CRIME
Hisbah Police Launches Manhunt On Same-sex Couple After Wedding, Arrests Guests In Kano
The Kano State Hisbah Board has arrested 19 youths at an event centre in the metropolis for allegedly attending a same-sex marriage programme. The suspects, who were in their early 20s, were at the event centre to witness the wedding of two suspected homosexuals, identified as Abba and Mujahid. Hisbah officials were said to have stormed the scene before the commencement...
Court Sends Fake LASTMA To Prison
The Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences (Mobile) Court, sitting at Bolade, Oshodi, Lagos, has sentenced one David Oluchkwu, to four-month jail term for impersonating as officer of Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA and extorting money from unsuspecting motorists, particularly commercial bus drivers in the state. Operatives of LASTMA had on Wednesday, December 14, 2022, nabbed Oluchkwu, 27 year-old...
Hard Times For Taraba Bandits As Female Hunters Join In Insecurity Fight
Female hunters have joined their male counterparts in fighting bandits in Taraba State. Findings revealed that many married and single women are now part of the hunters association, participating in fighting bandits across the state. A female hunter, Hauwa Lawal, told City & Crime that they joined the hunters association to help in the fight against activities of bandits in the...
Court Sentences Labour Party Presidential Campaign DG To Prison Over Fraud
The Federal High Court in Abuja has convicted the Director-General of the Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council, Doyin Okupe has been sentenced to two and half years for breaching the Money Laundering Act. ABN TV reported that Okupe was convicted of the offence on Monday by a Federal High Court in Abuja. In a judgment on Monday, Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu found Okupe...
Cross River Man Butchers Friend In Farm
A shocking incident occured in Olum community in Boki Local Government Area of Cross River State, when a young man reportedly hacked his friend to death with a machete. Reports from the area gave the name of the assailant as Emmanuel, while the victim is Akwande. According to Patrick Osang, the eyewitness, three of them went to farm and after they...
Hoodlums Set Imo Magistrate Court Ablaze
Suspected hoodlums on Sunday razed a section of the Owerri Magistrate’s Court in Imo State. This is coming barely 24 hours after the Orlu High Court was burnt by fleeing hoodlums. The Magistrate’s Court which is located at the heart of the state capital is housing the Owerri High Court. A source told our correspondent that the suspects came with explosives and...
Kaduna State Government Salutes Air Force For Rescuing Seven Chinese Nationals
The Kaduna State Government has commended the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) for a clinical operation which resulted in the rescue of seven Chinese who were kidnapped in June by terrorists in a neighbouring state. According to a report from the Nigerian Air Force, Special Forces under the 271 NAF detachments conducted the operation in Kampanin Doka and Gwaska areas of...
Politicians Responsible For Attacks On INEC Facilities — IGP
The Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, has accused politicians and other prominent personalities of being behind the recent attacks on the officers of the Independent National Electoral Commission in different parts of the country. The IG, who was represented by the Deputy Inspector-General, Department of Operations, Dandaura Mustapha, stated this on Friday when he appeared before the House of Representatives...
We’ve Arrested IPOB Commander, Bongo, Recovered Stolen Vehicle, Explosive — Police
Police in Ebonyi State, yesterday, disclosed it has arrested Sunday Ubah, aka Bongo, a commander of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB/Eastern Security Network, ESN, in Abakaliki. It added that during its operation, stolen vehicles, improvised explosive devices, IEDs, murdered police officers’ uniforms, long-range riot gunners and their cartridges, among other items, were recovered by the command. The police operation, which...
Man, 49 Tells Police Why He Bathes With Blood In Ogun
A 49 years old man, Ganiyu Shina of No 4, Oguji Street, Obantoko Abeokuta, was on Thursday, arrested by men of Ogun State Police command for bathing with blood at a community river in Kotopo area of Odeda local government. The suspect was arrested when members of the community sighted him at the River bank, where he parked his Nissan...
