Sunday, 19 May, 2024

Category: Crime


The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) is urgently calling for the immediate release of Joshua Rogers, a reporter with Channels TV, who was abducted from his residence in Rumuosi, Port-Harcourt, Rivers State, on Thursday night.Rogers was taken by unknown gunmen Read more…


The immediate past Director-General of the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC), Babatunde Irukera, has raised concerns about allegations of ‘predatory pricing’ by foreign airlines against Nigeria’s Air Peace. The accusations come as Air Peace recently commenced its Lagos-London Read more…


From Ifeoma Ejiofor Anambra State Joint Security Force has extended its manhunt for criminals attacking security formations in the State to Ogbaru forest. The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) for Anambra State command, Tochukwu Ikenga (SP) revealed this in a Read more…


The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has debunked as false, news making the rounds that one of its prosecutors was offered a bribe over the Malabu OPL 245 fraud case leading to the dismissal of the charges against a Read more…


The National Chairman of All Progressive Congress ( APC) who was a former Kano state governor, Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje along with his wife, son and six others are to be arraigned at a Kano High Court on 17th April Read more…


Justice Abimbola Awogboro of a Federal High Court in Lagos has convicted popular Nigerian cross dresser, Idris Okuneye alias Bobrisky, over mutilation of the Naira. The defendant is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) The court Read more…


An eleventh suspect has been put under arrest over the March 23 terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall concert venue, the press service of the Moscow criminal courts said in a statement on Friday. The man was charged with Read more…


Bandits who kidnapped 61 villagers at Budah Hausa Village in Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna State three weeks ago have killed five of the abductees. Fifty-one other victims, it was gathered, were released on Tuesday by their abductors after Read more…


The Labour Party (LP) has said the residence of its National Chairman, Julius Abure was gutted by fire on Wednesday. The party also claimed that there was an assassination attempt on Abure. The National Publicity Secretary of the Labour Party, Read more…


From Ifeoma Ejiofor Authorities of Awka South Local Government Area of Anambra State have named a street after the State’s Commissioner of Police, Aderemi Adeoye(CP). The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) for the command, Tochukwu Ikenga(DSP), in a statement said Read more…


The Federal Government and the International Criminal Police Organisation have commenced the process of extraditing a Binance chief, Nadeem Anjarwalla, who escaped from detention on March 22. Security agencies had in February arrested Anjarwalla and Tigran Gambaryan, two executives of Read more…


A tenth suspect has been placed under arrest in relation to the March 23 terrorist attack on the Crocus City music venue near Moscow, Basmanny District Court announced on Monday. Yusufzoda Yakubjoni –a Tajikistani national– is to remain in custody Read more…