Crime

The Police in Calabar have arrested twin sisters for allegedly butchering their elder brother to death with machetes, for selling their late father’s land and refusing to share the proceeds with them. The twin, identified as Ikwo Effiong and Idak Effiong, allegedly took the life of their elder brother, Kokoette...

Tragedy has hit Nkerefi community in Nkanu East Local Government Area of Enugu State following the killing of four women farmers by one of the labourers hired to work in the farm. The incident, according to BBC News Igbo, happened on Tuesday, June 20, while the women and others were...

A yet-to-be-identified pregnant lady has been beaten to coma in Anambra State by the man who allegedly impregnated her. ThE man was said to have used the teenage girl as a punching bag for allowing herself to get pregnant for him when he was not ready for marriage. The incident...

Gunmen have killed a member of the vigilante group, otherwise known as the Central Neighborhood Watch in Igbo-Eze North Local Government Area, Enugu State, Mr Onyebu Idoko, popularly known as Alaye. It was gathered that the incident which happened in Mkpamute village on Thursday afternoon, had caused panic in the...

The Kaduna Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has secured the conviction of a TikTok music celebrity, Crown Uzama, and five others namely Bethel Makuochukwu, John Joseph, Favour Chidiogo Emmanuel, Abdul-Azeez Suleiman Temidayo, and Joel Kator. This was made known in a statement shared on the agency’s...

The Lagos State Rapid Response Squad has arrested a dismissed policeman, Alobo Omokhoa, 48, parading himself as an Inspector of Police in Ogudu Government Restricted Area, Ojota area of the state. Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, in a statement on Friday, disclosed this in a post on the Command’s...

The Edo State Taskforce Against Human Trafficking has apprehended a 48-year-old man, Anthony Igbinogun, and his girlfriend, Joy Umukoro, 28, for allegedly selling their one-month-old baby to buy drugs. The suspects were arrested alongside their friend, 26-year-old Precious James, who reportedly facilitated the illegal transaction and linked the couple to...

Operatives of the Adamawa State Police Command on Friday said it had arrested five boys who specialise in burgling and stealing valuable items from peoples’ shops/ houses in the Yola North Local Government. The command on Friday said it also recovered one sewing Machine, generator, clothing materials, and cutlass from...

The Murtala Yakubu Ajaka Gubernatorial Campaign Organization is alarmed by the official confirmation of the Kogi State Commissioner of Police, Mr Akeem Yusuf that the extra judicial execution of an All Peoples Congress (APC) Chieftain, Mallam Kabir Okwo Bala and a housewife, Mrs Atima Abdullahi by gunmen unleashed on the...

A 31-year-old Nigerian, Uchenna Christian Nlemchi, has been extradited to the United States to face fraud charges. This was made known by the United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, Alexander M.M. Uballez, and FBI Special Agent Raul Bujanda, in a statement on Thursday. Nlemchi, who made his...