Troops of the Nigerian Army 6 Division, Port Harcourt have uncovered over 40 dug out crude oil wells in Rumuekpe community, Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State. The wells which are about 40 feet deep are said to be the latest technique criminals employ in stealing crude oil from underground in the area, reports […]
A 20-year-old admission seeker, Miss Temitope Elemide, has been reportedly raped and killed in Odeda Local Government Area of Ogun State. The victim was killed at the family residence at Bosero community, Olodo, in Odeda LGA, reports Daily Trust. Sources said the incident occurred on Sunday when hoodlums stormed the residence, raped Elemide an...
•Top Army brass The General Officer Commanding (GOC) 3 Division Nigerian Army, Major General Abdulsalami Abubakar, has inaugurated a special military court for the trial of one officer and 16 soldiers for alleged criminal offences. The general court-martial sitting at the Rhino officers’ mess, Maxwell Khobe cantonment, Rukuba Barracks, Jos wil...
•Sunday Igboho Yoruba Nation activist, Sunday Adeyemo, fondly called Sunday Igboho who returned to the country last week has said he is ready to face and chase out killer Fulani herdsmen from Yorubaland. Igboho said this while addressing a group of people in the Yoruba language during the burial of his mother in his hometown, […]
•Bandits Five prominent bandits’ leaders and scores of their fighters were killed in violent clashes between rival bandit groups in Zamfara State. The deadly clashes between Ado Aliero’s group and Kachalla and Dogo Bali group happened on Sunday in Mada village in Gusau; in Yankuzo, Yan waren Daji and Munhaye villages in Tsafe LGA, reports [&he...
Police detectives of Anambra State Command working with Umuoji vigilante in Idemili North Local Government Area, have apprehended four suspected killers of the town’s President-General, who was murdered in his home at the weekend. DSP Tochukwu Ikenga, the State Police Public Relations Officer, who disclosed this in a statement in Awka, today, ...
•Police The Southwest Conference of Speakers has called for the immediate creation of state police and devolution of powers. The conference said doing so would address the hydra-headed insecurity and other socioeconomic challenges facing the country, reports The Nation. In a communiqué issued at the of their meeting in Ikogosi-Ekiti, the speak...
The Ondo State Police Command today said it arrested a man, Adebayo Peter, who allegedly killed his friend, simply known as Lekan, in Akure, the state capital. The incident was said to have occurred on Friday evening in the Ireakari-Oloko area of Akure, the state capital, reports The PUNCH. When contacted, the state Police Public […]
No fewer than 130 rickety vehicles were impounded for allegedly operating in the guise of commercial transport business, to perpetrate crime in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). It was gathered that the said vehicles were confiscated by the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) via its Directorate of Road Traffic Services (...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has asked the Presidency, the Federal Judicial Commission, and other Ministries, Departments and Agencies, to submit their anti-corruption strategies, as part of the agency’s efforts to stop the abuse of contracts. All the MDAs have until March 1 to submit their strategies to the anti-graft agency, ...

