The Anambra Police Command says it has arrested a suspect, Friday Akonobi, in connection with the alleged abduction and murder of a six-year-old girl from Ikwo Local Government Area of Ebonyi State. The command’s spokesperson, Tochukwu Ikenga, disclosed this in a statement issued in Awka and made available to reporters on Sunday. Mr Ikenga, a…
There was tension in some motor parks within Osogbo metropolis on Sunday, following the reported killing of a former unit chairman of National Union of Road Transport Workers, Kazeem Oyewole in Osogbo by some yet to be identified hoodlums. After the killing which reportedly occurred in the afternoon, some people believed to be friends of…
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has arrested a long-wanted drug kingpin, Lekan Jimoh, alias Kanmo-Kanmo, 12 years after he allegedly masterminded the killing of three of its officers during a botched arrest operation. Jimoh was picked up on Friday, January 16, 2026, in Owode, Ogun State, following intelligence-led operations by NDLEA tactical teams….
The Kano State Police Command has arrested three principal suspects over the gruesome murder of a housewife and her six children in Dorayi Chiranchi Quarters, Kano, on Saturday, linking the suspects to an earlier killing of two women in Tudun Yola area of the commercial city. In a statement issued on Sunday by the Police…
A commercial vehicle driver, Kazeem Ayegbo, has been arrested following the discovery of suspected human parts in his vehicle during routine stop-and-search along the Lagos–Ibadan Expressway near Guru Maharaji Village. Oyo State Police Command spokesman, DSP Olayinka Ayanlade disclosed this in a Saturday statement. Ayanlade said operatives of the Federal Highway Patrol intercepted the commercial…
Gunmen have reportedly killed a police officer and kidnapped a Chinese expatriate principal at Aqua Triton Company in the Ogunmakin Area of Ibadan, Oyo State. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Olayinka Ayanlade, disclosed this in a statement, on Saturday, in Ibadan. Ayanlade said the gunmen stormed the facility in a commando-style operation and killed…
Tragedy struck Dorayi Chiranchi Quarters in Kano on Friday after seven members of a family were killed in what police believe was a housebreak attack. The victims were identified as 35-year-old Fatima Abubakar and her six children. They were reportedly attacked by unknown assailants who broke into their residence at about 12:10 p.m. and used…
The protracted case of the gruesome murder of Master Aniekan Idongesit Edet, a nine-year-old pupil of Lutheran Primary School (LPS), Itoko, Ibesikpo Asutan local government area of Akwa Ibom State, was at the weekend concluded by Justice Archibong Archibong of the State High Court, sitting in Uyo, the State capital. The long-running legal tussle since…
A woman in Delta State has allegedly hacked her husband to death with a machete and injured two women with a hammer. The police spokesperson in Delta, Bright Edafe, posted a video clip on X on Friday, showing him interrogating the 36-year-old suspect at a police facility. He did not specify the exact location or…
Two police operatives were killed on Thursday in Enugu State when gunmen attacked a police team in the South-eastern state. The incident occurred at about 9 p.m. along Agbani Road in Enugu South Local Government Area of the state. The attack happened just opposite a police college and a few miles to the Force Criminal…
