Thursday, 25 July, 2024

Category: Crime


A gunman opened fire at former President Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania rally Saturday, injuring him and causing him to be rushed offstage in a dramatic scene just days before he’s set to be nominated as the Republican presidential nominee. Few details Read more…


No fewer than 13 persons have been allegedly killed by suspected herdsmen who invaded a community in Agatu Local Government Area of Benue State. DAILY POST learnt that the herdsmen, while carrying out the attack, burned houses and looted properties Read more…


Members of the so-called Chosen Company, an international mercenary group fighting on behalf of Ukraine, consistently engage in apparent war crimes by killing wounded or surrendering Russian soldiers, the New York Times reported on Saturday, citing a German battlefield doctor. Read more…


THERE was a startling revelation in Awka that no fewer than 59 dead persons, 40 retired staff, including those presently working in two tertiary institutions in Anambra State, as well as people who have relocated abroad, are still earning salaries Read more…


Bandits have killed the eldest son of a judge of the Kaduna State Customary Court, identified as Janet Galadima, while demanding N300m ransom to free the judge and her three other children still being held. The Chief Executive Officer of Read more…


Angry youths protesting the upsurge of bandits attacks in Benue State have burnt down the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) office in Sankara, headquarters of Ukum Local Government Area, Benue State. Sam Olumekun, National Commissioner & Chairman, Information and Voter Read more…


The Nigeria Customs Service said its operatives intercepted nine containers carrying offensive items including arms, ammunition, Illicit drugs and second-hand clothes worth N13.9 billion. The Comptroller-General, NCS, Adewale Adeniyi disclosed this on Monday while addressing journalists in Onne Port, Rivers Read more…


A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has declared as illegal, the declaration of the wife of former Central Bank Governor, Godwin Emefiele, Margaret as a wanted person by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. Mrs. Emefiele had dragged Read more…


Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has blamed the latest terror attacks in Borno which claimed many lives on government’s failure to hold firmly to the frontline. He stated this in a post on his X handle, @atiku, on Sunday, saying that Read more…


The Action People’s Party (APP) has said that the alleged silence of the National Security Adviser (NSA), Nuhu Ribadu; the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun; the Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Olatunji Disu, and the Department of State Service Read more…


Emir of Gwoza local government area of Borno State, Alhaji Mohammed Shehu Timta, yesterday, confirmed that multiple suicide attacks were carried out at various locations, including a wedding reception and a burial ceremony in Gwoza town. The coordinated incidents, which Read more…


A member of the House of Representatives belonging to the group of opposition lawmakers known as the G60, Hon. Aliyu Mustapha, has urged the Inspector General of Police and Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Commissioner, Ben Igwe, to investigate alleged Read more…