The convicts, Wasiu Afolayan, 36, and Kola Adeyemi 34, arraigned on a five-count charge were sentenced on Thursday.
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Their offences included abduction, kidnapping, armed robbery, murder, defilement and vandalism within the period.
Hope Okafor, the Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of Administration, paraded the suspects in Osogbo.
The accused are facing a three-count charge of criminal conspiracy, armed robbery, terrorism and illegal possession of firearms.
According to reports available to The Eagle Online, the accused student was arrested at about 2:30am on Sunday.
Shedrack is standing trial for alleged robbery and murder of one Ochoyoda Umoru, a commercial motorcycle rider.
The Police Command in Kano State has announced the arrest of 62 suspects for alleged armed robbery, thuggery and drug peddling.
The Lagos Police Command has arrested a 29-year-old ‘bolt’ driver, Jeremiah Adeniran, who allegedly robbed some of his passengers.
A Magistrates’ Court in Kafanchan, Kaduna State, has ordered that a 45-year-old man, Jonathan Nimmyet, be remanded in a correctional centre over alleged armed robbery.
The Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, said this when he spoke at a media briefing in Abuja.
The Commissioner of Police, CP Faleye Olayele, disclosed this during a press conference in Abakaliki.
The Command’s Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Mahid Abubakar, stated this in a statement issued on Friday in Gombe.
The spokesman of the Command, Adewale Osifeso, confirmed the arrest of the suspects when he paraded them.
The Command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Adewale Osifeso, made this known while parading the suspects at the Command’s headquarters, Eleyele, Ibadan Friday.
The Police Prosecutor, Inspector Rachael Mchiave, told the court that the case was transferred from the Divisional Police Headquarters Daudu in Guma Local Government Area to the State Criminal Investigation Department, Makurdi.
The duo were charged with conspiracy and 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.
An Iyaganku Chief Magistrates’ Court, Ibadan, on Tuesday, ordered the remand of a 33-year-old man, Ajani Jamiu, at Agodi Correctional…
Gbolahan, whose residential address was not provided, is charged with conspiracy, armed robbery and murder.
According to a statement by the command’s spokesperson Abimbola Oyeyemi on Sunday, the suspects were arrested following a distress call received at Mowe divisional headquarters at about 9:30 pm, that armed robbers had invaded a foodstuff shop, owned by one Johnson Nwokoro at Safari Junction, Adesan and dispossessing the owner of the day’s sales.