What is a city without crime? thisislagos descends into the Lagos underground to search out the baddest guys committing the craziest crimes in LasGidi.
Lagos police nab 2 cable thieves (Guardian)
Officers of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) have arrested two cable vandals in different parts of Lagos State. The suspects are 28-year-old Akpan Fortune and 24-year-old Stanley Umebuane were arrested in Ikeja and Ikoyi respectively on Sunday, November 6, 2022.
Spokesperson for Lagos State Police Command, Benjamin Hundeyin said Fortune was arrested in the morning on Acme Crescent, Agidingbi, Ikeja, after accessing and vandalising telecommunication and generator cables in a substation in the area, while Umebuane was caught in the act by RRS team on routine patrol on Sunday night at Gerrard Road, Ikoyi, digging up electricity cables with a shovel.
Recovered from them were a shovel and different types of vandalised cables. Hundeyin said Commander, RRS, Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP) Olayinka Egbeyemi has since transferred the suspects to the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID), Panti, for further investigation and prosecution.
Meanwhile, the PPRO has called on Lagosians to report cases of one-chance robberies to the nearest police station. Read more
Ataga’s murder: Ojukwu has amorous relationship with foster father, court told (Guardian)
Justice Yetunde Adesanya of a Lagos High Court sitting at Tafawa Balewa Square (TBS), was yesterday told that there was an amorous relationship between Chidinma Ojukwu, the alleged killer of the Chief Executive Office of Super TV, Usifo Ataga and her the foster father, Ojukwu Onoh.
A prosecution witness, Deputy Superintendent of Police, (DSP), Olusegun Bamidele, disclosed this while being cross-examined by Chidinma’s counsel, Mr. Onwuka Egwu, during trial within trial to determine the voluntariness of the defendant’s statement.
Bamidele, who is serving with the homicide department of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID) Panti Yaba, said Ojukwu volunteered a statement without duress to the police when she was arrested.
The police officer told the court that it was during investigation that the police stumbled on intelligence, that there was an amorous relationship between the first defendant and her foster father. Read more
Lagos residents raise concerns over one-chance car robberies (Guardian)
Lagos residents are raising the alarm over operations of one-chance car robbers in the metropolis.
The robbers, who are always in unmarked cabs, capitalise on Lagos’s early morning rush to steal from unsuspected residents.
Most of the victims are ladies, who easily hop inside these cars on their way to work in the morning or on their way back in the evening.
Before now, these criminals operated in commercial buses, but have now changed to passenger cars because their previous mode of operation had become known. Read more
NDLEA arrests 2 Pakistani businessmen for alleged cocaine, skunk trafficking (Guardian)
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested two Pakistani businessmen at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, (MMIA), Lagos with 8 kilograms of cocaine.
The Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA, Mr Femi Babafemi, said this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja.
Babafemi said that the drugs were concealed in a public address system in which the suspects were attempting to board a Qatar Airways flight to Lahore, Pakistan via Doha.
He said that the two suspects, Asif Muhammed, 45 and Hussain Naveed, 57, who hold Nigerian residence permits suspected to be fake, were frequent travelers to Nigeria under the guise of doing textile business. Read more
Many injured as gunmen attack commuters on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway (Punch)
Gunmen dressed in military uniforms reportedly attacked commuters travelling on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway on Tuesday.
The gunmen suspected to be kidnappers stormed the road from the bush before the Sagamu Interchange en route Lagos and started shooting at motorists in the 18-passenger inter-state bus.
According to one of the victims who craved anonymity, “We (passengers) were only lucky to escape the gunmen but many of us have been injured by the bullets and our bus has been badly damaged too.”
Another video shows a man who survived bullet wounds recounting his experience saying, “I thought I was dead, having been shot by them. Read more
Lagos police arraign 2 men for attempted sodomy (Punch)
Two men, Victor Adams and Bolaji Adebayo, were on Tuesday arraigned before a Lagos Magistrates’ Court in Ojo, for allegedly attempting to sodomise a man.
Adams, 25, and Adebayo, 27, were charged with conspiracy and unlawful detention with intent to commit indecent assault.
During their arraignment before Magistrate L. J. K. Layeni, the prosecution counsel, Dr Simon Uche, told the court that the defendants committed the offence on October 31, 2022.
He said the incident took place on Love Estate, Iba Town, Ojo, Lagos. Read more
2 remanded over robbery, firearm possession in Lagos (Punch)
A Yaba Magistrate court has remanded two men identified as Kabiru Oladele and Moyinnoluwa Moses for allegedly robbing an Automatic Gas Oil with dangerous weapons.
The suspects were arraigned on two counts of robbery and illegal possession of firearms.
The prosecutor, O.W Ologun, told the court that the accused committed the crime on August 27 at Anthony village in Lagos state.
Ologun added that the suspects allegedly robbed the Automatic Gas Oil of goods worth N10.7 million. Read more
One-way: Soldiers beat policeman, LASTMA official in Lagos (Punch)
Some soldiers of the Nigerian Army on Wednesday morning beat up a policeman and an official of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority along Eko Bridge in Lagos.
According to information gathered, the soldiers were on one-way when the policeman and the LASTMA official stopped their vehicle and ordered them to turn back and take the right lane.
It was learnt that the situation became tensed after confrontations as both parties could not come to an agreement.
The soldiers, who refused to turn back, reportedly pounced on the two officials and began to beat them. Read more
Celestial church members mob PUNCHman, police probe attack (Punch)
A security guard, identified simply as Rotimi, alongside worshippers of the Celestial Church of Christ, Sharon Parish, have brutalised a PUNCHman, Deji Lambo, on the church premises on Mobolaji Benson Street, Lowa, Igbooluwo, in the Ikorodu area of Lagos State.
Deji had visited the church to ascertain the circumstances surrounding the death of an electrician, Taiwo Akinlotan, who got electrocuted while fixing some electrical appliances in the church on Friday, November 5, 2022.
Upon getting to the front gate of the church, the reporter approached a young lady, asked for the head of the church, and was directed to a church member, one Mr Lambo, who after hearing the reason for our correspondent’s visit, took him into the church’s premises and introduced him to some colleagues.
A senior member of the church, who was among the colleagues, while attending to our correspondent, called the Chairman of the church, Adeleke Oduwole, and handed his phone to our correspondent to explain the reason for the visit.
Return my property, landlord tells Lagos school owner (Punch)
A landlord, Bennett Onyeise, has accused his tenant, Leonard Agbontaen, of refusing to vacate his property at 15, Olurunibe Aiyenoyo Crescent, in the Ejigbo area of Lagos State.
He made the accusation in a suit dated September 8, 2022, filed before Magistrate K.S. Abdulsalam, sitting at the Samuel Ilori Court, Ogba, Lagos.
Agbontaen was said to have rented Onyeise’s five-bedroom building for an annual rent value of N1m.
Onyeise, through his counsel, Jacinta Ogbedeleto, said he informed Agbontaen to vacate the facility because he wanted to use the building for personal use.
Lagos lawyer accuses judiciary of grabbing landed property (Punch)
A legal practitioner, Omodele Ibrahim, has accused the Lagos State Government of encroaching on his plot of land.
He said the land, situated at the Lanre Razak Housing Estate, Itamarun, Epe, was sold to him by the late Chief Lanre Razak, a former Chairman of the Epe Local Government Area, who established the private housing estate.
Ibrahim, who claimed to have fenced the land, alleged that the entrance to the property was forced open twice by intruders, adding that some mobile officers were also drafted there by the Lagos State Ministry of Justice.
He said, “Sometime in November 2021, I was out of the country when a neighbour living on the estate called to tell me that there were intruders on my land. Immediately, I called a relative of mine to go there and get them out and get a new padlock to lock the gate. Read more
One-way: Community ejects policemen over extortion, property damage (Punch)
Residents of Boladale Street, Mafoluku, in the Oshodi area of Lagos State, have reportedly chased away policemen who allegedly extorted money from motorists accused of driving against traffic (one-way) in the community.
The activities of the officers, who were from the Akinpelu Police Station, were said to have led to the destruction of some property in the community, with the latest involving a vehicle belonging to Akima Hotel owned by the Chairman of the Lagos State Parks and Garages Committee, Musiliu Akinsanya, aka MC Oluomo.
Motorists connecting Kunle Akinosi from the Oshodi-Apapa Expressway are expected to turn right into Boladale Street, while those who turn left would have to immediately take the right bend into Olaogun Lane to access the community.
However, motorists who should take the right bend unknowingly keep left and drive straight down into the one-way road, which has no signage. Read more
Ritual: Slain teenager’s father petitions police, N100k demanded (Punch)
Muftau Talemu, the father of Nureni, a 20-year-old man allegedly killed for ritual purposes in Temu, a community in the Ikosi-Ejinrin Local Council Development Area, Epe, Lagos State, has demanded justice for his son.
PUNCH Metro had reported that the Senior Secondary School 3 student died on October 12 after he claimed that his friends, Daniel, 19, and Sunday, another teenager, put a calabash on his head after drugging his meal.
His father, in a petition to the Deputy Commissioner of Police, State Criminal Investigation Department, Yaba, on October 17, demanded that those behind his death be prosecuted.
Muftau also accused the police of demanding N100,000 before investigating the incident. Read more
