crime

49-year-old man, Abayomi Olukoju, has been killed by gunmen suspected to be bandits in Ajowa Akoko, Akoko North West Local Government of Ondo State. According to Tribune, the victim was travelling between Ajowa Akoko/ Akunnu road on a motorcycle when he ran into the gunmen on Sunday May 15. Olukoju was …

Patricia Etteh’s family has criticized the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s detention of the former Speaker of the House of Representatives. In a statement issued by its spokesman, Femi Alabi, headed ‘Mrs Patricia Etteh’s detention: Setting the record right,’ the family also accused the EFCC for the ex-imprisonment. lawmaker’s According …

Ahmed Idris, the Accountant General of the Federation, has been suspended indefinitely. Idris was suspended by the Minister of Finance, budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, on Wednesday. His suspension followed his indictment for fraud worth N80 billion by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. EFCC’s spokesman, Wilson Uwajaren, …

Operatives of the Anambra State Police Command have rescued a kidnapped victim, Jideofor Attama and arrested two suspected kidnappers. Spokesperson of the command, DSP Toochukwu Ikenga, who disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday May 18, said the kidnappers abducted Attama last week along Nnewi road and demanded N10m ransom …

Garba Emmanuel, the father of late Deborah Samuel, who was gruesomely killed and burnt in Sokoto last Thursday, has narrated how his daughter was killed. A distraught Emmanuel in an interview with elifeonline.net described his 22-year-old daughter as a humble girl who wanted a bright future, believed so much in …

Suspected members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, on Wednesday morning attacked Ugbolu community, near Asaba and its environs in Delta State as they burnt two Dangote trucks, one keke and damaged one Audi Volkswagen car. The gunmen were said to have blocked the Ugbolu/Illah Road at Mile 5, shooting …

A Mathematics teacher identified as Ernest Ocloo, at Sawla Senior High School(SHS) in Ghana, has been handed a 15-year jail sentence by a Tamale High Court for raping an 18-year-old student of the same school. Ocloo was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment with hard labor, 2 years after being dismissed …

A Boko Haram fighter’s wife, Amina Mohammed, has narrated her ordeal in the camp of the terrorists in Sambisa Forest, Borno State. Amina and her husband, with some members of the Boko Haram group lived under small, unnoticed tarpaulin tents inside Sambisa forest. She disclosed that the terrorists live on …

Gunmen have killed three family members of Steve Orogwu, the Chairman of Ikwo Local Government Area of Ebonyi State. It was gathered that the gunmen stormed the chairman’s home in Ekpaomaka on Tuesday night, May 17, but didn’t meet him. The hoodlums shot his elder brother, two nephews as well as the …

Three persons have been burnt to death after an 18-seater bus went up in flames along the Ado-Ilawe Road in Ekiti State. According to sources, It was said the bus driver, who was oblivious of the windy and hilly nature of the road, was at top speed when the bus, …