Neusroom series to focus on Anini, Shina Rambo, Oyenusi, others goes live on Friday
A new series highlighting the profile, atrocities, and previously untold stories about seven of Nigeria’s robbery kingpins will be presented by Neusroom on Friday, April 9, 2021.
The project focuses on Lawrence Anini, Shina Rambo, Ishola Oyenusi, Isiaka Busari aka Mighty Joe, Babatunde Folorunso aka Baba Oni Lace, Kayode Williams now a Bishop and prison reform advocate and Abiodun Egunjobi aka Godogodo, whose crimes from the late 1960s to the early 2000s left behind a long list of victims, and mysteries across the West African nation.
The Neusroom team has been working on the series since November 2020 as the reports were continuously updated to incorporate fresh updates from research and information obtained from various official sources.
The team also travelled from Lagos to the National Archive at the University of Ibadan, Oyo State, to review newspaper publications from the early 1970s. There are interviews with a former editor of Daily Times newspaper in the 1970s, Ben Lawrence, and Kayode Williams, now a Bishop, a protege of Ishola Oyenusi, one of Nigeria’s most vicious armed robbers.
Titled ‘Kingpins: The story of Nigeria’s most notorious armed robbers,’ the reports will help readers understand that era in Nigeria’s history, shortly after independence in 1960, when armed robbery became a big problem.
It also seeks to present new perspectives, and interrogate some myths about the bandits.
The first report from the series will go live on Friday, April 9, 2021. One story will be published every day on Neusroom.com for the next seven days.
