Monday, 23 June, 2025

Category: Crime


From Ifeoma Ejiofor Police operatives in Anambra State command have rearrested one of the two suspected killers of Hon Justice Azuka Hon Azuka before his abduction and assassination was the Labour Party (LP) member representing Onitsha 1 constituency in Anambra Read more…


Calls for the removal of the Minister of Defence, Mohammed Badaru Abubakar, have intensified as a federal lawmaker and a youth group declared him unfit to manage the country’s worsening security crisis. The Afenifere Youth Vanguard for Peace in Nigeria, Read more…


Fresh threats from notorious bandit leader, Bello Turji, have triggered widespread fear and panic across some communities in the North West, especially in Sokoto. With killings and kidnapping still ongoing in Zamfara State, it was gathered that in Sokoto East Read more…


From Ifeoma Ejiofor In a joint coordinated operation, the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps in collaboration with the Nigerian Army and the Nigerian Navy have uncovered a massive illegal artisanal refinery and illegal petrol station at Y – Junction, Read more…


The Northern Governors Forum, NGF, has called on the National Assembly to institute a legislation for the creation of state police to boost security across the country. Director General Press and, Media Affairs to Yobe State Governor, Mamman Mohammed, in Read more…


Air Peace on Sunday, May 10, 2025, successfully repatriated 78 Nigerian women who had fallen victim to human trafficking in Côte d’Ivoire. The free evacuation flight, operated on the airline’s Boeing 737 aircraft, departed Lagos at 14:14 hours and returned Read more…


From Ifeoma Ejiofor Police operatives in Anambra State have arrested a suspected female Kidnapper and three others. The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) for the command, Tochukwu Ikenga (SP) revealed this in a press statement made available to journalists. He Read more…


THE military high command, on Thursday, fingered foreign herders as perpetrators of recent violent attacks on local communities and killings of farmers in Plateau, Benue and other states.  The Director, Defence Media Operations (DMO), Major-General Markus Kangye, disclosed this to Read more…


By Uzo Ugwunze The Anambra State Police Command has taken over the scene of a tragic incident involving the sudden death of four siblings in the early hours of 6th May 2025 at Ogidi, Idemili North Local Government Area, following Read more…


Justice Peter Lifu of the Federal High Court in Abuja has granted three consecutive days to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to conclude the ten-year-old corruption charges it instituted against a former National Security Adviser Mohammed Sambo Dasuki. Read more…


Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has condemned constant attacks in Benue, Plateau, Kaduna, Zamfara and parts of Sokoto states, saying ethnic cleansing of Christian indigenous communities must be stopped. Its National President, Bishop Daniel, made the demand in Makurdi, Benue State, Read more…


No fewer than 19 persons have been killed by bandits in attacks on communities in Bauchi, Bauchi State . A retired senior security official said he counted 19 bodies of victims. Our correspondent gathered that several others were injured in the Read more…