Islamist militants have kidnapped around 50 women searching for food in Burkina Faso’s northern province of Soum, a hotbed of jihadist activity, on Jan. 12 and 13, the government said on Monday. The women were kidnapped in separate incidents on Thursday and Friday as they foraged for food, in...
Crime News
An Investigative Police Officer (IPO), Insp Israel Ojo, told an Ikeja Special Offences Court how a 30-year-old actor, Temitayo Ogunbusola, allegedly stabbed his neighbour, Oladotun Osho, to death over a N1,000 electricity bill. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Ogunbusola is being tried for murder which he...
By BARBARA KALU, Enugu – The Enugu State Police Command has launched a massive manhunt of the suspected IPOB/ESN renegades involved in the botched attack on INEC Office in Enugu South Local Government Area. The Commissioner of Police in Enugu State, Mr Ahmed Ammani, gave the order in a...
Unknown gunmen have abducted an operative of the Nigerian Navy in Anambra State,. The naval personnel, identified as Lt. IS Ozuowa, was kidnapped alongside some civilians, whose number could not be ascertained at press time. He was said to have been released from NNS Ologbo last Friday for his...
By BARBARA KALU, Enugu – At least one police officer have been killed after an unknown gunmen have attacked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) office in Enugu South Local Government Area of Enugu State. INEC National Commissioner, Festus Okoye, who disclosed this in a statement on Monday, said...
ASP Drambi Vandi, the policeman accused of killing Lagos-based lawyer Mrs. Omobolanle Raheem on Christmas Day last year, has pleaded not guilty to murder. Vandi was arraigned on Monday before a Lagos High Court at the Tafawa Balewa Square presided over by Justice Ibironke Harrison where a one-count charge...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – A personnel of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corp (NSCDC) and some local hunters have attacked and injured the 2iC, Azare Area Command of the Nigeria Police Force, Bauchi State Headquarters, Superintendent of Police, Suleiman Umar. The security personnel are attached to the...
Gunmen suspected to be terrorists have attacked the New Life for All Church in Kankara local government area of Katsina State and kidnapped 25 worshipers on Sunday, January 15. The Senior Special Assistant to the state governor Aminu Bello Masari on Christian Affairs, Rev. Ishaya Jurau, disclosed this sad...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Imo has decried the fatal attack carried out at the residence of Chief Ikenga Ugochinyere, the party’s candidate for Ideato Federal Constituency. In a statement issued on Sunday in Owerri by the state Publicity Secretary, Mr Collins Opurozor, the party described the attack...
By HARUNA AHMED, Katsina – The Police Command in Katsina State says terrorists have attacked and kidnapped five persons in Dantsauri Village in Kankara Local Government Area. The police spokesperson in the state, SP Gambo Isah, confirmed the incident in a statement issued to newsmen on Sunday in Katsina....
Barely four days after President Muhammadu Buhari assured Nigerians of his administration’s determination to consolidate gains recorded in security, troops of the Nigerian Army have neutralised scores of bandits, including Ibrahim Kachalla Gudau. Gudau, a notorious and one of the most dangerous bandit leaders, commanded a group carrying out...
The Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC) has confirmed the electrocution of a barbing salon operator in Nsukka over alleged vandalism of electricity installation in the area. The company identified the deceased as Tochukwu Onah (alias Toshiba), a barber and an indigene of Ede-Oballa Community (the same community where the...
The Police Command in Plateau says it has rescued the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Pankshin, SP Nwapi Augustus, who was abducted by gunmen. The command’s Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Alfred Alabo, disclosed this in a statement issued on Sunday in Jos. The News Agency of Nigeria...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has busted another Tramadol cartel in Lagos with the seizure of millions of opioids pills and bottles worth over N5 billion from a warehouse at the weekend. The Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA Mr Femi Babafemi said this in a statement on...
The remains of seven personnel of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), ambushed and killed by bandits has been laid to rest in Kaduna State. This is contained in a statement by NSCDC Director Public Relations, Mr Olusola Odumosu, on Sunday in Abuja. Odumosu recalled that the...
By EMMANUEL JIMOH, Benin City – The joint security forces in Edo State have rescued no fewer than 12 Igueben train station kidnapped victims. The Commissioner of Police in Edo, Mr Mohammed Dankwara disclosed this on Sunday in a statement in Benin. It would be recalled that unknown gunmen...
By MARY RONKE, Minna – Niger State Police Command has deployed reinforcements to track down suspected killers of Catholic Priest, Very Rev. Fr. Issac Achi of Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Paikoro LGA of the state on Sunday. The police spokesman, DSP Wasiu Abiodun, stated this in...
By MARY RONKE, Ilorin – The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in Niger has condemned the killing of a Catholic Priest in Paikoro Local Government Area of the state. A statement issued by Daniel Atori, media aide to the CAN Chairman, Most Rev. Bulus Yohanna on Sunday in Minna...
Parents of the 11 remaining abducted female students of the Federal Government College (FGC), Yauri, in Kebbi State, have appealed to Nigerians to come to their aid financially in order to rescue their children from their abductors. In a letter addressed to all Nigerians, which PRNigeria obtained, a group...
By NANA AISHA, Bauchi – The Bauchi State Police Command has killed four persons, arrested four suspected kidnappers and rescued 6 victims in the state. The command’s spokesperson, SP Ahmed Wakil, disclosed this in a statement issued on Saturday in Bauchi. SP Wakil said the command recorded unprecedented successes...