Two suspected traffic robbers were arrested yesterday in the Ketu and Mile 12 areas of Kosofe by operatives of the Lagos State Police Command. The suspects, identified as Samuel Adekunle and Yemi Aparaojo, were apprehended by operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS), reports Nigerian Tribune. RRS confirmed the arrests in a statement shared...
•Late London scientist, Alessandro Coatti (L) and the four suspects The Colombian authorities have confirmed the arrest of four people after a London scientist, Alessandro Coatti, was found dismembered in a suitcase in Colombia. The scientist, who worked for the prestigious Royal Society of Biology (RSB), was found in April by a group of child...
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have arrested a former Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), Umar Isa, over an alleged $7.2 billion fraud linked with the rehabilitation of the Kaduna, Warri and Port Harcourt refineries. Also in the custody of the EFCC is Jimo...
Grade A Customary Court sitting in Mapo, Ibadan, Oyo State, has adjourned for further hearing the divorce suit brought before it by a woman, Shekinat, against her husband, Ahmed, whom she accused of neglect, battery, and rudeness to her parents. Shekinat, in addition to the divorce, also prayed the court for their children’s custody, reports [...
•Binta Abubakar A Nigerian-Australian woman, Binta Abubakar, has been arrested by the Australian Federal Police for allegedly trafficking students from Papua New Guinea and forcing them into unpaid labour on farms across Queensland under the guise of educational scholarships. Abubakar, 56, was arrested on Wednesday at the Brisbane Airport upon...
•British soldiers in Kenya A British soldier in Kenya has been arrested on rape allegations, the UK defence ministry said yesterday, confirming a BBC report. “We can confirm the arrest of a service person in Kenya,” a ministry spokesperson told our correspondent, adding that no further comment would be made while the matter was being […...
•Gunshot Myanmar authorities have arrested 16 people including a six-year-old girl over the assassination of a retired General shot dead in Yangon last month, state media said. Cho Tun Aung, a former ambassador to Cambodia, was gunned down outside his home on May 22 in an attack claimed by an anti-junta group calling itself the […]
•Policemen Operatives of the Kebbi State Police Command have arrested five suspects in connection with the diversion and sale of agrochemical products worth over N184 million belonging to Springfield Agro Limited, a Lagos-based company. The suspects were arrested following an operation by detectives from the State Criminal Investigation Depart...
The Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, has stated that criminals on the red list of the International Police were arrested at Nigerian airports. Tuni-Ojo also revealed that criminals declared wanted by various countries across Europe were arrested within two days at the point of entering the country, reports The PUNCH. He said the arres...
•US rapper Chris Brown American R&B singer Chris Brown, the former boyfriend of superstar Rihanna, was arrested today in the UK on suspicion of a serious 2023 assault at a London nightclub. Police detained Brown, 36, in the early hours of today at a hotel in the northwestern city of Manchester, report The Daily Telegraph […]
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