The Benue State Community Vigilante Group, BSCVG, rescued some kidnapped victims in Orokam community, Ogbadibo Local Goverment Area of Benue State on Tuesday. Newsmen recalls that over 35 passengers were snatched from three commercial vehicles by yet-to-be-identified gun-wielding kidnappers…
An estate agent, Emmanuel Aaron, 42 has been sentenced to three years imprisonment by Kaduna High court on Tuesday for defrauding two accommodation seekers of N4.8 million but was given an option of N300,000 fine. In his judgment, the Judge…
Mr Umar Babangida, an investigator with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday, revealed how top government officials aided Process and Industrial Development (P&ID) Ltd.’s directors in the alleged $9.6 billion scam against Nigeria. Babangida, who was the…
The recent surge in kidnapping and killings by bandits in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, and other parts of the country, the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Kayode Adeolu Egbetokun, has held a crucial meeting with the Force Management Team and…
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, says it uncovered no fewer than 83 illegal refineries in the Niger Delta in the last seven days. The NNPCL disclosed this on its X handle on Tuesday. According to the company, it…
A retired school principal who volunteered to deliver ransom to kidnappers to secure the freedom of a victim in Birnin Gwari LG, Kaduna State, has been held hostage. Former federal lawmaker, who represented the Kaduna Central Senatorial District at…
Justice Rahman Oshodi of an Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court has remanded a man, Onyeka Mbaka, in a correctional facility for alleged defilement of a 15-year old girl. Oshodi remanded Mbaka in Kirikiri Maximum Correctional Center, pending…
A 20-year-old housewife, Lubabatu Yusuf, has narrated how one Sani Saleh Mu’azu, a Deputy Superintendent of the Nigerian Immigration Service, who happens to be her husband’s benefactor, allegedly raped her in the presence of her two children. Recounting her…
A 65-year-old retired nurse, Mrs. Esther Amali, and her 20-year-old housemaid, Mercy Mwuese, have been reportedly killed by a suspected cultist, Eko, in their residence along Makurdi-Naka Road in Makurdi, Benue State, on Sunday. The suspect, identified as Jimilu…
At least eight bodies of dead passengers have so far been recovered out of 100 from the boat mishap that occurred at Tungan Leda around Shagunu Village in the Borgu Local Government Area of Niger state on Sunday. The…
