•Protest Angry protesters were said to have besieged the Palace of the Okumagbe of Uwanno Kingdom in Estako Local Government Area of Edo State, demanding the immediate release of PDP leaders who were arrested across the council area today. Our correspondent was reliably informed that some angry youths and women stormed the Okumagbe’s palace wi...
•NLC President, Joe Ajaero Operatives of the Department of the State Services have arrested the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Joe Ajaero. It was learnt that Ajaero was arrested today morning at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, on his way to the United Kingdom for an official assignment, reports The PUNCH. The NLC [&...
The International Criminal Police Organisation has arrested more than 300 people in Nigeria with links to one of West Africa’s most feared criminal networks, Black Axe, and other affiliated groups. The Black Axe is a secretive criminal network involved in trafficking, prostitution and killing operations around the world, reports Channels TV. H...
•Micheal Lenin Operatives of the Department of State Services have arrested one of the leaders of the ongoing Endbadgovernance protests in the Federal Capital Territory, Micheal Lenin. Lenin was picked up by the DSS around 2 am today at his residence in the Apo area of the FCT, reports The PUNCH. Speaking with our correspondent, […]
•Turkish flag Turkey’s interior minister said today that 99 suspected members of the Islamic State jihadist group had been detained in recent raids across the country. The arrests were made mainly in Ankara and in Izmir in the west, as well as in the centre, east and south, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya posted on X. […]
The Lagos State Task Force said its officials arrested 124 suspects during multiple raids of criminal hideouts across the state as part of its efforts to restore sanity across the state. The raid, according to a statement made available to our correspondent yesterday by the Director of Press and Public Affairs of the agency, Gbadeyan […...
•Oluwo of Iwoland The Paramount Ruler of Iwoland, Oba Abdulrosheed Adewale Akanbi, has urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), to conduct comprehensive enlightenments for Nigerians on naira abuse before making arrests. Oluwo said many Nigerian people are ignorant of the acts constituting naira abuse, urging the anti-graft ag...
•Idris Okuneye aka Bobrisky The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested cross-dresser, Idris Okuneye famously known as Bobrisky over currency mutilation and abuse of naira notes. EFCC spokesperson, Dele Oyewale, told our correspondent in a telephone chat today that the cross-dresser was arrested in Lagos last night, report...
•Mowe bridge Operatives of the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Corps have arrested 63 individuals across various locations for crossing the highway without using the pedestrian bridges and for engaging in street trading. The state Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, made this known in a post on his X handl...
•EFCC operatives The Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested an herbalist and 48 suspected internet fraudsters for offences bordering on conspiracy and obtaining under false pretence in Lokoja, Kogi State. This was disclosed in a statement released by the EFCC today. The statement partly reads, “They w...
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