By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – No fewer than two young people were killed following an attack by gunmen on Toro town, Toro Local Government Area of Bauchi State in the early hours of Friday. Our correspondent learnt that the gunmen also kidnapped one person during the attack which happened...
Crime News
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Ekiti State Command, has destroyed no fewer than 3.7 hectares of Hemp farmland at Ire-Ekiti Forest in Oye Local Government Area of the state. Slso, the agency had arrested eight suspects, including a woman alleged to be involved in cultivating the illegal...
The Katsina State Police Command has said it is making efforts to rescue the 21 teenagers abducted from a farmland in Mairuwa, Faskari Local Government area of the state. The victims, who are mostly between the age of 16 and 21, were kidnapped on Oct. 4, 2022. The command’s...
By DOMINIC AKPENSUEN, Lafia – It was a black Thursday night for the students of Nasarawa State University Keffi, as armed robbers stormed the community and collected their belongings at gun point. The robbers, who were over forty in numbers attacked the students in their different compounds behind former...
An Iyaganku Chief Magistrates’ Court, sitting at Ibadan on Friday, has granted bail of N200,000 each to two nurses and two security personnel working with Ibadan Central Hospital, Ibadan, for allegedly cutting off flesh from a corpse in their hospital. The defendants are nurses Muibat Olatunji, 27, and Oluwafunmilayo...
Mrs Anthonia Okonkwo, the widow allegedly stripped naked by some youths in an Enugu State community says she did not harvest snails from the scared forest as alleged by the perpetrators. Okonkwo made the disclosure on Friday when an NGO, the Women Aid Collective (WACOL) led by the Founder,...
A 28-year-old man identified as Nicolas Aina, has been arraigned to court for stabbing his 64-year-old mother, Caroline Adeyelu, to death. Aina also injured his 33-year-old sister, Angel Adeyelu, at their family house in East London, United Kingdom. According to itv News, the 28-year-old allegedly went into his sister’s...
Autopsy reports by Nigerian Army and Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) on late police Insp. Monday Orukpe allegedly killed in Ojo Lagos by some soldiers Two autopsies carried out on late police Insp Monday Orukpe of the police command in Lagos State have revealed that the officer died...
By OLA MUDOPE, Osogbo – The Osun State Police Command has arrested two suspects for alleged possession of human hair and flesh. The police spokesperson, SP Yemisi Opalola, disclosed this in a statement issued on Friday in Osogbo. SP Opalola said the suspects were arrested on Thursday in Ijebu...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – Gunmen have kidnapped one Mrs Victoria Dandaura, wife of the head of the Corps’ Commandant General’s Special Intelligence Squad (CG’SSIS). The incident happened at the victim’s residence in Gidi-Gidi, around Cattle market, Lafia, Nasarawa State, on Wednesday at about 7 p.m. The spokesman of...
A former employee of Wema Bank, Akinyele Ogunpola,40, was on Thursday docked in a Chief Magistrates’ Court, in Abeokuta, for allegedly stealing N70million from his employer. The defendant, is charged with conspiracy and theft. The Prosecution Counsel, Insp Olaide Rawlings, told the court that the defendant committed the offence...
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has handed over 284 seized parcels of cannabis sativa to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Kebbi. The Customs Comptroller in Kebbi, Mr Joseph Attah, handed over the cannabis seized from drug traffickers to the state NDLEA Commander, Mr Sulaiman Usman, in...
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Oyo State Command, says it has arrested and repatriated 18 foreigners for allegedly possessing voters cards. The NIS Comptroller in the state, Isah Dansuleiman, made this known during a sensitisation programme on the 2023 general elections for stakeholders in Ibadan on Wednesday. The News...
The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba, has directed the Commissioner of Police, Osun State, CP Olaleye Faleye, to investigate the alleged assault on female Inspector Olorunsogo Bamidele by her DCO in Ode Omu Osun State. In a trending video, the female police officer accused her attacker who she gave...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Ismaila Atumeyi, has arrested a candidate of Kogi State House of Assembly with N326 million and $140,500 cash. Atumeyi, who is a candidate of New Nigeria Peoples Party, is seeking to represent Ankpa 11 Constituency in the Kogi State House of Assembly....
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – Musa Hamza, a resident of Alkaleri Local Government Area of Bauchi State, has been sentenced to death by hanging by a High Court number 10 sitting in the state for killing his friend. The presiding Judge, Justice Faruq Sarki, found the man guilty that...
Gunmen on Monday afternoon attacked a man, Mr. Abu Sifau, in his Lexus Car at Sabo-Oke, Sokoto Street in Ilorin Metropolis and took away millions of naira cash from his vehicle. According to a witness account, the robbery was carried out at about 1 p.m. in the full glare...
Police in Lagos State say eight domestic staff of David Adedeji, popularly known by his stage name Davido, have been taken to the station for questioning over the death his son, Ifeanyi. The command’s spokesman, SP Benjamin Hundeyin confirmed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday....
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The police in Bauchi State have arrested a 68-year old former Commissioner of Information, Mohammed Damina, for allegedly causing the death of his close friend and neighbour while trying to woo his (friend’s) daughter. The incident occured at Yelwan Lebra area, a sub-urb of...
Some yet-to-be-identified gunmen have abducted four travellers along the Irele Ekiti-Oke Ako Highway in Ajoni Local Council Development Area(LCDA) of Ekiti. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the latest abduction is one in a series of abductions on the highway in which some victims were killed. Local...