Sporadic gunshots and bomb blast have been reportedly heard near the Kuje Correctional centre in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, on Tuesday night. Residents close to the area, who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), said the heavy gunshots which started at about 10.pm lasted close to...
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The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC), has detained the Managing Director of a construction company, Temitope Banjoko, over allegations of money laundering. ICPC spokesperson, Mrs Azuka Ogugua, confirmed the arrest to Channels Television on Tuesday. She said that Banjoko was awarded a contract worth N46,305,000...
Gunmen have kidnapped an Abuja-based officer of the Naval Headquarters in Abuja, Musa Lawal. The victim, with enlistment no. X12775 ABRP3, was whisked away by his abductors in Kogi State. It was gathered that some heavily armed men numbering five invaded his residence located behind Post Flood Housing Estate, Lokoja...
By OLA MUDOPE, Akure – Operatives from The Ondo State Police Command have re-arrested a convict identified as Ikuemelo Tosin, who escaped during the jailbreak in Owo Correctional Centre in March. The convict, popularly know as 4G Network, was arrested and arraigned in court for alleged cultism and murder,...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – No fewer than 50 hoodlums have attacked some members of the Bauchi State House of Assembly during a meeting on Monday. The hoodlums who were armed with dangerous weapons, stormed the venue of the meeting along Sir Kashim Ibrahim road, few meters away from...
Angry natives on Monday set two suspected ritualists ablaze for allegedly defiling a 10-year-old girl to death in Ede-Oballa, Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State. An eyewitness from the community, who pleaded anonymity, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the incident had thrown the community into...
By EMEKA CHIKWE, Benin – The police authority in Edo State has confirmed the abduction of two Catholic Reverend fathers from Central Senatorial District on Benin-Auchi Expressway between Ehor and Iruekpen areas. The police spokesman, SP Chidi Nwabuzor, who disclosed this in a statement, identified the Catholic priests are...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) office in Igboeze North Local Government Area of Enugu State has been burnt down by unknown arsonists. The office, situated at the council’s headquarters in Ogurute was set on fire late Sunday night and the affected building was...
Edo Police Command on Sunday said its men arrested seven suspected cult members in the state. This was contained in a statement signed by Deputy Public Relations Officer, ASP Jennifer Iwegbu, made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Benin. NAN recalls that the police command on...
By OLA MODUPE, Lagos – The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a former driver with a public transport company, BRT, identified as Muyiwa Babalola Bolujoko for ingesting 90 pellets of cocaine. The NDLEA spokesman, Mr Femi Babafemi said in statement thatsuspect was arrested on Monday at...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted 22 blocks of heroin, with street value of over N4.5 billion at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja, Lagos. This is contained in a statement by the Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA, Mr Femi Babafemi on Sunday in Abuja....
Dr Mansur Muhammed Dansadau, the Medical Director of Dansadau General hospital in Zamfara State alongside two other health workers who were abducted in Dansadau emirate have been released by their abductors. It was gathered that they were released on Friday night after seven days in captivity after the sum...
By OlA MODUPE, Akure – Operatives from the Ondo State Police Command have rescued about 77 people for the case of suspected abduction from The Whole Bible Deliverance Church in Ondo Town, Ondo West LGA of the state. The state police spokesman, SP Funmilayo Odunlami, confirmed the rescue operation...
The Abia State Police Command has confirmed electrocution of a suspected electric accessories thief at Amoji-Ukwu Village, Obingwa Local Government Area of the state. The police spokesman, SP Geoffrey Ogbonna, said the suspected thief was electrocuted in the early hours of Friday while cutting two cables linked to a...
Police operatives from the Ondo State Police Command have rescued no fewer than 50 children from an underground apartment in a church in Ondo Town of the state.. It was learnt that children were abducted and kept in the underground cells. The pastor of the church and other accomplices...
The Ogun State Police Command has confirmed the report of a young mentally-ill lady who stripped herself and barked like a dog in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital. The state police spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said this in a statement on Friday. He said the command was aware of the...
By BARBARA KALU, Abakaliki – Operatives from the Ebonyi State Police Command have raided the camp of The Indigenous People of Biafra/ Eastern Security Network (IPOB/ESN) suspected camp, killed one and arrested another. The command’s Spokesman, SP Chris Anyanwu, said in a statement on Friday in Abakiliki, that the...
Gunmen suspected to be bandits have attacked a mining site in Niger State and reportedly killed security agents, civilians, and kidnapped three Chinese nationals. The attack was said to have occurred on Wednesday afternoon in Ajata, Aboki in Gurmana ward of Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State. The...
ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Bauchi State Council, has condemned the arrest and detention of the Publisher of WikkiTimes, Haruna Mohammed and his reporter Kamal Idris, by the Nigeria Police Force in the state. In a statement jointly signed by the State Chairman and...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has seized illicit drugs worth over N600 million at the Port Harcourt International Airport, Rivers State. Isaac Aloye, the commander of the agency at the airport disclosed this while briefing newsmen on the activities of the Command in the past four months...