Two employees of FoodCo, Ring Road branch, Ebenezer Olusesi, 31, and Ibrahim Adeniyi,41, were on Monday docked in an Iyaganku Chief Magistrate’s Court for allegedly stealing two loaves of bread worth N2,600 from their employer. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Olusesi, a baker and Adeniyi, a security guard, pleaded not guilty to theft. The Prosecution Counsel, Cpl. David Adepoju told the court that the defendants allegedly conspired together to commit the offence. …
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A man identified simply as Azeez has been confirmed dead after reportedly jumping into Lagos lagoon while being chased by a mob for allegedly stealing bags of cement. The Director in charge of Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), said he arrived at the scene of the incident to see the lifeless body of the deceased who drowned. His corpse has now been evacuated and deposited at the Mainland General Hospital mortuary in Yaba. A statement released …
An 18-year-old boy, Mubarak Akadiri, told Ondo State Magistrates’ Court sitting in Akure that he killed his mother’s employer, Sidikat Adamolekun, after she caught him stealing her phone. The teenager allegedly murdered the 63-year-old retired head teacher and stole her phone at her residence in Arigidi Akoko in Akoko North-West Local Government Area of Ondo in November. The suspect is the son of the late head teacher’s housemaid. He was thereafter arrested by operatives of the state police …
Operatives of the Bauchi State Police Command have arrested a robbery suspect for killing one Yayaji Abubakar and stealing his motorcycle in the Alkaleri Local Government Area of the state. Spokesperson of the command, SP Ahmed Mohammed Wakil, who disclosed this in a statement on Thursday, November 2, 2023, said the suspect, Yakubu Adamu, attacked and stabbed the deceased to death with a sharp knife before stealing the motorcycle. “On 13/10/2023 at about 1930hrs one Usman Mohammad ‘m’ aged 38yrs …
A suspected thief has been caught for allegedly stealing a generator and other items from a compound in Lagos State. A tenant in the compound, Adeola Aleem, shared photos of the suspect in a Facebook post on Saturday, September 23, 2023. “He’s a thief he came to my compound to steal this stuff but I ran after him with my neighbour and he was been caught.”
A Nigerian man has accused the deputy governor of Edo state, Phillip Shaibu, of ‘’stealing’’ his Daytona Gold wristwatch. In a video making the rounds on social media, the man said before the general elections, he and some other persons were allegedly ‘’abducted” by security agents attached to the deputy governor who took them to Benin City and ‘tried to forcefully plant a gun’ on them. He said they resisted, but during the scuffle, the security men allegedly took …