Crime

  The suspected killers of worshippers of St Francis Catholic Church, Owo, have been arrested by the Ondo State Security Network Agency, codenamed Amotekun Corps. According to a local radio station in Akure, Crest Fm, Amotekun operatives also recovered some weapons and vehicles used to perpetrate the terror attack on ...

The Ibadan Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, June 20, 2022, secured five convictions before the Federal and State High Courts in Ibadan, Oyo State and Osogbo, Osun State respectively.   Among the convicts is Amusa Abdulhakeem Oluwasegunfunmi, a final year student of Transport ...

  Unknown gunmen, on Sunday, attacked worshippers at St. Moses Catholic Church in Robuh, Unguwan Aku, Kajuru LGA of Kaduna State while winding down their first mass. It gathered that the gunmen came to the church in large numbers and started shooting sporadically at the worshippers. In the course of ...

  Police operatives in Taraba State have apprehended a man said to be manufacturing bombs and ammunition for Boko Haram terrorists. The suspect who reportedly hails from Zamfara State is said to also belong to a Boko Haram faction responsible for three bomb explosions recorded in the state this year. ...

A newlywed groom has been killed, while the pregnant wife has been abducted by bandits in Jere town, Kagarko Local Government Area of Kaduna State. It was gathered that four members of the family of a former commissioner of Poverty Alleviation in Kaduna State, Abdulrahman Ibrahim Jere were also abducted. ...

  Gunmen have beheaded a member of the Anambra State House of Assembly, Hon Okechukwu Okoye. Until his death, Okoye represented Aguata Constituency II where the Governor of Anambra, Charles Soludo, hails from. The lawmaker’s severed head was found at Nnobi in the Idemmili South Local Government Area of the ...

  The Accountant-General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris has been suspended indefinitely from office following his arrest by the Economic and Financial Crimes, EFCC over N80 billion Fraud. He was suspended on Wednesday by Zainab Ahmed, the minister of finance, budget and national planning. POLITICS NIGERIA earlier reported that Idris ...

  Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have reportedly quizzed the Accountant-General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris. Naija News learned that the AGF was arrested on Monday over the diversion of funds and money laundering to the tune of N80 billion. In a statement on Monday signed ...

  A video of a man openly boasting of being responsible for the murder of Deborah Samuel has gone viral online. Recall that it was earlier reported that the internet went agog yesterday after a disturbing video surfaced showing moments a mob lynched and set ablaze a lady identified as ...

  Hundreds of angry youths have stormed a police station in the Kajola community of Odigbo council area of Ondo State and blocked the entrance with three dead bodies. The youths alleged that the officers were in the habit of extorting and harassing residents along the Ijebu Ode/Ore expressway. They ...