CRIME
SAD!! Ifeanyi Uchendu Stabbed To Death For Separating Fight
The family of a 36-year-old footballer, Ifeanyi Uchendu, has been thrown into mourning after a bar owner, Dennis Obiora, allegedly stabbed him to death in the Alausa, Ikeja area of Lagos State. It was gathered that Ifeanyi and a friend, identified simply as Chinedu, were drinking at the Dorbazini Bar, Alausa, when the latter started smoking a substance suspected to...
NCAA Criticized After Plane Hit Antelope On Runway
The Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority has come under fire from aviation experts for the Saturday incident at Asaba Airport where a large antelope collided with an Air Peace plane on the runway. According to the NCAA, the Air Peace aircraft decimated the animal, while the jet was eventually grounded. The agency’s spokesperson, Michael Achimugu, stated that as a result of the...
EFCC Chairman Resumes, To Oversee 25 Abandoned Cases Against Ex-Govs, Others
Mr. Ola Olukoyede, the new Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC will inherit no fewer than 25 high-profile corruption cases involving former governors, ministers and senators, ABN TV learnt. Some of the cases, especially those against some ex-governors, have lasted several years. While some are still under investigation, some have spent years in court with no conclusive...
Father Who Violated 18-Year-Old Daughter For 12 Years In Lagos Bags 21 Years Imprisonment
An Ikeja Special Offences Court on Thursday sentenced a 52-year-old- man, Akin Isaac, to 21 years for raping his 18-year–old daughter for 12 years in Lagos State. Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo sentenced the convict to 21 years imprisonment following his plea of guilty to the one count preferred against him by the Lagos State Government. During the arraignment, the state’s prosecution counsel,...
Female Secondary School Student Caught With Local Gun In Cross River (Photos)
A secondary school student has been caught in possession of a local gun in school which she allegedly planned to use in shooting her teacher. It was gathered that the yet-to-be-named girl, a student of Government Secondary School, Ikot Ewa in Cross River State, was asked by a teacher to cut her coloured hair and she was angered by this. ...
BREAKING: EFCC Nabs Another FBI Suspect Wanted for $2.5m Internet Fraud
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ilorin Zonal Office has arrested a 38-year-old man, Festus Akinyemi Abiona who was indicted by the Federal Bureau of Investigations, FBI over his alleged involvement in internet fraud. Abiona had been on the wanted list of the Commission for more than eight months over the alleged fraud case, before luck ran out on...
Police Call For Calm As Suspected Bandits Send Threat Letter To Sokoto Communities
The Police have called for calm in some communities in Sokoto State following reports that a threat letter was sent to them from suspected bandits. Written in the Hausa language, the said attackers mentioned five communities – Shuni, Kwanar Kimba, Rikina, and Dange, all in Dange/Shuni Local Government Area, causing panic among the residents. But the state Commissioner of Police, Kola...
Nasarawa NNPP Chieftain Attacked In A Suspected Assassination Attempt
Former Nasarawa Commissioner for Environment and Natural Resources, Musa Ibrahim-Abubakar has survived a suspected assassination attempt. He recently defected from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) where he won the ticket for the Doma South House of Assembly seat. The Police Command has commenced an investigation of the incident, assuring that the perpetrators would be...
Lekki Toll Gate: You Ought To Secure Not Arrest Protesters, Atiku Tells Police
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has condemned the arrest of some protesters by the police in the Lekki area of Lagos State. In a statement on Saturday following the arrest of the youths at the Lekki tollgate, he decried that the police abandoned their responsibility of protecting the protesters. “The 1999 Nigerian Constitution, as amended (Section 40) guarantees the right of...
Nigerian Legion Officer Stabbed To Death By Police Officer
The Ogun State Police Command has arrested a mobile policeman, Ahmed Mohammed, for allegedly stabbing a personnel of the Nigerian Legion to death. The 28-year-old victim, Chinedu Edwin, was killed on Saturday in Ota, Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area of the state, during the monthly environmental sanitation in the town. ABN TV learnt that the arrested mobile policeman also inflicted knife cuts...
