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 […]
30-year-old allegedly kills wife’s grandfather
The Osun Police Command, weekend, paraded 14 suspected criminals in Osogbo over alleged murder, robbery and issuance of fake vehicle documents and number plates.
We will clamp down on killers in Benue in 4 weeks — CP Makama
We don’t expect crime rates to be zero anywhere in the world, that is the graph of crime. It fluctuates at every given time. When I came here I met different crime situations and now we are recording a different situation. The fact is that what was happening by the time I came is not the same thing that is happening now.
Confessions of kidnap kingpins: Why we stole N310m at Senate President’s house in Abuja
The Ex-DSS personal, Abdulrasheed Maigari, on his part revealed how he and some army officers posted to the home of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, in Maitama, stole the sum of N310million
Biz woman accuses OPIC officials of brutalising her
Business men and women occupying suit 1, of the Ogun State Property and Investment Corporation , OPIC Plaza, located at Mobolaji Bank Anthony way, Ikeja are daily confronted with a foul odour emanating from one of the suites ( 102).
Chilling story of ritual killing in Ibadan
SCORES of people who thronged the Oyo State police headquarters, Eleyele, Ibadan to catch a glimpse of four suspected ritualists could not hold back their tears as one of the suspects, Tunde Jimoh, gave a chilling description of how they tricked their victim, Akintoye Oyeyemi, into a deep forest and murdered him in cold blood. Looking deceitfully innocent, the suspect, Tunde Jimoh said, “I am a business man who deals in cashew nuts. My brother’s friend came to him and said he would pay the sum of N10million for a business transaction.”
EFCC arrests woman over alleged N45m herbal cure fraud
Ibadan Zonal office of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC), says it has arrested one Aminat Okiribiti for allegedly conspiring with others to defraud a woman of her money, under false pretence.
Man, 42, rapes, impregnates 13yr-old plantain hawker
A 42-year-old tailor, who was arrested in Lagos for raping a 13-year-old girl in Ajangbadi area of Lagos, has denied rape, saying he was in a relationship with the girl.
We collect N500 for each jerry can, say suspects caught with 2,650 litres of petrol
Two suspected pipeline vandals believed to be the boys of wanted gang leader, Rambo, have been arrested by naval personnel of Operation Awatse, at Imagbon area of Ogun State, while conveying a total of 2,650 litres of syphoned petroleum products to the point of sale in Ogun State.
N3bn loot: Court strikes out Yakubu’s N1bn suit against EFCC
The Federal High Court in Abuja, yesterday, struck out the N1 billion suit that former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Mr. Andrew Yakubu, who allegedly stashed over N3 billion at his guest house in Kaduna, filed Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
Man beheads 72-yr-old woman over parcel of land
A man, who allegedly severed the head and wrists of a 72-year-old woman, identified as Funmilayo Shada, has been arrested by men of Ogun State Police Command.
