By Festus Ahon POLICEMEN attached to the Delta State Police Command, weekend, interrogated the Obi of the Idumuje-Ugboko Kingdom in Aniocha North Local Government Area of the state, HRM Nonso Nwoko over a suspected murder case. The policemen who stormed the monarch’s palace in Commando style, after he allegedly refused to honour invitation extended to […]

By Emma Nnadozie, Crime Editor The police in Lagos, weekend, arrested Yusuf, the terror of Satellite Town, Lagos, who is the suspected leader of a dreaded criminal gang that had held the area and environs to ransom. Recently, they attacked some residents of the area, wounded scores of people and destroyed property. An unconfirmed report […]

By Evelyn Usman While a 33 years old man, Maurice Peters, 33, was arrested for allegedly defiling an 11-year-old girl inside a Church located at Tijani Qudus Street, Ijegun, a widower, aged 55, assaulted a 14-year-old girl in a bathroom at Ejigbo, both in Lagos State. The 55-year-old father of three, identified as Emeka Okwuome, […]

Recovered N99,700 James Ogunnaike Operatives of Ogun State Command of the Nigeria Police have arrested three suspected highway robbers at Alapako area in Obafemi/Owode local government area of the state. The command Public Relations Officer, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, who disclosed this to newsmen in a statement in Abeokuta, said that suspected highway robbers were arrested […]

James Ogunnaike Pandemonium broke out in Ijebu Ode, Ijebu Ode Local Government Area of Ogun State as an angry mob on Saturday set ablaze a refinery truck whose driver recklessly crushed an okada rider to death around old Ibadan road in Ijebu Ode area of Ogun. Mr Babatunde Akinbiyi, the Public Relations Officer, Traffic Compliance […]

We killed them for exposing oil theft, perpetrators ― Suspected killers By Egufe Yafugborhi THREE corpses of kidnapped victims have again been exhumed in Rivers State, this time, from a forest in Bera, Gokana Local Government Area (LGA) where suspected killers led the police. The victims, Baridomale Sunday Tor, Baridon Gbarabera and Barisiton Nawee were […]

Authorities in Zamfara state have offered two cows for each gun surrendered by bandits to halt bloody attacks on its villages. Remote communities across the region have for years been hit hard by deadly raids from armed groups of motorcycle-riding cattle rustlers and kidnappers. Military operations have failed to end the killings and local officials […]

By Adeola Badru FOLLOWING the manhunt launched by the Oyo State Police Command to apprehend the culprits in connection with killings at the Akinyele axis of the state, the suspected serial killer of the innocent victims have confessed on how he was able to catch on his targets. While parading the suspected criminals at the […]

By Adeola Badru Following the manhunt launched by the Oyo State Police Command to apprehend the culprits in connection with killings at the Akinyele axis of the state, the suspected serial killer of the innocent victims have confessed on how he was able to catch on his targets. While parading the suspected criminals at the […]

A 13-year-old boy, Anas Basiru, died in open water at Sauna in Nassarawa Local Government Area of Kano State, according to the Kano State Fire Service. Alhaji Saidu Mohammed, the Public Relations Officer of the organisation, who disclosed this, yesterday, in Kano, said that the incident occurred on Wednesday. “We received a distress call from […]