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 […]
I spent 28 years on death row for nothing — Onwuchia, 68-yr-old cook
THIRTY-nine years ago, Mr. Innocent Onwuche, an indigene of Umuahia, Abia State was a relatively comfortable man. He had a wife, a son, and a comfortable job as a cook in the residence of a very notable accountant in Ibadan, Oyo State.
Many feared dead as gunmen attack Imo community again
Barely 48 hours after Imo State governor, Hope Uzodinma cried to President Muhammadu Buhari for help, over the security situation in the state, gunmen have again attacked another community in the state, killing some persons and injuring others.
Dowen College: Police interrogate 4 more students
THE Lagos State Criminal Intelligence and Investigations Bureau, SCIIB, Panti, Yaba, yesterday, invited four more students of Dowen College for questioning over their involvement in the death of Sylvester Oromoni, the 12-year-old student of Dowen College, Lekki, allegedly beaten to death by some of his mates.
SEXUAL HARASSMENT: ‘I was chased around by men who ought to protect me at work’
African Women on Board, AWB, is in the fore front of the campaign to activate ‘zero tolerance’ for sexual harassment, intimidation and bullying’ of women in workplace as a way of ending that aspect of the societal ill, especially in the legal and educational sectors across the globe.
Our targets are only females – kidnap suspects who pose as oil workers declare
By Evelyn Usman Operatives of the Force Intelligence Response Team , IRT led by its Commander, DCP Tunji Disu, in collaboration with policemen from the Rivers State Police Command have smashed a kidnap syndicate that specialized in luring unsuspecting victims through Facebook and Whatsapp to their den, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Members of the gang are […]
Police recover body of kidnapped Army Captain in farmland
Arrest three suspected kidnappers By Evelyn Usman The body of a 64-year-old retired Army Captain, Godfrey Zualamrk has been recovered in a farmland in Igbo-Etche, Etche Local Government Area of the River State, three months after he was abducted. Consequently, three suspected kidnappers that have been terrorising the state have been arrested in connection with […]
Breaking: 200 gunmen storm Mailalle Market in Sokoto, kill 20
Gunmen believed to be Bandits attacked Mailalle weekly market, in Sokoto state. They allegedly opened fire and killed nothing less than 20 persons and injured many.
Police arrest 12 for kidnapping, conspiracy, robbery in Niger
The Police Command in Niger says it has arrested 12 suspects for alleged onspiracy, robbery, gunrunning and kidnapping.
N544m Grass-cutting fraud: EFCC’s witness exonerates Babachir Lawal
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Thursday, presented a fourth prosecution witness against the former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, where the witness said the ex-SGF was not involved in the award of the alleged N544 million Grass-cutting fraud.
Police arrest six suspects for illegal sale of vessel in Rivers
The face-off between the owner of a Petroleum and Marine Services company and some top officials of Rivers state government over alleged illegal sale of a vessel took a different turn recently, after top police officers from force headquarters, Abuja stormed Rivers state capital, Port-Harcourt to interrogate suspected officials that were fingered in the deal.
