Thursday, 26 December, 2024

Category: Crime


The Delta State High Court sitting at Asaba on Tuesday sentenced Inspector Ubi Ebri of the Nigeria Police Force to death on a murder charge. The court presided over by Justice C. D. Diai convicted and sentenced the Inspector to Read more…


A  Kano High Court sitting at Audu Bako Secretariat has granted order restraining the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) from arresting, detaining, harassing, intimidating or inviting the presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) in the 2023 general elections, Read more…


The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has through the Court of Appeal, Abuja, recovered 20 properties, 10 vehicles and three princely wristwatches from two brothers, Olisaebuka Eze and Onyeka Nnadozie Eze, for a petitioner, Arthur Eze. EFCC spokesperson, Dele Read more…


Residents of Aba, Abia State are counting losses following the reprisal attacks by soldiers over the killing of five colleagues at Obikabia Junction, Ogbor Hill, Aba, on Thursday, May 30. Unknown gunmen had attacked the military checkpoint at the junction, killing the Read more…


Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen was assaulted on a public square in Copenhagen on Friday. Police have arrested a male suspect, and Frederiksen is not believed to be seriously injured. The attack took place at Kultorvet square in the center Read more…


Abia State Governor, Alex Otti, has increased the N25m bounty placed on the killers of five soldiers at Obikabia junction in Aba to N30m. Otti announced this on Friday when the Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshall Hasan Abubakar, paid Read more…


The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Kaduna State chapter said the reports of the Kaduna State House of Assembly investigations on financial expenditure of the immediate past administration of Malam Nasir Elrufai has vindicated their position. A statement issued by PDP Read more…


Concerned about the escalating insecurity in the country’s North West and North Central zones, the Senate has called on President Bola Tinubu to set up a task force to evaluate the effectiveness and implications of negotiating with bandits. This task force Read more…


Governor Alex Otti of Abia State has disclosed that credible information about the killers of five soldiers in Aba on May 30, has started trickling in. The Governor who made the revelation when he visited the 144 Battalion Osisioma, Abayi, Read more…


Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has argued that the assassination attempt that nearly killed him last month emanated from foreign-backed politicians who refuse to accept foreign policies that prioritize Bratislava’s interests over the agendas of major Western powers. Fico posted Read more…


The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) has announced returning a Kaduna-bound train with passengers to  Abuja at the Asham Railway Station in Chikun local government area of Kaduna State. NRC, in a statement by its Deputy Director, Public Relations Yakub Mahmood, attributed the Read more…


The chairman of the ad hoc committee, Henry Zacharia, presented a report during plenary on Wednesday. The report found that most loans obtained under El-Rufai’s administration were not used for their intended purpose, and that due process was not followed Read more…