CRIME
Abia NSCDC Parades 16 Suspects Over Oil Theft, Impounds Trucks (Photos, Video)
The Abia State Command of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC on Tuesday paraded about 16 persons over allegations bordering on oil theft, oil bunking, illegal dealing in petroleum products, and willful vandalism of the Nations Critical National Assets, and infrastructure. Parading the suspects before newsmen, the state Commandant of the Corps, Mr. Vincent Ogu (JP) maintained that the...
Buhari Meets Governor Ortom 3 Days After Attack
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday, met with the Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The meeting came three days after Ortom’s convoy was attacked while on his way to his farm. READ ALSO: Three Suspects Arrested Over Attack On Governor Ortom Buhari has since ordered that the attack which took place on Saturday be thoroughly investigated. Details later…
Three Suspects Arrested Over Attack On Governor Ortom
Three Jukun fishermen have been arrested by the police in connection with last Saturday’s attack on convoy of Benue Governor Samuel Ortom along Tyo Mu, Makurdi. Security Adviser to Ortom, Col. Paul Hemba, confirmed the arrest while conducting newsmen round the scene of the attack on Tuesday. https://youtu.be/xRhJm3gtpuw Hemba stated the police team found the fishermen close to the scene of the...
Killing Of Policemen In The State, Nationwide Worrisome – Abia Speaker Decries
The Speaker Abia State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Chinedum Orji has decried incessant attacks and killings of policemen in the state and across the country, saying it is worrisome. While further adding that it has become a recurrent decimal, the Speaker while reacting to a matter of urgent public importance on attacks on security agents brought before the Assembly...
Delta Okada Rider Who Rapes Female Passengers Nabbed
The Delta State Police Command has arrested a 35-year-old motorcyclist, who allegedly specialises in raping his female passengers. The acting Police Public Relations Officer in the state, DSP Bright Edafe, stated this on Monday in Asaba. He said, “On March 19, 2021, around 9.30pm, after a series of intelligence gathering by cultivation of informants by the men of the Oghara Division,...
Tension As Gunmen Kill 3 Police Officers In Abia Community (Graphic Photos)
Yet-to-be identified gunmen have reportedly killed three police officers attached to the Abia State Command of the Nigeria Police Force. The police officers killed in Abiriba in Ohafia LGA of the state were identified as Inspector Austin Ugwu, Inspector Longinus Ugochukwu, and PC Ama Ifeanyi. Our correspondent gathered that the police officers serving at the Abiriba police Division who...
Fire Razes Katsina Central Market
Some parts of the expansive Katsina Central Market were on Monday gutted by fire. ABN TV learnt the fire started around 7 am from the side of the shops that house grinding machines and foodstuff sellers. The cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained but some traders at the market told our correspondent that it might have been caused...
Police Recover Corpse Of One-Day-Old Baby, Arrest Robbery Suspects
Police operatives attached to Ikeja division of the Lagos State Police Command, at the weekend, recovered a lifeless body of a day-old baby that was lying beside Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, by Mobolaji Bank-Anthony, Ikeja. The operatives responded to a distress call from the security department of the LASUTH Ikeja. The police, having discovered the body of the baby,...
Ogun Herbalist, Bricklayer Nabbed For Killing Housewife, Son For Ritual
A 29 years old herbalist Baoku Gbuyi and a 27 years old Bricklayer Olamide Odulaja have been arrested by detectives of Ogun State Police command, for allegedly killing a housewife, Modupeola Folorunsho and her 4 years old son, Peter Folorunsho for money ritual. The arrest of the suspects, according to a statement by the command spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, followed a...
Youths Nab Popular Native Doctors With Panties, Bras And Pictures In Abia Forest (Photos)
Youths of Amaekpu Ohafia in Ohafia LGA area of Abia state have nabbed popular native doctors in the community allegedly performing fetish rituals with panties, Bras, pictures, slippers, and other wears in the thick of a forest in the area. A youth leader who gave his name as Honourable Kalu Mba Kalu a.k.a Mallam K in a chat with ABN...
