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The Kwara State Police Command said it has begun investigation into the alleged killing of a commercial driver by a member of a vigilante group in Ilorin violating lockdown directive.

The Police command’s spokesperson, Ajayi Okasanmi, confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria on Wedneday in llorin.

Okasanmi said the police was on the trail of the suspect, while the leaders of the community that engaged him have been invited for investigation.

He said the remains of the driver have been deposited at the morgue of the General Hospital, Ilorin.

Meanwhile, an eyewitness who craved anonymity told NAN that there was pandemonium on Tuesday night in Eyenkorin community, on the outskirt of Ilorin.

He said a member of the Vigilante Group of Nigeria in Kwara State shot dead a commercial driver.

He said the vigilante member, identified simply as Sule, stopped the driver, who was trying to beat the interstate lockdown directive in Kwara State.

He said that Sule demanded for N5,000 before he could allow the driver to pass, a request the deceased declined.

According to him, the deceased attempted passing through a road in the bush in the area to beat the security at the border with with Oyo State and was resisted by the VGN.

He said the situation degenerated into a fight, which led to the vigilante shooting the driver in the chest.

The eyewitness also said the suspect allegedly fled the town with his family after committing the crime.

NAN also gathered that the deceased driver is survived by a three-month-old son, wife and an aged mother.

Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau State has ordered security agencies to arrest those involved in the killing of four people, following a fresh attack on Mgbrazongo village in Bassa Local Government Area of the state.

A 35-year-old-man simply identified as Sunday had allegedly murdered the Onibedo of Ilotin, Ikole Ekiti, Chief Sola Fatunla, in a farm in Ikole Ekiti, headquarters of Ikole Local Government Area of the state after he accused him of snatching his wife.

A man in Russia shot dead five people with a hunting gun after they held a loud conversation below his apartment window, the country’s Investigative Committee said on Sunday.

An Abeokuta, Ogun State High Court on Thursday sentenced a truck driver, Oyelami Adewale, to nine years imprisonment for driving dangerously and killing one Tunde Abdul.

The Federal Capital Territory Police Command has arrested three suspects for robbing and killing a pregnant woman in Damakasa in Apo resettlement, Abuja Municipal Area Council.

Eight undergraduates of the Benue State University, Makurdi are alleged to have been killed by suspected cultists in the state.

A Japanese court on Monday ordered a death sentence to a man who killed 19 disabled people at a care home near Tokyo in 2016, the worst mass murder in post-war Japan.

A 37-year-old driver who allegedly murdered the wife of his former employer was on Friday paraded in Ibadan by the police.

Delivering judgment in suit number: SC/640/2014, between Chifoanu Okorie and the State, John Inyang Okoro, leading other four justices of the Supreme Court, dismissed Okorie’s appeal to have the decision of the Owerri Court of Appeal overturned. In aligning itself with the 17th July, 2014 decision of the Court of Appeal sitting in Owerri (which affirmed the earlier death sentence passed on Mrs. Okorie and seven others by an Owerri High Court), the nation’s apex court put the final judicial seal on the fate of the appellant by dismissing the appeal brought before it, describing it as devoid of any “scintilla of merit”.

The accused was brought before the court on a charge for murder.

The Police Public Relations Officer for the Command, Ebere Amaraizu, said in a statement on Friday in Enugu that Onoja, 25, was found dead in his betting shop at Obolloafor on March 5.

She had ordered the murder, which was never carried out in March, transferring 4.1 bitcoin, then worth about 4,000 dollars, to the hitman’s virtual wallet, the court found.

We went back again to the DPO, CSP NKEM RAPHAEL to ask why my daughter was embalmed without our knowledge and that we heavily suspect foul play and demanded for an explanation and further investigation. The DPO reiterated his initial position and bluntly told us not to pursue this case further, that he would advise us to dialogue with Alhaji Usman ADAMU for our daughters burial. He insisted he has nothing more to do with us until we agree to meet with Alhaji Usman ADAMU.

The Lagos State Police Command has dispelled the news daily making the round that there is tension in Oshodi area…

He said they are made up of 12 for unlawful possession of arms and robbery, two for rape of minors and five for unlawful possession and spending fake currency notes.

Ibrahim said that some suspects had been arrested and the case transferred from Jega Divisional Office to the State Criminal Investigation Department for thorough investigation

Florence Ede, a mother of four, was on Thursday strangulated by unknown persons on her rice farm at the Kwara State border town.
The suspects also stole her money and 12 bags of rice she had just harvested

Mani, who spoke through the State Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Cordelia Nwawe, said during the scuffle, Blessing ran to her mother’s house and left her daughter behind with her husband

The gunmen, who stormed the hotel on Friday at about 11pm, after tying the guards on duty, shot Ogunlusi to death.
They were said to be four in number, spotting black jeans, T-shirts and with face caps