Crime

Rivers election: Gunmen abduct Accord state assembly candidate

Chukwudi Ogbonna, a candidate for the Accord Party in the Ogba-Egbema-Ndoni Constituency II of Rivers State, has reportedly been abducted. According to reports, Ogbonna was...

Court sentences Auditor General, Idris to jail for fraud involving N19.9 million

Alhaji Idris Yahaya, the Auditor General for Local Government in Yobe state, was found guilty of criminal misappropriation of funds totaling N19.9 million and...

72 hours after being kidnapped, police free Ogun journalist from captivity

Oduneye Oluwaseun, a journalist, was freed from captors by Ogun State Police Command agents 72 hours after being taken hostage by gunmen in the...

Five human parts dealers admit to digging up bodies from graves in Ogun

Five suspected dealers in human parts who specialize in exhuming bodies have been detained by the Ogun State Police Command. It was reported that Abimbola...

Bandits kill pastor’s son, abduct his wife, three others in Kaduna

A pastor's son was killed by bandits on Friday morning in Karimbu-Kahugu community in Lere Local Government Area of Kaduna State, and four other...

Woman sentenced to 24 years in prison in Abuja for property fraud involving $298,000, N48 million

Mercy Yusuf, the owner of the property, and her company, T.M. Properties Limited, were found guilty and given sentences by Justice E. Okpe of...

Possible Switch to APC, Governor Adeleke? The PDP Addresses Rumors

Osun state - There was speculation that Governor Ademola Adeleke would leave the People's Democratic Party (PDP) and join the All Progressives Congress (APC),...

Troops in Kaduna neutralize one bandit, rescue 14 victims

A fierce battle between Nigerian Army soldiers and bandits in Kaduna State's Chikun Local Government Area resulted in the neutralization of one bandit and...

Court orders arrest and extradition of Marcus Wade and two other foreigners for alleged theft of $42 million from Nigerian bank.

ABUJA – On January 17, 2023, the Federal High Court that was sitting in Lagos before Justice Akintayo Aluko issued a warrant for the...

Police arrest man over death of two people on election day: Rivers

In connection with the deaths of two people in Ubimini Community over the weekend, police detectives assigned to the Egbeda Police Division in Rivers...

Georgina Onuoha blows hot: ‘INEC stole our mandate, Tinubu will never sit on the throne’

The All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for president, Bola Tinubu, won the recently-concluded elections, and Nollywood actress Georgina Onuoha responded. It was previously reported that...

Police finally arrest notorious kidnapper, after 3 years of declaring him wanted

A notorious kidnapping kingpin has been captured by the Anti Cultism and Kidnapping Squad of the Cross River Police Command, five years after he...

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