CRIME
#EdoDecides2020: Jubilant Obaseki’s Supporter Falls From Moving Vehicle [PHOTOS]
A yet-to-be-identified supporter of Governor Godwin Obaseki has fallen from a speeding vehicle, ABN TV reports. The young man was part of the youths, in a vehicle, jubilating over results announced in favour of the Peoples Democratic Party candidate Obaseki. The incident happened in front of Ugbekun Primary School in Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area around 4:05 pm. The youth fell from the...
Police Evacuate 5 Bodies From Abia Collapsed Building, Arrest Contractor [VIDEO]
No fewer than 5 dead bodies have been evacuated from the scene of a building collapse at No. 85 Azikiwe Road by Asa road, Aba Abia State, ABN TV reports. This is according to the State Commissioner of Police, CP Janet E. Agbede. She also said a male survivor who sustained minor injuries was rushed to the hospital, where he was...
Man Kills Mother, Two Children With Cutlass In Anambra (Photos)
A man identified as Mr. Emeka Ezimmadu who lives in Okpunoeze Uruagu Nnewi has killed his Mother and Two (2), kids. According to reports made available to Anaedonline.ng, Emeka Ezimmadu who is a Prophet of the Sabbath Church, yesterday night, mysteriously got a cutlass and started matcheting his mother and Four (4) children to death. It was gathered that following the...
Police Arrest Child Traffickers In Anambra, Rescue Eight Stolen Kids (Photos)
The police in Anambra state have arrested five members of a child stealing/trafficking syndicate operating in the state and rescued eight stolen children suspected to have been stolen from different states including a fifteen-year-old pregnant girl. In a statement, Haruna Mohammed, the spokesperson of the state police command, said on Sunday, September 13, police detectives attached to Onitsha Area Command...
No Train Was Attacked By Bandits In Kaduna ― Police
Kaduna State police command has debunked reports on social media claiming bandits had attacked a train along Kaduna-Abuja route. Tribune Online reports that on Monday the social media was inundated with the story of a train with passengers being attacked by bandits. However, reacting to the reports on Tuesday, the police command through the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), ASP Muhammad Jalige said...
We’re Ready To Die Instead Of Accepting Online Ticketing, Umuahia Keke Operators Vow (Photos, Video)
Keke NAPEP operators in Umuahia, the Abia State capital have kicked against the introduction of daily online ticketing by the state government. They said the policy is unfriendly, maintaining that they were not carried along. The operators who staged a peaceful protest in the capital city on Tuesday said the members have been subjected to many unfair treatments by the agents...
Bandits Kill DSS Officer After Receiving N5m Ransom In Katsina
Gunmen suspected to be bandits have killed a 33-year-old operative of the Department of State Services, Sadiq Abdullahi Bindawa, despite receiving N5m as ransom, SaharaReporters has gathered. The late Bindawa, who worked with the intelligence department of the service in Abuja, was kidnapped alongside his four-year-old son on Saturday at his residence behind Federal Secretariat in Katsina metropolis. According to a...
NDLEA Intercepts, Seizes Cannabis Worth N10 Million
National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Yobe Command, said it has seized 843 compressed block of cannabis Sativa worth over 10 million Naira. Mr Apeh Reuben, the State Commander disclosed this on Monday while addressing newsmen in Damaturu. He said the officers and men of the Command on Saturday, Sept. 12, 2020, around 2030hrs, seized the substance on a truck with...
EFCC Re-arraigns ‘Mama Boko Haram,’ Others For Fresh N97.4m Fraud
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Maiduguri zonal office, on Monday, September 14, 2020 re-arraigned Aisha Alkali Wakil, a.k.a “Mama Boko Haram” before Justice Aisha Kumaliya of the Borno State High Court, Maiduguri on three fresh separate offences of fraud to the tune of N97,400,000.00 (Ninety-Seven Million, Four Hundred Thousand Naira) only. Each of the offences contained two -count...
Four Men Arrested For Allegedly Beating Policeman To Death (Photo)
The police in Ogun state have arrested four men for allegedly beating a yet-to-be-identified police officer to death in Dalemo, Sango, in the Ado-Odo-Ota Local Government Area of the state on Sunday, September 13. In a statement released on Monday, September 14, the spokesperson of the state police command, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, said the four arrested men identified as Jelili Ismaila, 22; Amidu...
