CRIME
Nigeria Ranked Third Most Terrorised Country In The World
A report by the Global Terrorism Index (GTI) says the number of deaths attributed to Boko Haram in Nigeria increased by 25 per cent from 2018 to 2019. The recent report said despite the rise in the number of casualties from Boko Haram attacks in the north-east, Nigeria is the second to record a fall in violent deaths after Afghanistan...
Gowon Denies Looting Half Of CBN Describes Allegations As “Rubbish”
Yakubu Gowon, a former military head of state, has described allegations that he looted half of the Central Bank of Nigeria as “rubbish”. Tom Tugendhat, a member of the United Kingdom parliament, had accused Gowon of looting Nigeria’s treasury when he left office. Speaking at the UK parliament committee debate on a petition on the #EndSARS crisis, Tugendhat had urged the...
Nigerian Musician Duncan Mighty Accused Of Assaulting A Tanker Driver In Port Harcourt
A water tank driver, Okabam John has accused the music producer and talented Nigerian musician, Duncan Mighty of assaulting him in Port Harcourt, Rivers state. It was gathered that the incident reportedly happened on Saturday, November 21, 2020, at about 9:40 am when the driver was on duty. Narrating his ordeal to some Civil Rights Activists on Tuesday, November 24, after...
Maina’s Son Made Contradictory Statements to EFCC, Court – Witness
The trial of Faisal Maina before Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court, Abuja continued on Wednesday, November 25, 2020, with the testimony of the third prosecution witness, Rouqayya Ibrahim, a Principal Detective Superintendent (PDS) with the EFCC. Faisal Maina, son of Abdulrasheed Maina, former chairman, Pension Reform Task Team, is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes...
Nnamdi Kanu’s Trial in Absentia Begins Thursday
The Federal High Court in Abuja has slated November 26 for the commencement of the trial of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu with five prosecution witnesses lined up to testify against him. The hearing notice issued on November 24 for the Thursday’s proceedings was on Tuesday sighted by a Punch correspondent. According to the media...
Bayelsa Police Arrest Officer Who Shot, Injured 3 Women In Yenagoa
Bayelsa State Police Command says it has identified and taken into custody officer who allegedly shot and injured three women at Tombia-Etegwe roundabout, Yenagoa on Tuesday. The Command in a statement signed by the PPRO, SP Asinim Butswat describes the attack on the innocent women as unprovoked. Narrating the incident, the police spokesperson said, "The authorities of the Bayelsa State Police...
#EndSARS: FG Petitions CNN Over Lekki Shootings Report
The Federal Government has berated US-based Cable News Network for its coverage of the #EndSARS protest in Lekki area of Lagos saying “CNN breached the most basic of the core principles of journalism – balance and fairness.” The government also demanded “an immediate and exhaustive investigation from CNN into its ‘investigative’ report on the Lekki Toll Gate incident to determine,...
Court Sends Senator Ndume To Prison Over Failure To Produce Maina
A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered that Senator Ali Ndume (APC, Borno South) be remanded in Kuje correctional centre following his failure to produce a former chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Team, Rasheed Maina, who is believed to have jumped bail. Justice Okon Abang ordered Ndume’s remand while ruling on an oral application made to the...
Ex-Bauchi Health Commissioner Hassan Dies In Car Crash
The Head of Department, Community Medicine, College of Medicine, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital, Bauchi, Dr. Zuwaira Hassan, has been killed in a fatal crash. ABN TV learnt that the crash occurred on Monday morning at Zaranda village, about 36 kilometers away from Bauchi metropolis. Dr. Hassan, a Commissioner of Health during the immediate past administration of Mohammed Abubakar, died...
Two Arrested For Allegedly Eating Roasted Police Officers’ Flesh
The police in Oyo State on Saturday said they had in their custody two suspects allegedly linked with the roasting and eating of the flesh of police officers burnt in Ibadan during #EndSARS protest. Police Spokesman at the Oyo State Command, SP Olugbenga Fadeyi, confirmed the arrests in Ibadan in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). The suspects,...
