{"id":76765,"date":"2025-10-16T11:30:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T11:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=76765"},"modified":"2025-10-16T11:30:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T11:30:29","slug":"police-arrest-eight-suspected-cultists-robbers-in-ikorodu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/16\/police-arrest-eight-suspected-cultists-robbers-in-ikorodu\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Arrest Eight Suspected Cultists, Robbers in Ikorodu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Omoniyi David<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Lagos State Police Command has arrested eight suspected cultists and armed robbers during a dawn raid on a criminal hideout in Odogunyan, Ikorodu.<\/p>\n<p>The operation, conducted around 5:30 a.m. on Wednesday by operatives of the Bullock Tactical Team, followed credible intelligence reports.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects, Fadiya Ayodele (27), Lawal Rasheed (28), Akerele Demilare (27), Alimi Victor (23), Okiki Alufoge (25), Nurudeen Dolapo (25), Agboola Samuel (25), and Ayolade Victor (25), were found with a military camouflage uniform, battle axe, assault dagger, charms, and fake U.S. dollar notes worth $3,000.<\/p>\n<p>Police said Ayodele confessed to leading the Eiye Confraternity in the area and admitted to handing a locally made pistol to one Adewunmi Annadex, who remains at large.<\/p>\n<p>The Command assured that efforts are ongoing to arrest the fleeing suspect and recover the firearm, reiterating its resolve to stamp out cultism and violent crimes in Lagos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Omoniyi David &nbsp; The Lagos State Police Command has arrested eight suspected cultists and armed robbers during a dawn raid on a criminal hideout in Odogunyan, Ikorodu. The operation, conducted around 5:30 a.m. on Wednesday by operatives of the Bullock Tactical Team, followed credible intelligence reports. The suspects, Fadiya Ayodele (27), Lawal Rasheed (28), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":76766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76767,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76765\/revisions\/76767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}