The suspect, 19-year-old Opeyemi Ayoola, was arrested alongside four others by operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad of the Lagos State Police Command after an attack on an unnamed resident of the area.
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This was disclosed by the spokesman of the Command, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, in a statement on Monday.
Three other members of the suspected gang have been identified as Tony Onwoluwe (29), Adesoji Oluwafemi (36) and Idoko Michael (33).
They were arrested by operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad of the Ogun State Police Command, a statement by the spokesman, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, said on Sunday.
The two suspects: Sule Abdulkareem (29) and Celestine Joseph, both confessed to have attempted to rob the driver, claiming they had wanted to use the vehicle as collateral for a loan to start up a business.
The syndicate was allegedly behind the attack on Emmanuel Obi, who was dispossessed of N700,000.00, 8,000 Euro, $3,000 and some assorted phones on July 11, 2020.
The Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, had directed the Commissioner, Lagos State Police Command, Hakeem Odumosu, to fish out those who carried out the killing in the video, which went viral in May 2020.
The advice was given on Thursday at the Lagos State Secretariat, Alausa, Ikeja by the Commissioner of Police in charge of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Fiminhan Adeoye, at a workshop on: “PLAN Principle and De-escalation of Crisis.”
Prof. Adesoji Ademuyiwa of Paediatric Surgery at the University of Lagos and also Consultant Paediatric Surgeon, Lagos University Teaching Hospital, made this known in a statement on Saturday in Lagos.
A human rights based Civil Society Organization in Nigeria, Lawyers Alert, has called on the Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, to investigate the demolition of some houses at Logo 1 area in Makurdi, Benue State.
The Oyo State Police Command on Thursday paraded a fake soldier for impersonation and rape, while 44 others were arrested for cultism, murder, armed robbery and kidnapping.
Onu said this against the backdrop of a misinformation that Iwu and his team at the Bioresource Centre had found the cure for coronavirus
The family of Remo Stars Football Club Assistant Captain, Kazeem Tiyamiyu (Kaka), allegedly killed by an operative of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad on the Sagamu-Abeokuta Road, is demanding justice.
The death toll thereby surpassed that of SARS, a respiratory disease, which caused a global health scare in the early 2000, and which also began in China
An Inspector of Police, Oluwadare Nelson Badejo, popularly known as Dare, attached to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Ikeja, Lagos State Police Command, has fled to Canada after allegedly defrauding several police personnel and civilians of money amounting to over N48 million for visas.
A father, Alhaji Ismail Olaitan, who is a member of the Human Rights Monitoring Agenda, has narrated how his son was allegedly beaten by operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad in Lagos State, leading to his being hospitalised.
The assailants shot sporadically and in the process killed a middle age man who was passing by.
Operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Ikeja, Lagos State Police Command have arrested a worker with the Lagos State Waste Management Authority for alleged robbery.
Details have emerged of the collaboration that led to the rescue of the Magajin of Daura, Alhaji Musa Umar, in the early hours of Tuesday after spending four months in the den of his kidnappers.
President Muhammadu Buhari Monday received a report on the reform of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad.