in the area, that is Zango-Kataf Local Government Area,” Aliyu said. Those injured in the attack were said to have been taken to the St. Louis General Hospital, Zonkwa. The state government had, on Tuesday, relaxed the 24-hour-curfew imposed on Jema’a, Zango-Kataf and Kaura local government areas. The Special Assistant to Governor Nasir el-Rufai on Media and Publicity, Samuel Aruwan, said the decision was taken by the State Security Council at its 41st meeting. He said, “Kaduna announces further relaxation of curfew in Jema’a, Kaura, Zangon Kataf LGAs. The Kaduna State Security Council on Tuesday in its 41st meeting reviewed the current security situation in the state. “The Council deliberated on the security situation in Jema’a, Kaura and Zangon Kataf Local Government Areas in Kaduna South Senatorial District. Following its assessments of reports from the field, the Security Council relaxed the 24-hour curfew in Kaura local government Area. The curfew is now from 7pm to 6am daily.” However, following attack on Samaru-Kataf, Aruwan announced the restoration of...
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