Anxiety in Benue as criminal gang of late militia kingpin, Gana embark on killings, kidnapping
•Youths raise alarm, send SOS to IGP•Reports say 66 victims recorded so far By Ifeanyi Okolie There is anxiety in Benue state following the resurgence of massive killings and abductions by criminals suspected to be remnants of the dreaded gang members of late militia leader, Terwase Akwaza alias Gana. The bloodletting has gotten to the […]
Bandits go berserk in Niger, kill 70, sack 8 villages
Minna—No fewer than 70 people have been confirmed killed by bandits that attacked some communities in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State
Ekiti pastor kidnaps self, demands N3m ransom from congregation, nabbed
Adewuyi Adegoke, a pastor at Methodist Church, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State capital, has been arrested by the Police for allegedly organising his own kidnap and asking one Oluwadare Sunday to demand N3 million ransom from his congregation.
3-day-old baby stolen in Jos hospital
A distressed mother, Mary Chukwuebuka, and her husband, Nwagod, have appealed to Plateau State Specialists Hospital, Jos, management, the state Police Command and the public to help in locating their baby stolen three days after birth from the hospital.
GRAPHIC: Herdsman beheads girlfriend in Ekiti
There was confusion at Ilasa-Ekiti in Ekiti East yesterday as an unidentified young herdsman chopped off the head of his girlfriend with Cutlass.
Troops rescue women, children in ambush attack against terrorists in Borno
The Nigerian Army said on Tuesday that two women and six Children were rescued on Monday, the 10th of June 2019 from the Boko Haram Terrorists by troops of 121 Battalion in conjunction with hunters in an ambush operation against some fleeing members of BHTs at Gwadala village in the North Eastern part of Borno State.
We’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.
