CRIME
Trigger-Happy Policeman Shoots 19-Year-Old Barber Dead In Abuja
The police command in the Federal Capital Territory Abuja has arrested a policeman for allegedly killing a 19-year-old barber, Jonah Samson, in Dutse-Apo area on Saturday. According to reports, the trigger-happy police officer allegedly stormed the community with threats of killing one or two people and fired a gunshot into the air. When residents of the area appealed to him...
Woman Slaughters Her Two Children In Cold Blood After Husband Married 2nd Wife (Photos)
The police in Kano at the weekend launched a massive manhunt on one Hauwa, a middle-aged housewife suspected to have slaughtered two of her biological children at Diso quarters, Gwale Local government area of Kano metropolis. The incident which occurred on Saturday afternoon was a climax of a broken relationship between Hauwa and her heartthrob, Ibrahim Haruna Aminu who took...
Hit-And-Run Driver Crushes Policeman To Death In Ekiti
The Police Command in Ekiti State has launched an investigation into the death of a policeman attached to Aramoko Division after he was crushed by a vehicle on his way to work. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Mr Sunday Abutu, said this while speaking with newsmen in Ado-Ekiti on Sunday. Abutu said the investigation was “to ascertain the actual cause...
IGP Adamu Bans FSARS From Patrols, Stop And Search Duties
The inspector-general of police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, has banned operatives of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (FSARS), the Special Tactical Squad (STS), and Intelligence Response Team (IRT) from undertaking routine patrols as well as stop and search duties. Such duties, which include stop -and- search duties, checkpoints, mounting of roadblocks and traffic checks, among others are to stop with immediate...
Heavy Shooting In Akure As PDP, APC Supporters Clash
Residents of Oba Nla, Oba Adesida road, Arakale, and Oja Oba areas of Akure, the Ondo State capital were thrown into confusion following a clash that ensued between the youths suspected to be supporters of the All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party. Residents and passers-by of the area had to run to safety while vehicular movement was halted...
Abia Govt Demolishes “Criminal Hideouts” In Aba (Photos)
Abia State Government in conjunction with security agencies in the state has demolished some hideouts reportedly being used by men of the underworld in the Waterside area of Aba with some arrests made. The Chief of Staff to the Governor, Dr ACB Agbazuere and the Ag Transition Council Chairman of Aba North LGA, Mrs Joy Iwuchukwu were joined by the...
Lecturer Commits Suicide Over Unpaid Salaries In Edo
A principal lecturer in the Department of Adult Education of the defunct College of Education now Tayo Akpata University, Ekiadolor, Benin, Friday Orobator, has committed suicide over a 13-month unpaid salary. The senior lecturer, who was in his 50s and whose wife had just been delivered of a baby, hanged himself at his Obakhazbaye, Benin residence. He committed the act on...
Man Rapes 13-Year-Old Girl To Death In Lagos
The police in Lagos State have arrested a man for allegedly raping a 13-year-old girl to death in the Ejigbo area of the state. The lifeless body of the teenage girl was reportedly found in one of the rooms at 4 Olanrewaju Street, Ejigbo, occupied by the suspect, identified as Ajom Brimcewim Tabi. The mother of the deceased girl had sent...
Sen. Kalu Fumes As His Jet’s Technical Faults Aborts Visit To Maduguri
The Senate Chief Whip, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu was on Saturday enraged in anger and disappointment over the refusal of the engine of his private jet to start. The former Governor of Abia state had stormed the private jet wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja where he was billed to jet out to Maiduguri, Borno state capital. The visit according to...
Journalist Sets Self Ablaze In Russia
The editor of a Russian independent news site died on Friday after setting herself on fire following a police raid in a probe targeting an opposition group, her website confirmed. The news site Koza. Press in the industrial city of Nizhny Novgorod reported that its editor-in-chief Irina Slavina had “set herself on fire in front of the police headquarters”. Investigators in...
