Category: Crime

This is not best of times for the National Leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu who had been in dilemma since #ENDSARS crisis started two … Read More

Governors of the 19 northern states had an emergency meeting this evening in Kaduna State over the violence and tension arising from the nationwide #EndSARS protests.  The #EndSARS protesters had … Read More

The Nigerian Army headquarters has denied deploying soldiers to the Lekki tollgate despite video evidence showing uniformed soldiers shooting at the scene. The army in a Facebook post branded several … Read More

A protester shot dead by soldiers in Lekki, Lagos; hoodlums attack on Orile Police Station, Lagos; and some of the vehicles burnt at Apo Mechanic Village in Abuja. Violence that … Read More

Following the reports of bloody protest and brutality inflicted on protesters in some parts of Ibadan, Governor Seyi Makinde has deployed men of the joint security task force to go … Read More

Two unidentified persons were shot dead on Tuesday at the Santana Market along Sapele Road in Benin as hoodlums engaged policemen enforcing a 24-hour curfew imposed by the Edo State … Read More

The leader of arewa consultative forum has Stated that the North will not hold their hand and watch southerners remove Buhari from power because of their thirsty desire to restructure … Read More

Senator Olufemi Lanlehin has said that the recent attack on the Palace of the Soun of Ogbomoso, Oba Jimoh Oladunni Oyewumi, Ajagungbade III, allegedly by some EndSARS protesters, is highly … Read More

Mohammed Adamu, inspector-general of police, has set up a new unit to replace the disbanded special anti-robbery squad (SARS). The formation of the new unit was announced 48 hours after … Read More

Angry youth on Sunday stormed Soun palace in a tattered cloths to protest the killing of Isiaka Jimoh who was shot dead during #ENDSARS protest in Ogbomoso.  Recall Mouthpiece NGR … Read More

Gunmen have killed the village head of Runji in Auchan Ward, Ikara Local Government Area of Kaduna state, Alhaji Musa Abubakar. The village head was killed in the early hours … Read More

The Inspector-General of Police has announced the disbandment of Federal SARS and the 36 States and FCT Commands of SARS following public outrage. Personnel to be reintegrated into other policing … Read More

Former House of Representatives aspirant and member of Oyo State Local Government Service Commission, Hon. John Adisa Oke has received with shock and sadness, news of the death of Jimoh … Read More

Hon Segun Ogunwuyi, the director-general of Oyo State Investment, Public and Private Partnership Agency (OYSIPA), has condemned in strong terms the reported killing of Isiaka Muhammad Jimoh of Ogiri Compound, Alasa, … Read More

The Police Command in Oyo State has debunked the reported shooting of EndSARS protesters in Ogbomoso by its personnel. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that some youths had, … Read More

A student whose identity yet to be confirmed has been reportedly shot in the ongoing Ogbomoso-ENDSARS- protest.  Mouthpiece NGR reliably gathered that the protest has become extremely violent with police … Read More

An Ikeja High Court has remanded a 22-year-old man, Elijah Anyasador, in the correctional centre for allegedly robbing a housewife returning from church of her handbag containing N100 and a … Read More

A principal lecturer in the Department of Adult Education of the defunct College of Education now Tayo Akpata University, Ekiadolor, Benin, Friday Orobator, has committed suicide over a 13-month unpaid … Read More

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has arrested a police office, Etim Israel, for engaging another person to sit for him in the 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). … Read More

The Chairman, Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission, Prof Bolaji Owasanoye, said the agency has discovered N2.67 billion meant for the school feeding programme in private accounts. Owasaoye said … Read More