A bus driver identified as Salvation Taylor Harry was gruesomely murdered while eight passengers were abducted in an attack on a commercial bus by deadly gunmen along Abonnema – Emohua- Kalabari road of Rivers State on Saturday night. According to reports, the bus passengers had taken off from Mile One Park in Port Harcourt with the passenger on a trip …
An over speeding truck, Sunday night, crushed an unidentified mother, her baby and three others to death at Enugu-Agidi, Njikoka Local Government Area, Anambra State. It was learnt that the incident which occured at about 7.20pm along Onitsha-Enugu expressway was between a black Lexus RX330 with registration number KJA182HS and a Red Truck with no registration number. An eyewitness, Mr …
Suspected gunmen who shot dead an operative of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Segun Ayebulu, and kidnapped three other persons on Saturday had demanded a sum of N30million ransom on those being held hostage. The NSCDC officer was gunned down along Oke Ako-Irele Ekiti road while traveling to his town in Ogbe, Kogi State , while three other …
Terrorists suspected to be members of the Boko Haram fighters have attacked a Mosque in Borno State, killing the Chief Imam and three other worshipers. It was learnt that the incident occured on Friday during the Fajr prayers in the Ngulde community of Askira-Uba Local Government Area of the state. According to reports, the terrorists, numbering about 20, invaded the …
Police in Ogun have arrested a pastor for allegedly defiling a 14-year-old choir member at Agbado area. Police spokesman in the state, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, stated on Sunday that the 38-year-old pastor is the General Overseer of the church. His arrest followed a complaint lodged at the Agbado Divisional Headquarters of the police by the mother of the victim. Mr …
A Director in the civil service of Ondo State who had been missing since last Thursday has been found dead. The body top civil servant identified as Mr. Gbenga Olofingboyegun was discovered on Sunday with his head already cut off. Olofingboyegun, who was the Director of the Department of Research and Statistics, Teaching Service Commission (TESCOM), was declared missing on …
Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have abducted 32 travellers around Ifon in Ose Local Government Area of Ondo State. The victims were said to be returning from a burial ceremony in Edo State on Saturday when the incident happened. It is not yet established whether the kidnappers have reached out to the families of the victims for payment of ransom …
Troops of 1 Division, Nigerian Army, on anti-banditry operations in the Northwestern part of the country, have killed three bandits and recovered two AK 47 rifles. The soldiers also recovered nine magazines, seven Baofeng communication radios, one Tecno mobile phone, 120 rounds of 7.62 mm special ammunition, one power generator, and one motorcycle from the criminals. Director, army public relations, …
Commissioner of Police in Enugu State, Mr Ahmed Ammani, has ordered the investigation of an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) over alleged sexual assault of a teenager in custody. The ASP is serving at the Awgu Police Division in Enugu State. The order for investigation is contained in a statement issued in Enugu on Saturday by police spokesman in the …
A 40-year-old woman, Mrs Joy Sunday, arrested by the police for conspiracy over the kidnap of her husband in Akwa Ibom State, said on Friday that she partook in the act because her husband starved her of sex and money for too long. City Round gathered that the kidnappers demanded N10m as ransom and later reduced it to N2m which …
No fewer than five passengers were killed along the waterways by suspected Sea pirates on Friday morning while traveling from Bille community in Degema local government area of Rivers State, to Port Harcourt, the state capital. An indigene of the community, Bebe Oyibo Jacob, who disclosed this on Friday while speaking with journalists in Port Harcourt, said several others passengers …
Bandits have invaded a low cost project quarters at Dutsen Reme, Bakori LGA of Katsina State and abducted four people. The development, according to the locals, happened at about 10:00 pm on Friday night while it was raining. According one Ahmed Ridwan, a resident of Dutsen Reme low cost housing estate, the assailants took advantage of the rainfall and executed …
At least 33 people were killed following a militia attack on a town in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a respected monitor said Saturday, raising an earlier reported death toll. Kivu Security Tracker, the monitor, tweeted that at least 33 people — including militia members and civilians — had died following an attack by the notorious CODECO militia on Mongbwalu …
The Ogun State Command of the Nigeria Police have arrested three of suspected cultists and serial killers who are allegedly members of the dreaded Eiye confraternity and are known for terrorising Ijebu Ode and its environs. It was reported that the suspects, Odukoya Odushina, Subomi Popoola and Itunuoluwa Taiwo, were reportedly responsible for many cult killings in the community. In …
Pastor Michael Abiodun, 48, of The Light House Gospel Church, Oluwo, Owode-Egba, in the state’s Obafemi Owode Local Government Area, was arrested by men from the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly defiling and impregnating a 12-year-old member of his church (name withheld). SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, the state’s Police Public Relations Officer, announced this in a statement on Friday. Oyeyemi …
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Anambra State Command, has apprehended 13 private security guard operatives working for unregistered companies, or with companies operating with expired license in the state. The State Commandant of NSCDC, Chukwudi Chikere, who stated this on Wednesday in a statement by the command’s Public Relations Officer (PRO), Edwin Okadigbo, said the arrest followed …
A 21-year-old man was arrested by the Lagos State Police Command’s Rapid Response Squad (RRS). Temple Samuel was apprehended while networking to sell his boss’s Lexus ES 330 car. Samuel revealed that he intended to use the proceeds of the sale to ‘japa,’ which is slang for travelling abroad in search of greener pastures. He was apprehended alongside three other …
The police in Delta State’s Agbarho Division have arrested Emeka Richard, a man who fled after allegedly burning his twin sons with a hot knife in the community. He was arrested on Wednesday evening after the incident was reported. He is being held at the police station and has yet to speak. Comrade Israel, Delta State Secretary of the Committee …
Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has levelled a damning accusation against President Muhammadu Buhari and the federal government over the country’s ongoing insecurity. Ortom claimed that security operatives informed him that Buhari had directed them to leave the killer herdsmen alone. The Benue governor claimed in an interview with ICIR published on Monday that he received confidential information from …
The Bauchi State Police Command has arrested two members of a vigilante group for allegedly raping a housewife at gunpoint in the state’s Ningi Local Government Area. The Public Relations Officer, Ahmed Wakil, said in a press statement issued on Tuesday at the Command that another 27-year-old man had been arrested for defiling a 3-year-old girl in Jimbin Village, Ganjuwa …
