CRIME
Woman, Son Beat Inlaw To Death Over Meat In Benue
A Makurdi Chief Magistrates’ Court, Benue State, on Tuesday ordered that a 40-year-old housewife, Charity Upev, and her son, Tertsea, be remanded in a custodial centre for alleged culpable homicide. The News Agency of Nigeria reported that the police charged Charity and her son with criminal conspiracy and culpable homicide. Magistrate Roseline Iyorshe did not take their plea. Iyorshe adjourned the matter...
Lawyer Remanded In Correctional Facility For Alleged N10m Scam In Uyo
The Uyo Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, January 31, 2023 arraigned one Barrister Utibe Hanson Inem before Justice Bassey Nkanang of the State High Court, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State on a two-count charge bordering on issuance of dud cheque and stealing by fraudulent conversion to the tune of N10, 000.00 (Ten Million...
How ISWAP Fighters Doled Out Old Naira Notes To Highway Passengers In Borno
Suspected members of the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) have distributed huge amounts of old notes to scores of commuters in the Lake Chad Basin ahead of the deadline of the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) cashless policy, sources have said. Our correspondent gathered that the incident occurred after Mairari village, along the Maiduguri/Monguno highway on Saturday in...
Nigeria’s Unrest Caused By Foreign Forces – Muhammadu Buhari
Nigeria's insecurity issue, according to President Muhammadu Buhari, results from powerful nations determined to destroy Nigeria. After touring the state to commission projects under Governor Ganduje's administration, Buhari made the claim on Monday at a presidential lunch in Kano. "One can clearly see how these foreign countries took on our weaker part of Nigeria, the Lake Chad, where we have crude...
How Troops Launched Special Operations In Sambisa Forest, Killed Boko Haram Commander, 31 Others
Troops of Operation Hadin Kai (OPHK), in collaboration with Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF), have neutralised a Boko Haram commander and 31 other terrorists in Konduga Council of Borno State. The commander, Abu Iliya, was killed on Saturday when troops raided the terrorists’ hideout in the Kayamari-Habasha-Yuwe axis of Sambisa Forest. A counter-insurgency expert in the Lake Chad region, Zagazola Makama,...
Gunmen Kill 2 Soldiers, Three Policemen In Enugu-Ebonyi Border
Rampaging gunmen struck again on Saturday night killing two soldiers and three policemen at the Enugu-Ebonyi border. ABN TV gathered that the gunmen, who operated in a Toyota Sienna, first killed the two soldiers at a checkpoint in Enugu before proceeding to the Enugu-Ebonyi border. Three policemen were reportedly shot dead at the border checkpoint. Another wounded policeman is said to be...
NDLEA Nabs 5 Drug Kingpins, Seizes Skunk, Meth Hidden In Compressors
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), have successfully dismantled a trans-border drug cartel and arrested five leaders of the syndicates operating in parts of the world in a special operation that lasted weeks during which different quantities of skunk, methamphetamine and ephedrine as well as air compressors used to conceal and distribute them globally were recovered. The...
How Jigawa DPO Slumped, Died In Office
The Divisional Police Officer of Jahun Local Government Area, Jigawa State, SP Abubakar Musa has slumped and died in his office. Spokesman of the State police command, DSP. Lawan Shiisu Adamu confirmed the death in a statement issued on Saturday. He said the incident happened on Friday night around 9:00 pm in the DPO’s Jahun Division office after a protracted illness. According...
Gunmen Attack Reps Spokesperson, Ben Kalu’s Constituency Office In Uzuakoli (Photos)
Undisclosed number of gunmen on Friday night attacked the constituency office of the member representing Bende federal constituency of Abia State, Rep. Benjamin Kalu, destroying office furniture, billboards and other valuables. An eye witness who spoke on the condition of anonymity told ABN TV that the incident happened in Uzuakoli when majority of the locals had already closed their...
Kidnapper To Die For Using Victim’s Intestines To Cook Peppered Soup, Other Crimes
Bestman Lekia, also known as Biggie, a kidnapper, has been sentenced to death by hanging for murdering four people and using their intestines to prepare a peppered soup meal in Okwalie, Khana Local Government Area, Rivers State. The Rivers State High Court found Lekia guilty of murder, armed robbery, burglary, kidnapping, and cultism in Port Harcourt. Bestman Lekia was found guilty...
