Accountant nabbed at Lagos airport over alleged N150m theft after year-long manhunt

The collaboration betwixt the Nigeria Police Force Zone 2 Command and the International Criminal Police Organisation, INTERPOL, has resulted successful the apprehension of a 50-year-old accountant, Olusola Ajayi Joshua, astir a twelvemonth aft helium allegedly near the state portion nether probe for a high-profile burglary case.

Joshua was apprehended pursuing investigations into a petition dated July 11, 2025, submitted to the Office of the Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Zone 2 Headquarters, Onikan, Lagos, by a pistillate who reported a burglary astatine her residence connected Sesayon Street successful the Government Reserved Area, GRA, Ikeja.

The petitioner alleged that chartless persons broke into the spot and made distant with household items and different valuables estimated astatine implicit N150 million.

She reportedly suspected Joshua, who had worked arsenic an accountant successful her precocious father’s institution for much than 17 years, on with six different individuals, of having links to the incident.

According to the complainant, she had entrus...