Friday, June 9, 2023

Crime

Suspected gunmen kill UI lecturer

  Suspected gunmen have reportedly killed Opeyemi Ajewole, a Professor of Social and Environmental Forestry at the University of Ibadan, Ibadan in Oyo State. Ajewole was reportedly murdered last night by yet-to-be-identified gunmen. The PUNCH gathered that he was killed while returning...

NDLEA Intercepts 140.7 KG Of Cannabis Sativa In Borno

***Arrests Two Suspects By: Ali Musa Biu After weeks of Surveillance, following a tip off officers of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency NDLEA from the Biu Area command in Borno State, may have made a breakthrough in...

NEWS Timothy Adegoke: Another defendant sentenced to two years imprisonment

    Adedeji Adesola has been sentenced to two years imprisonment by an Osun State High Court in Osogbo. Adesola was found guilty of altering the receipt issued to Timothy Adegoke before his death at Hilton Hotels in Ile-Ife, Osun State....

“Police Inspector and Three Others Arrested for Alleged Extortion of N20m from Yahoo Boys in METROBayelsa”

  The Zonal Command of the Nigeria Police Force, Zone 16, has taken action by arresting and detaining four police personnel involved in an alleged abduction and extortion case in Bayelsa State. The incident occurred when two suspected internet fraudsters,...

Police arraign three for banishing Anambra widow

Map of Anambra State Some suspects who allegedly banished a widow from the Umunankwo community in the Ogbaru Local Government Area of Anambra State have been arrested and arraigned before the Children, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Magistrates’ Court in Awka,...

EFCC arraigns Lagos businesswoman Ramalan-Yaro, company for N140bn fraud

  Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Monday arraigned Saadatu Ramalan-Yaro, a businesswoman, for the second time in Lagos State, two weeks after her first arraignment. The businesswoman was brought before Justice Obiora Egwuatu of the Federal High Court in Abuja...

Kidnapper attempting to shoot victim kills gang member

By Tope Alabi The Kano State Police Command has arrested three suspected kidnappers — Idris Abdullahi, Tukur Yusuf and Ilyasu Aminu — for attempting to kidnap a man and his son in Yarimawa village, Tofa Local Government Area of the state. The...

Police bust illegal immigration ring using real passports

  France’s border police this week busted an illegal immigration ring leasing out real French passports to migrants from sub-Saharan Africa so they could enter the country, a police source has said. The scam first came to light in November, when...

Kwara: Police arrest 16 suspended kidnappers, cultists

Kwara: Police arrest 16 suspended kidnappers, cultists By Stephen Olufemi Oni, Ilorin Three out of five suspected kidnappers have been arrested by the operatives of the Kwara state Police Command in conjunction with local vigilantes at the Banni forest in Ilorin,...

Man, 35, jailed for raping minor in Kwara 

Man, 35, jailed for raping minor in Kwara By Stephen Olufemi Oni, Ilorin   A 35-year-old man, Hussain Kamilu, has been arrested by the Kaiama Division of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) for allegedly raping an under aged girl, Mariam...
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Zulum orders probe of hospital staff over viral video showing accident victims rejection

Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, has directed the Ministry of Health to investigate and fish out medical staff...
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Nasarawa Assembly approves 20 Special Advisers for Gov. Sule.

"... as it proceeds on recess to pave way for state govt to renovate assembly complex..." Nasarawa State House of Assembly has approved the...

Nasarawa Assembly names principal officers, inaugurates only female legislator, Hon Hajara Danyaro

Nasarawa State House of Assembly today named principal officers of the House. Rt. Hon. Ibrahim Balarabe Abdullahi, the Speaker of the House named the...

10th Assembly: Tinubu appeals to Governors, Lawmakers-elect to deliver Akpabio/Barau, Abbas/Kalu

By Abdulateef Bamgbose President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has reassured elected members of the incoming 10th National Assembly that his administration remains firm on the...

Senate shifts valedictory session to Saturday

By Abdulateef Bamgbose The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan announced on Wednesday that the Senate has rescheduled its valedictory session to Saturday, Lawan had...