The police in Ekiti State on Wednesday recovered the newborn baby boy stolen from a health centre in Ado Ekiti, the state capital, on Monday morning. The state Commissioner of Police, Mr Joseph Eribo, said the recovery of the baby and arrest of the suspect, Deborah Ayeni, followed diligent investigation by men and officials of…
The Federal Operations Unit, Zone āBā of the Nigeria Customs Service, Kaduna, has intensified its clampdown on smuggling with the interception of 250 bags of foreign parboiled rice cunningly concealed in a fuel tanker. The Unit also handed over seized pharmaceutical products and hazardous chemicals to the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and…
A newly recruited soldier, Dauda Dedan, has allegedly stabbed a police constable, Aaron John, of Taraba State Command to death in Jalingo. Confirming the incident to journalists in Jalingo on Wednesday, the state police spokesperson, James Lashen, said that the incident occurred at 9:00 p.m. on Monday in Mayo-Goyi, a suburb of Jalingo town. Mr…
At least nine people, including a police officer, have been murdered in a series of attacks by suspected armed men on communities in Agatu Local Government Area of Benue State. The attacks began last Friday and continued until Tuesday, hitting several villages such as Okwutanobe, Okpokpolo, Olegagbani, and Ikpele. Residents say the attackers usually cross…
Akwa Ibom State Police Command has raided a criminal hideout suspected to be a shrine in Abak Local Government Area of the state and arrested five alleged to have been involved in armed robbery, cultism, and rape in the area. The operatives recovered items including two coffins filled with womenās sanitary pads, pictures of people,…
A businessman Ajah Johnson Uchenna and his wife Rosemary Uchenna have been sentenced to a total of 22 and a half years imprisonment by Justice Deinde Dipeolu of the Federal High Court 8 Lagos for dealing in illicit drugs. The couple was first arrested in June this year by operatives of the Department of State…
The police command in Lagos State has arraigned a 44-year-old suspected cult kingpin, Wasiu Akinwande, before an Ikeja Magistratesā Court over alleged serial killings and unlawful possession of firearms. Akinwande, popularly known as āOlori Eso,ā was arraigned on Tuesday on an 11-count charge bordering on murder, cultism, and illegal possession of firearms. Magistrate M.O. Tanimola…
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command has arrested four individuals ā including a man, his wife, girlfriend, and her younger sister ā over a bizarre staged kidnapping scheme aimed at extorting ā¦5 million from the girlsā father. According to a statement by the FCT Police Public Relations Officer, Josephine Adeh, the alleged kidnap was…
One person has been reported dead following alleged drilling during a cult initiation process at Auchi, Etsako West Local Government Area of Edo. A source told journalists that the victim died on Sunday following repeated drilling during the initiation exercise. The victim, simply identified as Prosper, was said to have approached a family member, identified…
A gruesome incident has rocked Jigawa State as a mob lynched an operative of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps while on assignment at the Shurawin market, Kiyawa Local Government Area. According to PUNCH, the incident which occurred on Monday at about 2 pm, has left the community in shock. Confirming the incident, the…