The Police Command in Cross River has confirmed the arrest of a woman who allegedly beheaded her 11 months child in Yonen community of Ugep, Yakurr Local Government Area of the state. The Spokesperson of the command, SP Irene Ugbo gave the confirmation on Wednesday in Calabar. She said...
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Police in Katsina State have arrested a 53-year-old man who specialised in producing bulletproof charms for bandits and criminals. Police spokesman in the state, SP Gambo Isah, told newsmen in Katsina on Tuesday that the suspect resides at Maiduguri Road in Sabuwa Local Government Area of the state. He...
The push by the Nigerian Armed Forces to end insurgency in the North East of the country has so far led to the surrender of 82,237 fighters and their families since July 2021. The bulk of the surrendered fighters of Boko Haram and Islamic States West Africa Province (ISWAP)...
The Shehu of Borno, Alhaji Abubakar El-Kanemi, says the challenge of terrorism was created by outsiders who came to settle in Borno in the name acquiring Qur’anic education. The Shehu said this when he hosted the Director, Defence Information, Maj.-Gen. Jimmy Akpor and a team of journalists who visited...
Airstrikes from the Nigeria Air Force (NAF) fighter jets have killed 24 terrorists of the Islamic State of West African Province, ISWAP. The operation, PRNigeria gathered, took place on Sunday, at Tumbun Hamma, one of the identified locations for ISWAP training camps in Lake Chad. The terrorists who were...
An Iyaganku Family Court sitting in Ibadan, on Tuesday ordered that a 42-year-old man, Alabi Zakariyau be remanded for for allegedly defiling his neighbour’s 11-year-old daughter. The Chief Magistrate, Mrs Patricia Adetuyibi, who did not take the plea of Zakariyau ordered that he should be remanded at Abolongo Correctional...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested one of two brothers who served as major sources of illicit drugs in the Southeast and South-South parts of the country, Onyeaghalachi Stephen. This is contained in a statement issued by its spokesman, Mr Femi Babafemi on Tuesday in Abuja....
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has handed over to NAPTIP, a 17-year-old girl from Oyo State arrested in Kebbi while allegedly on her way to Libya. The girl was traveling alone when she was arrested by immigration personnel in Yauri Local Government Area of Kebbi. The NIS Comptroller in...
The Osun Police Command on Monday said it had arrested 10 suspects over the attacks across some motor parks in the state on the premise of forceful takeover of the parks. SP Yemisi Opalola, the Command’s Spokesperson, in a statement, said five guns, nine live and four expended cartridges...
By EMMANUEL JIMOH, Benin – The Edo Police Command has arrested 4 suspects in connection with the death of a man suspected to have been killed by a mob in Benin. Police spokesman, SP Chidi Nwabuzor, who disclosed this in a statement issued on Monday, said the command frowned...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The police in Bauchi State said its operatives have arrested a 29-year old man for allegedly stabbing a 30-year old man to death for refusing to buy him beer. The Police Public Relations Officer, Bauchi State Command, Ahmed Wakil, stated this in a press...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The Bauchi State Police Command has arrested a housewife for allegedly killing her co-wife with a pestle in Gar Village in Pali Ward, in Alkaleri LGA of the state. The police spokesman, SP Ahmed Wakili, said in a statement on Monday that the suspect...
The Oyo State wing of the Southwest Security Network (Amotekun Corps) has recovered AK-47 rifles, military camouflage and other items hidden in a forest in the state by suspected kidnappers. Commandant of the corps in Oyo State, retired Col. Olayinka Olayanju, told newsmen in Ibadan on Monday that the...
By OLA MUDOPE, Akure – The Police Command in Ondo State has arrested three secondary school students for alleged conspiracy and defilement of a 14-year-old student. The Police Public Relations Officers in the state, SP Olufunmilayo Odunlami, disclosed this in a statement on Monday in Akure. SP Odunlami said:...
Zimbabwean police have confirmed that a 13-year-old boy impregnated his 9-year-old cousin in Tsholotsho. 29-year-old father of the pregnant girl was arrested on 29 October 2022, shortly after it was discovered that his daughter was pregnant. He is reported to have been assisting the police with their investigations. Many suspected...
By BARBARA KALU, Abakaliki – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) office in Izzi Local Government Area of Ebonyi State has been set ablaze by unidentified hoodlums. Several items including ballot boxes, Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs), voting cubicles, among others were destroyed in the fire incident that occurred around...
Operations of a major cocaine syndicate in Lagos have been disrupted with the arrest of a 56-year-old trafficker, Lawal Oyenuga, by the NDLEA. NDLEA’s spokesman, Mr Femi Babafemi stated in Abuja on Sunday that the suspect was on a mission to deliver 400 grams of the “Class A’’ drug...
…. Others lament having children fathered by terrorists A mother of one of the abducted students of Federal Government College, Birnin Yauri, in Kebbi State, has passed away after she learnt that her daughter was impregnated by a terrorist in captivity, PRNigeria learnt from credible sources. The sources, who...
A Bosnian husband and wife have been arrested in Rome, Italy, on suspicion of physically abusing and enslaving their 14-year-old daughter, forcing her to beg outside a supermarket. The police in the Italian capital reported on Sunday. The police said that the girl had also been offered in marriage...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has recovered four kilograms of cocaine soaked in towels from a Brazil returnee. NDLEA spokesman, Mr Femi Babafemi, stated in Abuja on Sunday that the drugs were intercepted at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, on Thursday, Nov. 24. “The move by...