CRIME
Anambra Vigilante Commander, 2 Others Arrested Over Abduction, Killing Of Keke Rider
Police operatives from Ogidi Division, Anambra State, yesterday, arrested the Ojoto community vigilante commander and two others for the alleged kidnap and murder of a tricycle operator, known as Keke NAPEP Oluchukwu Onah. Onah, a 25-year-old commercial tricycle rider from Ovoko community, Igbo-Eze South Local Government Area of Enugu State but who resided in Oba, Idemili South Local Government Area...
New NDA Commandant Assumes Office In Kaduna
Sequel to the recent redeployment of some senior officers of the Nigerian Army by the new Chief Of Army staff (COAS), Maj. Gen. Taoreed A. Lagbaja, Maj. Gen. John O. Ochai has assumed command as the 32nd Commandant of the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) in Kaduna on Monday, June 26, 2023. He took over from Maj. Gen. Ibrahim M. Yusuf,...
Man Sells 9-Year-Old Son For 400k In Akwa-lbom, Says Poverty Responsible
Akwa Ibom State Police Command has arrested one Gabriel Okon Ekpiri, a native of Ekit Itam Akpan Obong community in Itu Local Government Area of the state, for selling his nine-year-old son for the sum of N400,000. The command’s Public Relations Officer, Odiko Macdon, who disclosed this in a statement on Monday night in Uyo, the state capital, said the...
Governor Otti Sets Up Panel To Recover Government Properties, Funds
The Abia State Government will on Tuesday, June 27, 2023, inaugurate a Judicial Panel of Inquiry on the Recovery of Government Properties and Funds belonging to the state. This is contained in a statement on Monday signed by the governor's chief press secretary, Kazie Uko. He said the panel, approved by the state governor, Dr. Alex Otti, has five members. Hon Justice...
How Cross River Twin Sisters Butchered Elder Brother To Death Over Family Property
The Police in Calabar have arrested twin sisters for allegedly butchering their elder brother to death with machetes, for selling their late father’s land and refusing to share the proceeds with them. The twin, identified as Ikwo Effiong and Idak Effiong, allegedly took the life of their elder brother, Kokoette Effiong, for selling their father’s land, located at Ikot Nakanda,...
Yunusa Yellow Who Abducted Ese Oruru From Bayelsa Regains Freedom After Jail Term
Dahiru Yunusa Yellow who was accused of child trafficking and sentenced to serve a 26-year jail term has regained freedom after serving a reduced sentence of seven years by an Appeal Court. It would be recalled that Yellow was accused of abducting Ese Oruru from Yenagoa in Bayelsa State to Kano, and possibly converted her to Islam and married her. Public...
We’ll Make You Uncomfortable, Abia Government Warns Criminal Elements
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Abia State Government has warned criminal elements engaging in illegal collection of levies, phone snatching, "one-chance" operations with keke, particularly in Aba and Umuahia as well as kidnapping for ransome to stay away from the state or face hard times. The state government says it's not oblivious of the rising spate of criminal activities in certain parts of the state,...
How Abia Teacher Who Allegedly Attempted To Traffick Students Was Nabbed
A secondary school teacher, Ikechukwu Uduma, and his accomplice, Enyiazu Godswill, have been arrested by officials of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Abia State, for attempting to traffick two female students. The state NSCDC Commandant, Paul Igwebuike, while briefing the press, said the suspects were apprehended around 12.20am on Thursday. Parading the men before journalists in Umuahia on Friday,...
New Defence Chief Vows Full Force Against Bandits, Terrorists
The new Chief of Defence Staff, Maj.-Gen. Christopher Musa, on Friday threatened that troops of the Nigerian Military would go all out against the marauding bandits, terrorists and other adversaries disturbing the peace of the country. Maj.-Gen. Musa, who disclosed this at Defence Headquarters, Abuja, when he officially took over from Gen. Lucky Irabor (rtd) said the determination of the...
Appeal Court Upholds Conviction Of Senator Akpan, Orders His Arrest Over N240m Fraud
The Calabar Division of the Court of Appeal, on Friday, upheld the conviction of Senator Bassey Albert Akpan on money laundering charges by a Federal High Court, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, and ordered his arrest. On December 1, 2022, Justice Agatha Okeke found Akpan, then governorship candidate of the Young Progressive Party, YPP, guilty of seven counts of money laundering...
