•CP Tunji Disu The Rivers State Police Command has arrested a 30-year-old man simply identified as Jeffrey for allegedly defiling his landlady’s 13-year-old daughter. The incident, it was gathered, happened on Friday at an estate close to the Federal Government College in Abulomma, Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, reports Daily Indepen...
•Clement Ikolo The Nigerian Army has released the traditional ruler, Clement Ikolo, earlier declared wanted and arrested over the gruesome murder of 17 soldiers in Delta State on March 14, 2024. The monarch was declared wanted by the Defence Headquarters alongside seven others for alleged involvement in the act, reports The PUNCH. He was relea...
•Obianuju Catherine Udeh, aka DJ Switch The Lagos State Police Command has tendered a public apology for a mix-up following the alleged arrest of a popular Nigerian disc jockey, Obianuju Catherine Udeh, aka DJ Switch. The State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, made the apology via his X handle today, stating that the [&he...
The Nigerian Drug Law Enforcement Agency says it has arrested a total of 5,0901 drug offenders, including the apprehension of 46 drug barons in the last three years. The Chairman of the agency, Brig-Gen Muhammed Marwa (retd.), made this known yesterday at the inauguration and handing over ceremony of an operational facility built and donated [...
A staff member of Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) has been arrested alongside five others for allegedly vandalising and stealing a transformer in Abuja. SP Josephine Adeh, spokesperson for the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command, announced this in a statement, yesterday. She identified the other suspects as Kabiru Muha...
•Nigerian naval officers The Nigerian Navy (NN) has confirmed the arrest of three commissioned officers and a civilian woman over their alleged involvement in the assault of a Microbiologist, Iheanyi Onumegbu, 33, at the NN Reference Hospital (NNRH) in Ojo, Lagos. •Late Iheanyi Onumegbu Onumegbu, a civilian staff of the Ministry of Defence att...
•Jackrich The 2023 governorship candidate of the National Rescue Movement in Rivers State, Sobomabo Jackrich has been arrested. Jackrich, an ex-Niger Delta agitator was arrested by men dressed in military camouflage from his residence in Usokun in Degema Local Government Area of the state, reports Channels TV. According to sources familiar wit...
•Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula South Africa’s former parliament speaker was arrested Thursday as part of a graft inquiry, the latest scandal to hit the governing ANC party ahead of elections in May. Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, who resigned her speaker post yesterday, was formally detained after handing herself in to police near Pretoria, prosecutors sa...
•Chinese policemen More than 800 people suspected of being cross-border scammers were arrested in a joint police operation by Myanmar and China, the junta and Beijing’s embassy in Yangon said today. Scam compounds have flourished in Myanmar, staffed by citizens from China and other countries who are often forced to work swindling their compatr...
•Oscar Alejandro Popular Venezuelan YouTuber, Oscar Alejandro was arrested in Caracas yesterday over alleged links to “terrorist activities,” his family said, with authorities yet to comment on the case. “According to the information available so far, the arrest is linked to accusations of terrorist activities,” his family said in a statement ...
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