Wednesday, 17 September, 2025

Category: Crime


The former group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited, Mele Kyari, is reportedly being quizzed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over financial misappropriation. The development was revealed by a source inside the Read more…


From Ifeoma Ejiofor The commercial town of Onitsha was on Tuesday thrown into pandemonium as OCHA brigade allegedly shot four people dead. The incident which happened in the early business hours at Emeka Offor Plaza caused many traders in the Read more…


From Ifeoma Ejiofor The Anambra State Commissioner of Police, Ikioye Orutugu (CP) on Tuesday held a press briefing to commemorate his six months in office. CP Orutugu said that the past seven months he has spent policing Anambra State has Read more…


•Obi calls for national security emergency FORMER Vice President Atiku Abubakar, on Sunday, decried the weekend gruesome killing of scores of people by Boko Haram insurgents in Borno State. In a post on his X handle, Atiku expressed deep sadness Read more…


More than 24 hours after kidnappers had a field day in Edo killing eight personnel of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, and abducted scores of others, the state government is yet to speak on the incident. DAILY Read more…


Eighteen (18) passengers travelling along the Benin-Auchi Highway in the newly floated Edo Line, were on Friday kidnapped in Edo State. The victims who were said to be Abuja bound passengers were forced into the bush by the daredevil kidnappers Read more…


The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has confirmed the death of Emeka Ehekweme and his wife in the accident that occurred on Nnamdi Azikwe Way at Mabushi, in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja, on Wednesday afternoon. The Police also confirmed Read more…


Zamfara State governor, Dauda Lawal, has said he can wipe out banditry in the state within two months if he is given control over security agencies. The governor, in a video that has gone viral, explained that he knows the Read more…


From Ifeoma Ejiofor Anambra Police – led Joint Security Force, has dislodged and destroyed a militia camp in Aguluezechukwu community in Aguata LGA. The operatives comprising troops from the 302 Artillery Regiment (GS), 14 Field Engineer Regiment, Operatives of the Read more…


NORTHERN elders under the auspices of Northern Elders Forum, NEF, Wednesday, called on President Bola Tinubu to declare a state of emergency in the north following the protracted insecurity that has devastated the socio-economic life and development of the region. Read more…


A tragic incident occurred yesterday  afternoon at Mabushi Bridge, Abuja, when a family of four lost their lives in an accident allegedly caused by suspected touts, popularly known as Agberos. According to witnesses, the touts operating under the Abuja Municipal Area Council Read more…


Former Aviation Minister, Senator Hadi Sirika, has dismissed widespread claims that the controversial ‘Nigeria Air’ project initiated under the Muhammadu Buhari administration was a scam, insisting that he was “very clean” from any misdeed. Sirika said this during an appearance Read more…