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 […]
Nwaoboshi forfeits 12-storey building to FG
A Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, senator representing Delta North senatorial district, Peter Nwaoboshi, lost temporarily his 12-storey building at 27 Marine Road, Apapa to the Federal Government.
How Africa’s richest woman, Alakija, was allegedly defrauded by staff
THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday arraigned three siblings: Vincent Ayewah, Florence Ayewah and Emmanuel Ayewah, and four others before a Lagos High Court, Ikeja for allegedly defrauding Africa’s richest woman, Mrs. Folorunsho Alakija of N3 million through her Rose of Sharon Foundation.
Delta Police crackdown on kidnappers
THE Police in Delta State have turned the heat on kidnappers, robbers, cultists and other criminals in the state, busting kidnap gangs and arresting 22 suspected kidnappers, including a Kaduna-based soldier, Federal Capital Territory, FCT civil servant, abductors of a Divisional Police Officer, DPO, and employees who masterminded their kidnaps, in the last few weeks. Kidnappers of Asaba DPO: Commissioner of Police, Mr. Zanna Ibrahim, who briefed newsmen in Asaba, said in one of the kidnap cases involving the abduction of the Divisional Police Officer, DPO, “C” Division, Asaba, SP Valentine Mbalu, four suspects, Suleiman Ibrahim, Abubakar Mohammed, both from Adamawa State and Auta Mohammed, who hails from Kaduna state have been apprehended.
Man impersonates Ooni, dupes US-based ladies of N600,000, i-Phone sets
Men of Ogun State Police Command have arrested a 26-year-old man, Abiodun Joseph, for allegedly impersonating the Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Adeyeye Ogunwusi, Ojaja II, and duped two American-based ladies of N600,000.
CCTV exposes pickpocket in Lagos
USING the newly-deployed closed-circuit television, CCTV, camera, opera-tives of Lagos State Rapid Response Squad, RRS, have arrested a suspected pickpocket, one 18-year old Emmanuel, at Oshodi area.
