A couple were killed in South-West Niger this week after armed individuals fired into the air inside a church, locals told AFP on Friday. The incident occurred in the Dosso region of Niger, a Sahel country that has been plagued for a decade by a conflict pitting the military against fighters said to be linked…
The Ogun State Police Command has arrested eight suspects over an alleged breach of public peace, unlawful assembly, obstruction of traffic and assault on police officers following a disturbance linked to the Democratic Republic of the Yoruba group in parts of Sango-Ota. The incident reportedly occurred on Thursday, with the arrests confirmed by the Police…
Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have shot a Catholic priest from St Kelvin’s Parish, Ogbaku, in Mbaitoli Local Government Area of Imo State on Christmas Day. An inside source told our correspondent that the priest, who is the assistant parish priest of the church, was about to enter the gate at about 8 a.m. when…
No fewer than five worshippers were killed, while 35 others sustained injuries on Wednesday following an improvised explosive device (IED) attack by a suicide bomber at a mosque in Gamborun area of Maiduguri, Borno State. The incident occurred at about 6:15 p.m. during Magrib prayers when the attacker detonated the IED inside the mosque, which…
Ghanaian security agencies have arrested 48 suspected cyber criminals in a coordinated, intelligence-led operation in the Greater Accra Region. The arrests were carried out by the Cyber Security Authority (CSA) in collaboration with the National Security and the Ghana Police Service during a nighttime operation at the Dawhenya part of Ghana. CSA said the operation…
Private detectives from the Central Crime Branch in India have arrested a 29-year-old Nigerian national for trafficking cocaine, concealing 121 grams of the drug inside bread loaves to evade detection. As reported by The Times of India on Tuesday, police seized 121 grams of cocaine, valued at roughly ₹1.2 crore, from the accused, highlighting a…
The Akwa Ibom State Police Command has arrested three masquerades for allegedly displaying on the streets without authorisation and maiming innocent people The State Commissioner of Police, CP Baba Azar,e disclosed this while briefing newsmen in Uyo on Monday. Azare disclosed that the masquerades were arrested in the Eket Local Government Area of the state…
A 28-year-old man, Joseph Fekala, has been sentenced to death by hanging over the murder of 25-year-old Kate Oguoh. Fekala was arrested in July 2022 after he strangled Kate to death over a dispute regarding ₦50,000 that the deceased had given to him, and buried her corpse in his room at Okaka, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State…
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has dismantled another major cocaine trafficking network in Lagos with the arrest of a female drug kingpin who hid 23.50 kilograms of cocaine inside her children’s room, barely twenty months after a related cartel was crushed in the South-West. In a statement on Sunday by the Agency’s Director…
Three police officers were shot and wounded in Rochester, New York, by a man who was allegedly trying to break into his ex-girlfriend’s home, Daily News quoted authorities on Sunday. The report said officers assigned to the Rochester Police Department’s Genesee section responded to the residence on Friday around 10:15 p.m., after emergency services received…