CRIME
Butcher Nabbed In Niger State For Camping, Raping Minor For Three Months
The Niger State Police Command has arrested a middle-aged butcher, Zaiyanu Abdullahi and charged before a Minna Senior for allegedly raping a 13-year-old girl. Abdullahi was accused to have harboured the girl for three months where she was continually raped for three months along with his friends now at large. He is facing a three-count charge of removing a child from...
How We Foiled Attack By IPOB On Imo Base — Army
Men of the Nigerian Army have reportedly foiled an attack on the Forward Operating Base by the Indigenous People of Biafra fighters in Imo State. The Army said the IPOB fighters who attempted the attack on its base were met with stiff resistance by the personnel on the ground. A statement on Tuesday by the Director of Army Public Relations, Brig....
Defence Ministry: I’ll Surprise My Critics, Matawalle Vows
Minister of State for Defence, Mohammed Bello Matawalle, has vowed to prove his critics wrong. Some persons had faulted the portfolio assigned to Matawalle, saying his administration as Zamfara governor battled insecurity on a major scale. However, Matawalle has said that he is confident in his ability to handle the job and that he will work hard to secure the nation. Speaking...
How Bauchi Housewife Killed 4-day Stepson With Insecticide
A 24-year-old woman, Furera Abubakar, has been arrested for allegedly killing her co-wife’s four-day-old baby with an insecticide. The incident was said to have occurred at Bantu Village in the Ningi Local Government Area of Bauchi State. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Ahmed Wakil, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday titled “24-year-old housewife kills stepson in Ningi LGA.” Wakil, a...
Suspected Vandals Arrested With Rail Tracks Worth N800m Paraded In Abuja
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has arrested 13 suspected railway vandals with large quantities of long rails and sleepers worth N800 million Naira. The suspects were paraded alongside five trucks conveying the large quantities of vandalised rails and sleepers at the NSCDC Headquarters, Abuja on Tuesday. The NSCDC National Public Relations Officer, Babawale Afolabi, during the parade, said...
Defence Ministers, Badaru, Matawalle Vow Remarkable Changes In Nigeria’s Security In Coming Days
The Minister of Defence, Muhammed Badaru Abubakar, and the Minister of State for Defence, Bello Mohammed Matawalle, have promised “remarkable” changes in Nigeria’s security architecture within one year. The new ministers stated this on Tuesday while addressing journalists on the occasion of the assumption of office at the Ship House, Ministry of Defence, Abuja, barely 24 hours after being sworn...
Take Me Back To My Boko Haram Husband, Rescued Chibok Girl Begs
Another Chibok girl, Mary Nkeki, 27, has been rescued by troops of Operation Hadin Kai Theatre Command. Nkeki, who was rescued on Monday last week, said she was married to a repentant Boko Haram terrorist she identified as Adam, The Chibok girl was rescued by troops of the 81 Task Force Battalion at Dikwa during an operation into the terrorists’ enclave. The...
Tension As Gunmen Kill Retired Police Officer, Wife In Imo
Three gunmen on Sunday night shot dead a couple identified as Mr and Mrs Sampson Owobo in Owerri, the Imo State capital. Our correspondent gathered that Owobo who hailed from Edo State was a retired Assistant Superintendent of Police. The incident which happened around 8 pm beside the Chisco Transport company office very close to the Owerri Area police command office...
Herdsman Arrested For Cutting Off Farmer’s Hand In Plateau
The Plateau State Police Command has said it arrested a herdsman identified as Abdulrahman Kaila for allegedly cutting off a farmer’s hand in the Lakushi community, Shendam Local Government Area of the state. A video of the farmer holding his severed right hand with blood dripping on the ground circulated on social media last week. He was overheard in the short...
Buhari Saddened Over Killing Of Soldiers In Niger
Former President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed his anguish over the death of several soldiers killed in an ambush and a subsequent helicopter crash in Niger State. “I am saddened by the helicopter accident, following the tragic ambush in which we have lost our brave army personnel,” Buhari said on Saturday in a statement by his media aide, Garba Shehu. “My thoughts...
