crime

Policemen attached to the Imo State University, Owerri, have arrested two fake blind beggars on the varsity’s campus. Their arrest, our correspondent learnt on Tuesday, followed intelligence information given to the police by some students of the institution, that the two young men who had been begging for alms on …

   In an effort by the Sokoto State government to cover up the fact it gave N700 million from Paris Club refund money to the Sultan of Sokoto, the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Prof. Bashir Garba, published a purported 2016 bid to purchase a Guest House in Abuja …

  The police in Lagos have confirmed at least four deaths in a recent attack on a family in Ikorodu. The attack is believed to have been executed by members of the ‘Badoo’ cult that has been terrorising Ikorodu and nearby communicates for several months. The police, however, believe the …

Ex-President Jonathan’s house An Abuja home of former President Goodluck Jonathan has been burgled, PREMIUM TIMES can confirm. However, in what appears a curious twist, the house was not burgled by known thieves, but by police officers assigned to guard the house. The Nigeria Police have thus arrested three of …

High Court sitting in Rivers has found three persons guilty of the murder of four students who were lynched in Aluu community in 2012. The court presided over by Justice Nyordee also discharged and acquitted four others, who standing trial for the 2012 murder. According to the Judge, the prosecution failed …

The Federal Government has raised the alarm over an orchestrated plot to discredit the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, PACAC, and by extension the government’s anti-corruption efforts. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, made this known in Abuja on Tuesday in a statement signed by Segun Adeyemi, his …

  The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, on Monday, said Igbo must not vacate the North, or any other part of the country, as a condition for the actualisation of the agitation for Biafra. The IPOB leader spoke in an interview with some journalists in Enugu, …

A man who beat his girlfriend’s five-year-old son to death in a British park because the child lost a shoe was sentenced to life imprisonment on Tuesday. Marvyn Iheanacho, 39, from London, was found guilty at Woolwich Crown Court of the murder of Alex Malcolm. Witnesses heard a male voice …

The Army has arrested four fleeing Boko Haram terrorists, including a father and son at Kurnari village and Nayinawa in Yobe. According to a statement issued by Army Spokesman, Brig.-Gen. Sani Usman, on Tuesday, the arrested terrorists are: Bukar Waziri, 25, Mammade Lawan, 20, and father and son, Muhammadu Damina, …

Law enforcement officers have been instructed by the President to shoot drug traffickers to death when they are seen with narcotics. Indonesia’s President, Joko Widodo, on Monday, gave the instruction to deal with a narcotics emergency facing the country. “Be firm, especially to foreign drug dealers who enter the country …