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A Magistrate’s Court sitting in Akure, the Ondo State capital, has sentenced a 28-year-old welder, Tobi Babatunde, to four years in prison for burglary and theft at a poultry farm. Babatunde was arraigned by the police on a three-count charge for unlawfully breaking into a poultry farm and stealing a feed mill engine valued at ...
By Muyideen Aliyu, llorin The Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday secured the conviction of a final-year student and three others for offences related to internet fraud. One of the convicts, Olaitan Abdulwahab Damilare, a 25-year-old Higher National Diploma (HND) student of Quantity Surveying at Kwara State Polytechnic, ...
The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) in Ebonyi, says it arrested a total of 939 suspects in connection with various alleged crimes in the state between January and June 2025. SP Joshua Ukandu, the Command’s Public Relations Officer (PPRO), said that the arrests were made at different operations across the 13 local government areas in the ...
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has revealed plans to commence investigation into the activities of an entity operating under FF Tiffany, allegedly running a fraudulent investment scheme that has defrauded citizens. A statement by SEC on Tuesday in Abuja saidpreliminary information revealed that the scheme, which promised investors unusually high and unrealistic returns, had ...
Operatives of the police command in Lagos State have detained a suspected armed robber for alleged unlawful possession of firearms. The command Spokesman , CSP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed this in a statement on Tuesday in Lagos. He said that the suspect was apprehended by detectives of the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), following a coordinated ...
Suspected gunmen have abducted Barrister Yusuf Musa, the Permanent Secretary of the Nasarawa State Ministry for Information, from his residence in Lafia, the state capital. The incident occurred in the early hours of Tuesday at Ungwan Nungu. Barr. Musa, who previously served as the General Manager of the Nasarawa Broadcasting Service (NBS), was taken alongside ...
By Grateful Ogunjebe The Kogi State Government has announced the arrest of three individuals suspected of acting as informants for kidnapping syndicates operating in Okunland, within the western region of the state. According to an official statement issued on Monday, the suspects were arrested in Ayetoro Kiri, located in the Kabba/Bunu Local Government Area. The ...
A suspected vandal met a tragic end in the early hours of Monday after he was electrocuted while attempting to steal electrical cables in Calabar South, Cross River State. The incident occurred around 1:30 a.m. on Poultry Street, off New Airport Road. According to eyewitnesses, the unidentified man was tampering with high-tension cables when power ...
The Enugu State Police Command has dismantled an illegal firearms fabrication and repair workshop in Udi Local Government Area, marking a major breakthrough in efforts to curb gun-related crimes in the state. The operation, carried out by the Command’s Anti-Cultism Tactical Squad on June 30, followed credible intelligence and the arrest of 32-year-old Ekene Okafor, ...
....Fraudsters ordered to forfeit cash, laptops, and high-end phones to FG By Muyideen Aliyu, Ilorin The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ilorin Zonal Directorate, has secured the conviction of five individuals for internet-related fraud at the Federal and Kwara State High Courts sitting in Ilorin. The convicted persons , Ayinla Abiodun Abdulmajid, Yusuf Abdulazeez ...
...AK-47 rifle, live ammunition recovered from intercepted vehicle The Kwara State Police Command has arrested three women accused of attempting to transport arms and ammunition to a group of kidnappers operating from a forested hideout in the state. The suspects , Aisha Haruna, Rabi Umaru, and Fatimoh Abubakar , were apprehended at Babanla Motor Park ...
...As over 200 motorcycles ferry armed men across villages in three-week rampage By Baba Alfa, Minna Armed bandits continue to unleash violence across several communities in Niger State, leaving residents in Rijau, Mariga and Borgu Local Government Areas in a state of fear and vulnerability as the attacks persist unchecked. For the past three ...
Barth Ndubuwah, Port Harcourt A Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has issued an interim order restraining the Sole Administrator, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas (Rtd), from inaugurating the newly confirmed Chairman and members of the Rivers State Civil Service Commission. The order was granted on Monday by Justice Frank Onyiri, pending the determination ...
Armed bandits have killed two residents, abducted 25 others, and stolen dozens of livestock in coordinated overnight attacks on two villages in Bungudu Local Government Area of Zamfara State. The attackers, armed with AK-47 rifles, stormed Dogon Daji village in the Nahuche District at about 10:30 p.m. on Friday. During the assault, they abducted 25 ...
The Chief Imam of Uromi and President of the Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria (MSSN), Edo-Delta Chapter, Sheikh Murtadho Muhammad, has been abducted by unidentified gunmen in Esan North-East Local Government Area of Edo State. The abduction occurred around 2:00 p.m. on Sunday at the Angle 90 area of Uromi. Eyewitnesses said the Islamic cleric ...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has apprehended a notorious drug baron in Lagos and intercepted a vast quantity of narcotics during a series of coordinated operations across the country. At the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, NDLEA operatives uncovered parcels of Loud, a potent strain of cannabis, hidden inside brand-new microwave ovens ...
The Kogi State Government says it has uncovered a sprawling criminal network aiding kidnapping gangs in parts of the state and has begun a massive crackdown to dismantle their operations. The discovery was made during a series of coordinated security operations across Kabba/Bunu, Ijumu, Yagba East, and Yagba West Local Government Areas. This was contained ...
A Benin High Court on Friday remanded a 38-year-old pastor, Simeon Okehielem, in a correctional centre for allegedly raping a married woman, Mrs Isoken Aigbedo. Pastor Okehielem, known as Ebube Wonder of Ebube Wonders Synagogue Prayers Ministry, also called Healing and Deliverance Mountain, faces a two-count charge of rape and felony intent. The alleged rape ...
By Muyideen Aliyu, Ilorin The Kwara State Police Command has confirmed the recovery of over eleven million, three hundred and sixty-three thousand, five hundred naira only, suspected to be ransom fees from a previous kidnap operation by a gang of syndicate kidnappers in Share axis, Ifelodun Local Government Area of the State. This was made ...
A Bayelsa State High Court sitting in Yenagoa has sentenced four men to death for the gruesome murder of a commercial taxi driver, Mr Olarenwaju Ajayi, during a supposed trip to Onne, Rivers State. Delivering judgment on Thursday, July 10, 2025, at Court 11 in Onopa, the presiding judge, Hon Justice Patience Ama Zuofa Diri, ...
The National Orientation Agency (NOA) says it has designed a programme aimed at sensitising Nigerian on the dangers of cybercrime and promotion of a culture of financial integrity. Mr Paul Odenyi, Deputy Director, Communications and Media, NOA made the remark in a statement he issued out in Uyo on Friday. He said the agency was ...
Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has intercepted and handed over 25 containers of pharmaceutical and other counterfeit substances, worth N9.23 billion, to the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) for further action. The Comptroller-General of Customs (CGC), Bashir Adeniyi, confirmed the development during the handover of the substances to NAFDAC in Apapa, ...
By Tapre Timine, Bayelsa A Bayelsa State High Court sitting in Yenagoa has sentenced four men to death for the gruesome murder of a commercial taxi driver, Mr Olarenwaju Ajayi, during a supposed trip to Onne, Rivers State. Delivering judgment on Thursday, July 10, 2025, at Court 11 in Onopa, the presiding judge, Hon Justice ...
