Category: Crime
IPOB reacts to police claim of killing ESN members
The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has said no member of the Eastern Security Network, ESN, was killed in Delta State. IPOB...
20 Ghanaian fishermen jailed for importing marijuana
The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has sentenced 20 Ghanaian fishermen to one-year imprisonment for trafficking marijuana,...
Police kill prison escapee convicted for murder of inspector, naval officer
An escapee serial killer, Osita Ogbuiri, aka Shina Rambo, from Mmahu in Ohaji/Egbema LGA of Imo State has been reportedly shot dead...
BREAKING: Gunmen abduct Another cleric
Some yet-to-be identified armed men have abducted the Leader-General of All Christian Practical Praying Band, Elder Dan...
N5bn suit: APC chair seeks out-of-court settlement
A Benin High Court presided over by Justice Vestee Eboreime, on Thursday adjourned the N5 billion libel suit instituted by the...
Court remands 2 over theft of phones, other items worth N305,000
A Modakeke Magistrates’ Court in Osun, on Thursday, remanded two men, Adura Okanlawon, 22 and Afolabi Timileyin, 21, in a...
BREAKING: Court sentences job seeker Umoren’s murderer to death
The Akwa Ibom State High Court has sentenced Uduak Akpan to death by hanging for the murder of Iniubong Umoren. ...
Cultist shoots self while loading gun in Ogun
A suspected cultist, Jinai Sunday, has shot himself in the arm while attempting to load and remove a live cartridge from a...
Police declare brothers wanted for murder, terrorism
The police in Delta have declared Francis Odiakose and Christopher Odiakose wanted for alleged terrorism, attempted murder and other...
Two persons in Amotekun’s net for killing okada rider, motorcycle theft
Two men have been apprehended in Ondo State by men of the Ondo State Security Network Agency, known as the Amotekun...
NSCDC parades exams officer for fraud, seven others for theft, rape
An examination officer alleged to have defrauded secondary school students of over N1 million in Taraba State has been nabbed by the...
Police arrest 4 officers over alleged land grabbing
Operatives of the Rivers State Police Command have arrested some suspected policemen who pretend to be working for senior officers to aide...
Suspected ritualists murder 65-year-old woman in Osun
The Osun State Police Command has confirmed that a 65-year-old woman was found dead on her farm at Fadahunsi area of Ilesa at...
Police arrest two suspects for allegedly killing neighbour’s child
A 22-year-old Usman Sabiu and Nafiu Umar, 18-year-old, both from Tafa Local Government Area of Niger State have been...
Okada ban: Doctors battling to save man shot by policeman in Lekki
Doctors are currently battling to save the life of an official of the Nigerian Legion, Kola Oshola, who was shot by policemen...
Man kills sister’s friend over N50,000, buries corpse in room
RESIDENTS of Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital where shocked to their marrow, when the news broke that a young man, Joseph...
I’m not ritualist, I choked her to death out of fear – Suspected killer
A 27-year-old male, Joseph Fekala, confessed to choking a lady during their argument that led to her death in his apartment in...
Hit-and-run truck driver kills motorcyclist
A vehicle driver on Monday hit and killed a motorcyclist along Ihiala-Owerri Expressway in Anambra State, The...
Five suspected armed robbers die after a gun duel with Police
Five suspected armed robbers have reportedly died after a serious gun duel with Police Officers from “B” Division in Warri,...
Insecurity: Monarch arrested over security breach
The Ohi of Eganyi, in Ajaokuta council area of Kogi State, HRH, Alhaji Musa Achuja has been arrested and detained following...
