By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says its operatives have intercepted over 64, 863.5 kilogram consignments of the gaseous substance at the Apapa seaport in Lagos and in Imo state. NATIONAL ACCORD reports that the seizure is coming barely 24 hours after the Chairman/Chief...
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By OLA MUDOPE, Akure – Four suspects facing trial at the Federal High Court sitting in Akure, Ondo State, who were apprehended during the 2023 UTME for registration and examination infractions, are to remain in detention following their failure to secure bail. The suspects are to spend two more...
By MARY RONKE, Ilorin – Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ilorin Zonal Command has arrested 13 Chinese nationals for allegedly engaging in illegal mining activities in Kwara State. The EFCC spokesman, Mr Wilson Uwujaren, confirmed the arrest in a statement issued in Ilorin on Thursday. Mr. Uwujaren...
By OLA MUDOPE,Akure – The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), has arrested a 35-year-old commercial motorcyclist, Peter Nweke, for allegedly raping a 15-year-old boy (name withheld) in Ondo State. The NSCDC spokesman in the state, DSC Daniel Aidamenbor, disclosed this in a statement issued to newsmen on...
The Police on Thursday said they have arrested four suspects over alleged armed robbery, conspiracy and kidnap of a Swiss national. The Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, said this at a media briefing in Abuja. He said the principal suspect lured the Swiss national to Nigeria, posing...
Thai authorities on Thursday detained three German nationals and a 27-year-old Pakistani man in connection with the discovery of the dismembered body of a German businessman in Thailand. The Bangkok Post newspaper said the German suspects are a 52-year-old man and two women, aged 52 and 54. According to...
Operatives of the Yobe Police Command have arrested a couple, Abdullahi Ibrahim and Khadija Ali for allegedly stealing a motorcycle belonging by a Muslim cleric in Fika Local Government Area of Yobe. This is contained in a statement by DSP Dungus Abdulkarim, the command Spokesman, in Damaturu. He said Ibrahim,...
The Imo Police Command said it arrested 56 suspects for various criminal offences, including armed robbery, kidnapping, child trafficking, cultism, murder and terrorism between January and June. The Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Barde, said this at the command’s headquarters in Owerri, while briefing newsmen on the recent exploits by...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Troops of 3 Division Nigerian Army deployed to quell the crisis in Mangu LGA of Plateau has killed three bandits in the area. This is according to a statement issued on Wednesday in Abuja by The Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu....
The Police Command in Osun has arrested a 17-year-old girl who allegedly lured her victim from Lagos to Osun, through the social media. The Command Spokesperson, SP Yemisi Opalola, made this known on Tuesday in Osogbo. Opalola said the victim was lured to Ikire in Irewole Local Government Area...
Thunder strike has reportedly killed three suspected kidnappers in the agrarian Oro Ago community in the Ifelodun LGA of Kwara State.t
Suspected gunmen on Monday abducted a Catholic Priest of the Abakaliki Diocese in Ebonyi, Rev. Fr. Joseph Azubuike. Azubuike, the Parish Priest of St. Charles Catholic Church, Mgbaleze Isu, Onicha Local Government Area of the state, was kidnapped alongside three other persons in the area. A statement by the...
An Abeokuta Magistrates’ Court, has remanded four minors to Borstal Correctional Center, for allegedly raping a 16- year-old girl inside a Church’s toilet. The defendants, all students, aged 17, reside with their parents at Ikosi Ketu, Lagos State, are being tried for conspiracy, rape and cyber bullying. The Magistrate,...
Armed bandits on Monday night killed four policemen serving under Bungudu Local Government Area of Zamfara State. The officers were said to have mounted a checkpoint along Bungudu-Gusau Road when the armed bandits ambushed and opened fire on them. The spokesperson for the Zamfara State Police Command, ASP...
Gunmen have killed eight villagers at Farin Lamba community in Vwang District of Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau. Mr Rwang Tengwong, National Publicity Secretary, Berom Youth Movement (BYM), a socio-cultural group, disclosed this in statement on Monday in Jos. Tengwong said that the criminals invaded the community...
An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, on Monday, sentenced a 56-year-old driver, Folarin Raufu, to life imprisonment for defiling his employer’s granddaughter, aged five years. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Justice Abiola Soladoye held that prosecution successfully proved all the ingredients of defilement against...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says its operatives have seized no fewer than 4,560 kilograms of skunk in interdiction operations in Lagos, Adamawa and Osun. The NDLEA spokesman, Mr Femi Babafemi, disclosed this in a statement issued to newsmen on Sunday in...
Gunmen have killed nine persons and burnt down six houses in Sabon Gari community in Mangu Local Government Area of the Plateau. Mr Jerry Datim, one of leaders in the community, disclosed this via telephone to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Jos. Datim,...
The Kaduna State Police Command has arrested 207 phone snatching suspects in the last one week in the state. The command’s spokesman, DSP Mohammed Jalige, stated in Kaduna on Saturday that the arrests followed raids on identified black spots in the state. He added that other suspects were...
Gunmen kidnapped the Ekiti State’s chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Mr Paul Omotisho, on Saturday. APC’s Publicity Secretary in Ekiti, Mr Segun Dipe, stated at Ado-Ekiti that the assailants abducted Omotisho as he was driving on the Agbado-Ekiti/Imesi-Ekiti Road. “The chairman was driving in a Toyota Venza...