EFCC Apprehend 19-Year-Old Over £450,000 Fraud In Benin
A 19-year-old man, Iredia Endurance has been arrested by the operatives of Benin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for alleged fraud. A statement released by WIlson Uwujaren, spokesperson of the anti-graft agencym says Endurance was recently arrested by the Commission following a petition by one Chrstine Brown, a British […]
Kidnappers Demand N5m To Release Benue Commissioner
The family of the Benue State Commissioner for Housing and Urban Development, Ekpe Ogbu, is to pay five million naira in order to get him out of captivity. This is the demand put forward by his abductors. A source said that the family of the abducted commissioner has been contacted by his abductors. According to […]
Bandits Kill 3 Policemen, Others In Sokoto
Yar Bulutu weekly market in Sabon Birni Local Government Area of Sokoto State, was on Monday, December 5, invaded by bandits who killed six persons, including three policemen. The attack was carried out on the same day President Muhammadu Buhari came to the state to declare the Chief of Army Staff’s 2022 Conference open. […]
Police Nab Four Suspects For Motorcycle Theft, Illegal Possession Of Firearms In Benue
The Benue State Community Volunteer Guards, BSCVG, have arrested four suspects for motorcycle theft and possession of illegal firearms in Makurdi. The suspects, Danlamin Musa, 20, of Benue Crescent, and Trust Taiwo, 27, of Bida Street, Wadata Makurdi, were arrested in the early hours of Monday, December 5, 2022, for stealing a motorcycle. Also arrested were Torhile […]
Gunmen Cut Mexican Woman Open To Steal Unborn Baby
pregnant Mexican woman died after she was cut open by two assailants who stole her unborn baby, authorities said Monday. The alleged perpetrators were arrested with a newborn in their possession, the attorney general’s office in the eastern state of Veracruz said in a statement. The suspects, a man and a woman, appeared before a […]
Terrorists’ Wives, Commanders Killed In B/Haram, ISWAP Clashes
No fewer than 55 people including wives of the fighters of Boko Haram and their rival group, Islamic State of West African Province (ISWAP), have been killed in a week-long multiple clashes in Borno State, sources said. It was gathered that clashes started last week in one of the camps at Mutakinti general area in […]
Two Feared Dead As Police Clash With Gunmen In Ebonyi
The Police Abakaliki, Ebonyi capital killed a suspected gunman when the hoodlums attacked them on Monday on their duty post. SP Chris Anyanwu, Spokesman for the Police Command in Ebonyi, confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria ( NAN) in Abakaliki on Tuesday. He said the incident which occurred at about […]
Moscow Blames Ukraine For Blasts On Russian Airfields
The Russian defence ministry said Ukrainian drone attacks caused explosions at two airfields in the Saratov and Ryazan regions on Monday, leaving three dead. On Monday morning “the Kyiv regime attempted to strike the Dyagilevo airfield in the Ryazan region, and the Engels airfield in the Saratov region, with Soviet-made drones,” the ministry said in […]
Two Rescued As Police Burst Kidnappers Hideout In Nasarawa
The Nasarawa State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of a suspected kidnapper, Stephen Jonah of Tafa Local Government Area of Kaduna State, over an incident in Karu LGA of Nasarawa. A statement issued on Tuesday by the command’s spokesperson, DSP Ramhan Nansel, said the arrest followed a complaint lodged at Karshi Division that private […]
Five Arraigned By Police For Raping 11-Year-Old Girl In Rivers
The Rivers State Police Command on Monday arraigned five people before a Magistrate Court in Port Harcourt for allegedly raping an 11-year-old girl in the Buguma community in Asari Toru Local Government Area of the state. The suspects, Ebi Danagogo-Jack (23), Fubara George (22), Precious Omubo-Wokoma (20), Dennis Amaye-Lugard (53), and Alalibo Harry (32), are […]
