The Police on Thursday said they have arrested four suspects over alleged armed robbery, conspiracy and kidnap of a Swiss national. The Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, said this at a media briefing in Abuja. He said the principal suspect lured the Swiss national to Nigeria, posing...
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A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Thursday, restrained Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi and the acting Inspector-General (I-G) of Police, Olukayode Egbetokun, from arresting or detaining Alhaji Murtala Ajaka, the Social Democratic Party (SDP)’s candidate for the Nov. 11 governorship election in the state. Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a...
An Abuja Federal High Court has ordered security agencies to provide maximum security for Murtala Ajaka, the Social Democratic Party (SDP) Candidate in the November 11 governorship poll in Kogi. Justice Inyang Ekwo gave the order on Thursday in a ruling in an ex-parte application brought before him by...
A 13-year-old girl , Taiye Ojo, has been reportedly electrocuted to death while running from a dog, at her residence in the Makoko area of Yaba, Lagos State. It was gathered that, the tragedy occurred while the teenager was running away from a barking dog in the compound. The...
An 18-year-old motor boy on Thursday appeared before an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court for allegedly beating up one of the bus passenger and removing two of his teeth. The defendant, Azeez Balogun, whose address was not stated, is charged with assault. The prosecutor, ASP Raji Akeem, told...
Thai authorities on Thursday detained three German nationals and a 27-year-old Pakistani man in connection with the discovery of the dismembered body of a German businessman in Thailand. The Bangkok Post newspaper said the German suspects are a 52-year-old man and two women, aged 52 and 54. According to...
Operatives of the Yobe Police Command have arrested a couple, Abdullahi Ibrahim and Khadija Ali for allegedly stealing a motorcycle belonging by a Muslim cleric in Fika Local Government Area of Yobe. This is contained in a statement by DSP Dungus Abdulkarim, the command Spokesman, in Damaturu. He said Ibrahim,...
The Police Command in Osun has arrested a 17-year-old girl who allegedly lured her victim from Lagos to Osun, through the social media. The Command Spokesperson, SP Yemisi Opalola, made this known on Tuesday in Osogbo. Opalola said the victim was lured to Ikire in Irewole Local Government Area...
Thunder strike has reportedly killed three suspected kidnappers in the agrarian Oro Ago community in the Ifelodun LGA of Kwara State.t
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – The Lagos State Police Command has rescued a day-old female baby that was dumped near a sewage tank on Gowon Estate, Ipaja, area of the state. The Police Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, disclosed this in a statement in Lagos on Wednesday....
Suspected gunmen on Monday abducted a Catholic Priest of the Abakaliki Diocese in Ebonyi, Rev. Fr. Joseph Azubuike. Azubuike, the Parish Priest of St. Charles Catholic Church, Mgbaleze Isu, Onicha Local Government Area of the state, was kidnapped alongside three other persons in the area. A statement by the...
The Ebonyi Police Command said it neutralised a suspected member of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), allegedly trying to enforce the sit-at-home order in the state. The command disclosed this in a statement issued in Abakiliki by its Spokesperson, SP Onome Onovwakpoyeya, and made available to newsmen...
Armed bandits on Monday night killed four policemen serving under Bungudu Local Government Area of Zamfara State. The officers were said to have mounted a checkpoint along Bungudu-Gusau Road when the armed bandits ambushed and opened fire on them. The spokesperson for the Zamfara State Police Command, ASP...
An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, on Monday, sentenced a 56-year-old driver, Folarin Raufu, to life imprisonment for defiling his employer’s granddaughter, aged five years. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Justice Abiola Soladoye held that prosecution successfully proved all the ingredients of defilement against...
Gov. Biodun Oyebanji of Ekiti on Sunday directed the Police, DSS and Amotekun Corps to free the abducted State Chairman of the APC in Ekiti, Mr Paul Omotoso and two others from captivity. Oyebanji, represented by his Deputy, Mrs Monisade Afuye, gave the directive on Sunday, when he visited...
Hoodlums have vandalised the Kogi head office of Social Democratic Party (SDP) located on Paparanda Round about Lokoja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered that the party’s secretariat was vandalised and some materials burnt down around 10.15 a.m on Sunday with no report of death. Mr Sam Abenemi,...
The Kaduna State Police Command has arrested 207 phone snatching suspects in the last one week in the state. The command’s spokesman, DSP Mohammed Jalige, stated in Kaduna on Saturday that the arrests followed raids on identified black spots in the state. He added that other suspects were...
Gunmen kidnapped the Ekiti State’s chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Mr Paul Omotisho, on Saturday. APC’s Publicity Secretary in Ekiti, Mr Segun Dipe, stated at Ado-Ekiti that the assailants abducted Omotisho as he was driving on the Agbado-Ekiti/Imesi-Ekiti Road. “The chairman was driving in a Toyota Venza...
Gunmen enforcing the sit-at-home order on Friday night, attacked Amaraku market located at Isiala Mbano Local Government Area of Imo state. Although, no life was lost in the attack, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered that the gunmen, suspected to be members of the outlawed Indigenous People of...