CRIME
General Overseer, Theology Students Nabbed Over Drug Trafficking
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), have arrested the founder and General Overseer of Seraphic and Sabbath Assembly, Lagos, High Priest Nnodu Azuka Kenrick; a student of Emmanuel College of Theology, Samanta, Ibadan, Udezuka Udoka and their freight agent, Oyoyo Mary Obasi. They were apprehended over an attempt to export methamphetamine and skunk consignments concealed in kegs...
Borno Mother Of Nine Children Commits Suicide
A mother of nine children, Maimuna, has reportedly committed suicide in Sajeri, Gumari ward of Jere Local Government Area of Borno State. Eyewitnesses said the incident happened around 6:00pm on Saturday, Daily Trust reports. One of the witnesses, Baa Modu, said the deceased children rushed out to inform them that their mother hanged herself “When we entered, her first son managed to...
Okowa Mourns Three Security Aides Killed In Ambush, Says Attack Barbaric
Vice-presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and Governor of Delta State, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa, yesterday, described as unfortunate the killing of three of his security aides who were ambushed on Friday night by unknown gunmen along Ihiala-Orlu Road enroute Umuahia, Abia State. Briefing newsmen in Asaba, the state Commissioner for Information, Mr Charles Aniagwu, described the killing of...
Driver, Gang Members Confess To Killing Ogun Couple On New Year Day Over Failure To Increase His Salary
Lekan Adekanbi, the prime suspect in the gruesome killing of a couple, Mr Kehinde and Mrs Bukola Fatinoye, has confessed that he and his gang members slaughtered the family after forcing them to transfer N1,102,000. Adekanbi, the driver to the wife of the late Kehinde, said he organised his fellow cultists to rob the family because they refused to grant...
SAD!! 32-Year-Old Ifeanyi Stabbed To Death In Umuahia, Body Dumped In FMC With Fake Identity Set For Burial [SEE POSTER]
A 32-year-old Mr. Ifeanyi Omai Kalu Ubaka, popularly known as Kabaka who was stabbed to death on Jan. 22 is set for final burial on February 11, 2023. ABN TV gathered that late Ifeanyi Ubaka was stabbed to death after a disagreement with a yet-to-be-identified person on Sunday evening 22nd January 2023 at Eket Street by Umuwaya Umuahia, Abia State,...
EFCC Appeals Kogi Court’s Ruling, Seeks Stay Of Committal Order
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, February 7, 2023, filed a motion before the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal, asking for a stay of execution of the judgment of the Kogi State High Court in Suit No: HCL/696/2022 between Ali Bello and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, and Others, delivered on 12th of...
Two Fake Journalists Buy Bag Of Rice With Fake Bank Alert In Kano (Photo)
The Kano State Police Command has arrested two suspected fake journalists, Mujahid Kabir, and Abba Imam, for defrauding a trader with a fake bank alert. Spokesperson of the command, SP Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa, in a statement on Wednesday, February 8, 2023, said the suspects bought a bag of rice at N33,000 from a plaza at Sharada Quarters and generated a fake...
EFCC Nabs APC Senator In Hospital, Moves Him To Prison
An All Progressives Congress (APC) Senator, Peter Nwaoboshi, has been arrested by the operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The Court of Appeal had in a judgement delivered on July 1, 2022, sentenced Nwaoboshi to prison after it convicted him of a two-count of money laundering and also ordered the winding up of his two companies, Golden...
EFCC Arraigns Yahaya Bello’s Wife, Nephew Over “N3bn Fraud”
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday, Feb. 8, arraigned Rashida, wife of Yahaya Bello, governor of Kogi, before a federal high court in Abuja over alleged fraud. The anti-graft agency also arraigned Ali Bello, identified as a nephew to the Kogi governor. In a statement by Wilson Uwujaren, EFCC spokesperson, the agency said the duo were docked alongside...
Man Arrested In Gombe For Defiling 12 Almajiri Children
A 40-year-old man, Usman Mohammed, has been arrested by men of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Gombe State Command, for luring no fewer than 12 children whose ages range from five to 10 years old. Mohammed, who is a resident of Liji in Yalmatu Deba Local Government Area of the state, allegedly specialised in having carnal knowledge of...
