Crime

Insight On The Kogi Campus Killings

November 14, 2019 10:40 am

OVER the course of penultimate weekend, news came of the massacre of no fewer than 13 students of the Kogi State University, KSU, Ayingba, Kogi State, by alleged cultists. According to the reports, the killings were reprisals staged by an unnamed cult whose leader was murdered by a rival group in the KSU. Nine students, including a 200-level female student and her boyfriend, were reportedly killed on the KSU campus and at different locations within the Ayingba town. Many who escaped with injuries were hospitalised.

Although concrete facts of this story were mostly shrouded, the KSU Public Relations Officer, Joseph …

Former Super Eagles Player Found Guilty Of Match-Fixing

November 13, 2019 2:08 pm
A former Nigeria international Dickson Etuhu has been found guilty for attempted match-fixing by a Swedish appeals court.
The Court of Appeals in Stockholm in a release on Wednesday said that Etuhu and an unnamed former player tried to influence AIK keeper Kyriakos “Kenny” Stamatopoulos to fix a match in Sweden’s top division in 2017.

“The content of what the men submitted to the player (Stamatopoulos) was so clear that it should be considered a criminal offer of bribe,” the court said.

Etuhu escaped a jail sentence but

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Boy, 12, Allegedly Raped By Three Psychiatric Patients

November 13, 2019 12:45 pm

The incident allegedly took place on Tuesday at Durban’s RK Khan hospital where it is alleged psychiatric and non-psychiatric patients are currently in mixed wards.

The Democratic Alliance (DA) in KwaZulu-Natal has said it will seek answers from the province’s Health MEC, Nomagugu Simelane-Zulu after being reliably informed that a 12-year-old boy has been allegedly raped by three psychiatric patients at Durban’s RK Khan Hospital.

The DA’s member of the provincial legislature, Dr Rishigen Viranna said the information of the alleged rape was made available to the party by sources within the hospital.

The incident is believed to have taken

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SA: Bosasa Lays 171 Charges Against Agrizzi For Stolen R37m

November 13, 2019 12:43 pm

Facilities management company Bosasa laid criminal charges on Wednesday against, among others, their former chief operating officer, Angelo Agrizzi, and former chief financial officer, Andries van Tonder, both of whom testified against the company earlier this year at the state capture commission.

The charges were laid in person at the Krugersdorp police station by the late Gavin Watson’s nephew Jared Watson, who is representing his uncle as the executor of his estate and, as a chartered accountant, was assisting Gavin with his submission to an SA Reserve Service inquiry into his finances and those of several others at Bosasa.

He …

SA: Two Women Killed In Bronkhorstspruit Bus Crash

November 13, 2019 12:41 pm

Two women have been killed in a bus crash on Moloto Road in Bronkhorstspruit, Tshwane, in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

“Circumstances surrounding the incident are not yet known, but it occurred this morning between 05:00 and 06:00 while it was raining. The accident happened around a curve,” Tshwane Metro Police Department (TMPD) spokesperson Isaac Mahamba told News24 on Wednesday afternoon.

The two women killed were aged 40 and 16. Authorities are not able to disclose their details until the next of kin is informed.

A total of 41 passengers, as well as the driver, sustained injuries, according to …

Doctor

SA: Doctor Shoots Wife In The Head, In Front Of Kids

November 13, 2019 12:36 pm

A doctor is in hospital after being shot in the head, allegedly by her estranged husband, who is also a doctor, in Summerstand, Port Elizabeth, over the weekend, police said on Monday.

Police spokesperson Capt Sandra Janse van Rensburg said the woman, 36, and her sister went to the house on Saturday morning to fetch some of her belongings, when they were attacked by her husband.

“A shot was fired, injuring the woman in her head,” Van Rensburg said. The woman survived the shooting and was taken to hospital.

The attack occurred in front of the couple’s three children. …

Kano Boy Kidnapped In 2014 Found And Rescued In Anambra

November 13, 2019 6:07 am

The police in Kano State announced on Wednesday the rescue of a boy who had been kidnapped in the state and trafficked and sold in Anamabra State.

A statement signed by the Kano State Police Public Relations Officer, Haruna Abdullahi, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, gave the name of the boy as Muhammed Ya’u.

The statement said that the 11-year-old victim, whose name was initially announced as Muhammad Yau, was kidnapped in 2014 at PRP Quarters in the metropolitan area of the state.

The statement added that boy was kidnapped by Paul Onwe and Mercy Paul and sold to one …

Shai

SA: Ipid Investigating Shooting Of Actor Patrick Shai

November 12, 2019 4:56 pm
The Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid) is investigating the shooting of actor Patrick Shai on Monday.

Shai was shot 11 times with rubber bullets when community members of Dobsonville, in Soweto, took to the streets to protest against power cuts in their area.

Sontaga Seisa, spokesperson for the police watchdog, said: “It is further reported that Mr Shai was not part of the protest, but as a resident in the area, he realised that the situation was worth [it] to intervene.

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“During the attempt of mediation by Shai,

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‘Secret’ Puma Kits Contract Tears AFN Board Apart

November 12, 2019 3:48 pm
Barely a week after the Technical Director of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), Sunday Adeleye was sacked and Secretary General, Elijah Ademu removed for their alleged roles in the technical and administrative lapses that brought international embarrassment to the country at Doha 2019 IAAF World Championship, another round of crisis seems to be brewing within the athletics body.

This time, the board members are at daggers drawn among themselves following a four-year deal the AFN signed recently with Germany-based sports kit manufacturing company, Puma.

Puma’s Senior Manager Corporate Communications, Robert-Jan Bartunek, had confirmed recently that the agreement with

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Police Deny Robbery Attempt At CBN In Benin

November 12, 2019 3:44 pm

The Edo Police Command has denied reports of a robbery attempts at the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Benin.

DCP Ayoola Ajala, Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of operations, who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday, said that it was not true that there was a robbery attempt at the bank.

He said that the incident had to do with some cultists who were being chased around the Museum area of the city and trying to escape through Akpakpava road where the CBN is situated.

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Police Arrest Kaduna Sharia Court Judge, 2 Others

November 12, 2019 11:22 am

The police in Kaduna State have arrested a Sharia judge, Murtala Nasir, and former chairman of Peugeot Automobile Nigeria Limited (PAN), Alhaji Sani Dauda for allegedly giving out the latter’s daughter, Nasiba Dauda, in marriage twice.

Nasir who is the judge of Magaji gari Sharia Court in Kaduna North Local Government Area, was said to have conducted the marriage on Saturday, November 9, 2019.

Also arrested by the police was Shehu Dauda, one of the sons of Alhaji Sani Dauda.

The Kaduna State Police Command spokesman, DSP Yakubu Sabo, did not take his call at the time of filing this …

OPWS Allegedly Destroys Gana’s Small London Hotel

November 12, 2019 11:17 am

Troops of Operation Whirl Stroke (OPWS) on Tuesday allegedly destroyed a hotel belonging to wanted militia leader Terwase Akwaza, alias ‘Gana’, in Gbishe, Katsina-Ala Local Government area of Benue State.

The hotel known as Small London Hotel located on Gudu Road in Gbishe is said to have been used as a hideout for kidnapping by the kingpin and members of his gang.

The hotel, according to sources from the area, was under construction before it was destroyed on Monday by OPWS troops.

Our sources, who did not want to be named, disclosed further that a number of vehicles and …

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