CRIME
I Never Killed Iniubong Umoren, Suspect Uduak Akpan Makes U-turn After Pleading Guilty
The first accused person in the murder of Iniubong Umoren, one Uduak Akpan, a 20-year-old undergraduate on Thursday made a U-turn, pleading not guilty to the two-count charge of murder and rape preferred against him by Akwa Ibom State. Uduak Akpan is standing trial in court over the gruesome murder of Iniubong Umoren, a graduate of Philosophy, University of Uyo,...
EFCC Releases Obi Cubana After Three Nights In Their Custody
Three days after he was detained by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for alleged money laundering, popular socialite and businessman, Obinna Iyiegbu, aka Obi Cubana, has been released The Anambra-born club owner, who was arrested on Monday, breathed the air of freedom on Thursday evening. The EFCC spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, confirmed to our correspondent that Cubana had been released. During his...
Internet Fraudster Jailed 6 Months In Kaduna
The Kaduna Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, November 4, 2021 secured the conviction of Muhammed Kabir before Justice Darius Khobo of the Kaduna State High Court, Kaduna on a one count amended charge of cheating by impersonation. The defendant who was arrested in the Barnawa area for alleged internet related fraud activities, presented...
24-Year-Old Man Stabs Wife To Death With Pair Of Scissors In Ogun
A 24-year-old man, Majiyagbe Olamilekan, has been arrested by men of the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly stabbing his wife to death with a pair of scissors. The Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, in a statement on Wednesday said that the suspect was arrested following a distress call received by the police in Ode Remo divisional headquarters at...
Police React As Two Cart Pushers Die In Aba After A Bloody Fight
Abia state police command has reacted to the death of two cart pushers, whose identities cannot be verified after a bloody in Aba, commercial centre of the state. PPRO of the command, SP Geoffrey Ogbonna urged that people should desist from taking laws into their hands at any slightest provocation, calling that issues of grievances should be reported to the...
Gunmen Kill 2 Policemen In Rivers
Gunmen have killed two policemen on a stop-and-search duty at Diobu axis of Port Harcourt, Rivers State. A Commander of a local vigilante group in the area, Phalga Security Watch, Victor Ohaji, said the deceased policemen, who were attached to the Mile One Police Division, were gunned down on Okija Street. Ohaji said the hoodlums drove their vehicle to the checkpoint,...
Expose Sponsors Of Banditry Now, Northern Council Challenges FG
The Northern State Council of Ansar-ud-Deen Society of Nigeria, has asked the Federal Government to expose sponsors and those behind banditry in Nigeria. The Secretary, Ansar-ud-Deen Society, Northern States Council, Alhaji Isiaq Sanni made the call in Kaduna when the Society and Yoruba community paid tributes to their late Chairman and President, Alhaji Liadi Adeyinka Olapade. Speaking at the 8th-Day Fidau...
We’ve Not Proscribed Bandits As Terrorists Because We’re Following Procedures — FG
The Minister of Defense, Bashir Magashi, has explained that despite calls to designate bandits as terrorists, the Federal Government is yet to do so because it is still reviewing and following all the required procedures. Mr Magashi said this while responding to questions from journalists in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital on Friday when he led service chiefs to receive...
Media Promoting Banditry, Secessionism, DSS Alleges
The Department of State Services (DSS) has accused media organisations of promoting the activities of terrorists and secessionists in the country. This is even as Ekwulobia town in Orumba South local council area of Anambra State was thrown into serious tension yesterday, following the alleged killing of operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) by unknown gunmen. Spokesperson of DSS,...
Kwara Man Commits Suicide Over Inability To Meet Opposite Gender
The entire Ankara Wooro Compound, in Gwanara, Baruten local government area of Kwara State has been thrown into mourning since Thursday over the suicide of a 22- year- old Idris Shuaib who lived in the village. Saturday Vanguard reliably gathered that the body of Idris,an NCE graduate was found dangling on a cashew tree in his father’s farm after a...
