A 24-year-old woman, Furera Abubakar, has been arrested for allegedly killing her co-wife’s four-day-old baby with an insecticide. The incident was said to have occurred at Bantu Village in the Ningi Local Government Area of Bauchi State. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Ahmed Wakil, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday titled “24-year-old housewife … [Read more…]
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a fake couple, Ilonzeh Kingsley Onyebuchi and Ilonzeh Roseline Nonyelum, purportedly going for medical treatment in India for ingesting 184 wraps of cocaine weighing 3.322 kilogrammes, with 100 grammes of the drug also concealed in the woman’s private part. The two suspects were intercepted … [Read more…]
Chetanne Chinelo, Enugu Police Operatives of the Enugu State Police Command have arrested one (1) male suspect and a member of the criminal gang, alleged to have attacked and murdered one Duhu Nelson Sylvester Nnacheta. In a statement released by the command’s PPRO, DSP Daniel Ndukwe, the deceased also known as Ofunwa, Male, identified as … [Read more…]
A Lagos High Court sitting at the Tafawa Balewa Square has admitted in evidence, two handwritten statements made by Chidinma Ojukwu – the key suspect in the murder of the Chief Executive Officer of Super TV – Usifo Ataga. While ruling on a trial within trial to determine the voluntariness of the statements, Justice Yetunde … [Read more…]
The Lagos High Court Sitting at the Tafawa Balewa Square on Lagos Island has dismissed a “no case submission” filed by the suspended Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), Drambi Vandi, who allegedly killed a Lagos-based lawyer, Omobolanle Raheem, on December 25, 2022. Justice Ibironke Harrison ordered the defendant to open his defence as a ‘prima … [Read more…]
The police in Enugu State said they have begun a manhunt for gunmen who attacked and killed two police officers at a checkpoint in the state. The police spokesperson in the state, Daniel Ndukwe, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday night. Recall that the gunmen opened fire on the officers who were manning the … [Read more…]
The Commission said the operation followed intelligence on activities of unscrupulous currency speculators. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday said it nabbed members of a syndicate of currency racketeers hoarding and trading with redesigned naira notes. EFCC spokesman, Wilson Uwajaren, said that the arrest happened in separate operations in the Zone 4 … [Read more…]
Japanese prosecutors formally charged the suspect in the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with murder, sending him to stand trial, a court said Friday. Tetsuya Yamagami was arrested immediately after allegedly shooting Abe with a homemade gun as the former leader was making a campaign speech in July outside a train station in … [Read more…]
Four policemen were killed yesterday as the convoy of a former governor of Imo state, Mr. Ikedi Ohakim was attacked by gunmen. Ohakim escaped death by whiskers as the vehicle the four policemen were in was burnt by the assailants of the former governor. The gunmen were said to have targeted the former governor but … [Read more…]
Outrage and fury of monumental proportion have continued to trail the killing of a Lagos female lawyer, Bolanle Raheem, by a trigger-happy policeman in the Ajah axis of the state on Christmas Day. Raheem and her family members were said to be on their way home from a Christmas Day church service when the policeman … [Read more…]
Dr Doyin Okupe, a former Senior Special Assistant to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, was on Monday found guilty of receiving over N200m cash from a former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd). He was therefore sentenced to two years imprisonment by Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu of a Federal High Court in Abuja with an option of … [Read more…]
The gunmen, who were arrested at the Minna, Niger State Residence of Mohammed Sani Musa, the All Progressives Congress (APC) Senator Representing Niger East Senatorial District in the National Assembly, have told the police that they were sent to kidnap the lawmaker. The Niger State Police Command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Wasiu Abiodun, said this … [Read more…]