CRIME
Ex-NNPC GM, Dasuki Spent N2.2bn On Prayers Against Boko Haram – EFCC
Adariko Michael, an Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) investigating officer, says the sum of N2.2 billion was spent by Sambo Dasuki, former national security adviser (NSA), and Aminu Baba-Kusa, a former general manager of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), on prayers to defeat Boko Haram. Dasuki, Baba-Kusa, Acacia Holdings Limited and Reliance Referral Hospital Limited are alleged to...
Nurse Arrested For Killing 8 Babies
A healthcare professional has been re-arrested on suspicion of murdering eight babies and trying to kill another nine at a neonatal unit. The woman, arrested on Tuesday, is understood to be nurse Lucy Letby, who was previously arrested in 2018 and 2019 over the tragedies at the Countess of Chester Hospital. Detective Chief Inspector Paul Hughes, of Cheshire Police, said: 'In...
Benue Pastor Kidnaped, Murdered For Allegedly Stealing Manhood By Angry Mob
Pastor Uhembe Jacob, a man, who was wrongly accused of stealing people’s manhood in Daudu area of Benue State has been murdered. Uhembe was murdered after a mob burnt down his houses, church and all his other properties in the state, Idoma Voice reports. They also kidnapped him and took him to an unknown destination. However, Olikita Ekani a media aide to...
Traders Burn 10-Year-Old Boy In Ebonyi For Stealing Cups Of Rice
A 10-year-old boy, Ifeanyi, was on Saturday thrown into a fire for allegedly stealing a small measure of uncooked rice in a market at Inikiri Benard village, Effium community, in the Ohaukwu Local Government Area of Ebonyi State. PUNCH Metro gathered that the lad’s mother was late, while his father was mentally-challenged. A community source said, “The boy was thrown into...
Abia Caretaker Stabs Mechanic To Death Over Electricity Bill
A 42-year-old caretaker, Matthew Ahiwe is currently cooling off in the police net in Umuahia, Abia State capital after allegedly stabbing a mechanic, Chigozie Eluwa of Eziama Ubakala in Umuahia South LGA to death in the early hours of Saturday. A colleague of the deceased mechanic who gave his name as Chigozie Obinna told ABN TV that the late Eluwa...
Boko Haram Launches Fresh Attack In Gwoza Town
Fleeing residents of Gwoza Local Government Area of Borno state have revealed that armed Boko Haram sect has on Sunday night launched a deadly attack on the town with fear of severe casualties. Gwoza is one of the Council areas declared as Boko Haram caliphate until it was liberated. The incident according to sources started at about 10 pm with heavy...
#EndSARS: NANS Decries Arrest, Arraignment Of MOUAU Student, Begs Lagos Govt Intervention
The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) Abia state chapter has expressed sadness over the arrest and arraignment of a student of Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike Stanley Divine Iheanyichukwu. The student body in a statement signed by Rt. Comr. Okereke Johnson Ryder, the Deputy Chairman NANS Abia State Axis wondered why Iheanyichukwu with the Registration number: MOUAU/INTED/18/102582 was...
Cultists Invade MTN Office, Kill Customer
Hundreds of armed cult members on Monday invaded the commercial office of the telecom giant, MTN, along the DSP Alamieyeseigha Way in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, killing a customer who was alleged to be a rival cult member. The murdered customer, who was identified as Victor Abasii, was a native of Ogu town in the Yenagoa Local Government Area...
Police Beat, Arrested Me In A Pool Of Blood While Trying To Secure Bail For My Client – Lawyer Tells Judicial Panel
A lawyer, Ekpagu Chikadibia-Christian says he was mercilessly beaten and arrested by police officers while trying to secure bail for a client. He narrated his ordeal during the second sitting of the Judicial Panel of Inquiry set up by the Ebonyi state government to look into police brutality, human rights violations, and related extra-judicial killings in Abakalliki, the Ebonyi state...
Police Killed My Sister A Day Before Her NYSC Passing Out Parade, Lady Tells Panel
It was a tearful day as more petitioners in Abuja gave various testimonies at the Independent Investigation Panel set up to look into the allegations of brutality and highhandedness by personnel of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). While the session is ongoing in some states, that of the nation’s capital continued for the second day on Thursday at the...
