By TYAV SAM TYAV, Makurdi – The Commissioner of Police, Benue State Command, CP. Emmanuel Adesina has ordered the deployment of officers across the state to ensure maximum security of lives and property during the Easter celebration. A statement by the command’s PPRO, Sewuese Anene Catherine, said the...
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By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – A suspected kidnapper and murderer of the 12-year old son of a Police Officer in Gumau town in Toro Local Government Area of Bauchi State has been arrested. The victim, Christopher is the son of an Assistant Superintendent of Police, Bala Yarima, serving...
ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – An 18-year old boy has been arrested for allegedly stabbing his 25-year old friend to death during a fight, the Bauchi State Police Command has confirmed. The Command’s Public Relations Officer, Ahmed Wakil, a Superintendent of Police, made the confirmation to journalists on Wednesday....
The Police Command in Benue has neutralised two notorious bandits in Katsina-Ala Local Government Area (LGA) of the State and recovered arms. This was contained in a statement on Wednesday in Makurdi, by the State’s Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP Sewuese Anene. Anene said in the statement...
An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court has sentenced a man, Ugochukwu Onuoha, to life imprisonment for defiling a five-year old minor, his neighbour’s daughter. Justice Rahman Oshodi, in his judgment, held that the prosecution had established beyond reasonable doubt, the charge of defilement against Onuoha. Oshodi...
Police in Katsina State have rescued five persons suspected to have been kidnapped while travelling from Abuja to Zamfara. Police spokesman, ASP Abubakar Sadiq-Aliyu, confirmed the rescue when he spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Katsina on Tuesday. He said a police patrol team rescued...
The Police on Tuesday arraigned a 21-year old man, Mustapha Abubakar in a Karu Grade 1 Area Court, sitting in Abuja for allegedly stabbing neighbour with scissors. The defendant, who resides at Kugbo International Market, Abuja is being tried for criminal force without provocation and voluntarily causing hurt...
By HARUNA AHMED, Kaduna – Kaduna State Police Command has arrested a fake soldier allegedly involved in robbery and extortion. Police spokesman in the state, ASP Mansir Hassan, confirmed the arrest in a statement he issued on Monday in Kaduna. ASP Hassan stated that police arrested the...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The Bauchi State Police Command has confirmed that the number of people who were killed in the stampede that occurred on Sunday during the zakaat sharing of N10,000 by a Bauchi based philanthropist, the Chairman of AYM Shafa group of companies have risen...
A Zimbabwean man, Kelvin Mhofu Ngoshi, based in South Africa, committed suicide at the weekend live on Facebook after he allegedly found out his girlfriend allegedly cheated on him. According to Crime Watch Zimbabwe (CWZ), Ngoshi was in utter shock after finding out that his lover only identified...
The arraignment of four suspects allegedly involved in the kidnapping of University of Abuja (UniAbuja) lecturers and their children in 2021 was, on Monday, stalled due to the commencement of Federal High Court (FHC) vacation. The matter, which was on number one on Justice Donatus Okorowo’s cause list,...
By CHRISTIAN LOT, Jos – A violent clash between youths from Tarok and Motola in Ponglong area of Lalin district, Mikang Local Government Area of Plateau State has resulted in numerous deaths, destruction of homes, and farmlands. According to reports, the clash began on Saturday night and continued...
By HARUNA AHMED, Kaduna – Kaduna State Government has received two Armoured Personnel Carriers (APCs) and a 200-man highly trained Special Squad of the Nigerian Police Force deployed to the state. Governor Uba Sani made the announcement in a statement he issued in Kaduna on Sunday. He said...
Ondo State Police has said a 17-year old girl, who stabbed her aunt to death in Akure, has psychiatric problems. Police spokesperson in the state, SP Funmilayo Odunlami-Omisanya, stated on Sunday in Akure that the police was informed about the aunt’s demise on March 17 when her body...
The Police Public Relations Officer in Lagos State, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, has confirmed that an accident claimed a mother and injured three of her children in Ikorodu area of Lagos. Hundeyin confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday. He said that Ikorodu Police...
By HARUNA AHMED, Kaduna – Kaduna State Police Command has arrested a notorious kidnapping gang leader who masterminded the Fadan Kamantan inferno where a Seminarian and a Church were burnt into ashes in 2023. Police spokesman in the state, ASP Mansir Hassan, confirmed the arrest in a statement...
Gunmen opened fire at a rock concert in a Moscow suburb Friday killing at least 40 people, wounding 100, and setting off an inferno in the theatre, authorities said. Attackers dressed in camouflage uniforms entered the building, opened fire, and threw a grenade or incendiary bomb, according...
Police operatives in Kaduna State have foiled a kidnap attempt on Buruku-Kaduna highway on Thursday. Police spokesman, ASP Mansir Hassan said in a statement on Friday in Kaduna, that the bandits were forced to retreat by the firepower of the personnel. He said: “On March 21, at 1300hrs,...
By BARBARA KALU, Abakaliki – Police in Ebonyi State have dislodged gunmen’s hideout in the state, killed three suspects and recovered ammunition. The police spokesman in the state, ASP Joshua Ukandu, disclosed this in a statement on Friday in Abakaliki. Ukandu noted that no fewer than five suspects...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – Lagos State Police Command have arrested three women and a man for allegedly faking kidnap of one of them and demanding five million Naira ransom. Police spokesman in the state, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the arrest in a statement on Friday in Lagos....