A civil society group under the aegis of the Center for Human Rights and Accountability Network has advocated for the establishment of State Police, saying that present security architecture appears unable to cope with rising waves of crime and criminality in the country. It argued that the introduction of state police into the policing struct...
•Kashim Shettima Despite the festering insecurity in many parts of the country, Vice President Kashim Shettima, state governors and some ministers rose from the National Economic Council (NEC) meeting yesterday without discussing the issue of State Police. Answering questions from State House reporters after the NEC meeting presided over by th...
•EFCC chairman, Olanipekun Olukayode The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has warned the public against fake land vendors in Abuja. In a statement by the EFCC, this followed the arrest of a fake land vendor, Nwobo Williams Chibuike, in Abuja for allegedly swindling members of the public “through offers of fake plots of land [&he...
•Rev Father Ibrahim Amos The priest in charge of the Saint Gerald’s Qausi Catholic Parish in Kauru Local Government Area of Kaduna State, Reverend Father Ibrahim Amos, who was abducted by bandits yesterday morning, has regained freedom. This was confirmed in a statement today by the Chancellor of the Catholic Diocese of Kafanchan, Reverend Fat...
•Jigawa State Commissioner of Police, Ahmad Abdullahi A 25-year-old man, Buhari Sule, has been arrested by the Jigawa State Police Command for allegedly killing his younger brother’s wife, Ummi Saleh, using a pestle. While attacking his brother’s wife, Sule also inflicted serious injuries on his neighbour’s daughter, Hauwa Alkassim, with the p...
•Gunmen Gunmen have reportedly abducted no fewer than 14 passengers along the Makurdi/Naka/Adoka road area of Benue State. The incident happened between 10 and 11am today, about three kilometres from Naka, the headquarters of the Gwer West Local Government Area of Benue State, reports The PUNCH. According to a commercial driver who did not wan...
•Revd Father Ibrahim Amos Bandits have abducted a Catholic priest in Kauru Local Government Area of Kaduna State, Revd Father Ibrahim Amos. The priest was kidnapped today from his residence at Saint Gerald’s Qausi Parish, Kurmin Risga community in Kauru Local Government Area, reports Channels TV. The police authorities in Kaduna State are yet ...
The Federal High Court in Abuja today, gave the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) the go-ahead to arrest and detain six promoters of Crypto Bridge Exchange (CBEX) over alleged investment fraud to the tune of over one billion dollars. Justice Emeka Nwite, who gave the order after the EFCC’s lawyer, Fadila Yusuf, moved an […...
•Pregnancy A cleric, Peter James, has allegedly impregnated a teenage girl (names withheld) with disability in the Odigbo Local Government Area of Ondo State. Pastor James, who is in charge of the Christ Apostolic Church, Modebiayo parish at Oke-Gburowo in the Odigbo LGA, was arrested by the security agencies yesterday, reports Daily Trust. He...
A magistrate court sitting in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, has ordered the remand of a 20-year-old mother of two, Joy Ikoja, who allegedly inflicted injury on the manhood of her boyfriend, Ibrahim Usman. The court also granted the Ekiti State Ministry of Justice plea to take over the prosecution of the defendant, Joy Ikoja, reports Daily […]
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