A 30-year-old woman, Mary Ole, who allegedly swindled her boyfriend of N9.5 million, on Friday appeared in an Ejigbo Magistrates’ Court in Lagos. The police charged Ole with fraud and theft. The Prosecution Counsel, Cpl. Joy Okoro, told the court that the defendant committed the offence from Aug. 12, 2019, to June 22, 2020, in […]

Suspected armed bandits raided a school dormitory in Zamfara overnight, a teacher and parent told AFP on Friday, raising fears of another mass kidnapping in the Northern region. Bandits kidnap schoolgirls in Jangebe, Zamfara “More than 300 girls are unaccounted for after a headcount of remaining students,” said a teacher at the Government Girls Secondary […]

Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Brigadier-General Buba Marwa (rtd) has expressed regret that the drugs abuse situation in the country is so bad that criminal elements especially kidnappers and armed bandits now ask for payment of ransoms in drugs. Consequently, he warned that unless the nation gets to the […]

Gangs of thieves have killed 18 people in several attacks in Kaduna state, a government official said Thursday. Gunmen on motorcycles stormed into several villages in Igabi and Chikun districts of Kaduna state on Tuesday and Wednesday, shooting residents, burning homes and stealing livestock, Samuel Aruwan, the state internal security commissioner, said. “Security agencies have […]

CRISIS ridden Oruku community, Nkanu East Local Government Area of Enugu State, witnessed yet another ugly incident yesterday when unknown gunmen killed the Vice-Chairman Oruku Caretaker Committee, Chief Samuel Ani.