Category: Crime

Gunmen on Wednesday attacked Suleiman Abubakar, Chairman of Correspondents’ chapel of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) in Nasarawa state and abducted his wife, Yahanasu Abubakar. Suleiman told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the incident happened at about 7 p.m. along Gudi-Garaku road in Akwanga Local Government Area of the state. According to him, […]

The Parish Priest of St. Theresa Catholic Church in Ankwa Kachia Local Government Area of Kaduna state Rev. Fr. John Bako Shekwolo has been abducted by unknown person. The Chancellor of Kaduna Archdiocese Rev, Fr. Daniel Kyon stated this in a statement made available to the media in Kaduna on Monday. The statement called on […]

The Adamawa State Police Command has confirmed that five residents of Michika died following an attack on a bank in the town on Monday night. Against earlier impression that the attack was the usual Boko Haram mission of causing a scare and destroying things and killing people and going away, the police command said that […]

Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) has condemned the incessant killings in Christian communities in some parts of the country immediately after the general elections. In a statement, the group regretted that the killings commenced immediately after the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had announced President Muhammadu Buhari as the […]

Gunmen have attacked the Divisional Police Command and office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), at Afuze, Edo State,with Improvised Explosive Devices (IED). The IED at Afuze Police Command exploded, but the one at INEC office did not explode. Four police officers, including the Divisional Police Officer (DPO), Ojo Kosenami and an expectant policewoman, […]

Oyo  State Police Command has arrested the Chief Whip of the Oyo State House of Assembly,  Wasiu Olafisoye Akinmoyede, in connection with the murder of a senatorial candidate, Hon. Temitope Olatoye a.k.a. Sugar. Akinmoyede’s arrest brought the number of those held to two. Olatoye  was  representing Lagelu/Akinyele federal constituency in the  lower chamber of the […]

debunks police statement Brother narrates how over 50 assailants ambushed, killed victim The family of the late member of the Federal House of Representative representing Lagelu / Akinyele Federal Constituency of Oyo State, Mr Temitope Olatoye Sugar has fired back at the police hierarchy to stop playing politics with the death of their breadwinner. The […]

The Assistant Inspector General of Police in Zone Eleven, Leye Oyebade and Commissioner of Police in Oyo State, Shina Olukolu, on Monday, said that the police have succeeded in arresting one person in connection with the killing of Hon Temitope Olatoye a.k.a Sugar on Saturday. They also stated that aside the suspect linked with Sugar’s case, about […]

Three staff of the University of Lagos (Unilag) on Monday told an Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court how an alleged rapist, John Otema, attacked students on campus. Otema, a Unilag alumnus, is facing a three-count charge of rape and assault occasioning harm before the court. He, however, denied committing the offences which contravene […]

The police in Rivers State have arrested a young man, names withheld, for allegedly killing and burying his pregnant girlfriend in his room. It was gathered that the victim, Miss Betha Ogbede, was murdered and buried in her lover’s one-room apartment in Rumuepirikom community of Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of the state, during her recent […]