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 […]
Woman jailed for a year for slapping children’s teacher
A French court sentenced a mother of five to a year behind bars for slapping one of her children’s teachers in the face, prosecutors said Wednesday, confirming a penalty seen as unusually harsh.
Woman slices another with razor blade at night club
FOR allegedly cutting another woman’s face with a razor blade, a 20-year-old woman, Loveth Augustine, was, yesterday, arraigned at an Ikeja Chief Magistrate’s Court.
Vigilante in trouble over detention of bank manager
A Chief Magistrate Court sitting in Port Harcourt, yesterday, remanded the secretary of ONELGA Security Planning Advisory Committee, OSPAC, a local vigilante group in Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area, ONELGA, of Rivers State, Emeka Agbabere, for alleged conspiracy and kidnap of a bank manager.
EFCC begins investigation of man nabbed with $370,000 cash at airport
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has begun investigation of a man arrested recently for allegedly trying to smuggle 370,000 dollars out of the country.
3 children in Benue IDPs camp crushed to death
MAKURDI—After escaping the menace of marauding herdsmen, three children, housed at the Abagena internally-displaced persons, IDPs, camp in the outskirt of Makurdi, Benue State capital, were reportedly crushed to death by a truck on Makurdi-Lafia Road.
