No fewer than seven persons were feared injured when an uncompleted four-storey hotel building collapsed on Thursday in Ibadan.
The suspect belonged to a criminal gang that specialised in hijacking and diverting trailers and other articulated vehicles ladened with goods.
Members of a notorious kidnapping syndicate sent a hand-written note to the management of the university in Oyo town at about 8:00 p.m. on August 11.
According to the police, communal partnerships with stakeholders, confidence-building patrols and technology-based surveillance were part of strategies to keep the state safe.
The gunmen fired gunshots to scare the public and thereafter took their victims to an unknown place.
At the time, the woman from Lagos, who absconded with another woman’s baby, had just suffered stillbirth a week earlier.
The six-man robbery gang, who had planned to rob another bank, is made up of a 29-year-old contract staff and marketer at a new generation bank.
The police command in Oyo says it has begun a manhunt for the kidnappers of an Anglican bishop Oluwaseun Aderogba of Jebba diocese in Kwara, his wife and driver.
The Oyo police command said they were leaving no stone unturned in apprehending those responsible for the murder.
The police command in Oyo has rescued two suspects, who allegedly attempted to kidnap a nine-year-old girl from being lynched.
