Category: Crime

The police in Kano State have arrested a 100-year-old suspected female ritualist and two others, for allegedly plucking out the right eye of a 12-year-old boy, Mustapha Yunusa. The other suspects are aged between 16 and 17. Kano State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Abdullahi Haruna, in a statement on Thursday, said the Almajiri boy […]

Gombe State Police Command has arrested three suspects said to be specialised in dismembering body parts of corpses at the cemetery in the state, over alleged possession of human heads. The paraded suspects aged between 22 and 27 are all from Dinawa village in the Kwami Local Government Area of Gombe. According to the Public […]

A pastor with The Apostolic Church, Umuahia, Salem Chigozirim, has been arraigned before a High Court sitting at Umuahia, Abia State, for allegedly strangling a 45-year-old housewife, Virginia Ndife, and a lady, Chioma Nwoke. He was arraigned on three counts bordering on murder and demanding a ransom. Chigozirim was said to have strangled Virginia on […]

Police in Borno have arrested a 44-year-old man for allegedly raping a 92-year-old woman. The State Commissioner of Police, Mr Abdu Umar, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Maiduguri on Thursday that the suspect allegedly committed the crime at Mufa “A’’ ward in the Askira Uba Local Government Area of the state. Umar said […]

A 21-year-old lady, Esther Isaac, has died in a hotel in the Federal Capital Territory. The victim reportedly lodged in Room 901 on February 25, 2022, at the Agete Hotel in the Gwarinpa area of the FCT. Her brother, Emmanuel, who spoke to our correspondent on Tuesday, accused the police of compromising the case. He […]

Enugu woman says she blows charms on innocent children’s faces to abduct them without being suspected A woman in Umuchigbo, Iji Nike community, Enugu East Local Government Area has revealed how she pretended to be mad in order to abduct innocent school children. The woman claimed she hails from Iyi village in Ozubulu in Anambra […]

Katsina State Police Command on Thursday paraded nine suspects, among whom were three members of a robbery gang terrorising Katsina State capital and its environs. The three paraded members of the robbery gang who were aged between 27 and 29 are all residents of Katsina. The command’s spokesman, Supritended Gambo Isah, said the trio was […]