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 […]
Notorious armed bandit killed in Zamfara
The Police on Monday in Zamfara said that a suspected armed bandit, one Sani Abdullahi, had been killed in a gun battle with security agents.
Loverboy stabs girlfriend in a hotel room in Yenagoa
A 26-year-old man has reportedly stabbed his 18-year-old girlfriend in a hotel room in Yenagoa.
Housewife bags 7 years for stabbing hubby to death over “Baba Ijebu”.
A 29-year-old housewife, Onyinyechi Akunne, was on Monday in Lagos sentenced to seven years imprisonment for stabbing to death her 35-year-old husband, Abuchi Akunne, with a kitchen knife during an argument at home over lotto tickets known as “Baba Ijebu”.
Man poisoned by 14-yr-old housemaid he scolded
A 14-year-old housemaid attempted to poison her 63-year-old master, Nasiru Akinlosotu, by mixing rat poison in a meal of beans, because he scolded her over an incident.
Untold story of how kidnap kingpin, ‘General’ Ossy was killed •Confusion, doubts reign in the creeks
If General Ossy, the leader of the dreaded militant group that had been terrorizing residents of Ikorodu, Arepo, Epe, Isheri, Igando and Ogijo areas of Lagos and Ogun States in last three years had known what would befall him while relocating his camp from his stronghold in Ishawo, Ikorodu to Ajapa, Ondo State, he would have had a rethink.
‘EFCC best anti-corruption agency in Africa’
The Northern Youth Council, NYC, the umbrella body of all youth organisations in the northern part of Nigeria,Thursday, adjudged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, as the “Best Anti-Corruption Agency in Africa”.
Prisoner defrauds banker of N12.3m, bags 162 years imprisonment
A middle-aged man, Ikechukwu Ogbu, who is serving a 10-year sentence at the Kirikiri Maximum Prison, was yesterday sentenced to 162 years imprisonment by an Ikeja high court for defrauding a bank manager, one Chukwu, of N12.3 million.
W-H-O-D-U-N-N- I-T: Ex-police officer’s corpse disappears from morgue
Controversy is trailing the circumstances that surrounded the sudden death and disappearance of the corpse of 65-year-old retired Superintendent of Police, Joseph Iden in Lagos, last year. The incident took place at his Number 5, Odetola Street, Alagbado area barely one year after he disengaged from the force.
Police arrest NYSC member over ATM vandalisation
Operatives of the Kogi State Police Command have arrested a National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, member for breaking into the ATM platform of a second generation bank in Lokoja, the state capital.
How prophet got N70m, two houses, cars from ailing bizwoman
By Evelyn Usman A pastor with a white garment church has been arrested by the Special Fraud Unit, Milverton, Ikoyi, Lagos, for allegedly collecting N70 million to treat a businesswoman of fibroid. The arrest of the suspect, identified simply as Femi, followed a complaint lodged at the Unit by the victim’s husband, over allegation that […]
