CRIME
Six Youths Sentence To Death By Hanging In Adamawa
Six youths have been sentenced to die by hanging following a judgement by Justice Abdulazeez Waziri of a high court in Yola, the Adamawa State capital for armed robbery. The convicts, one of whom a final-year student of Modibbo Adama University, Yola, were found guilty of mounting illegal roadblocks and stealing from passengers at gunpoint. Justice Abdulazeez Waziri of the state...
FENRAD Decries Attacks On Security Agents In Abia, Tasks Police On Intelligence, Surveillance
A human and environmental rights group, Foundation for Environmental Rights Advocacy and Development, FENRAD, has decried the spate of insecurity in Abia state, particularly attacks on security agents and formations across the state, saying it's alarming. Expressing disappointment with a recent attack on Omoba-Umuene Police Station in Isialangwa South Local Government Area where a police inspector was allegedly killed and...
IGP To Arraign Ex-Imo Governor, Ohakim Over Threat To Circulate Nude Photos Of A Lady
The office of the inspector-general of police (IGP) will on February 15 arraign Ikedi Ohakim, former governor of Imo state, over alleged harassment of one Chinyere Amuchinwa. The former governor is to be arraigned alongside one Chinedu Okpareke before Taiwo Taiwo, federal high court judge, on a five-count charge bordering on cybercrime. Okpareke was earlier arrested and detained in connection with...
Ikpeazu Vows To Demolish Structures Used To Keep Kidnap Victims
Abia state governor, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu has vowed to deal a bloody nose on kidnappers and other sundry criminals causing the people of the state sleepless nights. Recall that the governor had consistently maintained that his administration is committed to ensuring the protection of Abians, using the instrumentality of the security forces in the state. In a tweet on Wednesday, the...
Amnesty For Bandits Way Out, Northern Group Insists
Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) has urged the Federal Government to support Sheikh Ahmed Gumi’s initiative by granting amnesty to bandits terrorising the region. Spokesperson of the coalition, AbdulAzeez Suleiman, in a statement yesterday, called on Fulani herdsmen living in the southern part of the country to relocate if their safety could not be guaranteed in their host communities. According to...
Abia Priest, Wife, Domestic Servant Die Mysteriously
The death of the priest-in-charge of the St. Paul’s Anglican Church, Archdeacon Julius Dike, has kept faithful in a pensive mood. Others who were found dead with the priest on Tuesday were his wife; Agnes, a staff member of the Aba South Local Government Area; and their house help, said to be a relation of the wife. St. Paul’s Anglican Church,...
Police Inspector Shots, Kills Self In Imo
A police inspector attached to the Owerri Area command police headquarters, simply identified as Umoh, has shot and killed himself. The incident occurred on Wednesday at the heart of the state capital, Owerri. A source at the Area Command headquarters told ABN TV the officer shot himself after locking himself up in one of the rooms in the quarters. The development, our...
Abia NSCDC Nabs 2 Suspected Vandals, Move Against Buyers (Photos, Video)
Officers of Abia State Command of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC have paraded two suspects for their alleged involvement with vandalisation of public properties in Umuahia, the state capital, and environs. ABN TV gathered that names of the suspects are Friday Nwosu, 42, and Sunday Boniface, 38. Parading the suspects in Umuahia on Wednesday, the state commandant of the...
Herders Bende Invasion: We Did Not Detain Any Traditional Ruler — Abia Police
Abia state police command has said it's not detaining any traditional from Bende local government area of the state regarding the alleged invasion of Uzuakoli community by Fulani herdsmen which reportedly led to the killing of 15 cows. Reports filtered in that some traditional rulers from the area were arrested over the development, a report which the police say is...
Insecurity: We Won’t Take It Again, Abia Assembly Blows Hot
Abia State House of Assembly has expressed anger over the spate of insecurity in the state, calling on heads of security agencies in the state to do more in tackling the issues. Recall that the Assembly had in a resolution last week invited heads of all the security agencies in the state to an interactive session on the security challenges...
