Tragedy struck in Edepie community in Yenagoa the Bayelsa state capital today Wednesday, December 19th, after a 39-year-old father of four, Femi Otura, committed suicide by drinking a poisonous substance. According to reports, Otura who is a truck driver and hails from Kogi state lived with his wife, Oviezibe, an indigene of Bayelsa state who […]
A 59-year-old man parading himself as a retired Assistant Inspector-General of Police at a bank in Kubwa area of Abuja has been arrested. The suspect, who was identified as Olawale Olatunji was arrested with 11 ATM cards and 10 cheque books of different banks, which he claimed belonged to him. Parading the suspect in Abuja […]
In its continuous fight against the menace of drug trafficking and abuse in Katsina state, the Police Command had arrested a notorious Indian hemp dealer, Rabi’u Suleiman. The spokesperson for the command, SP Isah Gambo, who confirmed the arrest on Tuesday, said the suspect was nabbed on December 15, based on a tip-off. Suleiman, 37, […]
A twenty-five years old woman, Lydia Uwadiegwu, was today arraigned before a Lagos Chief Magistrate’s Court, Ogba, for allegedly bitting-off the ear of a female Sergeant, Blessing A. O. Umongu. The accused is the wife of an Inspector of Police attached to Olosan Police Division, Lagos. Lydia was arraigned before the court presided over by […]
The President of the Nigerian Bar Association, (NBA) Paul Usoro, on Tuesday, pleaded not guilty before a Federal High Court Lagps, to charges bordering on N1.4billion fraud, preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC). EFCC preferred a10 count charge against the accused, which is pending before Justice Muslim Hassan. Also named […]
The IGP Intelligence Response Team working on credible intelligence stormed and raided a secret suspected fake drug Factory hidden in the residential Area of Ikotun in Lagos State where substantial production, packaging and distribution of the suspected fake drug to different parts of the country is being carried out. These dastard acts may have resulted […]
A banker and Account Officer with Access Bank, Ojo Adefemi Adedoyin, who allegedly connived with one Favour Oriafoh, 30, to defraud a Hong Kong national, Xu Yue of £79,000 (Seventy-Nine Thousand Pounds) has been arrested by EFCC. They were arrested by operatives of the Uyo Zonal Office of the Commission, following an investigation into a […]
Threats by Police officers in Delta State to unleash teargas has led a woman who feigns blindness and begs for alms to experience a rare miracle. The suspect, who goes about begging with her child, was nabbed at Jakpa junction. On getting to the police station, the officers threatened to put tear gas in her […]
Troops of 1 Division Nigerian Army deployed for Operation WHIRL PUNCH arrested three notorious gun runners; Aminu Umar, Shehu Samaila and Bilyaminu Abdullahi aged 32, 25 and 22 years respectively on Tuesday 11 December 2018. They were apprehended during a Stop and Search operation at Rijau in Niger State. The troops recovered 44 fabricated locally […]
Chris Steven, Abuja A building housing an apartment occupied by two sons of Atiku Abubakar was searched by anti-graft operatives in Abuja over the weekend. According to Premium Times, the building also houses an apartment occupied by Chiemeka Orji, son of ex-Abia State Governor, Theodore Orji. That apartment was also reportedly searched by anti-graft operatives. […]
