Sunday, 23 August, 2026

Category: Crime


Emotions ran high on Saturday as the remains of late Arise TV news anchor, Somtochukwu Maduagwu, fondly called Sommie, were laid to rest in her hometown of Agulu, Anaocha Local Government Area of Anambra State. The September 2025 tragedy, which Read more…


The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), in collaboration with the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) and the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS), has deported the remaining 51 foreign nationals convicted and sentenced for cyber-terrorism, internet fraud, and related financial crimes in Read more…


The attack occurred on Friday evening, as confirmed by a resident.  Armed bandits have killed two police officers in the Southern Kaduna region of Kaduna State. The attack occurred on Friday evening, as confirmed by a resident.  The officers were Read more…


Kanu’s legal team argues that the Federal Government’s continued prosecution is unconstitutional, citing multiple violations of his fundamental rights, international law, and the jurisdictional competence of the court. The detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Read more…


The nation’s top court has blocked the handover of the detained ex-Ukrainian army officer to Germany Italy’s top court has suspended the extradition to Germany of a Ukrainian national suspected of coordinating the 2022 Nord Stream gas pipeline sabotage. The Read more…


The group described the alleged plot as “wicked,” accusing the DSS of attempting to “create a false scene of insecurity so that the Nigerian government can announce a lockdown of Abuja under the pretext of ‘security concerns.’”   The Global Defence Read more…


Four senior police officers who allegedly escorted two men caught with $6.1 million in cash at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Lagos, have been detained. The officers; CSP Muhammad Safiyan, ASP Desmond Abella, Inspector Suleiman Jubrin, and Inspector Ali Read more…


Former presidential candidate and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, Dr. Gbenga Hashim, has berated the Federal Government over what he described as its “shamefully political and dangerously unserious” response to Nigeria’s deepening insecurity crisis. Hashim said the government’s reaction to Read more…


Troops of the Nigerian Army, in coordinated operations across the country, have neutralised top commander of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) identified as ‘Alhaji’, 26 other terrorists and arrested 22 suspects. A statement by the Nigerian Army on Read more…


HUMAN Rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana, has said that the Ogoni 4 and the Ogoni 9 were brutally killed by the Sani Abacha military junta in 1995. While speaking at the 84th posthumous birthday lecture of Ken Saro-Wiwa in Port Read more…


Russia is suspected of being behind the cyber attack that forced Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) to stop production, The Telegraph can reveal. The scale of the attack and the economic damage inflicted have raised suspicions that the hackers were acting on behalf of Read more…


The sources, who requested anonymity as they are not authorised to speak publicly, said the travellers were believed to be couriers of a politically exposed person. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said it has kicked off investigation into Read more…