CRIME
Grave Robbers Who Use Body Parts For Rituals Arrested In Edo
A criminal gang that specializes in robbing graveyards and using body parts for rituals has been arrested while six kidnappers were killed in a gun duel by the police in Edo State. The State Police Spokesman, SP Bello Kontongs, who disclosed this in ...
Details Emerge On How GIGM, ABC Buses Travelling From Abia Were Hijacked By Gunmen In Kogi
Suspected armed bandits have hijacked two transport buses travelling to Abuja, kidnapping no less than 14 passengers on board, ABN TV has learned. The vehicles, belonging to the ABC and God Is Good Motors (GIGM) transport companies, were travelling from Abia State en route from Kogi to Abuja. The incident came exactly a week after gunmen ambushed a school bus in...
Amotekun Lacks Capacity To Tackle Banditry — El-Rufai
Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai warned yesterday that arming state security outfits was not enough to end insecurity in the country. To El-Rufai, doing so would amount to a simplistic approach to combatting “sophisticated” non-state actors that sometimes ”outgun the military.” The governor spoke shortly before his Benue State counterpart, Samuel Ortom, issued a one-month ultimatum to the Federal Government to...
Court Sends Ex-Minister, Saleh Mamman To Prison Over Alleged 33.8b Fraud
A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered that former Minister of Power, Saleh Mamman be remanded in Kuje prison in Abuja pending the consideration of his bail application. Justice James Omotosho issued the order on Thursday, July 11, after Mamman was arraigned on a 12-count charge bordering on money laundering offences. He pleaded not guilty to the charge brought against...
Confusion As 4-Year-Old Baby Reportedly Buried Alive In A Church In Osun
Tragedy as a 4-year-old baby girl was allegedly buried alive in a church in Ikirun, Osun state which led to the shutting down of the Church by Ikirun Police Area Command. It was learnt that Ikirun Police Area Command has arrested the Pastor of the Church identified as Ogundapo Lere of Christ Gospel Apostolic Church located at Orita gbona, Palace...
Nigeria Needs 200 Million Rounds Of Ammunition Annually — Matawalle
As part of efforts to secure the nation and protect her territorial integrity, the Minister Of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle, says the Armed Forces of Nigeria requires two hundred million rounds of ammunition annually for its operations. He said the volume will cost the Federal Government at least two dollars per ammunition. The minister disclosed this in Abuja on Wednesday...
66-Year-Old Man Who Lures, Rapes Children With Chocolate, Candy Arrested
Parents and concerned residents in Yobe State are calling for justice after they found out that a man in their community had been defiling little children by luring them with chocolate and candy. Baba Sahabi, 66, a resident of Daban Kare area of Sabon Gari in Yobe State, allegedly lures the children into his compound before raping them. Sahabi was arrested...
Metuh Learns Fate Tuesday Over Alleged N400m Fraud
The Federal High Court in Abuja will on February 25 deliver judgment in the four years trial of a former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Olisa Metuh, on money laundering charges involving the N400m which he was accused of receiving fraudulently from the Office of the National Security Adviser in 2015. Justice Okon Abang fixed Tuesday...
Herdsmen Attack Rivers Community, Kill Two
Suspected killer herdsmen have allegedly invaded Agbeta II Tuabon Community in Ebubu Clan, Eleme Local Government Area of Rivers State and reportedly killed two persons. The killers had attacked the community last Sunday and killed two men and injured some other persons. It was gathered that since March that the community farmlands have been invaded repeatedly and that the intruders allegedly...
Angry Man Sets 3 Churches On Fire, His Reason Will Shock You
Police have on Monday arrested a 21-year-old man who allegedly set three churches ablaze in Kasokoso Kira Municipality in Wakiso District, Uganda, because they preach prosperity gospel and yet have failed to get him out of poverty. According to a police statement issued shortly after his arrest, the suspect John Reagan Ngobi, told them that he got angry because he...
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