The Bayelsa State Police Command said on Sunday that it had recovered the bodies of four officers who had gone missing after a surveillance boat carrying them was crushed by a gunboat in the state’s waterways on July 25. The bodies of the four slain cops were deposited at the mortuary of the Federal Medical Centre (FMC) in Yenagoa. Odi …
Following the arrest of a suspected Boko Haram leader, there is tension in Abeokuta, the capital of Ogun State. The suspected terrorist was apprehended Saturday night in Ogun State by DSS operatives. Most Abeokuta residents are now in a panic after news of the arrest spread throughout the state capital. This comes amid reports that terrorists are planning to attack …
Boko Haram terrorists are said to have killed an unknown number of soldiers on Thursday night when they stormed an Army checkpoint near Zuma Rock, the border between the FCT and Niger State. According to sources, the terrorists arrived Zuma Rock around 8.30 p.m. on the axis of Madalla and Suleija along the Abuja-Kaduna highway and caught the soldiers off …
The Bauchi State Police Commissioner, CP Umar Mamman Sanda, has ordered a thorough investigation into the barbaric and dehumanising act of jungle justice meted out on Ambima John, 22, by some irate youths in Yelwa, Bauchi. Speaking on Friday around 2100hrs, an anonymous person reported that one Ambima John’m’, 22yrs of Doka, an alleged notorious motorcycle snatcher, was beaten up …
Cynthia Okereke and Clemson Cornell, veteran film stars, were kidnapped after leaving a filming location in Enugu. Monalisa Chinda, spokesman for the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), announced this in a post on her verified Instagram page. Chinda stated that her senior colleagues had gone missing after their families confirmed they had not returned from a film location in Ozalla …
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has warned all members of its staff and the general public in Nigeria about terrorists and bandits infiltrating the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and surrounding areas with the intent of kidnapping people for ransom. The West African regional bloc announced this in an Urgent Security Advisory dated July 27, 2022, as part …
Thugs disrupted the ongoing Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise at St. Bridget Catholic Church in Ijesha, Surulere, Lagos State, on Friday. The thugs took the Continuous Voter Registration machines from the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. The incident occurred less than 72 hours before INEC closed the CVR. Following the incident, the Parish Priest locked the church and fled for …
On Wednesday night, gunmen stormed Craneburg Construction Company’s construction site in Owo, Owo Local Government Area, Ondo State, and shot two security guards. The invaders were said to have launched dynamite, which exploded at 9:45 p.m., when the attack began. According to reports, the gunmen shot sporadically, damaging the windscreens of the vehicles and tractor parked at the construction site. …
Peter Sorro, a police inspector, was killed during a shootout with suspected kidnappers in Ifewara, Osun State. It was also revealed that one of the kidnappers, a suspected Fulani herdsman, was killed during the gun battle. On Sunday, the Osun State Police Command Public Relations Officer, Yemisi Opalola, revealed that the late Inspector Peter and two other police officers from …
Officers from the Lagos State Police Command apprehended four phoney soldiers. They were apprehended by operatives of the Iju Division led by the DPO, CSP Gbenga Stephen. SP Benjamin Hundeyin, Public Relations Officer, said they were apprehended in the Iju area on Sunday. The police stopped the impersonators in a Mazda 3. They are Samuel Abel, 28, Victor ljeemai, 35, …
A leader of an Anambra State vigilante group and three others have reportedly been arrested for alleged involvement in kidnapping in the state. According to sources, police recovered four AK-47 rifles that were said to have been buried in the vigilante leader’s backyard. According to police sources, the suspect was involved in the kidnapping of people in his neighbourhood. The …
Anambra State police have reportedly arrested two suspected cultists who were involved in the killing of a rival cultist, beheading him, and playing soccer with his head last year. A video went viral in September of last year, showing some young men suspected of being cultists dragging out another young man suspected of being a member of a rival cult …
The Sokoto State Government has been chastised for its alleged silence on the blasphemous murder of Deborah Samuel. The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, wants the Sokoto State government, led by Governor Aminu Tambuwal, to expedite the administration of justice. HURIWA has also condemned the Nigeria Police Force and the Department of State Services (DSS), whose operatives allegedly …
Passengers from an 18-seater bus were kidnapped on Wednesday evening near Ochonyi-Omoko village on the Abuja-Lokoja highway in Kogi State. According to a passenger, Benjamin Isaac, who escaped from being kidnapped by the bandits, the incident occurred around 8 p.m. He claimed the attackers hid in a bush and opened fire on the moving vehicle, deflating the back tyres and …
Godspower Adigheti, 23, has been arrested by the Delta State Police Command for allegedly hacking his girlfriend, Gift Oloku, to death. The suspect allegedly killed Oloku, a Delta State Polytechnic, Ozoro student, for destroying his iPhone 11 Pro Max. According to reports, Adigheti had engaged the deceased, who was cohabiting with him, in a fight over her activities in the …
Fatade Idowu Olamilekan, a wire fraud suspect on the FBI’s wanted list, was extradited to the US on Thursday, July 14, 2022, for allegedly stealing over $3.5 million in equipment in various cities across the US. According to a statement by Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) spokesman Wilson Uwujaren, his extradition was coordinated by the Commission in response to …
Emmanuel Omoru, an accountant, is accused of murdering his pregnant wife and hanging her body to fake suicide. According to reports, the incident occurred on July 16th at their residential home in Omozuise Street, Off Street 2, Lucky Way, Aduwawa, Benin City, after the deceased accused the suspect of having extramarital affairs. “I met Aduwawa police officers who told me …
Barnabas Yakubu, 27, was sentenced to nine months in prison by the ADei-Dei Grade 1 Area Court in Abuja on Tuesday for stealing iron rods worth N330,000. Mr Yakubu of Dawaki, Abuja, was sentenced on a single count of theft, to which he pleaded guilty and begged the court for mercy. Sulyman Ola, the Judge, however, gave Mr Yakubu the …
Eze Madumere, an ex-deputy governor of Imo state, demanded an independent investigation on Tuesday into the last Sunday attack by individuals thought to be associated with the Ebubeagu security group, in which no less than fourteen youths were allegedly assaulted, seven of whom were reportedly killed, and numerous others seriously injured. Through his media assistant, Uche Onwuchekwa, Madumere called the …
Engr Kingsley Okorafor, a senior official with the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), has been kidnapped near his home in Umuadara Umulogho autonomous community in Imo State. According to reports, the dare-devil armed men kidnapped him in the early hours of Saturday morning, about three kilometres away from a military checkpoint in the area. The latest development has already been …
