Monday, 05 May, 2025

Category: Crime


The Abia State Police Command has confirmed the kidnapping of the Board of Trustees Chairman of the Petroleum Retailers Outlet Owners Association of Nigeria, Chief Obasi Lawson, by gunmen in Azumini, Abia State. In a Friday statement titled “Re: Abduction Read more…


The Adamawa State Police Command has arrested a 34-year-old suspect, Tahamado Demian, for the kidnapping of two Catholic priests, Reverend Fathers Abraham Samman of the Jalingo Diocese and Matthew Dusami of the Yola Diocese. This was disclosed in a statement Read more…


A Federal High Court in Lagos has ordered the permanent forfeiture of $1.4 million linked to fraud involving the embattled former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele. In his ruling on Thursday, Justice Ayokunle Faji stated that Read more…


From Ifeoma Ejiofor Police Service Commission (PSC) said it has received petition against Nigeria Police Force (NPF) Zone 13 in Ukpo, Anambra State. The development was contained in a press release signed by Ikechukwu Ani,Head, Press and Public Relations for Read more…


A youth leader in Obosi community, Idemili North Local Government Area(LGA) of Anambra State,  Chidebe Ibeakuzie( aka Mighty), has been  shot dead  by security agents in an ensuing tussle over the ownership and control  of a tricycle park near the military cantonment in Onitsha. During Read more…


Fresh details have emerged regarding a petition filed and submitted to the Senate by Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan against Senate President Godswill Akpabio, alleging sexual harassment, abuse of office, and obstruction of legislative duties. The petition, dated March 4, 2025, and Read more…


Northern and Southern leaders have engaged in a sentimental war over the sexual harassment allegation levelled against Senate President Godswill Akpabio by Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan. The Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) has alleged that the sexual harassment allegation by Senator Read more…


The Commissioner of Police CP Ikioye Orutugu, fwc MNIPS PhD, acknowledging the grief of the family of the late three children found in a fridge at Nnewi has granted the request of the bereaved family to bury their children. He Read more…


Former Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has called on Senate President Godswill Akpabio to submit himself to an open and transparent probe following allegations of sexual advances leveled against him by Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan. Saraki, in a statement released Read more…


The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Friday, arraigned former Abia State governor, Chief Theodore Orji, his son, Chinedum Orji and three others, Dr. Phillip Nto, Onwumene King Obioma, and Romanus K. Madu, before an Abia State High Court, Read more…


Bandits have killed five people and abducted 100 people in Zamfara and Katsina State. The bandits hit back again, killing five people and abducting more than 50 people in a series of attacks across Zamfara State. LEADERSHIP gathered that since Read more…


A former acting Accountant-General of the Federation, Anamekwe Nwabuoku, on Wednesday, urged the Federal High Court in Abuja to grant him time to negotiate an out-of-court settlement with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission over an alleged N1.96bn fraud. Nwabuoku Read more…