Operatives of the Bayelsa State Volunteers Security Outfit have arrested a notorious criminal and a suspected cultist identified as Godsent Oruouna Brian who hails from Amassoma community in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of the State. The suspect had been on the wanted list of the agency after receiving several reports that he has been terrorising the Tombia/Etegwe axis of Yenagoa. He was arrested by members of the special squad, a unit under the Volunteers at around 5pm …
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Claims of staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) being arrested in Lagos State over alleged creation of illegal voter enrollment centre has been debunked by the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Lagos state, Olusegun Agbaje. Recall there were claims of some INEC staff being arrested by police officers for allegedly conspiring with St. Brigigs Catholic Church, Ijeshatedo, Lagos, to create an illegal Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) centre in the church. Agbaje has now described the news report as fake news. He …
A 30-year-old Nigerian national arrested for his involvement in a romance scam appeared at the Stellenbosch Magistrate’s Court in Cape Town, South Africa on Monday, July 25, 2022. Roland Enuwese Esosa allegedly defrauded an elderly woman he met on the dating app Tinder of R2 million. He was arrested last week Wednesday in Northgate Mall in Roodepoort, Gauteng before being brought to Stellenbosch. He allegedly pretended to be an American engineer by the name of Larry Cole. Once …
A man who was reportedly arrested for trespassing at Drake’s $75m Beverly Hills mansion last week claimed the rapper is his dad. On Tuesday, July 19, it was reported that the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) was called to Drake’s property last Friday after one of his employees spotted an intruder near the pool house. In a statement to TMZ, the LAPD said that, when questioned, the 23-year-old man claimed Drake, 35, was his father and that he …
Men of the Kaduna state police command on Sunday July 17 arrested a suspected escapee of the Kuje prison jailbreak. A statement released by DSP Muhammed Jalinge says the suspect identified as Ali Shuaibu, 60, and an indigene of Kano State was apprehended by the Police Operatives at a location in Kaduna, while on transit to Kano based on active intelligence. “The suspect on preliminary investigation revealed that he is part of the inmates who escaped during the recent attack on …
One of the Kuje Correctional Center escapees was on Monday, July 11th arrested by operatives of Ogun state Police Command. The escapee, 28year old Yakubu AbdulMumuni was arrested following an information received by policemen at Sango ota divisional headquarters that, the convict was sighted somewhere around Sango Ota. Upon the information, the DPO Sango Ota division, SP Saleh Dahiru quickly mobilised his men and moved to the area where the convict was apprehended. He confessed to the Police that he …