Crime

Armed bandits, who abducted women accompanying a newly wed bride to her matrimonial home at Damari, Sabuwa LGA of Katsina State, have issued threats to remarry the bride and sell off the other women.   The audacious bandits carried out the abduction last Thursday, targeting the bride and her companions …

He identified the facility as ‘Mother and Child Hospital and Maternity located on a road along the Tansian University, Umunya. Five pregnant girls have been rescued following a raid of a baby factory by security operatives at Umunya in Oyi Local Government Area of Anambra State. The rescue efforts followed …

In a startling revelation, the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes (EFCC), Ola Olukoyede, has disclosed the involvement of a religious sect in Nigeria in laundering money for terrorist organizations.   This information came to light during a one-day dialogue on “Youth, Religion, and the Fight against Corruption” held …

Embattled Afrobeat singer and son of Afrobeat legend, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, Seun Kuti, who is currently being remanded at the State Criminal, Investigations and Intelligence Department, SCIID, Panti, Yaba, Lagos on the orders of Yaba Chief Magistrate Court for assaulting a police officer, has been crowned the ‘General Overseer’ of his …

Seun Kuti, the son of legendary Afrobeat musician Fela Kuti, has been placed under arrest by Inspector-General of Police Usman Alkali Baba.     In a statement on Saturday night, the Force’s Public Relations Officer Olumuyiwa Adejobi made this disclosure.   Seun Kuti was seen in a video assaulting a …

The arrest of Precious Ojo, also known as Obago, by the Benin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has shed light on the nefarious activities of internet fraudsters, commonly referred to as “Yahoo boys,” in Nigeria. Ojo was apprehended at his luxury hotel in Oghara, Delta …

Sonia Ekweremadu, the 25-year-old daughter of former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu has reacted to the sentencing of her parents by the United Kingdom, UK court for organ-harvesting.       Recall that the UK court on Friday, sentenced Ekweremadu to nine years and eight months imprisonment while his wife, Beatrice …

An officer in the Nigeria Police Force has revealed why many of his colleagues take bribes and extort Nigerians at every opportunity.       According to security personnel who spoke to SaharaReporters about the matter, many police officers, particularly thousands recently recruited into the force, have been demoralized and …

A manhunt order has been passed by the Kano State Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Usaini, for Ibrahim Musa, the 22-year-old who allegedly stabbed his biological mother, Hajara Mohammed, 50, to death.     The Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of the Kano State Command, SP Abdullahi Haruna-Kiyawa, made this known in a …

I was pushed out of a running vehicle by robbers on my way from work   i boarded a mini bus from UNTH Ituku Ozalla to Garriki Enugu. on entering the bus i sensed something wasn’t right & asked the driver to drop me, he refused but instead increased the …