A teenage Islamic State fanatic has been jailed for life for plotting a terror attack on British police officers, or soldiers after being radicalised online during the pandemic. Muslim convert, Matthew King, 19, expressed a desire to kill military personnel as he prepared to stake out a British Army...
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Police in Lagos State arraigned a 42-year-old Qur’anic teacher, Suleiman Araromi, before an Ogudu Magistrate’s Court on Thursday for allegedly having sexual intercourse with a lady and defrauding her of N536,000. Araromi, who resides at Balogun Ilawe Street, Alapere, Lagos, is facing a three-count charge of stealing, fraud and unlawful sexual...
Gunmen, suspected to be kidnappers, on Wednesday shot dead two people and also abducted two others at a farm in Awo Village in the Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area of Ogun. One of the deceased was an area commander of Ogun security outfit, So-Safe Corps, identified as Saheed Ogunrinde. The...
The Niger Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), has arrested three suspected ‘black marketers’ for fabricating huge extra tanks in their vehicles. The Public Relations officer of the corps, DSC Nasire Abdullahi, stated this while addressing news on the arrest in Minna on Wednesday. He...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – Operatives of the Enugu Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, May 30, 2023, arrested 17 suspected internet fraudsters in a sting operation in Enugu. The EFCC spokesman, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, disclosed this in a statement issued on Tuesday...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – A popular Tiktok musician, Crown Uzama (known as ShalliPopi) and his manager, Ajayi Hafeez (known as 21 Badda) has been arrested for alleged internet-related fraud. The spokesman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, disclosed this in a statement on...
An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court on Tuesday sentenced a 42-year-old man, Suleimon Usman to life imprisonment for defiling his eight-years old daughter. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports Usman was charged with a two-count charge bordering on defilement, which he had pleaded not guilty to....
By JOY ADARA, Abuja- National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA), have arrested members of a syndicate involved in the illicit importation and trafficking of lethal synthetic opioid, Fentanyl. The Director, Media and Advocacy NDLEA, Mr Femi Babafemi said this in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja. Babafemi said that...
An Osun State High Court, on Tuesday, sentenced the owner of Hilton Hotel and Resort, Ile-Ife, Dr Abdulrahman Adedoyin to death by hanging for the muder of Obafemi Awolowo University’s postgraduate student, Mr Timothy Adegoke. The hotelier was sentenced to death alongside two others who were found guilty of...
A Catholic Priest, Rev. Fr. Mathias Opara, who was kidnapped by gunmen last Friday in Imo has regained freedom. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered that Opara, popularly known as Owu Ujo, was released by his abductors late Sunday night. He was kidnapped along Ejemekwuru- Ogbaku road between...
A final year student of the University of Calabar (UNICAL) and bolt driver was on Friday night killed by suspected car snatchers at the Mary Slessor roundabout, Calabar, Cross River. The deceased identified as Francis Atabi, had given the two suspected car snatchers a ride around 8pm when the...
By OLA MUDOPE, Abeokuta – Operatives of the Ibadan Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested forty-five (45) alleged internet fraudsters in Ogun State. The EFCC in a statement on Saturday, said the cybercriminals were arrested in Wednesday in Ijebu-Ode area following intelligence on...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja- Operatives of the Lagos Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested the duo of Charles Osaigbovo and Evans Obayaedo, who impersonated Nigerian actor and movie producer, Fredrick Leonard, for their alleged involvement in love scam, computer-related fraud and obtaining money...
The Ogun State Police Command has declared armed robbers that escaped with $11 million in Abeokuta wanted. It was gathered that the four-man armed robbery gang operated successfully on Friday at the Oke-Sokori of Abeokuta in the Abeokuta North Local Government Area without being challenged by security operatives. The...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – A 26-year old mother, identified as Maria Ahmadu and her accomplice, Oge Okolie, have been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly attempting to sell a nine-month-old baby. The Police Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the arrest on Saturday in...
A British man has been given a life sentence for travelling to Syria to join so-called Islamic State (IS) nine years ago. Shabazz Suleman, from High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, was 18 when he disappeared while on a family holiday to Turkey in 2014. The former grammar school boy was arrested...
Gunmen on Friday evening, abducted another Catholic Priest, Rev. Fr. Mathias Opara, in Imo. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered that Opara was abducted along Ejemekwuru and Ogbaku road between Oguta and Mbaitoli Local Government Areas of the state. An eyewitness said that the priest was kidnapped while...
Gunmen suspected armed robbers on Friday afternoon operated at the Oke-Sokori axis of Abeokuta metropolis and escaped the scene with a substantial amount of foreign currency. It was gathered that the robbery gang were in black T-shirts and Jean trousers, and also wore black facemasks, brandishing their riffles in...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The police have arrested three men for allegedly gang-raping a 12-year old hawker in Jalam town in Dambam Local Government Area of Bauchi State. The state police spokesman, Ahmed Wakil, a Superintendent of Police, said in a statement on Friday that the suspects lured...
The Police Command in Delta has apprehended a suspected gun runner in Okpe Local Government Area of the state. The spokesman of the command, DSP Bright Edafe told newsmen on Tuesday in Warri that the suspect was arrested on Monday by the operatives attached to the Orerokpe Police Division....