CRIME
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Gunmen Attack Imo Governor’s Appointee
Unidentified gunmen on Wednesday allegedly attacked Governor Hope Uzodinma’s General Manager for Owerri Capital Development Authority, OCDA, Francis Chukwu. It was gathered from an eyewitness that the attack took place around Ishinweke in the Ihitte Uboma local government area of the state at about 06:25 pm. At the time of filing this report, no reason was given for the attack but...
Police Nab Man Over Illegal Possession Of Firearm
Police operatives serving in Awkunanaw Division of Enugu metropolis, with assistance from Neighbourhood Watch Group, have arrested one Sunday Chukwu, 21, for alleged unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition. They recovered one locally-fabricated pistol with one live cartridge from the suspect during surveillance and patrol operation on Dec. 24 at about 9:30 p.m. This is contained in a statement issued...
After Killing Of Lawyer On Christmas Day In Lagos, Police Call For Calm
The Lagos State Police Command has urged Lagosians to remain calm, saying the Command will ensure justice prevails in the extrajudicial killing of a lawyer, Bolanle Raheem. The Command’s spokesman, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, in a statement, expressed condolences to the family of the victim who was shot dead by a trigger-happy police officer in the Ajah area of Lagos on...
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...
