By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – No fewer than 10 cartons of tramadol 225mg with an estimated street value of N200 million has been intercepted by The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Lagos State. The NDLEA spokesman, Mr Femi Babafemi, who disclosed this in a statement on Sunday...
Crime News
Borno Commissioner of Police Abdu Umar says Boko Haram insurgents abducted two women in Mairari village in Konduga Local Government Area. CP Umar, who made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Maiduguri, said the incident occurred on June 7. ”At about 7.30,...
Suspected armed herdsman in the early hours of Sunday, allegedly killed about thirty persons in two communities of Okpokwu Local Government Area of Benue State in what has been described as unprovoked attacks on civilians. Police Public Relations Officer for the Benue State Command, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Sewuese...
Bandits have abducted no fewer than 50 wedding guests travelling along the Sokoto-Zamfara road. Those abducted include Telephone Marketers at the popular Bebeji Plaza in Gusau. They were returning to Gusau after attending a wedding of their colleague in Sokoto State when the incident happened between Tureta-Bakura road around...
The suspected building The Anambra State Government has demolished a building, allegedly being used as a hideout for gang of kidnappers in Okpuno-Ifite village, Oba, Idemili South Local Government Area of Anambra. The demolition was executed during a raid by a joint operation team of vigilance groups, Police, Army,...
No fewer than 55 scrap metal collectors lost their lives in series of attacks coordinated by Boko Haram insurgents in the last three weeks in Borno. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Abdu Umar made this known while speaking on the sideline of a security stakeholders’ meeting on...
The Federal Government has narrowed down the perpetrators of Sunday’s church killings in Owo, Ondo State to terrorists group belonging to the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP). This is according to some security reports released by the security chiefs who attended Thursday’s Security Council Meeting at the...
The Nigerian Navy on Thursday handed over 463 bags of cannabis sativa (marijuana) worth N500 million it intercepted during routine patrol to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). The Commander, Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) BEECROFT, Commodore Malami Haruna, handed over the seized drugs to NDLEA’s Commander on Narcotics,...
Gunmen suspected to be Kidnapper have abducted Mr Uchenna Nwube, Ebonyi Government House Cameraman, along Okigwe-Aba-Enugu Expressway. Nwube, who was allowed access to his phone by the kidnappers, told journalists that he was kidnapped on Wednesday at about 7 p.m. “I was kidnapped today, June 8 while returning to...
The Nigeria Navy has uncovered an illegal crude oil market in Rivers, where oil thieves traded adulterated petroleum products. The Commander, Nigeria Navy Ship (NNS) Pathfinder, Port Harcourt, Commodore Suleiman Ibrahim, took newsmen to the market located at Casthorn Channel, near Obumakiri community in Degema Local Government Area on...
BY ANKELI EMMNANUEL, Sokoto – The 8 Division of the Nigerian Army, Sokoto has handed over hundreds of recovered weapons to the National Center For The Control of Small And Light Weapons (NCCSALW). Speaking before handing over the weapons, the General Officer Commanding (GOC) 8 Div, Maj Gen Uwem...
Nigerians have been warned about the presence of Boko Haram terrorists in the South West. The Director of Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), Professor Ishaq Akintola, revealed this in a statement issued on Monday. According to him, “MURIC believes that the barbaric attack on the St. Francis Catholic Church Owo, that...
Rev Father Andrew Abayomi, one of the priests at St Francis Catholic Church, Owa-luwa Street, Owo, Ondo State, has narrated how the church was attacked. Recalled that bombs exploded and bullets rained at St. Francis Catholic Church, Owo, Ondo State, yesterday afternoon by terrorists believed to be Fulani herdsmen...
Somali National Army (SNA) forces killed a senior commander of al-Shabab on Saturday in an operation in southwest Somalia, the military said Sunday. The SNA commanders who led the operation told Somali National Television on Sunday that Mohamed Nur Ga’al, also known as Sheikh Al-Sima, was killed near El-unit,...
By OLA MODUPE, Akure – The Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu has vowed that the state government would hunt down assailants that attacked and killed worshippers of St. Francis Catholic Church, Owo on Sunday. Governor Akeredolu gave the assurance in a statement issued by Mr Richard Olatunde, the Chief...
Mr Muawiyah Gambo, the Customs officer abducted in Zaria, Kaduna State, has regained freedom after payment of N25m ransom. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that Gambo has been in captivity for over two months after his kidnap from his residence at Kofar Gayan Lowcost, Zaria city. NAN...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja- The Nigerian Army has dismissed the social media reports alleging complicity of its troops in the recent kidnap of the Prelate of the Methodist Church of Nigeria, Samuel Kanu-Uche. The Army spokesman, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, made the clarification in a statement issued to newsmen on...
Terrorists along Birnin-Gwari- Kaduna highway on Tuesday intercepted a convoy of motorists with security escorts between Kuriga and Manini near Udawa and prey on unspecified number of people that were abducted into the bush. In the last four days terrorists had lay siege on motorists on Birnin-Gwari-Kaduna highway, abducting...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The North East Chairman and Commander of Hunters/ Vigilantes (Sarkin Baka) based in Hawul LGA, Alhaji Mohammed Shawulu Yohanna in company of his team on Monday killed a Boko Haram Commander and his Deputy (names withheld) during a clash in Shaffa Taku village of...
The kidnapped Prelate of the Methodist Church, His Eminence Samuel Uche, on Tuesday said N100m was paid as ransom before he was released. At a press conference in Lagos, the cleric said the monies were arranged in five sacks of N20 million. The funds, he noted, were raised by...