The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has arrested the suspected mastermind of the Abuja-Kaduna train attack Ibrahim Abdullahi also known as Mande. The attack happened in March 2022 but at a news conference in Kaduna today, the Force Public Relations Officer Olumuyiwa Adejobi said the suspect was arrested at the Abuja-Kaduna Road flyover by Rido Junc...
•Armed Fulani herdsman At least four people have been said to have been killed last night and many wounded as suspected herdsmen invaded Nimbo community in Uzo-Uwani Local Government Area of Enugu State. Residents who spoke to our correspondent said that the Fulani herdsmen attacked mourners at Ugwuijoro Nimbo community killing four people ins...
•Armed Fulani herdsmen Scores of persons, mainly women have been killed by suspected Fulani herdsmen in Tilengpat village of Pushit District, Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau State. Sources emanating from the community indicated that fourteen females and one male were brutally murdered during the attack last night, with houses and proper...
A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the detention of a Nigerian accused of being a member of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, Emmanuel Osase, for 60 days. The trial judge, Inyang Ekwo, gave the order following a motion ex-parte filed by the Department of State Servicesmarked FHC/ABJ/CS/409/2024, reports The PUNCH. At […]
•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...
•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...
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, ...
•CP Olatunji Disu The Rivers State Police Command has exhumed the body of notorious cultist, Gift Okpara popularly known as 2 Baba, the prime suspect in the murder of former Divisional Police Officer, Bako Angbashim in Odiemudie community, Ahoada East Local Government Area of the state in September last year. This came barely a week […]...
•The suspected armed robbers Operatives of the FCT Police Command have arrested six suspected armed robbers in Utako Village in the Federal Capital Territory. The suspects were apprehended on Wednesday in an uncompleted hospital building which is a marked black spot during a coordinated raid operation, reports Channels TV. Police Public Relati...
•Gunmen Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have killed two traditional rulers travelling through a community in Ikole Local Government Area of Ekiti State. It was gathered that the two traditional rulers, the Elesun of Esun-Ekiti, Oba David Babatunde Ogunsakin and the Onimojo of Imojo-Ekiti, Oba Olatunde Samuel Olushola, were ambushed and kille...