CRIME
FRSC Official Who Forged Uniabuja Academic Document To Gain Promotion Lands In Court
An official of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Achigili Raph Ogili, has been arrested for allegedly forging a University of Abuja certificate to get promotion at his place of work. The result with Registration Number 2720700176, was reportedly forged in collaboration with one Mr Sunday Okpara and his accomplice, one Mr Rasaq Abdulrahaman Dabiri. The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other...
Police Arrest Pastor For Allegedly Impregnating Minor In Rivers
The Rivers Police Command has arrested a clergyman simply identified as pastor Piler Erekwa for allegedly defiling and impregnating a minor in the state. The Rivers State Police confirmed the pastor’s arrest through a statement issued by its spokesperson, Grace Iringe-Koko. “Yes, we are aware of the incident. The suspect is in our custody and investigations are still ongoing,” Iringe-Koko said...
INEC Files Six-count Charge Against Suspended Adamawa REC
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has filed a six-count charge against its suspended Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, in Adamawa State, Hudu Yunusa-Ari. INEC filed the charges at the high court in Yola, the state capital. INEC, in a statement on Thursday, said it took the action after reviewing the case file from the police which established a prima facie case...
Kano Anti-Graft Agency Summons Ex-Gov. Ganduje Over Dollar Videos
The Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission (PCACC) has summoned ex-Governor Abdullahi Ganduje for questioning over the controversial dollar videos. In 2017, Daily Nigerian, an online publication, had released some videos of Ganduje allegedly collecting kickbacks from contractors. The ex-governor had denied the allegation, saying the videos were doctored. READ ALSO: Group Kicks Against Call For Ceding Of Ministerial Slot To...
Baby Found Alive At Mother’s Back 24 Hours After She Was Killed By Bandits
A seven-month-old baby boy named Habibu has been found sleeping on his mother’s back 24 hours after she was shot dead by bandits on the Pandogari-Allawa road in Shiroro LGA of Niger State. Bandits blocked the Pandogari-Allawa road a day to Sallah and shot six passengers, including an SS 2 student of the Maryam Babangida Girls’ Science College, Minna, Hauwa...
Tension Brews In Enugu Community Over Killing Of 2 Persons By Soldiers, Many Injured
There is unease in Eke community, Udi Local Government Area of Enugu State following the alleged killing of a neighborhood watch group member by soldiers attached to the 82 Division of the Nigerian Army, Enugu. Also allegedly shot dead is a housewife from the same community. ABN TV reports that other members of the local security network who survived the said...
Gunmen Kill Ogun RCCG Pastor During Vigil, Kidnap 7 Members
Unknown gunmen on Saturday stormed a branch of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), in Abule-Ori in Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State, killing the Pastor and abducting seven worshippers. The Commander of the Ogun State government-owned security outfit, So-Safe Corps, Soji Ganzallo, who confirmed the incident, said his officers rescued the seven church members and killed...
Securing Nigeria Not Easy Task, Ex-CDS Irabor Says At Pulling Out Ceremony
The immediate past Chief of Defence Staff, General Lucky Irabor, says that providing security for a diverse country like Nigeria is not an easy task, but insists it is not an impossible one to achieve. He said this in his valedictory speech during the pulling-out ceremony organised for him at the Mogadishu Cantonment in Abuja on Friday. According to Irabor, the...
Suspects Narrate How They Killed Ondo Naval Officer
The three suspects arrested over the murder of a Naval Officer, Sub-Lt. Samuel Akingbohun, in ldo- Ani, Ose Local Government Area of Ondo State, have narrated why and how they killed the officer, after an altercation. In an interview, while they were paraded by the state police command, the suspects, Ayomide Sambo, Johnson Adeleke and Shagari Francis, 17, confessed to...
Alleged Fraud: ICPC Vows To Appeal High Court Judgment On Ex-JAMB Registrar, Ojerinde
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) said it will appeal the ruling of the Federal High Court, Abuja on the civil rights claim filed by the former Registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) Prof. Adedibu Ojerinde. ICPC said made the disclosure in a statement. The court had fined the ICPC N1 million damages and...
