Crimes

By Deborah Nnamdi Operatives of the Rivers State Police Command have apprehended a 44-year-old cab driver, Andrew Nwanna, over alleged involvement in robbing female passengers. The Command’s spokesperson, Grace Iringe-Koko, in a statement in Port Harcourt on Tuesday, said that Nwanna used a vehicle with a customized number plate to…

By Deborah Nnamdi Gunmen have abducted the leader of a tribal group in Benue State, known as Kunav United Development Association, Descon Tor Yaji. Yaji, the President General of the tribal association, was reportedly abducted around 8 pm on Monday at his country home in Tsar Mbaduku in Vandeikya Local…

By Deborah Nnamdi Operatives of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Police Command have discovered an alarming array of weapons from one Obinna Nwigwe, a 33-year-old man at the Najob Guest House in Bwari in Bwari Area Council. The Police said the discovery followed a reported gunfire incident in the area…

By Deborah Nnamdi A Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting in Kaduna on Tuesday ordered a 23-year-old man, Rabiu Gambo, to sweep the court premises for 40 days for stealing a wallet. The prosecution, Insp Chidi Leo, told the court that on Dec. 27, one Yusuf Mai-shago of Ungwan Sarki, Kaduna, reported…

By Deborah Nnamdi At least seven terrorists belonging to the Islamic State West Africa Province, ISWAP, have been killed in an explosion. The development reportedly occurred while the terrorists were attempting to prepare improvised explosive devices, IEDs. Zagazola Makama, a Lake Chad Basin counterterrorism and insurgency expert, disclosed this in…

By Deborah Nnamdi A Magistrate Court sitting in Ijebu Imusin Magisterial District of Ogun State has sentenced one Abiodun Ajao to 6 years imprisonment for stealing a customer’s car. He was sentenced on a three-count charge bordering on stealing, conversion, and malicious damage, which contravenes Sections 390, 434, and 451…

By Deborah Nnamdi Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have abducted two pastors of the Church of the Brethren in Nigeria, better known as Ekklesiyar Yan’uwa A Nigeria, EYN. The EYN is a church denomination with headquarters in Kwarhi, Adamawa State, and church branches mostly in Adamawa State and the rest…

By Deborah Nnamdi The Nigerian Army has arrested a 25-year-old woman, Shamsiyya Ahadu, who is accused of supplying arms and ammunition to notorious terrorist leader Bello Turji. Lieutenant Colonel Abubakar Abdullahi, the Coordinator of the Joint Media Coordination Centre, confirmed the arrests in a statement on Sunday, December 29. He…

By Deborah Nnamdi Operatives of the Adamawa State Police Command have arrested three suspected armed robbers, believed to be some of the young men around the state known as Shila Boys, who are notorious for armed robbery. A statement by the Command’s spokesperson SP Suleiman Nguroje, on Sunday, the boys…

By Deborah Nnamdi Four drug kingpins involved in the historic seizure of 2,139.55 kilograms of cocaine at an Ikorodu residential estate in 2022 have been sentenced by a Federal High Court in Lagos State. The convicts, Soji Jubril Oke, 71; Wasiu Akinade, 55; Emmanuel Arinze Chukwu, 67; and Kelvin Christopher…