By Peter Duru Makurdi-Residents of Makurdi, the Benue State capital have continued to express outrage over the alleged rape of Mimidoo Tor, a three year  old girl by an HIV-positive-middle- aged man,  Cletus Egwu, who, in a bid to seek supernatural cure for his ailment,  allegedly raped the innocent victim who has also been infected […]

By Evelyn Usman OZDE plaza, located on  Osolo way in Ajao area of  Lagos, was last December thrown into commotion following a noisy verbal confrontation from one of the shops. When inquisitive traders thronged shop 5f where the noise  came from, a rattled Bureau-de-change operator was seen arguing with owner of the shop, one Mrs […]

By Emma Nnadozie , Albert Akpor and Evelyn Usman The recent brutal  murder of the Assistant News Editor of Guardian Newspapers, Mr. Bayo Ohu  by yet-to-be-identified  gun men at his residence in Egbeda, Lagos brings to the fore, once again, the agony of gun shot victims in Nigeria. The 45-year-old amiable and hardworking political reporter […]

THE alarming rate of violent   crime, especially  kidnapping, in the country in recent times, particularly in the South East has compounded the already frightening insecurity situation in the area. In 2007 at a mild stage of kidnapping, a black and two Chinese expatriates brought into the country to enforce the local manufacturing of vehicles, courtesy […]

By Albert Akpor THERE seemed to be no end in sight to various   tricks employed by drug peddlers to beat the prying eyes of operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in their quest to export hard drugs out of the country. In recent past,  there had been instances of hard drugs being […]

…….what we did was obtaining not robbery, insists suspects By Evelyn Usman The benevolence of a lady to a stranded  young man at Surulere, Lagos has suddenly turned into  a nightmare for her.  In fact, the 33-year-old lady, Jumoke Ajiboye not only survived being strangulated by a hair‘s breath but lost about 500 US dollars, […]

By Ifeanyi Okolie There seem to be no love  lost between some   policemen attached to Area F, Command in Ikeja, Lagos and their counterparts at the Force Criminal Investigations Department annex, Alagbon, Lagos following alleged invasion and forceful removal of files relating to a case and it‘s exhibits by a serving Assistant Superintendent of Police […]

By Chidi Nkwopara Owerri – Bishop of Okigwe South, Anglican Communion, Rt. Rev. David O.C. Onuoha, passed through harrowing   times when his aged father, Pa Humphrey Onuoha, was recently kidnapped and taken to an unknown hideout by his captors. The Bishop recounts the ugly incident to Crime Guard. Read on; What is your take on […]

Assaulted and kidnapped 70-yr-old man, others By Ifeanyi Okolie Residents of Amazu-Uno, Arondizuogu Community in Ideator North Local Government Area of Imo State will not forget in a hurry, the fate that befell them on August 14, 2009. It was a day one of their sons and a prominent politician unleashed mayhem on the same […]

By Dennis Agbo Abakalik i-THE Ebonyi state police command under CP Kachi Udeoji has been thrown into confusion over what to do with one constable (names withheld) in Kpirikpri police station , Abakaliki, who was allegedly shot at the Ebonyi State Teaching Hospital where he, with some other suspected robbers, attacked staff of the teaching […]

By Ifeanyi Okolie A notorious Kidnapping  Segun Akinsola (24)  met his waterloo recently in Lagos when detectives attached to the State Criminal Investigations Bureau (CIB) arrested him for allegedly  spearheading  the abduction of a 14-year-old boy at  Ikotun. The same suspect had early this year, with one Lekan Faniran, kidnapped  a six- year-  old boy […]

(Note: Story contains  a gory photo) By Evelyn Usman A 34-year-old popular  herbalist in Ijebu-Ode,  Ogun state, Rasaki Yekini,  was last week, paraded alongside some robbery suspects that have been terrorising Ogun state and its environs. Yekini, who is popularly known as ‘Aro’, following his proficiency in herbal mixture which has reportedly met the expectations […]

…Deceased relations seek release of corpse By Albert Akpor PERHAPS, the biblical injunction, “to err is human and to forgive, devine,” was the highpoint of the parting words of the wife of a prominent Onitsha, Anambra state based Bishop and General Overseer (G.O) of a popular Pentecostal church (names withheld) who made a bizarre confession […]

….“I beat him to death ‘cos he was stealing” By Evelyn Usman The 24-year-Old lady, Janet James  that recently beat her half brother to death in Lagos has made startling confessions on why she cut short the life of the 8-year-old boy.   Janet, a cook with an Indian family at Number 15, Adeola Adeleye street, […]

By Simon Ebegbulem Benin City – Pandemonium struck last week Friday in Benin City , when a 50 year-old man, Mr Sunday Umorea, an indigene of Akwa Ibom state, murdered  his 46 year-old wife, Janet for receiving   a call at night  from her lover. The  incident which occurred at 2nd Federal Road, Uselu, Benin City, […]