Crime & Punishment

Police Eliminate Two Bandits For Attacking Farmers

Sunday, May 19, 2024
A mobile police team has reportedly neutralised two bandits in Kuriga, in the Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State. It was reported that the police team was recently deployed to the area by the Inspector General of Police, IGP Kayode Egbetokun, according to Samuel Aruwan, Overseeing Commi ...

Gunmen Abduct Traditional Ruler In Akwa Ibom

Sunday, May 19, 2024
The Akwa Ibom State Police Command has confirmed the abduction of the paramount ruler of Mbo Local Government Area, HRM Ogwong A Abang. According to the Police, the traditional ruler was kidnapped by unknown gunmen in his palace at Ebughu on Saturday The Police Command rsquo;s Spokesman, ASP T ...

NDLEA Declares Couple Wanted For Cocaine Trafficking, Intercepts China, UK-bound

Sunday, May 19, 2024
A couple identified as Kazeem Omogoriola Owoalade (alias Abdul Qassim Adisa Balogun) and Rashidat Ayinke Owoalade (alias Bolarinwa Rashidat Ayinke) have been declared wanted by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), The Nigerian Voice reports. It was learnt that the couple who a ...

Police Arrest Undergraduate For Raping 100-level Student In Nasarawa

Saturday, May 18, 2024
Nasarawa State Police Command has apprehended one Gabriel David, a 400-level student at the State University in Keffi for allegedly raping a 100-level student of the same institution. The state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Ramhan Nansel, made this known in Lafia on Saturday. Nansel sai ...

Bandits Kidnap Yahaya Bello’s Former Special Adviser 

Friday, May 17, 2024
The Kogi State Police Command has confirmed the abduction of Comfort Alege, a former Special Adviser (SA) on Education to former Governor Yahaya Bello of the State. It was learnt that Alege was kidnapped by bandits who trailed her from a street and blocked her as she was trying to enter her house ...

Court Jails Two Chinese Citizens For Illegal Mining In Kwara

Friday, May 17, 2024
Justice Evelyn Anyadike of the Federal High Court sitting in Ilorin has convicted and sentenced two Chinese, Duan Ya Hong and Xiao Yi, to one year imprisonment for offences bordering on illegal mining and possession of solid minerals without requisite licences. The duo were arraigned on Monday, A ...

Military Declares Notorious Terrorist, Halilu Buzu, Wanted

Thursday, May 16, 2024
The Nigerian Military has declared Halilu Buzu, a national of Buzu in the Republic of Niger, wanted for terrorising Nigerian territory, particularly Zamfara. The Director of Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. Edward Buba, made the declaration on Thursday in Abuja, at a media briefing on the oper ...

NAFDAC Arrests Five For Selling Fake Cosmetics In Abuja

Thursday, May 16, 2024
The National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) have arrested five persons for selling counterfeit cosmetics in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The arrest was made at the Garki and Wuse areas on Wednesday during an enforcement to curb substandard goods. Speakin ...

EFCC Arrests 13 Fake BDC Operators In Lagos

Wednesday, May 15, 2024
Operatives of the Lagos Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have arrested thirteen fake bureau-de-change operators in Lagos. The Nigerian Voice reports that the suspects were arrested for operating BDC without an appropriate licence. They are: Abdulahi M ...

Fake BDC Operator Bags One-year Imprisonment

Monday, May 13, 2024
Justice A.K Dagat of the Federal High Court, Maiduguri Borno State, on Thursday, May 9 convicted and sentenced one Bana Alhaji Lawan to one year imprisonment. Lawan was arraigned by the Maiduguri Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on a one count charge for carryi ...
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