Category: Crime

No fewer than 72 suspects were arrested by the Oyo State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency in three months. The suspects, comprising 52 males and 20 females … Read More

An Akure Chief Magistrates’ Court,  weekend, ordered the remand of 18-year-old Tope Momoh, for allegedly strangling his 52-year-old mother, Stella Momoh to death. Police Prosecutor, Nelson Akintimehin, said that the … Read More

A 37-year old woman, Udeogu Chinelo has been arrested by operatives of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Anambra State Command for allegedly flogging her three-year-old grand … Read More

The remaining 23 kidnapped Kaduna train victims have been rescued, The Nation can confirm. They were rescued around 4pm by a seven-man Presidential Committee assembled by the Chief of Defense Staff (CDS) General L … Read More

The police in Ekiti State have arrested a 32-year-old man, Olufemi Akindele, for allegedly stealing N620,115 from the offering vault of the Christian Apostolic Church Campground at Ikeji Arakeji, Osun … Read More

Two suspects have been arrested by the Kwara State Police Command for alleged abduction of a traditional ruler, Abdulrahaman Ifabiyi, Onire of Owa-Onire, in Ifelodun Local Government Area of the … Read More

Decomposed bodies of two women have been found in a shallow grave in the office of a medical doctor, Abass Adio Adebowale Adeyemi, in Kaiama Local Government Area of Kwara … Read More

The University of Calabar (UNICAL) says John Lyon, an alleged kidnapper, is not a graduate of the institution. NAN reports that Gabriel Egbe, the institution’s registrar, disowned Lyon in a … Read More

The Ilorin Zonal Command of the EFCC has arraigned a 53 -year old civil servant, Oyawoye R. Olajumoke Fafemi, for allegedly defrauding 23 (twenty three) church members seeking employment. Fafemi, a staff … Read More

There is palpable tension in Iganna, a town in the Iwajowa Local Government Area of Oyo State, following a deadly attack on the police station in the community. Our correspondent … Read More

An Ikeja High Court has sentenced the deposed Baale of Shangisha in Magodo area of Lagos Mutiu Ogundare, charged with faking his kidnap to 15-year jail term. Justice Hakeem Oshodi … Read More

Detectives from the Bayelsa Police Command have arrested a suspected kidnap kingpin, John Ewa, who had been on the wanted list of the police in the state. MOUTHPIECE NGR learnt … Read More

The Lagos State Environmental Enforcement and Special Offences Unit impounded 150 motorcycles for violating traffic rules in the last one week. The unit’s spokesman, Mr Gbadeyan Abdulraheem, stated on Sunday that 10 … Read More

Two monarchs in Ondo State, Oba Ademola Idowu Oloworiyibi, the Olufon of Irele and Adeyemi Akinde, the Olu of Igodan Lisa, have been arraigned before an Akure Magistrate Court for illegally parading … Read More

An Ikeja special offences court has sentenced a 31-year-old Lagos teacher to seven years imprisonment for sexually assaulting his 16-year-old student. NAN reports that the teacher, who was sentenced on … Read More

The Principal-General of Madonna Community Secondary School (MCSS) in Oruk Anam local government of Akwa Ibom Monday Ekoriko has regained freedom after allegedly paying N4.2m to kidnappers who abducted him about two … Read More

A 17-year-old girl, Pieper Lewis was sentenced to five years in prison on Tuesday for stabbing her alleged 37-year-old rapist, Zachary Brooks to death in June 2020. The Iowa court … Read More

Police in Osun State has arrested five suspects for allegedly killing, robbing and belonging to an unlawful society. During interrogation, the suspects confessed that they were paid the sum of … Read More

The Ebonyi State Police Command has arrested a 20-year-old mother and her lover, who sold their baby to a maternity home owner for N500,000. It was reported that the 20-year-old … Read More

Men of the Kwara Police Command with vigilance members in the early hours of Wednesday engaged some suspected kidnappers in gun duel in Shao area, Moro local government area. Two of the … Read More