Crime

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has secured the conviction of 14 internet fraudsters before Justice Efe Ikponmwonba of Edo State High Court in Benin City. The suspects were arraigned by the Benin Zonal Command of the EFCC each on a one-count charge of fraudulent impersonation on Tuesday. They...

The Taraba State Police Command has confirmed the abduction of the two wives of the traditional ruler of Sarkin Kudu, Dansalama Adamu, in Ibi local government council of the state. Kidnapped alongside with the wives, is a son of the monarch. Their wheareabouts were still unknown as the time this...

At least two persons were burnt to death in the violence that hit Kano during the parliamentary and presidential elections. The New Nigerian Peoples Party, NNPP, campaign office in Tudun Wada Local Government Area of Kano State has also been burnt down. Kano State Police Command Public Relations Officer, SP...

A 300-level Mass Communication student of the Benue State University, Erekaa Naomi Dooshima, has been reportedly found dead a few days after she went missing. The student, also known as Affection, was reported missing three days ago and all efforts made to locate her whereabouts proved abortive. According to a...

A man suspected of killing a woman on Wednesday in Florida returned to the scene of the crime hours later and gunned down a television reporter and a nine-year-old girl, authorities said. Orange County Sheriff John Mina said that a 19-year-old man, Keith Melvin Moses, had been taken into custody...

A Makurdi Chief Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday ordered that 29 persons be remanded in a correctional centre for alleged terrorism and culpable homicide. The police charged the defendants, who live at Ikpayongo Town in Gwer-East Local Government of Benue, with criminal conspiracy, act of terrorism, membership of an unlawful society...

Protesters on Tuesday shut the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway at the Sango-Ota axis over their inability to withdraw money from Automated Teller Machines (ATMs). They made bonfires of disused tyres on both sides of the highway causing serious traffic gridlock. Some of the protesters told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that...