CRIME
Anger As Soldiers Lock-Up Customers In Shoprite Umuahia Over Alleged Missing Money [Photos, Video]
It was an atmosphere of anger and rage as soldiers on Tuesday locked customers inside a popular shopping outlet, Shoprite located in Umuahia, Abia State capital. A source who spoke to ABN TV on the condition of anonymity explained that trouble started when unidentified soldiers in mufti parked their RAV 4 vehicle at the parking lot of the outlet and...
Insecurity: Buhari Meets 109 Senators Tonight
President Muhammadu Buhari will on Tuesday night at 8pm host the 109 Senators of the 9th Senate to dinner in Villa. The scheduled meeting between members of the upper chamber and Buhari was conveyed in a letter received from the State House and read during plenary by President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan. The Senate on April 27, 2021, reached a...
NDLEA Intercepts Heroin Worth N6.5bn In Lagos, Places Drug Baron On Wanted [PHOTOS]
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, says it has intercepted a consignment of 26.150kilograms of heroin with a street value of over N6.5billion at the SAHCO shed of the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja, Lagos. The illicit drug the agency said had arrived in Lagos in 25 parcels from South Africa through an Airpeace Airline flight...
Bandits Free Abducted Emir Of Kajuru, Withhold Children Captivity
The kidnapped Emir of Kajuru in Kajuru Local Government area of Kaduna State, Alhaji Alhassan Adamu, has been released by his abductors, ABN TV reports. One of the kingmakers of the Emirate Council, Dahiru Abubakar, confirmed the development. The Emir was released on Monday afternoon, few hours after bandits demanded N200 million ransom for the monarch and 10 other family members...
Chidinma Denies Killing SuperTV CEO, Usifo Ataga [MUST WATCH]
Chidinma Ojukwu, the suspect arrested in connection with the death of Michael Ataga, CEO of Super TV, has denied killing him. Ataga was found dead days after checking into an apartment with the suspect in Lekki, Lagos. The suspect had fled the scene of the crime until she was arrested at her father’s house in Yaba, Lagos. When she was paraded by...
Court Threatens Arrest Warrant Against Stella Oduah, Others Over Alleged N10bn Fraud
A Federal High in Abuja has threatened to issue arrest warrants against former Aviation Minister, Stellah Oduah and eight others named in a charge pending should they fail to attend court on the next date. Justice Inyang Ekwo gave the warning on Monday when Oduah (now a serving Senator, representing Anambra North Senatorial District) and some other defendants were absent...
IGP Squad, Troops Comb Bushes For 85-year-old Kaduna Emir, Wives, 7 Others
Operatives of the Kaduna State Police Command have confirmed the abduction of the 85-year-old Emir of Kajuru, Alhaji Alhassan Adamu, by bandits in the early hours of Sunday. The bandits attacked the residence of the monarch in Kajuru, Kajuru Local Government Area of the state, and kidnapped him and 10 of his family members, according to the police. The state Police...
Police Nab Suspected Cultist Posing As NBM Of Africa Member In Lagos
Men of the Nigerian police have arrested one suspected cultist, Koffi Ayamafuga for masquerading as a member of African liberation movement, NBM of Africa in Lagos. Arrested at a bar in Abraham Adesanya Estate, Lekki-Ajah with the aid of the President of the Lekki chapter of NBM of Africa, Mr. Chukwuma Madike, the suspect was said to have dressed in...
Bandits kidnap Emir of Kajuru, 13 family members
A group of armed Bandits have kidnapped the Emir of Kajuru and 13 members of his family, ABN TV reports. Alhaji Alhassan Adamu Kajuru and 13 of his family members in his palace in Kaduna in the early hours of Sunday morning. The 85-year-old was abducted alongside Salama Kajuru, Abubakar Kajuru, and his grandchildren. An eyewitness disclosed: “We are afraid the Emir might not survive it...
Major Police Equipment No More Working, Detectives Struggle To Track, Arrest Bandits
Key tracking equipment deployed by the police to go after kidnappers, bandits and terrorists has remained inactive since the beginning of the year amid raging violent crimes across the country, ABN TV has learnt. Multiple reliable sources, who confided in PUNCH, attributed the downtime to non-subscription and failure to engage the relevant company to carry out system upgrade, among other challenges. At least 2,943...
