Alleged kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, a.k.a Evans, has been indicted of new charge bordering on murder before Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of the Lagos High Court in Igbosere.

Operatives of the Zonal Intervention Squad (ZIS), Zone 2 Area Command, Onikan Lagos have arrested three suspected armed robbers who allegedly shot a police corporal, Aladejare Adedeji and collected his AK47 rifle in Meran area of the state.

A 76 years old retired Colonel, Chief Alao Dauda, who was charged with murder, has urged an Ogun State High Court, sitting in Ilaro, to grant him bail.

By Ola Ajayi Ibadan—The Oyo/Osun Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) said it had intercepted contraband worth N55.661 million in October. The Customs Area Comptroller, David Chikan, made the disclosure at a media briefing in Ibadan yesterday. Chikan said the seized items included 14 used vehicles with total Duty Paid Value (DPV) of N25.7 […]

A 16-year-old boy, Adeola Okanlawan, on Tuesday told an Igbosere High Court in Lagos how his father was killed with a machete after complaining of smoke coming from a neighbour’s electricity generator.

A cursory examination of our society today will show some damning malfeances such as drug use and abuse, prostitution, human trafficking and smuggling. To curtail these challenges, government had set up agencies to deal with them but still they continue to fester.

The Controller of Prisons in Lagos State, Tunde Ladipo, says high profile inmates, including the suspected kidnap kingpin currently held in Kirikiri Prisons, Chukwudidumeme Onuamadike, popularly known as Evans, have no special treatment.

The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has arrested a 24-year-old housewife, Mrs Basira Sagiru, for pushing her sister-in-law into a pot of boiling water.

Whenever curfew, a period when people are not allowed to leave their houses especially in the night, is declared, people generally feel relieved; believing the crisis situation which led to its declaration would be addressed.

There was twist of event Thursday before an Ikeja High Court when the suspected kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, a.k.a Evans and his accomplices made a u-turn and pleaded not guilty to a two-count charge of kidnapping and conspiracy preferred against them by the Lagos State government.

An Ebute Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos has ordered the remand of two men; Nduka Okafor and James Aikhionbare in prison custody for allegedly stabbing a woman to death.

OPERATIVES of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, have arrested three serving soldiers from 9 Brigade Military Headquarters, Ikeja; one dismissed Air Force personnel and their civilian accomplices for allegedly robbery.

By Onozure Dania Lagos—CHIEF Magistrate Kikelomo Ayeye of Tinubu Magistrate’s Court, yesterday, remanded Aminu Atiku, son of the former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, in transit cell for disobeying a court order to produce his six-year-old son (names withheld) in court. Aminu was alleged to have disobeyed an order made by Ayeye on October 11 […]

The Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps NSCDC said it is deploying drones to halt the incessant cases of pipeline vandalism in the creeks of Niger Delta.

Amaka Offor, one of the alleged girlfriends of kidnap kingpin, Chukwudubem Onwuamadike, also known as Evans, has accused Evans’ lawyer, Olukoya Ogungbeje, of lying, insisting policemen never sexually molested her.