By TYAV SAM TYAV, Makurdi – The acting Rector, Benue State Polytechnic Ugbokolo Engr. Dr. Emmanuel Barki has assured of the preparedness of the management of the institution to reposition it for better and unparalleled results. Speaking exclusively with NATIONAL ACCORD in Makurdi, the Acting Rector assured that the...
Crime News
Oscar-winning U.S. actor, Gene Hackman, 95, his wife, Betsy Arakawa, 63, and their dog were found dead in their Santa Fe home, in New Mexico. Adan Mendoza, Santa Fe County Sheriff, in a statement said:”We can confirm that both Gene Hackman and his wife were found deceased Wednesday afternoon...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), have busted a trans-border drug trafficking syndicate, arresting four members in intelligence-led operations during which multi-million-naira worth of tramadol pills concealed in the bumper and false bottom of sienna buses heading to border towns were...
A teacher accused of stabbing an 8-year-old student to death at an elementary school in the central city of Daejeon said she was “annoyed”after being excluded from a class, police said. “I got annoyed just three days after returning to work,” she was quoted as telling the police, after...
An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court on Tuesday sentenced a 47-year-old shopkeeper, Seydou Garuba, to life imprisonment for defiling his neighbour’s eight-year-old daughter. Justice Rahman Oshodi, in his judgment, held that the prosecution proved the charge of defilement against Garuba. He stated that the survivor’s evidence corroborated...
Police have vowed to fish out the suspected killer(s) of three siblings in Nnewichi, Nnewi North Local Government Area of the Anambra State. The new Commissioner of Police (CP) in the state, Mr Ikioye Orutugu, made the vow, when he paid a condolence visit to the bereaved family and...
The ICPC has arrested the Commandant, Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Akwa Ibom, Adam Yusuf, over alleged three billion Naira fraud involving retired Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Usman Jibrin. Spokesperson for the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Mr Demola Bakare, said...
By BARBARA KALU, Port-Harcourt – Rivers State Police Command has launched investigation into the brutal murder of a father and son at their family residence in Igwuruta-Ali community of the state. The older victim, identified as Timothy, 59, the Chief Security Officer (CSO) of Adokiye Amieseimeka International Stadium, Omagwa,...
Operatives of the Police Command in Edo have rescued three kidnapped victims, including a police officer, who were abducted while traveling from Abuja to Onitsha in Anambra. The command’s Public Relations Officer, CSP Moses Yamu, said the victims, ASP Elisha Jeremiah, Oyedele Ebenezer, and Useni Malam Inusa, were rescued...
By OLA MODUPE, Lagos – In a near death experience, a 59-year old businessman Chijioke Nnanna Igbokwe has undergone a surgery, exploratory laparotomy, to let out 57 out of 81 pellets of cocaine stuck in his stomach after seven days of ingesting the illicit substance in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia....
By OLA MODUPE, Lagos – Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Lagos made a significant seizure on Wednesday, January 29, intercepting a consignment of 2,000 kilograms of Ghanaian Loud, a potent strain of cannabis, at Lekki beach. Two suspects, Sunday Awoyede and Christopher Cletus, were...
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) says it has for the second time, shutdown Aba, Cemetery Market in Abia State for sale of fake bottles of wines and beverages. This is contained in a statement signed by the agency Director-General, Prof Mojisola Adeyeye, and...
By PAUL ADAJI, Abuja – The Department of State Services (DSS), has filed five counts of terrorism-related charges against self-styled activist, Muhammad Mahdi Shehu, at the Federal High Court sitting in Kaduna. Security sources familiar with the development hinted NATIONAL ACCORD on Wednesday that the move came a day...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – In its ongoing efforts to clean the nation of internet fraud and other acts of corruption, operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), have arrested four Chinese and 101 Nigerians in a business apartment in the Gudu axis of Abuja. They were arrested...
The Police Command in the Federal Capital Territory has arrested 50 suspects over theft of manhole covers in Abuja. The Commissioner of Police (CP) in charge of FCT, Mr Olatunji Disu, stated this at a media briefing on Monday in Abuja. Disu said that a targeted operation by operatives...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – The FCT Police Command has announced the recovery of a day-old baby abandoned along a bush path near Crush Rock, behind an uncompleted Red Bricks Market, Mpape. This is contained in a statement issued on Sunday by the Police Public Relations Officer, FCT Command,...
Self-styled activist and public commentator, Dr Shehu Mahdi, was on Tuesday remanded in in the Nigerian Correctional Centre, Kaduna on the orders of a Chief magistrate Court sitting in Kaduna. He is to remain in the Kaduna Correctional facility until January 14, 2025 when the matter is scheduled to...
By TYAV SAM TYAV, Makurdi – Benue State Police Command has arrested a driver with CHEC Construction Company, Taraku Camp and a native doctor for alleged theft. A statement by the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Benue State Command, Sewuese Catherine Anene revealed that the driver was given a...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Command, has arrested eight suspected vandals. The acting spokesman of the NSCDC, FCT Command, Monica Ojobi, in a statement on Thursday, said the suspects were arrested over the vandalism of public infrastructure...
The Police Command in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) said it arrested eight suspects and recovered seven vehicles over “one chance” robbery in the territory in one week. The Commissioner of Police (CP) in charge of the FCT, Mr Olatunji Disu, said this during a media briefing on Thursday...