Justice Adedayo Akintoye of an Igbosere High Court, Lagos, on Wednesday ordered the suspected kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, a.k.a Evans to engage a counsel by May 17. Akintoye gave the order due to the absence of Evans’ counsel, Mr Chino Obiagwu, SAN, for the third time in a row which again stalled the continuation of […]
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The suspected kidnapper, who was arrested during a failed kidnap operation, has been confirmed dead. The Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, of the Ondo State Police Command, Femi Joseph on Tuesday, stated that the suspect died due to complications from high dose of Tramadol he took before the botched operation despite efforts made to revive […]
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A yet to be identified kidnapper who slept off at his victim’s shop after taking tramadol is reportedly still sleeping six days after he was arrested by the Ondo State Police Command. The suspect, who was arrested on Sunday attempted to kidnap a pharmaceutical shop owner in Owo town. He had operated with three other […]
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Kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeje Onwuamadike, popularly known as Evans, staged a drama at a high court in Igbosere, Lagos, on Monday by refusing to alight from the vehicle which conveyed him from the prison to court. After failing in the bid to convince the suspect to follow him to the courtroom, the prison official told the […]
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The Lagos State High Court in Igbosere has dismissed two applications seeking to quash charges of murder and illegal sales of firearms preferred against alleged kidnapper, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, alias Evans. Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo, in a ruling on Friday, described the applications as misconceived and lacking in merit. The judge held that the proof of evidence […]
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The federal high court in Lagos has awarded N2 million against the police in the case involving Okwuchukwu Obiechina, brother-in-law of Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, suspeted kidnapper better known as Evans. Obiechina had filed a fundamental rights enforcement suit against the police for “illegally” detaining him in the course of investigations into Evans’ alleged kidnap. In his ruling […]
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The abductors of Sam Unwuchola, a Magistrate with Kogi judiciary, have demanded for N100 million ransom. He was kidnapped at Jimgbe, near Salem University, on the Ajaokuta-Lokoja road around 7pm on Thursday. According to a source in the state judiciary, the gunmen shot and wounded the magistrate’s friend whose name was yet to be known, […]
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The lawyer representing Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, the kidnap kingpin popularly known as Evans, Olukoya Ogungbeje, has accused the police of making his client plead guilty when he was arraigned at an Ikeja high court on Wednesday. Evans as well as two of the five suspects arraigned with him, pleaded guilty to the two-count charge of kidnapping […]
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Suspected billionaire kidnapper, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, popularly known as Evans, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy and kidnapping before a judge of the Ikeja High Court, on Wednesday. Evans, who has been in police custody since June 10, was charged with kidnapping and collection of ransom. He pleaded guilty to the two-count charge. Hakeem Oshodi, the presiding […]
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The police said today that the arrested kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme George Onwuamadike alias Evans is still in their custody and has not vanished. The spokesman of Police Jimoh Moshood, a Chief Superintendent of Police (CPS), said Evans was safe and still under police watch. Moshood was denying a sensational story published today by a Nigerian […]
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