Wednesday, 01 January, 2025

Category: Crime


The Kenya Police Service has arrested fleeing Binance executive, Nadeem Anjarwalla, as the International Criminal Police Organisation moves to extradite him to Nigeria within the week. Government sources familiar with the case who spoke on condition of anonymity because they Read more…


Suspected gunmen have killed at least 12 persons in Pushit community in the Mangu local government area of Plateau State on Thursday in a fresh attack. Our correspondent learnt that the attack leading to the death of the victims occurred Read more…


The National Security Adviser to the President, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, on Thursday, expressed concern about what he described as the booming illegal firearms market in the North. This was as he decried the high level of poverty in northern Nigeria, Read more…


Orders his arrest at any entry or exit point The Nigeria Immigration Service on Thursday placed the immediate past governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Yahaha Bello on its watchlist after evading arrest by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Read more…


The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Wednesday was granted a warrant by a Federal High Court in Abuja to apprehend Yahaya Bello, the former governor of Kogi State. The warrant was issued following an ex parte motion filed by Read more…


The Speaker, Kaduna State House of Assembly, Yusuf Liman, on Wednesday, warned Bello El-Rufai, the son of the immediate past governor of the state, Nasir El-Rufai, against threatening and intimidating the House over the investigation of his father’s tenure. The state Read more…


The Oyo State Commissioner of Police, Hazmat Adebola, on Monday, paraded 21 suspected Yoruba Nation agitators who invaded the state Governor’s Office and the House of Assembly, on Saturday morning. Adebola, who paraded them at the state Police Headquarters, Eleyele Read more…


The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has noticed the rising tide of commentaries, opinions, assumptions and insinuations concerning its progressive investigations into the alleged financial misappropriation in the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development. At the Read more…


The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA) says it has intercepted a commercial bus conveying N3.2million counterfeit cash owned by an eight-month pregnant woman, Favour Peter, 24; Esther Adukwu, 27, and Ochigbo Michael, 39. Director, Media and Advocacy NDLEA Headquarters Read more…


In a telegram signed by Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin, addressed to Archbishop Anthony Fisher of Sydney, Pope Francis expressed his deep sadness in learning of the violent attack in Sydney, Australia, at a local shopping centre where six Read more…


The abductors of the wife and housemaid of the former Chief of Staff to the immediate past governor, Samuel Ortom, Abigail Orbunde, and Patience Ogute, have demanded N100 million. This was disclosed by Tahav Argezua, a close ally of Terwase Read more…


The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration Control (NAFDAC) has sealed a popular groceries and cosmetics supermarket, Pinnacle in Dugbe area of Ibadan over sale of fake products. The supermarket, usually a beehive of activities was now a shadow Read more…