The Lagos State Police Command has arrested two undergraduate friends, who faked their kidnap to extort their parents. The suspects are 21-year-old Balogun Ayodele, a 200-level student at Lagos State University of Education, Ijanikin, and Okuomo Dennis, also 21 years old and a student at the National Institute of Information Technology, Lagos. The Police said the suspects came out of …

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Ondo State Command, has arrested a 21 year-old undergraduate, Anthony Oscar, for allegedly kidnapping a 17-year-old girl. The NSCDC State Commandant, Mr Oluyemi Ibiloye, disclosed this while parading the suspect and two others on Tuesday in Akure. The commandant explained that the suspect collected N50,000 as ransom from the parents of the …

Men of the Bauchi State Police Command have arrested a 400-level student of the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi, Mike Habila, for allegedly being in possession of firearms. In a statement in Bauchi on Wednesday, the state Police Public Relations Officer, Superintendent Ahmed Wakil said the suspect claimed that the arms belonged to one Samson Irimiya who had earlier been …

An Ile-Ife Magistrates’ Court in Osun State on Friday ordered the remand of nine suspects for allegedly beating an undergraduate to death. The police prosecutor, Assistant Superintendent Emmanuel Abdullahi told the court that the defendants committed the offence around 8:00 pm on 10th April at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. He gave the names of the suspects as: Badiora Timilehin, 22; …