By OLA MUDOPE, Abeokuta – The Ogun State Police Command has arrested three members of a robbery syndicate who allegedly invaded the phone market in Abeokuta and killed one trader. The Police spokesman, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, who confirmed the arrest in a statement in Abeokuta, identified the suspects as...
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Hundreds of terrorists led by a notorious bandit, Ɗan-ƙarami, have reportedly relocated from Zamfara to areas between Safana and Batsari Local Government Areas of Katsina State. Villagers said the terrorists were escaping from military onslaught in Zamfara. They were said to have moved into Tsaskiya, Runka, Gora, Labo and...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – No fewer than 58 abducted victims have been rescued from some identified kidnappers den in communities contiguous to the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The FCT police spokesperson, SP Josephine Adeh, who disclosed this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja, said the rescue mission...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested 14 suspected internet fraudsters popularly known as “yahoo boys” at Rumuekini axis of Port Harcourt The suspects were arrested on Friday during a sting operation in Port-Harcourt, a statement by Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, spokesman of anti-graft...
By OLA MUDOPE, Abeokuta – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibadan Zonal Command, has arrested a fake police officer and 42 others for alleged internet fraud activities. The EFCC spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, said in a statement that the suspects were arrested on Friday at Ijebu-Ode and Awa-Ijebu...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested no fewer than 62 persons, including an ex- convict, over alleged offences bordering on internet fraud in Ilorin. The EFCC Spokesman, Mr Wilson Uwujaren, disclosed this in a statement issued on...
A Sabo Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos, on Friday remanded five men for allegedly killing a police officer in the state. The defendants, Shakiru Shittu; 48, Kadir Shonoki; 38, Shadiku Adeola; 43, TaofeekA Aluko; 38 and Adekunle Onasanya; 37, are facing a two-count charge of conspiracy and murder. The...
Kenyan President William Ruto on Friday appointed a commission of inquiry into the death of 111 people believed to have starved themselves to death. A court had ordered that their alleged cult leader remain in prison. Kenyan authorities say the dead were members of the Good News International Church...
By HARUNA AHMED, Kano – The Kano State Police Command has launched a manhunt for a suspect, Ibrahim Musa, 22, who allegedly stabbed his biological mother, Hajara Mohammed, 50, to death. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Mohammed Usaini, gave the directive in a statement issued by...
Zamfara Command of Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC) has intercepted 75 drums of calcium chlorate, a water treatment chemical believed to have been diverted from the state Water Board. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that calcium chloride is used to remove undesired impurities in water. The...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – A man identified as Buba Amadu Gudan Bunu of Jamali council ward in Binji LGA of Sokoto State has allegedly macheted his wife to death. Bunu, who locals estimated his age to be around 30, was said to have fled the village after committing...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Nigeria Police Force says it has arrested the suspended Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Adamawa State, Hudu Yunusa-Ari. The Force Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi, confirmed the arrest in a statement issued on Tuesday in Abuja. Mr. Adejobi said: “Barrister Ari, who was...
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have abducted the former Chairman of the Nigerian Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE), in Nasarawa State, Alhaji Ismaila Konga, on Monday evening around 7pm. Mr Konga, was kidnapped alongside two others on his way from Akwanga town, the...
By MARY RONKE, Ilorin – The Kwara State Police Command has ordered the arrest of a police inspector, Stephen Yohana, who was in a drunken situation in a viral video. Yohana is serving in Share Division, Ifelodun Local Government Area of Kwara State Police Command. The command’s spokesman, SP...
The Police Command in Ogun has arrested a suspected member of a ritualist syndicate, who allegedly killed and dismembered one Oyindamola Adeyemi at Ijebu-Ode on Jan. 28. The command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, confirmed this in a statement issued in Abeokuta on Sunday. Oyeyemi said that the...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Saturday raided a factory in Mubi, Adamawa supplying deadly Akuskura psychoactive substance to Chad, Cameroon and Niger Republic. The NDLEA spokesman, Mr Femi Babafemi, disclosed this in a statement issued on Sunday in Abuja. Mr. Babafemi...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says its operatives have seized 126 parcels of Canadian Loud, a synthetic strain of cannabis at the Tincan port in Lagos. NDLEA spokesman, Mr. Femi Babafemi, said.in a statement on Sunday, that the drugs weighing 63 kilogrammes...
The Ekikienkpong family in Idum Mbube, Ogoja in Cross River, has petitioned the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Lt.- Gen. Farouk Yahaya, over the alleged murder of their son, Joseph Okpe at a hotel in Ogoja. The family had accused the troops drafted from the Ogoja Battalion of the...
An 18-year-old suspect, has confessed killing his biological father while sleeping. The suspect, who was paraded alongside his 47-year-old mother, made the confession while being paraded by the Police Command in Oyo State at its Headquarters,Eleyele, Ibadan on Friday. According to him, I didn’t know what came over me...
A 35-year-old woman, Maryam Aminu has set herself afire after accusing her boy friend of cheating in Dutse Local Government Area of Jigawa. Mr Adamu Shehu, Public Relations Officer, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in the state, confirned the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)...