crime

No fewer than eleven suspected cultists have reportedly been arrested by Operatives of the Lagos State police on Monday, January 18, Newsextra24 reports. The Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, CP Hakeem Odumosu said the suspected cultists who were arrested over the weekend, have been terrorising Owode-Elede, Agilinti, Maidan and Afinjuomo …

A preliminary investigation by the police has shown how Systems Engineer and winner of 2018 IBM competition, David Nketim-Rex, was killed. Top police sources as well as a relative of the deceased told The PUNCH on Monday that David was shot by robbers on a motorcycle along Jibowu Street in the …

Boko Haram Terrorists Display Armed Personnel Carrier Captured From Nigerian Soldiers Militants from the Islamic State backed faction of Boko Haram, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), formerly known as Jamā’at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da’wah wa’l-Jihād, have displayed an Armed Personnel Carrier the group captured from Nigerian soldiers. According to …

An Ekiti State High Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital, has sentenced an Assistant Commissioner of Police, Okubo Aboye, to life imprisonment for buying stolen vehicle from kidnappers in the state. The court on Monday also sentenced seven other persons, Solomon Ayodele Obamoyegun (39), Femi Omiawe (40), Damilola Obamoyegun …

The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has arrested a Nigerian national who swallowed 12 pellets or capsules containing cocaine after being apprehended by agency officials on January 14. The accused was arrested from outside a prominent five-star hotel in Mumbai’s Juhu area on the basis of a tip received during the …

SEVEN SAVED IN A GHASTLY MOTOR ACCIDENT In the early hours of today, 18th January, the LASEMA Response Team responded to a lone accident involving a commercial bus at Third Mainland Bridge. Upon arrival of the Agency’s Tiger Team at the incident scene, it was discovered…. …that the commercial bus …

A Police Sergeant, Ibrahim Odege, attached to the Operations Department of the Rivers Police Command has been arrested alongside one Sampson Inomoghe at the scene of a crime at Elekahia Housing Estate in Portharcourt, Rivers State. Security guards and the estate residents arrested the two suspects during a robbery operation …

Thirty-eight-year old Moses Keffi, an ex-employee of a second generation bank, who was arrested last Thursday on the Osu/Ile-Ife Expressway for armed robbery, has said he was invited by a friend, simply identified as ‘Ibadan’, to Osun State to buy a car Keffi was arrested by the police alongside Odeyemi …

The Deputy Registrar in the Federal University of Technology, FUTA, Akure, Ondo State, Dr Amos Arijesuyo died after he was shot in the chest by suspected kidnappers on Saturday evening. He reportedly sat in the front seat with the driver while three other occupants sat at the back seat. Family …

Robbery Victim Dies After Nigerian Police And Hospital Refused To Save Him (Photos) A young man identified as David Ntekim-Rex has died after he was shot on his way home from work and Nigerians have blamed his death on the current state of the country, Newsextra24 reports. Cousin of the …