Tag: Armed Robbery
Ladipo Market Traders Against Armed Thugs
Traders at the Aguiyi-Ironsi International Trade Centre at Ladipo, Mushin, Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria on Monday staged a peaceful protest…
Armed Robber Sentenced To Death
A Makurdi High Court in Benue State, Northcentral Nigeria, presided over by Justice Elizabeth Kpojime on Monday sentenced Oghenemaro Kesena,…
How Police Recruit Criminals In The Force
The lack of trust between the citizens and members of the Nigeria Police Force has compounded the security challenges in…
Okoli, Ladipo Market Leader Charged With Armed Robbery
The factional leader of Aguiyi-Ironsi International Market also known as Ladipo Market, Mushin, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, Jonathan Okoli has been…
Teenager In Court Over Robbery
An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday remanded a teenager, who allegedly robbed passengers of two BlackBerry handsets at gunpoint Magistrate…
Police Smash 3-Man Robbery Gang
The police in Lagos, southwest Nigeria have smashed a three-man armed robbery gang and arrested two of them while the…
Suspects Sell BB Phone N3,000 To Fuel Stolen Car
In order to escape arrest, a gang of three armed robbers who were heading for Lagos from Asaba, Delta State,…
Motorcycle Rider Jailed 14 Years For Robbery
A Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja today sentenced a commercial motorcylist, Jamiu Rasaki to 14 years imprisonment for robbery. Rasaki…
Operation Code 09/09
BY M. A. AKINSEMOYIN I am now calling the nation’s attention to a menace that has further tarred the police…
Radio Seeks To Ease Lagos Monstrous Traffic
The body remained by the roadside after an armed robbery attack, but Tunmise Oladapo-Kuku was ready to help as drivers…
I Got N2m From Our Operations —Suspect Confesses
One of the three armed robbery suspects allegedly caught with huge arms and ammunition, Uche Okeagbu, 23, has allegedly confessed…
17- Storey Building Where Criminals Torture, Kill Victims
An abandoned 17-storey building where criminals rape, kill victims and share their loot, has been uncovered in Oto-Awori Local Council…
Robbery Attacks On The Increase
As we enter the so-called ‘ember months’, armed robbery attacks have also increased and the police seem helpless to curb…
Servants ‘Clean Out’ Master’s House, Steal SUV, TV Sets
Men of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, have arrested two domestic servants, Obinna Sunday and Sunday Eze who allegedly burgled…
A Bloody Sunday In ‘Ember Month’
There is something sinister about the last four months of the year many prefer to call ‘ember months’ because they…
Apapa Bank Raid: Slain Inspector Left 3 Wives, 8 Children
The victim of the armed robbery raid at a bank in Apapa, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, on Tuesday, Inspector Taiwo Ajetunmobi,…
Lagos PPRO Warns Okada Riders
Worried by the incessant reports of robberies involving motorcycle operators in Lagos State, the state Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO,…
Open Letter To Gov Fashola: My Detention By Apapa DPO
BY ADE OSIJO Dear Governor, I am writing to you as one of your greatest admirers because of your passion…
Youths Lynch 4 Robbers
Youths numbering over 40 in Badagry area of Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria, on Wednesday lynched four suspected robbers after the…
Police Smash 8-Man Mushin Gang
Eight Mushin robbery suspects who allegedly robbed and killed their victims have been arrested by operatives of the Federal Special…
Manko’s Men Must Sit Up
Armed robbery attacks in Lagos in recent times have skyrocketed and the use of police uniforms by the bandits is…
7-Man Robbery Gang Docked
The police in Lagos on Wednesday arraigned a seven-man robbery gang before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court, charged with stealing two…
45 Robbery Suspects, Others Held
At least 45 robbery suspects and cultists have been arrested by men of the Benue State Police Command. In addition…
Judge Frees 34 Prison Inmates
Fifteen murder suspects, eight armed robbery suspects and six persons awaiting trial for stealing were among those who regained freedom…
The Police We Desire
From all indications, the desire of the acting Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, to reform the police is on course…
Banks still shut in OOU, Ijebu-Igbo
Longe Omolaja/Ago Iwoye, Banks on the campus of Olabisi Onabanjo University in Ago Iwoye are still shut despite the efforts…
Police Battle Robbers, Kill Two
Special Anti-Armed Robbery Squad,SARS, complemented by a patrol team from the Diobu Divisional Police Division of the Rivers State Police…
43 HIV Sex Workers Arrested
Forty-three commercial sex workers who have contracted the Human Immuno-Deficiency Virus, popularly referred to as HIV are among the 100…
Piracy Bill Presented To Stakeholders
The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has presented a Draft Bill on Piracy and Other Unlawful Acts at…
NATIONAL SECURITY: Fashola Advocates Adequate Attention To Small Crimes
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), Monday called on security agencies in the country to pay more attention to…