Category: Crime

It was a pathetic situation for the household of Mrs. Victoria Enobabor, a widow, as their four-year-old girl, Victoria, has gone missing since Friday from their residence at NEPA bus-stop, Jakande Estate, Ejigbo, leaving the family in a state of confusion. According to Mrs. Enobabor who is the father’s relative, efforts by the family to […]

Residents and the Bayelsa State Chapter of the Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) have raised concerns on the whereabouts of Beauty Ogere, the abducted mother of a former Coach and skipper of the Super Eagles, Samson Siasia. Residents said it was a sign of incompetence on the part of the police and other security […]

A yet-to-be identified girl has been found dead in a hotel in the Amukpe area of Sapele town, Delta State. It was gathered that the deceased had lodged in the hotel on Thursday with a male partner, who was believed to be her boyfriend, However, some of the staff members of the hotel suspected a […]

Monday Ogo is a commercial driver. He plies the Yenagoa-Port Harcourt road through the popular East- West Road. On that route, he hustles back and forth, every day, to earn his livelihood but sometime in November, last year, Ogo encountered death in common hours, along Rumugi and Emogha in the Rivers State axis of the […]

Anambra State Governor Willie Obiano on Monday urged the Federal Government to investigate the alleged murder of Mrs Obianuju Ndubuisi-Chukwu in Johannesburg. The State Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, Mr Don Adinuba, in a statement advised the Federal Government to prevail on the South African government to act decisively over the murder of the […]

Nine hundred and twenty suspects were arrested for sundry crimes in the last four weeks, the Inspector-General of Police (IG), Mohammed Adamu, said yesterday. The police boss said that the suspects were arrested by operatives of the Operation Puff Adder for kidnapping, armed robbery, murder and cultism. A breakdown of the arrests shows that 424 were […]

The Police were battling at the weekend across the land to rein in herdsmen and bandits who unleashed mayhem on communities. Some arrests were made in Adamawa where hoodlums attacked commercial tricycle operators shortly after Governor Ahmadu Fintiri visited the criminal’s hideouts. In Benue State, residents of Gbagir community in Zaki Biam, Ukum Local Government […]

The Senate on Wednesday raised serious concern over killing of innocent citizens as a result of murder, kidnapping, violence and abduction with no meaningful strategy being deployed to checkmate the menace. In a motion sponsored by Andrew Uchendu, representing Rivers East, he said the killings, which had been on for more than 10 years now, […]

The Police Command in Kano state has arrested a 15-year-old housewife, Hassana Lawan, of Bechi Village, in Kumbotso Local Government Area (LGA) of the state for allegedly poisoning her 33-year-old husband, Sale Abubakar. The Command’s Public Relations’ Officer (PPRO), DSP Abdullahi Haruna, confirmed the arrest in a statement issued to newsmen in Kano on Tuesday. […]

Two persons were killed while three others were hospitalised after suspected hoodlums attacked Iyemero- Ekiti in Ikole Local Government Area of Ekiti. The attack came barely a week after the traditional ruler of the town, Oba Agboola Ogungbemi, had raised an alarm of an impending attack on his community. The attack occurred in the early […]