by Admin | Aug 23, 2016 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI No fewer than twenty-eight chained persons have be rescued in a house at the Oke-ira area of Ojodu, Lagos State. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Dolapo Badmos, a Superintendent of Police, confirmed the incidence. Badmos said: “The command received a report through Area ‘G’ Command Headquarters, Ogba, that a child was chained in a house at Oyinbo Unity Estate, Olamidun Close, Yakoyo, Oke-Ira, Ojodu. “Consequently, a team of policemen was mobilized to the location where a teenager named Toba Adedoyin ‘m’, aged 17, was found in a room with a chain on his legs. “The victim was allegedly chained by one Emmanuel Adeyemi ‘m’ who claimed to be his father, in order to restrain him from going out. “Further search of the premises led to the discovery of other people chained by the suspect. “A total number of 28 persons, comprising six adult males, nine adult females, seven female children and six male children were rescued and taken to protective...
by Admin | Aug 22, 2016 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI No fewer than twenty-eight chained persons have be rescued in a house at the Oke-ira area of Ojodu, Lagos State. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Dolapo Badmos, a Superintendent of Police, confirmed the incidence. Badmos said: “The command received a report through Area ‘G’ Command Headquarters, Ogba, that a child was chained in a house at Oyinbo Unity Estate, Olamidun Close, Yakoyo, Oke-Ira, Ojodu. “Consequently, a team of policemen was mobilized to the location where a teenager named Toba Adedoyin ‘m’, aged 17, was found in a room with a chain on his legs. “The victim was allegedly chained by one Emmanuel Adeyemi ‘m’ who claimed to be his father, in order to restrain him from going out. “Further search of the premises led to the discovery of other people chained by the suspect. “A total number of 28 persons, comprising six adult males, nine adult females, seven female children and six male children were rescued and taken to protective...
by Admin | Aug 22, 2016 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC, on Thursday August 18, 2016, through its South East Zonal Head of Operations, Mr. Obioha Okorie released a draft for N500,000 (five hundred thousand Naira ) to Dr. Veronica Ibeziako, a retired Chief Magistrate in Anambra State, being funds recovered for her by the Commission. The former magistrate was swindled by fraudsters while seeking for financial assistance to enable her proceed for medical treatment abroad. According to the victim, she was billed for a surgical procedure abroad, which was going to cost N3, 000,000.00 (three million naira only), but ended up being defrauded of N500, 000 (five hundred thousand naira). Though investigations into the matter is still ongoing, the recovered fund was released to the victim to enable her attend to her financial and medical needs for which she was defrauded. source:...
by Admin | Aug 22, 2016 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Fourteen passengers kidnapped in Ogba/Egnema/Ndoni Local Government Area of Rivers State last Friday have regained freedom. The Rivers State Police Command confirmed the release of the passengers, saying that they were released on Sunday night. The passengers were kidnapped on Friday by gunmen, who intercepted their 14-seater bus along Elele-Ikiri-Omoku Road and diverted the vehicle to a nearby bush, where the occupants were ordered to walk into the bush. The bus marked ONELGA Link was set ablaze by the hoodlums. Spokesman of the state police command, Mr. Nnamdi Omoni, said the victims were released after a tactical and diligent operation by operatives of the Command. Omoni disclosed that no ransom was paid for the release of the victims, adding that they (the victims) had since reunited with their families. “On the 12th of August, 2016, 14 passengers were abducted while traveling from Omoku to Port Harcourt in a bus. “In a swift reaction by the Command’s Tactical Units, the hostages were released unhurt. “They have been debriefed and have reunited with their families. However, no ransom was paid.” Meanwhile, the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Francis Odesanya, has assured the people of the state that the police was “on top of the game” in waging war against crime. “We urge the public to continue to have confidence in the police and volunteer information timely as the Command is poised to making the state safe again.” He observed that kidnappers had devised a new method of wearing Army camouflage uniforms to perpetrate crime in the...
by Admin | Aug 22, 2016 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The police in Abuja have launched a manhunt for a Ghanaian, Asiedu Ofei, and one Femi, a Nigerian, reportedly notorious for producing fake currencies. It was learnt that Ofei, who was arrested sometime in July, 2016 in Ekiti State, had led the police operatives to apprehend his gang members in Seme, Lagos State, when he escaped. PUNCH Metro gathered seven cartons filled with counterfeited naira notes and cedis had earlier been recovered from the fleeing suspect. While in police custody, he was said to have mentioned Femi as one of his accomplices and promised to lead the operatives to the gang’s hideout. Our correspondent learnt that the policemen, who followed Ofei to Seme, had maintained some distance from him and told him to lure other members out of the supposed hideout. A police source told PUNCH Metro that the cops had lurked around the hideout with a view to rounding up the suspects the moment they came out. The source said Ofei, however, alerted his gang members to the presence of the police and they all fled the area via an alternative route. “He (Ofei) is a wanted suspect. He escaped about two weeks ago when the police took him to arrest other members of the gang in Seme. The operatives stayed some distance away to monitor him while he called out other members of the gang. The strategy was used because the criminals will not come out from their hideout to answer any of their members until they confirm that the member is alone and the area is safe. “While he was calling on the other...
by Admin | Aug 21, 2016 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI A 35-year-old barber, Uche Emeroha, and a prophet, Kenneth Alozie, were paraded by the police on Thursday for allegedly abducting two sisters, who were returning from a summer class in the Igando area of Lagos State. Emeroha said Prophet Alozie allegedly promised to pay him N6,000 if he could abduct and bring two children to his church, Hope in God Healing Ministry in the Agboroko area, Iyana Iba. PUNCH Metro had reported on Thursday that two sisters – Jumia, six, and four-year-old Ayomide – were abducted on Olorunfemi Street in the Igando area while returning from the summer class around 2pm on Tuesday. It had been reported that the children, whose mother is a widow, were rescued by police operatives from the Igando division around 7pm on Wednesday and two suspected abductors were arrested. Our correspondents learnt that Emeroha, after allegedly abducting the girls on their way back home, had handed them over to a woman identified as Mama Chioma, who then took them to Alozie’s church. According to the police, Emeroha was the first suspect to be arrested and he, thereafter, led operatives to the hideout, where Alozie had hidden the girls. Alozie, who claimed to be a prophet, was also arrested. It was gathered that Mama Chioma was still on the run. Speaking to PUNCH Metro at the Lagos State Police Command headquarters, Ikeja, on Thursday, Emeroha said when he went to Alozie’s church for counselling, the prophet promised to fortify him with a charm, so that he (Emeroha) could be bringing stolen children to the church. He said, “I am not married. I did not know the...
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