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Rapper Victor Odu, popularly known as Vic O, has decried the insecurity in the country after he was robbed.
In a post on his Instagram page early Saturday, Vic O revealed that he was robbed and almost all his belongings were taken from him.
He wrote, “Damn. I just got robbed. They took almost everything from me. This Naija isn’t safe o.”
The rapper, however, did not give information on the location of the robbery attack.
An Ikeja Special Offences Court on Monday sentenced a 20-year-old man, Nojeem Badmos, to death by hanging for armed robbery.
Delivering judgment, Justice Olubunmi Abike-Fadipe, held that the prosecution proved beyond reasonable doubt, the ingredients of the two counts of conspiracy to commit robbery and armed robbery.
Mrs Abike-Fadipe described the defendant’s account of the incident as inconsistent.
According to her, evidence of the prosecution witness, Adetokunbo Solomon (victim), were proven cogent and true. She held that the defendant in company of two others still at large did rob Solomon of his bag and other valuables early one morning as he stood at a bus stop on his way to work sometime in July 2019.
Mrs Abike-Fadipe said;
“On his way to work at the bus stop somewhere in Alagbado area of the state, noticed a motorcyclist carrying two passengers approaching him.
“He suspected danger and began to run but the two passengers on the bike came down and ran after him. He fell in the mud and the two others chased after him, caught up with him and beat him up.
Justice Abike-Fadipe said;
“In respect to the offence of conspiracy to commit robbery, I sentence you to 21 years jail term.
“In respect to armed robbery having being found guilty, you will be hanged on the neck until you are dead and may the Lord have mercy on you.”
Meanwhile, the judge told the defence counsel that the law was clear on the punishment of armed robbery, however, gave him an opportunity for his allocutus.
The defence counsel, Ajibade Benson, in his allocutus prayed for the court to be lenient as the defendant was a first time offender.
Prosecution counsel Adebanke Ogunde did not object to the judgement. Conspiracy and armed robbery contravenes the provisions of sections 299 and 297 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State, 2015.
Chita Agwu Johnson has become the latest Nigerian celebrity to be robbed in London. The actress who is in the UK for the holidays has been sharing beautiful photos from the country with her location on display.
Sadly, she was targeted by robbers at Finchley Road Station in London.
She added that they took all the valuables she had and she couldn’t sleep last night as a result.
Toke Makinwa and Adegbite Damilola are some Nigerian celebrities recently robbed in the UK.
Damilola Adegbite has disclosed that she was a victim of a robbery attack in London.
The Nigerian actress said her handbag was snatched with her phone and all the money for trip was taken
She explained that she would have been stranded if not for a helper.
She later got an alert from Apple that her iPhone is now in China.
This is coming after media personality, Toke Makinwa revealed that she was robbed in London recently.
Nigerian media personality, Toke Makinwa, has cried out after losing her valuables to robbers in London.
She made this known via her Snapchat on Wednesday.
She wrote, “Just got robbed in London. I am speechless. All my valuables are gone. Gosh, how could this happen to me.”
This is coming days after the Federal Government warned Nigerians about increased rate of robbery in the United States, the United Kingdom and other European countries.
Landlords and residents in Ifelagba community, in the Ido Local Government Area of Oyo State, have been living in fear after suspected armed robbers notified them of their plan to attack the community.
It was gathered that the armed robbers notified residents in the community of the impending attack through letters that were pasted on the wall of buildings in the community last Saturday.
The robbers, in the letter written in Yoruba language, said they were ready to overpower the vigilantes that had made robbery operations difficult for them in the community.
The letter read in part,
“We are coming to collect our rights and money in your houses. We will use all our power and strength to fight the vigilantes because of all their wicked acts and how they have stopped us all these years. We are armed robbers and we will show you who we are at the end of this month when we invade your community. Be prepared.”
One of the residents, Tayo Oresanya, said the situation had deprived them of sleeping peacefully at night, adding that they still felt unsafe despite the presence of policemen patrolling the community.
Oresanya said,
“We sleep with one eye closed because we don’t know when these people will attack us. For armed robbers to get the boldness to tell us when they want to attack shows that they have really prepared for us. We have security operatives patrolling the community, but we still don’t feel safe, we have left everything in God’s hand.”
A community leader, who refused to mention his name for security reasons, said five out of the six gates leading to the community had been locked to keep residents in the community safe.
He said, “Since we received the letter, the police have been patrolling the area. The letter was pasted in strategic houses. It shows that they are people living with us.
“We cannot disclose all the security measures we are putting in place to ensure we save the lives and property of our people. But I can tell you that we are on top of the matter.”
A security expert, Wale Olatunji, said the police must carry out a discreet investigation to ascertain those living within the community that may be part of the robbery gang.
He said,
“The police must be discreet in their investigation and plan on how they want to secure the community so that they don’t end up giving information to one of the robbers.”
Contacted, the state Police Public Relations Officer, Adewale Osifeso, promised to get back to our correspondent for a reaction.He had yet to do so as of the time this report was filed.
A man has reportedly been hospitalized after breaking a leg while running from robbers who wanted to steal his phone.
Twitter user, @olabodeEO who shared the story said the man was running from armed robbers who wanted to snatch his phone from him when he jumped off the popular Otedola bridge.
The man broke his leg and was rushed to the hospital where he has been asked to pay a N1.2 million for his medical attention.
Three brothers and one other arrested for robbery in Ogun Operatives of Ogun State Police Command have arrested three brothers and one other for carrying out series of robbery operations in Ijebu ode area of Ogun state.
The suspects identified as Hammed Jagbojagbo, Idris Jagbojagbo, Tobi Jagbojagbo, and Tosin Ogundeko were arrested following a distress call received at Igbeba divisional headquarters that armed robbers have invaded the shop of a premier lotto agent at Odi olowo area of Ijebu Ode and robbed the agent of N90, 000 .
The robbers were also accused of snatching a bajaj motorcycle belonging to one Clement Conleth.
Upon the distress call, the DPO Igbeba division, CSP Musiliu Doga quickly led his patrol team to the scene, gave the robbers a hot chase, and succeeded in arresting one of them by name Tosin Ogundeko from whom the Bajaj motorcycle was recovered.
The arrested Tosin Ogundeko subsequently led detectives to their hideout in Epe Lagos state where the remaining three were apprehended, while one of them simply identified as Tosin a.k.a socket escaped.
Confirming the arrest, the spokesperson of the state police command, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, said upon interrogation, the suspects confessed been responsible for various motorcycle snatching operations in ijebu ode and its environs.
”They confessed further that they all based in Epe but chose ijebu ode as their area of operation.” he said
Oyeyemi added that items recovered from them include one cut to size locally made gun and one Bajaj motorcycle.
According to Oyeyemi, the state Commissioner of Police, CP Lanre Bankole has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspects to State Criminal Investigation Departments for discreet investigation.
He has also directed a massive manhunt for the fleeing member of the gang.
Men of the Kwara state police command have arrested a 20-year-old armed robbery suspect, Ridwan Abdulfatai, from Oke Fomo Ilorin and two other members of his gang.
The spokesman for the Command, SP Okasanmi Ajayi, who confirmed the arrest in a statement issued in Kwara on Sunday, October 9, said the suspect attacked the students of Kwara State University, at about 3am on October 7.
He said they were all robbed at their hostel called ‘Downtown’ hostel by armed hoodlums and their property forcefully carted away.
“While approaching the suspected hide outhideout of the gang, the team was sighted by the hoodlums and the armed robbers took to their heels, one Ridwan Abdulfatai ‘M’ aged 20yrs, from Oke Fomo Ilorin was arrested by the detectives.
Consequently, the suspect under intense interrogation confessed he is the leader of a robbery gang terrorizing the Malete community and its environs, stating also that he is also a jailbird.”
The Police spokesman disclosed that a preliminary investigation led to the arrest of two other members of the gang, namely, Ibrahim Ridwan Akorede ‘M’ 25yrs of Oke Fomo area of Ilorin, and Aliyu Abubakar Apalado ‘M’ 25yrs, all confessed to the crimes.
Ajayi said the Commissioner of police set up a crack team of detectives comprising the Anti-cultists, Anti-Kidnapping, Anti-robbery, and personnel of Malete Division with the mandate to break the suspect’s foothold and bring the culprits to justice.
He said some of the items recovered from the suspects include One Locally made gun, One Jackknife and charms, and Eleven(11) Generators. Two (2) Motorcycles, One(1) small-size fridge, One(1) standing fan, One(1) pumping machine, Nineteen(19) iPhone 6 handsets, Three(3) iPhone11 handsets, Sixteen(16) iPhone 6 plus, Five(5) iPhone XR and other brands telephone handsets altogether totaling Eighty-seven (87) handsets, Ten(10) Laptops and Two(2) Television sets.
He explained that effort is still geared towards arresting the remaining members of the gang.
An Ex-personnel of the Department of State Services, DSS, Prosper Israel, has been paraded alongside nine other suspected robbers by the Abia State Police force.
Parading the suspects before newsmen, the state Commissioner of Police, Janet Agbade, said the armed robbery gang was part of the 14-man robbery gang that ambushed a bullion van near the Ntigha junction of the Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway on July 26, 2022.
During the robbery, they killed one new generation bank cash officer on the spot, and carted away an unspecified amount of cash being conveyed by the bullion van.
CP Agbade, said their arrest was the reward of months of painstaking efforts and investigation.
”I carefully studied their modus operandi and set up a special intelligence technologically-led Investigative squad ( ITLIS) with a clear directive to arrest and recover weapons used by the deadly armed robbery gang.
Consequently, the Investigation used systematically commenced operation, applying speed and accuracy, and on different locations and days, arrested the following callous armed robbery gang” she said.
The police boss gave the names of the suspects as Adesoji Adeniyi from Ondo State; Nnamdi Nwaosu a.k.a “Prophet”; Chinwendu Israel from Abia; and Prosper Israel ( ex – DSS personnel), also from Abia.
Others were Nwachukwu Albert a.k.a White ( first amourer) from Delta State but resident in Lagos; Felix Ajaja from Ondo State; Moshood Opeyemi, from Osun State; and Matthew Christmas also from Delta.
Among the suspects also were Azubuike Amaefula a.k.a Zubby from Abia; and Monday Samuel (second armourer) from Delta but resident in Ondo State.
Exhibits recovered from the suspects include one General Purpose Machine Gun ( GPMG); 13 AK 47 riffles; one cut-to-size double barrel gun with five live cartridges; 84 AK 47 magazines.
Others were two improvised explosives dynamites; a Mercedes Benz mini truck used in concealing firearms; and cash of N10, 184,000. According to the CP, the suspects during interrogation confessed that they placed the bullion van on surveillance for two months.
The CP who said that efforts were on to trail three other members of the gang still at large, pleaded with members of the public to always volunteer information about suspected criminals around them.
She said that the suspects would be arraigned after further investigations.
When interrogated, the ex-DSS officer pleaded for forgiveness, saying it was the first time he would be involved in any crime.
He said he was initially serving at the Abia State Government House but was dismissed in 2007 following his late reporting to a new posting.
According to him, it was his brother that gave him part of the money he got from the operation.
”My role in the operation was that I was in my house when my brother brought money and his colleagues and they shared and gave me part of it.
I asked him and he told me how they got the money. I want to plead for forgiveness because I failed to rebuke him.
So, it is obvious I participated because I can’t say I did not. But it was not intentional and I want society to forgive us”he said
Men of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Kano Command, have arrested 22-year-old Zaharadden Mukthar, pictured above, for allegedly vandalizing and stealing aluminum sliding window burglar shields from the Dawakin Tofa Central Mosque in the state.
DSC Ibrahim Idris Abdullahi, Command’s Public Relations Officer, disclosed this in a statement issued today September 14.
He said Mukthar, a resident of Kashirmu Village in Dawakin Tofa LGA was apprehended with the stolen items, concealed in a large sack and being conveyed to the market.
“The Suspect has since confessed to the committing of the nefarious act and will be charged to court upon completion of investigation,” he said
American rapper, PnB Rock has been shot and killed at the age of 30. The rapper, whose real name was Rakim Hasheem Allen was killed in a South Los Angeles shooting while getting robbed on Monday afternoon, September 12.
The Times reported that the shooting happened at 1:15 p.m. at Roscoe’s House of Chicken ’N Waffles as PnB Rock was “being robbed of his jewelry.”
TMZ said law enforcement received a call about the incident at 1:23 p.m. and that graphic footage circulating online showed him “fighting for his life.” Police told media the victim was pronounced dead at a hospital at 1:59 p.m.
“The victim was sitting at a table eating with a female witness when he was approached by the suspect,” Los Angeles Police Capt. Kelly Muniz said without naming PnB Rock.
“The suspect then brandished a firearm and demanded his property. … The suspect then fired multiple rounds and then appears to remove some property, to what extent we don’t know at this time.”
Muniz also revealed the suspect “shot the victim and ran out the side door to a getaway car and then fled the parking lot.” A TMZ source indicated it “appears the shooter targeted PnB because no one else was shot or assaulted.”
The artist’s girlfriend, Stephanie Sibounheuang, with whom he shared 2-year-old daughter Xuri, reportedly posted and deleted that they were eating at Roscoe’s on her Instagram Stories.
A rep for Roscoe’s House of Chicken ‘N Waffles has provided a statement to XXL regarding PnB Rock being the victim of a shooting at the restaurant and his death on Sept. 12.
“We are deeply saddened by the death of Rakim Hasheem Allen, (also known as PnB Rock), an incredible artist in Los Angeles and everywhere,” the statement reads. “His passing represents an enormous loss to each and every one of us.
“Our most heartfelt condolences, thoughts, and prayers go to the Allen family at this difficult time,” the statement continues.
“The safety of our employees and guests are our utmost priority. We have and will continue to keep our place of business as safe as possible.”
Operatives of the Delta State Police Command have arrested three suspected armed robbers and recovered one English pistol from their possession.
Spokesperson of the command, DSP Bright Edafe, who disclosed this in a statement on Thursday, September 1, said the suspects including a female, Esther Nwoko, snatched a motorcycle from a victim at gunpoint in Issele-Uku.
“On the 25/8/2022 at about 0800hrs, a case of suspected stolen unregistered motorcycle was reported by an indigene of Onicha-Uku at Isseluku-Uku Police Station. On the strength of the complaint, the DPO Issele-Uku detailed detectives to investigate.
An intelligence led investigation culminated to the arrest of the prime suspect, Iyegbunuwe Oluchukwu ‘m’ of Issele-Uku,” the statement read.
“The suspect led the detectives to their hideout at Onicha-Ugbo in Aniocha North LGA, where two other suspects, one Okwudili Ozah ‘m’ and Esther Nwoko ‘f’, were arrested and One (1) English revolver pistol, fifteen (15) rounds of live ammunition, and six (6) expended ammunition were recovered.
“Suspects allegedly stole the motorcycle at gun point and it’s suspected to be in the possession of one of their accomplice Chidinma Nwoko ‘m’, the husband to Esther Nwoko. Effort is on to arrest the other members of the gang.”
A 39-year-old man, Charles Inibu, has been arraigned before a Lagos Magistrate Court sitting in Yaba, Lagos State, for allegedly disguising as a commercial driver to rob unsuspecting passengers of their valuables in the Victoria Island area of the state.
The defendant was charged before Chief Magistrate P.E Nwaka, on two counts bordering on conspiracy to commit robbery and robbery.
The prosecution, led by Sgt. Juliana, said Inibu pretended to be a commercial bus driver at the time of the incident within Victoria Island in Lagos, to lure passengers into his bus.However, Inibu and others still at large, dispossessed the victims of their belongings.
The charges read in part,
“That you, Charles Inibu, and others now at large, within July 31, 2022, to August 8, 2022, within Victoria Island, Lagos, in the Lagos Magisterial District, did conspire amongst yourselves to commit felony to wit, robbery.
“That you, Charles Inibu, and others still at large, within the same date and place in the aforementioned magisterial district, did pretend to be genuine commercial bus drivers, as a result, you robbed innocent passengers of their belongings.
”The prosecution alleged that Inibu and his fleeing accomplices robbed nine passengers of their phones, adding that the total value of property stolen was N1,231,000.
The offences were said to be punishable under Sections 299 and 297(1) of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State, 2015.
The court did not take the defendant’s plea.Chief Magistrate Nwaka adjourned the matter till September 22 for mention.
Men of the Lagos State Police Command have gunned down two robbery suspects allegedly terrorising residents of Apapa, Ajegunle, and their environs.Our correspondent gathered that on August 4, the hoodlums invaded a community and dispossessed some residents.
A closed circuit television clip of the operation posted on Twitter by the Lagos Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, showed the gang ransacking a shop while they held one person at gunpoint.
Hundeyin, who confirmed the incident in a statement, said the police trailed the hoodlums to their hideout at Ajegunle, where a gun battle ensued.
He said, “Daredevil robbers engaged operatives of the Area B Command, Apapa, of the Lagos State Police Command in a gun duel in a bid to escape arrest.
The robbers, however, fell to the superior firepower of the police operatives. The robbers, Sodiq, aka Foreigner, recently released from prison, and Habeeb, aka Kiki, who have both been wanted for terrorising Ajegunle and its environs, were trailed to their hideout in Ajegunle, where they met their Waterloo.
“One Beretta pistol, one locally-made revolver pistol with four rounds of 9mm live ammunition, and one expended shell of ammunition were recovered from the robbers.
“The Lagos State Police Command urges youths, in particular, to desist from crimes, as the long arm of the law will always catch up with criminals no matter how long it takes.”Commenting on the video clip, the PPRO said,
“The importance of CCTV can never be overemphasised; great relief for the people of Apapa. We will not relent. See something? Say something.”
A businesswoman identified as Asiata Oladejo, has told a Mapo Grade A Customary Court, in Ibadan, Oyo state to dissolve her marriage on grounds that her estranged husband, Abidemi, was unreliable and abandoned her and their children during a robbery attack. Oladejo made the submission in her counter argument in the divorce suit filed by her husband.
”My Lord, I am yet to recover from the shock I experienced when a gang of thieves raided our house. He hid in the toilet, leaving me to pant in front of the armed robbers, who terrorised the entire residents of the house.
My lord, when the thieves arrived at around 1am. on that night, my husband was nowhere to be found to defend the children and I.Unknown to me, he hid in the toilet. He only came out when they had gone. My husband wanted us to continue living in that house,” she said.
Akintayo granted custody of the three children to Oladejo, adding that she was in the best position to cater for them. “Both petitioner and respondent shall be responsible for the education and other welfare of the children. In addition, Abidemi shall pay a monthly feeding allowance of N20,000 for the children’s upkeep. Both of you must maintain peace and order,” Akintayo held. She, however, noted that there was no marriage to dissolve between the couple, because their union could not be considered as a marriage. She stated that their marriage was not in accordance with laid down customary laws of Nigeria.
Abidemi in his defense said that his wife was ill-tempered.
”She comes to my shop unannounced to torment me. It is true that I hid in the toilet when armed robbers attacked our house. All the attempts made to bring her back home failed, because she said she was unnecessarily scared,” he said He prayed the court to grant him custody of the three children because he had been a responsible father. Delivering judgment, the President of the Court, Mrs S. M. Akintayo, granted the order restraining Oladejo from threatening, harassing and interfering in the private life of Abidemi.
A man identified as Ian Manuel recently had his life imprisonment sentence overturned with the help of a lady he had shot 31 years ago.
He had already spent 26 years in jail before she saved him after reviewing the details of the incident.
People reports that in 1990, a lady named Debbie Baigrie was out with friends after the delivery of her second child in Florida, US when Manuel who was 13 years old at time attempted to rob her.
It was said that a young Manuel was under peer pressure from older teens to carry out a robbery that evening and Debbie was the unlucky victim.
Manuel shot Debbie in the mouth and this affected her jaw and some of her teeth. Today reports that Manuel (who had a history of minor criminal offences) was later arrested for an unrelated incident and put behind bars where he confessed to being the person who shot Debbie in the mouth. This consequently got him a life imprisonment.
Debbie later learnt in a newspaper that Manuel was 13 years old when the robbery happened and this touched her. Manuel, according to Goalcast, placed a call across to the lady he hurt, apologized and began sending letters.
She also sent letters in response after forgiving him and followed up with Manuel’s court case seeking to overturn the life imprisonment judgement.
Manuel was eventually released from prison and kissed Debbie upon their first reunion on the same spot had shot her. The lady sees Manuel – who lot his biological mum and relatives while in prison – as an adopted son.
Men of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested a 47-year-old security man, Adamu Ibrahim, for allegedly hiring area boys to rob his employer.
However, the area boys, Ajibola Yusuf and Bakare Ifakayode, leaked the information to the police.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, disclosed this in a statement issued in Abeokuta on Sunday.
Oyeyemi explained that Ibrahim was a guard attached to the Inspiration Filling Station at Matogun, Agbado, in the Ifo Local Government Area of the state.
According to Oyeyemi, the two area boys reported at the Agbado divisional headquarters that they received a phone call from the suspect that the manager of the filling station would be leaving the station around 8pm with huge sums of money running into N3m.
He said, “They reported further that the suspect, who described the manager and his motorcycle to them, instructed them to ambush, rob him of the money and kill him so that nobody would trace the incident to them.
They stated further that the suspect believed that being area boys, they would be useful for him to realise his devilish plan. But they said though they are area boys, they are not armed robbers.
“Upon the information, the DPO Agbado division, SP Kehinde kuranga, asked them to continue playing along with the suspect, while he detailed his detectives to be on his trail.
“The suspect continued calling the duo and giving them the description of the manager and the route he would be passing through, when the police swooped on him and got him arrested.
Initially, he denied planning any robbery with anybody, but when confronted with his supposed accomplices, he owned up to the crime.
“On further interrogation, he confessed to the police that the two people he contracted resembled those who had earlier robbed the same station years ago and that was the reason he thought he could confide in them to carry out another robbery which he would benefit from.”
The PPRO, however, said the state Commissioner of Police, Edward Ajogun, had ordered the immediate transfer of the suspect to the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for further investigation.
He said the commissioner appealed to members of the public, especially business owners, to always do background checks on anyone they wanted to employ in order not to employ criminals.