Anxiety in Benue as criminal gang of late militia kingpin, Gana embark on killings, kidnapping
Makurdi varsity student beats colleague to death
Taraba NLC chairman’s wife kidnapped
Pastor, herbalist nabbed for fraud, rape in Cross River
Bandits go berserk in Niger, kill 70, sack 8 villages
3-day-old baby stolen in Jos hospital
GRAPHIC: Herdsman beheads girlfriend in Ekiti
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SubscribeWe’re still investigating Emir Sanusi, Kano anti-graft agency says
The Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-corruption Commission has vowed to continue with its investigation on the alleged misappropriation of N3.4 billion by the Kano Emirate Council.
Cultists stone 2 rivals to death in Delta
UGHELLI—TENSION has enveloped Iwrekan and Otu-Jeremi communities in Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State, following the stoning to death of two suspected cultists by their rival gang members.
6 robbers nabbed in Ondo
Akure—SIX robbery suspects that attacked and disposessed motorcyclists of their motorcycles in three major towns in Ondo State have been arrested by Police detectives.
Man chops off boy’s wrist over fish pond in Lagos
The quiet community of Mebamu in Ojo area of Lagos State was thrown into pandemonium, Friday morning, as a 61-year-old fish farmer, Jeremiah Obifor, cut off the wrist of a boy, Goodluck Amaechi, with a machete.
How top govt, security officials steal, aid oil thieves – Militants, Rights Group
LEADER of the Reformed Niger Delta Avengers, RNDA, and a coalition of nine other militant groups in the Niger Delta, self-styled “Major General” Johnmark Ezon-ebi, aka Obama, weekend, raised the alarm that high-ranking officials of government and security agencies were the major illegal oil bunkerers, who steal crude oil from Niger Delta and sell overseas through proxies.
We can hack into any account, withdraw money from it, even if phone is locked- suspect
Most Nigerians and mobile phone users all over the globe usually lock their phones , thereby making it difficult for anyone to have access to information in them, particularly their account details.
Lamentation of a blind cop: What answering a distress call from Chivita has caused me
For 57-year-old Olushola John Joshua, a retired Assistant Superintendent of Police , who was enlisted into the Nigeria Police in 1983, life , could be said to have dealt him with an unkind fate .
I’ve lost count of number of people I killed in one year — 20-year-old kidnapper
A suspected kidnapper, Sani Haruna aka Gayu, who was arrested by the Inspector General of Police special team has confessed to Saturday Vanguard that he has lost count of the number of people he killed for failing to pay ransom.
My arrest broke herbalist’s spell on me – Suspect
Thirty-five-year-old Olasupo Yusuf, a popular herbalist who is the Oba Aje of Ogun State , is presently cooling his heels in Police cell, for allegedly swindling a robbery suspect of N3.5 million
Security guards confess: How we killed our boss, daughter with motorcycle cable
AKURE—KWAKYE Kwaku Richard, a 71 year old Ghanaian, served as the driver of a 92 year old industrialist, High Chief Ojomo Akintan in Akure, Ondo State for 40 years.
Court sentences 2 ‘yahoo boys’ to 1 year in prison each
A High Court, sitting in Ilorin on Thursday sentenced two applicants to one year in prison each for posing as white women to swindle job seekers.
Vigilante busts kidnappers’ den in Rivers, nabs 10 suspects
PORT HARCOURT—A local vigilante group in Rivers State, ONELGA Security Planning and Advisory Committee, OSPAC, has burst a den of kidnappers and arrested over 10 suspects.
I went into robbery because my work wasn’t lucrative anymore – Herbalist
Akure— A 47-year-old herbalist, Martins Kolawole, arrested for the murder of the Bursar of the Anglican Communion in Ondo State, Gabriel Abiodun, has said he took to robbing because his work as a herbalist was no longer lucrative.
28-yr-old man stabbed to death in Enugu for seizing girlfriend’s phone
NSUKKA—THE sleepy community of Unadu, Igbo-Eze South Local Government Area of Enugu State, yesterday, was thrown into pandemonium following the death of a 28-year-old man identified as Nnabuike Eze.
Man walks into police station, steals policewoman’s phone
THERE was a mild drama yesterday at the Ughelli ‘A’ Division police station after a man with no business at the station, walked into the charge room and stole a mobile phone belonging to one of the female officers on duty.
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