The Police Command in Gombe State, on Wednesday, said its personnel had apprehended four suspected kidnappers and four suspected rapists. Maikudi Shehu, the Commissioner of Police (CP), disclosed this while briefing journalists in Gombe on recent arrests in the state. Shehu stated that there had been an upsurge in kidnapping […]
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By OLAYINKA OWOLABI, Anambra Anambra State Police Command has reacted to a trending online video showing two dead victims of a reported shooting incident by unknown gunmen. In the video, the reporter who claimed the incident took place in Ihiala LGA of Anambra State, showed a white Toyota Hilux with […]
•’Jealousy made me kill my stepson A 30-year-old ritual killer suspect, Tajudeen Monsuru, has said he used proceeds from human parts to drink beer and hang out with friends. Monsuru and three other suspects, Garuba Lukman (31years), Hamsat Akeem (25years) and Yusuf Awayewasere (37yearrs) were on Tuesday paraded in connection […]
An Army Corporal, Charles Thomson who ran away from the theatre of operation in the North-eastern part of the country, has confessed killing his own mother. Corporal Thomson was among the 82 suspects paraded by the Kaduna State Police Command for various criminal acts in Kaduna on Thursday. The 30 […]
A 10-year-old primary three pupil, who threw her 20-month old step brother into a well at Owode Community in Akure North Local Govermment Area, said she didn’t know he would die inside the well. The suspect, whose parents hailed from Sokoto State, when asked about the deceased, identified as Usman, […]
The Commissioner of Police of Cross River State, Mr Abdulkadir Lanre Jimoh is dead. It was learnt that the 56-year-old died hours from receiving an award. He was 56 years old. The Commissioner who is from Ilorin, Kwara State died at the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, UCTH today, of […]
A High Court in Kenya on Wednesday, December 9, ordered over N454million confiscated from a Nigerian man at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) to be deposited at Central Bank of Kenya pending money laundering investigations. Mauzu Bala was arrested on Friday, December 4, with USD 880,000, 60,000 euros and N63,000 […]
An 18-year-old girl Ujunwa Offiah, on Tuesday has been arrested in Lagos for allegedly faking her own kidnap to demand ransom from her family. Offiah conspired with her boyfriend to stage her abduction, asking her family to pay 30 million naira (79,336 dollars, 65,500 euros) for her release. She was […]
The Lagos Police Command on Sunday threatened to suppress any form of protests and gatherings in the state. This is coming on the heels of the recently planned second phase of #EndSARS protests billed to commence Monday in Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt and other cities. Organisers of the protests who […]
The Lagos State Police command has restricted movement in some Local Government Areas in Lagos with the East bye-election barely 24 hours from now. In a statement issued by the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, on Friday said, the restriction of movement would be between 6am […]