crime

Border closure: FG seized guns, 5,676 cartridges, 1,957 vehicles, others, says FG Pump-action guns, cartridges/ammunition, bags of rice, drums of Premium Motor Spirit (popularly called petrol), etc., were among items seized by the Federal Government during the 16-month period that Nigeria’s land borders were closed. It was gathered that 5,766 …

The operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (@rrslagos767) on Friday 18th December, 2020, arrested two suspected Awawa cult members in Oko-koto, Agege, hours after foiling a traffic robbery around Otedola Bridge on Lagos – Ibadan Expressway. The suspects, Rasak Babatunde, m, 22 year-old mechanic and Idowu Wasiu, m, 16-year-old tailor, …

Sometimes mid last year, bandits in Katsina State needed a deal badly to stop fighting. As they said at the time, they were tired of fighting. They got a deal with government. And government kept to its side of the agreement. But banditry in Katsina never stopped. The continuation of …

The police in the US are investigating the death of a Nigerian couple believed to have resulted from murder-suicide. Dr. Ben Okigbo and his wife, Theresa, were found dead in their Sugar Land, Texas home on Friday morning, according to police. The discovery was said to have been made around …

A child christening party on Ojuwoye Street in the Mushin area of Lagos State has turned bloody after some attendants stabbed a guest to death on the claim that he collected food more than three times. The Lagos State Police Command, which confirmed the incident, said it had launched a …

Mahuta town, Dandume Local Government Area of the state, abducted by bandits on Saturday have been rescued. Newsextra24 earlier reported that the Islamic students were abducted on their way home after they graced a maulud procession at Unguwar Al-Kasim, a nearby village. This is coming two days after the release …

Gunmen suspected to be bandits have abducted many students of Islamiyya school in Mahuta town, Dandume Local Government Area of Katsina State. According to Katsina Post, the Islamic students were abducted on their way home after they graced a maulud procession at Unguwar Al-Kasim, a nearby village. The actual number …

The Nigerian military on Saturday made some disclosures on how it carried out the rescue operation of the 344 boys kidnapped from their school in Kankara, Katsina State, on December 11. The military disclosed that while kinetic and non-kinetic approaches were used to ensure that all the boys were rescued …

Six members of a family in a car narrowly escaped death on Saturday after a tanker loaded with 44, 000 litres of diesel went up in flames on Otedola bridge, along Lagos – Ibadan Expressway. It was learnt that the family narrowly escaped from the explosion scene before the fire …

Photo for illustration 53-year-old supposed pastor has reportedly impregnated 20 members of his church congregation claiming being instructed by the Holy Spirit to do so. The self-acclaimed clergy man is said to be cooling off in the custody of the Enugu State Police Command. The pastor, identified as Timothy Ngwu, …