CRIME
Terrorists Kill Policemen, Workers, Abduct 4 Chinese On Niger Mining Site
No fewer than 17 lives were reportedly lost and several others severely injured when terrorists attacked a mining site managed by the Chinese Nationals at Ajata-Aboki in Gurmana Ward of Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State. The attack was rep...
Ike Ekweremadu In Court, UK To Decide Whether To Try Them In Nigeria
Senator Ike Ekweremadu, a former Deputy Senate President of Nigeria, on Monday appeared before the Uxbridge Magistrate court in the UK over allegations of organ harvesting. As claimed by the Prosecutor, David Ukpo who alleged that he was coerced to d...
DCP Abba Kyari, Ex-Gov Dariye, Nyame ‘Missing’ After Attack On Kuje Facility
Some high profile inmates at the Kuje Correctional Centre, Abuja may have escaped Tuesday night’s attacks on the facility by some gunmen. The attacks, which lasted some hours, were said to have been resisted by military personnel and prison guards ...
Kuje Jailbreak Update: 3 Inmates, Officer Killed, 443 Prisoners Still Missing
The Nigeria Correctional Service (NCoS) has given an update on the attack at Kuje Medium Security facility in Abuja on Tuesday night. ABN TV had reported how gunmen invaded the prison, releasing inmates, including high-profile suspects. In a statemen...
Ike Ekweremadu, Wife Remanded In Prison Till August
The trial of Ike Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice, has been adjourned till August 4, 2022. The couple were arraigned at Westminster Magistrate’s Court over alleged organ harvesting on Thursday. Gavin Irwin was the counsel who represented Ekweremad...
Court Jails Fake Army General 7 Years For N266.5m Fraud In Lagos (Photo)
Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, Thursday, July 8, 2022 convicted and sentenced one Bolarinwa Abiodun, a fake Army General to seven years in prison on a 13-count charge bordering on obtaining money by fa...
Notorious Kidnap Kingpin, Hamisu Wadume Among Escapees After Kuje Prison Attack
Security sources in Abuja have disclosed that Taraba State Kidnapping Kingpin and Gunrunner, Hamisu Wadume who was arrested and detained in connection with the killing of 3 Police IRT operatives in a Special Operation led by DCP Abba Kyari, is among ...
Police Arraign 60-Year-Old Guard In Court For Stealing Church’s Piano And TV In Lagos
Police have arraigned a 60-year-old guard, Emmanuel Onakoya for stealing a piano and a plasma television from the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Peculiar Parish, Ayobo, Lagos, where he works. The suspect who was brought before an Ikeja magi...
Sea Pirates Attack Oron, Mbo, Demand Ransom For 9 Seized Outboard Engines
AKWA IBOM: There is palpable fear in Oron and Mbo Local Government Areas as well as some adjoining areas of Akwa Ibom State as activities of sea pirates skyrocket. Their activities including killings, kidnapping, rape, theft of goods, seizure of boat...
Boat Carrying 16 People Sinks In Lagos, All Passengers Feared Dead
A 19-passenger boat conveying 16 people late on Friday capsized along the Ojo waterways area of Lagos State, leaving all passengers feared dead at the time of filing this report. This is even as sources within the National Inland Waterways Authority ...
