Crime

Chidinma Ojukwu: I didn’t Report Ataga’s Death Due To Fear

Chidinma Ojukwu, the 300-level Mass Communication student of the University of Lagos, UNILAG, who was arrested last Wednesday, over the murder of Chief Executive Officer, Super TV, Usifo Ataga, in a service apartment in the Lekki area of Lagos State

A University of Lagos 300-level student on trial for the alleged murder of Super TV CEO Michael Ataga, Chidinma Ojukwu, told a Lagos State High Court on Monday that she refrained from reporting the incident to the police because she was afraid of being falsely implicated. Chidinma, who testified before Justice Yetunde Adesanya in the court’s Tafawa Balewa Square division, explained that she was reluctant to do so because she had seen people accused after reporting crimes in the past. She also said that, out of nervousness, she had thought of calling the apartment’s security man but ended the conversation.Read More

How Nigerian Army Personnel Turned ‘Peace Meeting’ In Delta Community To Shooting Spree, Killed Over 50 Persons Including Children – Residents

Okuama community in Ughelli South Local Government Area, Delta State set ablaze by Nigerian Army

Residents of Okuama community in Ughelli South Local Government Area, Delta State, have disclosed what caused the shooting when some Nigerian Army officers visited their community for a “peace discussion.”Read More

Court Blocks Extradition Of Disgraced Nigerian ‘Super Cop’ To U.S., Dismisses Government’s Application

Abdulraman Abbas, also known as Hushpuppi and the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Abba Kyari

Kyari is wanted in the US over alleged conspiracy to commit wire fraud, money laundering and identity theft. A Federal High Court in Abuja has dismissed a suit instituted by Read More

Medical Doctor Narrates How Nigerian Policemen Robbed Him At Gunpoint In Delta

Police patrol

He decried the impunity with which the personnel robbed him at gunpoint. A medical doctor, Dr Henry Nneji has detailed how operatives of the Nigeria Police Force, Delta State Command Read More

Audi: Some NSCDC Officials Colluding To Vandalise Oil Pipeline

Commandant General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Dr. Ahmed Audi

The Commandant General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Dr. Ahmed Audi, has lamented that some of his men were colluding with some criminal elements to vandalise Read More

$3.65bn Abacha Loot Recovered By FG In 24 Years

Late Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha

The total amount of looted funds recovered from late Head of State, General Sani Abacha in the past 24 years has been put at $3.65 billion. This was revealed by Read More

Police Arrest Suspected Killers Of Bauchi Lawmaker, Mante, Police Chief Superintendent, Other

Police Arrest Suspected Killers Of Bauchi Lawmaker, Mante, Police Chief Superintendent, Other

The killers also kidnapped Mante’s two wives and one-year-old daughter in August 2020. The Nigeria Police Force has arrested four suspected killers of Musa Mante, who was a serving member Read More

Security Operatives Arrest Two Dangote Trucks With 300 Bags Of Smuggled Foreign Rice, Detain Drivers

Dangote Truck

Two trucks belonging to the Dangote Cement factory have been seized for allegedly smuggling of 303 bags of foreign parboiled rice in Ogun State. The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Ogun Read More

Court Upholds Life Sentence For Two Nigerians Over Drugs Smuggling In Cambodia

In 2014, two Nigerian cloth vendors, Emmanuel Thankgod and Michael Sunshine were arrested for their involvement in drug trafficking from Brazil to Cambodia.

In 2014, two Nigerian cloth vendors, Emmanuel Thankgod and Michael Sunshine were arrested for their involvement in drug trafficking from Brazil to Cambodia. An Appeal Court in Phnom Penh in Read More

Panic As Kidnappers Attack Hotel In Kwara State, Kill Owner, Abduct One

16 HOUR hotel owner, late Kayode Akinyemi

There is tension in Alomilaya neighbourhood in Ganmo community, Kwara State, after some unidentified gunmen attacked 16 HOUR hotel and killed the owner, identified as Kayode Akinyemi. Flavision gatehred that Read More

Boko Haram Terrorists Attack Chibok Community, Displace Hundreds Of Residents

Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorist group

Insurgents from the Islamic State-backed faction of Boko Haram, the Islamic State West Africa Province formerly known as Jamā’at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da’wah wa’l-Jihād, have attacked Takulashi Shikarkir, a local ward Read More

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