CRIME
Troops Nab Three Soldiers For Stealing 374 Ammunition Rounds In Borno
Troops of Operation Desert Sanity in Maiduguri, Borno State, have arrested three soldiers for allegedly stealing ammunition. They were arrested during a covert operation at the motor parks along Njimtilo Road in Maiduguri. A military source told our correspondent that two of the soldiers were heading to Markudi, while one was travelling to Abuja. One of the soldiers was said to have...
Bandits Attack Five Communities In Zamfara, Kill 35
Bandits have killed 35 persons after an assault on five communities of Faru district located in Maradun Local Government Area of Zamfara State. Gudan-Baushi, Gidan-Adamu,Gudan-Maidawa, Tsauni, and Wari communities woke up to the marauders’ invasion in the late hours of Thursday morning on motorcycles numbering over 100. The state Public Relations Officer, Mohammed Shehu confirmed the incident to Channels Television. He...
Gunmen Kill One, Kidnap Seven On Lagos-Ibadan Highway
Some gunmen dressed in military uniform allegedly kidnapped seven persons along the Fidiwo axis of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway on Monday just as one person was shot dead while escaping the attack. A source who does not want his name in print told PUNCH Online that the vehicle conveying the victims was accosted by the armed men who fired sporadically, abducted...
Identities, Names Of Masterminds Of Owo Church Massacre Released By CDS Irabor
Two of the masterminds of the deadly terrorist attack on St. Francis Catholic Church in Owo, Ondo State, South-West Nigeria have been arrested. The suspects described as top commanders of ISWAP in Nigeria, are 32-year old Idris Ojo and 39-year old Ji...
FCT Police Command Speaks On Maitama Explosion
The police authorities on Wednesday said the explosion in the Maitama area of Abuja, the nation’s capital, was caused by an overheated metal refuse bin. Reports had emerged of a bomb explosion in the area creating panic and confusion among residents of the nation’s capital. In a statement, the FCT Police spokesperson, Josephine Adeh, said the situation and preliminary findings indicate...
Police Parade Suspected Killers Of Imo DPO, Dislodge “Terrorists”
The police authorities in Imo State have arrested the suspected killers of a Divisional Police Officer and an Inspector at Ahiazu Mbaise Local Government Area of the state. Parading the suspects at the Command Headquarters in Owerri the Imo State capital on Sunday, the Commissioner of Police, Danjuma Aboki, said the relentless efforts of the police and other security operatives...
EFCC Arrests 792 Alleged Crypto Fraudsters In Lagos [PHOTOS]
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792 suspects were arrested in Lagos as part of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission's largest one-day crackdown on cryptocurrency and romance scam syndicates. Cable reports that 158 foreigners and 634 others were arrested in a single raid on a Lagos building. “This is the biggest arrest of its kind in a single operation,” Wilson Uwujaren, EFCC spokesperson, declared at a...
I Will Resign If Yahaya Bello Is Not Prosecuted – EFCC Chairman Vows
Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ola Olukoyede, has vowed to resign if embattled former Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello is not prosecuted. In an interactive session with selected editors on Tuesday at the EFCC headquarters located in Jabi, Abuja, the anti-graft agency chairman vowed that all those who obstructed the arrest of the former governor would...
Gunmen Kidnap 2 Chinese Expatriates In Ebonyi
Police Command in Ebonyi has confirmed the abduction of two Chinese expatriates working in a mining site in Ihietutu, Ishiagu in Ivo local government area of Ebonyi by unknown gunmen. The abducted Chinese expatriates are employees at Greenfield Metals Nigeria Limited which specialises in lead and zinc mining. Mrs Loveth Odah, the Police Public Relations Officer, (PPRO) confirmed the abduction in...
EFCC Grills 13 Suspected Oil Thieves in Port Harcourt
Operatives of the Port Harcourt’s Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have commenced investigation of 13(thirteen) suspected oil thieves handed over to it by the Nigerian Navy. The suspects were handed over to the E...
