CRIME
Court Fines Enugu Agency N55M Over Unlawful Demolition
The Enugu State High Court has mandated that the Enugu Capital Territory Development Authority compensate Chinedu Onyebuchi N55 million for the illegal demolition of his Enugu property. Delivering judgment on Wednesday in suit No. E/124/2015, Justice Kenneth Okpe ruled that the ECTDA’s actions were “unlawful, illegal, unconstitutional, and unwarranted.” PUNCH Online obtained a copy of the judgment on Friday. The plaintiff, represented...
Gunmen Kill PDP Leader, Kidnap All Three Daughters
Gunmen, suspected to be bandits, have killed a man identified as Ahmodu Mohammed, said to be a chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kampala ward, Bosso local government area of Niger state. Three daughters of the deceased were also reportedly kidnapped by the gunmen. Mohammed was said to have been killed on Thursday when the attackers, said to have...
Insecurity: 19 Northern Governors Meet With CDS, Traditional Rulers In Kaduna
The Governors of the 19 Northern States on Monday met with traditional rulers from the region in Kaduna State to discuss critical issues affecting the region. The meeting was part of the Northern States Governors’ Forum’s efforts to engage with key stakeholders and address pressing concerns, especially the lingering insecurity, poverty, out-of-school children and other socio-economic challenges ravaging the region. The...
How Gunmen Murdered Former Governor Gabriel Suswam’s Brother
Gunmen have reportedly killed Terkura Suswam, elder brother to former Governor of Benue State, Senator Gabriel Suswam. Terkura Suswam was allegedly killed in his country home in Anyii, Logo Local Government Area of the state around Tuesday night. Logo is one of the local government areas in Sankera axis ravaged by the murdered Benue warlord, Terwase Akwaza aka Gana. A local source...
Alleged N1.38bn Fraud: EFCC Arraigns Jude Okoye, Ex-P-Square Manager
The Lagos Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday, February 26, 2025, arraigned Jude Okoye Chigozie, older brother and ex-manager of Paul and Peter Okoye of the defunct P-Square music group, before Justice A.O. Owoeye of the Federal High Court, sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos. He was arraigned alongside his company, Northside Music Ltd, on a...
Ex-Councillor’s Wife, 7-Month-Old Son Kidnapped In Zamfara
Ex-councillor in Zamfara State, Mr Babangida Ibrahim’s wife and his seven-month-old son were in the early hours of Wednesday abducted from their home in Damba, Gusau, the state capital. Confirming the development, Zamfara State police command’s spokesman, Muhammad Shehu, said the ex-councillor was left with a gunshot wound and is currently receiving treatment at an undisclosed hospital. He said: “The command...
Recurring Boat Tragedies Plunge Sokoto Into Mourning
Sokoto State is once again mourning as a series of boat mishaps continues to claim lives across riverine communities, highlighting longstanding failures in water transport safety. In just one month, 36 people have died in separate incidents across Goronyo, Sabon Birni, and Shagari local government areas. The latest disaster occurred on Thursday, August 29, 2025, in Shagari LGA, where a...
Pregnant Woman, Female Undergraduate, 26 Others Nabbed For Drug Offences
A pregnant woman, a nursing mother and a 200-level university student were among 28 persons arrested with 9,437.6 kilograms of cannabis and 138,053 tablets of pharmaceutical opioids among others by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). Authorities say the arrest was made during interdiction operations across 12 states: Yobe, Ondo, Edo, Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Imo, Jigawa, Kogi,...
Decaying Body Of Kidnapped ex-Commissioner Recovered In Forest
Nineteen days after he was abducted from his farm, the decomposing body of former Edo State Commissioner for Youths and Sports, Mr Egbe Ediagbonya, has been recovered from a forest near his farm in Utese. Ediagbonya, who was also former Chairman of Ovia North East Local Government Area, was kidnapped in the early hours of May 16 in his Utese...
How Abuja 31-Year-Old Man Killed Lover, 48 He Met On Facebook Group
Operatives of the Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT) have arrested a 31-year-old man who allegedly killed his lover, 48-year-old Ijeoma Felix in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The suspect, who was paraded at the IRT Office in Abuja on Tuesday, confessed to having hit the victim with a pestle during an allegedly violent argument at her two-bedroom residence in the...
