The Chief Magistrate’s Court II sitting in Port Harcourt on Friday remanded John Shadrack, 22, and William Isaiah, 33, to a Correctional Centre for assaulting Mr Felix Tuoyo, 70, over an alleged missing manhood. The defendants were remanded on two-count charge of conspiracy and assault. The prosecuting officer,...
Crime News
By BARBARA KALU, Abakaliki- Unknown gunmen have attacked a police patrol and shot two officers dead in Ebonyi State on Friday. Police spokesman, SP Onome Onovwakpoyeya, disclosed this in a statement issued in Abakaliki on Friday. Onovwakpoyeya explained that the attack occured along Nwofe road, outskirts...
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has arrested two suspected crude oil thieves over alleged involvement in pipeline vandalism and illegal oil refinery operations in Rivers. The NSCDC Spokesperson, CSC Babawale Afolabi, said this in a statement on Friday, in Abuja. Afolabi stated that the suspects...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Police Command has paraded suspects arrested in connection with vandalization of the recently commissioned the Custom-Gamboru Flyover in Custom Area of Maiduguri metropolis. The PPRO, ASP Nahum Daso Kenneth while briefings journalists at the Command Headquarters Maiduguri on Friday said the suspects...
The Joint Task Force (JTF) Operation Safe FCT, has arrested 135 suspects during coordinated raids of criminal hideouts, uncompleted buildings and shanties in the territory. The Commissioner of Police in the FCT, Mr Haruna Garba, said this during a media briefing on Thursday in Abuja. He said the...
By HARUNA AHMED, Kaduna – Bandits and terrorists operating in the forest of Birnin Gwari today 16 November 2023 suffer heavy casualty in the hands of troops of 1 Division Nigerian Army and operation Whirl Punch. Acting Deputy Director Army Public Relations 1 Division Nigerian Army, Lieutenant...
The Department of State Services (DSS) on Wednesday in Abuja re-arraigned Husseni Ismaila (aka Maitangaran), the alleged mastermind of the 2014 multiple bomb attacks in Kano at the Federal High Court. When the matter was called, the prosecuting counsel, Mr E.A. Aduda, told the court that the DSS...
By ARMSTRONG NI, Bauchi – Bauchi State Commissioner of Women Affairs and Child Development, Hajara Gidado, has narrated how a nine-year old almajiri boy, who kidnapped a seven-year old girl was convicted and has been in juvenile remand for two years. She said that the almajiri boy...
Not long ago, one of the correspondents of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), was abducted by gunmen in Abuja. The correspondent had boarded their vehicle at the Federal Secretariat on the way home after an assignment on the fateful day. The fear-stricken Reporter, who is yet to...
Farmers in Niger have appealed to the State and Federal Governments to protect them from bandits who have imposed levies on them before harvesting their crops. The farmers said in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that government intervention was necessary as insecurity has virtually...
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – Kidnappers of Mr Isaac Bature Gbaja, an assistant manager with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Lafia branch, who was kidnapped on Monday night, are demanding for the sum of 10 million naira. Also kidnapped alongside the CBN staff were two others,...
Gunmen have abducted the Director of Servicom at the University of Calabar , Prof. Patrick Egaga on Sunday at the University staff quarters. Egaga, who is a professor at the department of Special Education in the institution was said to have been abducted at his resident. The Police...
A grassroots politician and Ward Chairman of the Young Progressives Party( YPP) in Anambra State, Chief Joe Moghalu, has been shot dead by unknown gunmen. Mrs Chinwe Nnabuife, member (YPP) representing Orumba North and Orumba South Federal Constituency of Anambra in the National Assembly confirmed this to the...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Sunday said its operatives have arrested a notorious drug dealer, 45-year-old Godwin Emuneyin who is physically challenged and uses his wheelchair as cover to deal in illicit substances such as methamphetamine and cannabis in...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested no fewer than 14 suspected vote buyers in Otueke, Adawari playgrounds in Bayelsa and at various polling units in Imo and Kogi. The Commission’s spokesperson, Mr. Dele Oyewale said this in a statement on Saturday...
By HARUNA AHMED, Katsina – Katsina State Police Command has neutralised a notorious suspected kidnapper, Nazifi Ibrahim, 22, of Unguwar Tsamiya village, Faskari Local Government Area of the state. The command’s spokesman, ASP Abubakar Aliyu, disclosed this in a statement issued to newsmen on Saturday in Katsina....
The Nigeria Police, Oyo State Command, says it has arrested a 45-year-old Islamic cleric over alleged possession of fresh human parts. The command’s Public Relations Officer (PRO), SP Adewale Osifeso, made the disclosure when he paraded the suspect among other suspected criminals at the command’s headquarters in Ibadan,...
The Police Command in Katsina State has said that the alleged killers of Alhaji Hamza Abdullahi, the former caretaker Chairman of Safana Local Government Area (LGA) of the state were yet to be identified. The command’s Public Relations Officer (PPRO), ASP Aliyu Abubakar-Sadiq, disclosed this to the...
Akwa Ibom State Police Command has confirmed the release of a businessman, Mr Akpan Essien, abducted at his business premises at Etebi Street, Eket, on Oct . 19. The Command’s Public Relations Officer (PRO) SP Odiko MacDon confirmed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Eket...
By OLA MODUPE, Osogbo – The Ibadan Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Monday, November 6, 2023 arraigned eleven students of Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, before Justice Nathaniel Ayo-Emmanuel of the Federal High Court, Osogbo, Osun State for their alleged involvement in...