A 5-man robbery gang specialized in robbing hotels and Point of Sale (PoS) in Calabar has been arrested by men of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC). State Commandant of the NSCDC, Charles Brown, who paraded the suspects in Calabar, confirmed the arrest, saying they were arrested following …
Read More »
THE Rivers State Police Command says its operatives gunned down two notorious kidnappers, including a gang leader nicknamed ‘Occasion’ during a gun battle in a forest in Emuoha Local Government Area of the State. The Police Public Relations Officer, Grace Iringe-Koko, made this revelation in a statement issued in Port …
Read More »
OPERATIVES of the Nigerian Navy, attached to the NNS BEECROFT have arrested 14 stowaways on board a motor tanker identified as UOG CONSTANTINE at Lagos Roadstead. Commander NNS BEECROFT and Maritime Component Commander of Operation AWATSE, Commodore Kolawole Olumide Oguntuga, who made the disclosure in a statement, said the stowaways …
Read More »
ELEVEN illegal miners and two alleged vandals of railroad infrastructure have been taken into custody by the Federal Capital Territory Command (FCTC) of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC). Newsextra24 reports that the Command Spokesperson, Comfort Okomanyi, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday. The statement claims that the …
Read More »
GUNMEN on Monday kidnapped a high court judge, Justice Joy Uwanna, and her driver, in Oron Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State. It was gathered that the judge’s orderly was killed in the attack which occurred along Uyo-Okobo road. The Chairman of the Oron branch of the Nigeria Bar …
Read More »
UNKNOWN gunmen suspected to be armed bandits in the early hours of Tuesday attacked Tursa village in Rabbah Local Government area of Sokoto State, killing at least one person and kidnapping six persons from the village. Confirming the development to newsmen on Tuesday morning in Sokoto, the State Police Public …
Read More »
THE attention of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has been drawn to some insinuation and contrived accounts of the conviction of an internet fraudster, Victor Oche Odeh by Justice Darius Khobo of the Kaduna State High Court on July 21, 2023. Odeh, 19, was among five undergraduates convicted …
Read More »
OLASUNKANMI Adeyemi, the father of a nine-year-old boy, Emmanuel Adeyemi, has cried out over the sudden disappearance of his child during an evangelical outreach in the Orile-Agege area of Lagos state on November 19. Newsextra24 reports that while narrating the incident to PUNCH, Adeyemi said they had left together for the …
Read More »
ANAMBRA State Police Command has confirmed the death of five people following a shooting at a nightclub in Oba in Idemili South Local Government Area of the state. Police Commissioner in the state, Aderemi Adeoye revealed the victims included local vigilantes, a bouncer, and patrons, with the club owner also …
Read More »
ONE Samuel Soyemi has detailed a terrifying encounter where men, claiming to be police from Zone 2 in Lagos, forcibly entered his home and abducted his family. During the late-night incident on October 10, Soyemi recounts the alleged officers extorted over one million Naira and falsely accused him of serious …
Read More »
