Kogi East Christian Elders condemn same faith ticket
The Kogi East Christian Elders have condemned the same faith ticket adopted by some political parties. The elders made their…
Teenager bags 12 months jail term for internet fraud in Kwara
Justice Adebayo Yusuf of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin on Friday, November 11, 2022, convicted and sentenced…
Ondo Amotekun arrests teenager for raping brother’s wife, nine others
Men of the Ondo State Security Network Agency, Amotekun, have apprehended a 16-year-old teenager, identified as Precious, for raping his…
Bauchi Police arrest suspected kidnapper over killing of 5-year-old boy, others
A 25-year-old man, Anas Auwal, has been arrested by the Bauchi State Police Command has arrested for allegedly kidnapping and…
Police arrest suspected Ambazonia fighter in Taraba
Taraba State Police Command on Thursday said it has arrested a suspected fighter of the Cameroon separatists group, Ambazonia in…
Mentally deranged lady sets 2-storey building ablaze in Enugu
A mentally deranged lady has reportedly set a two-storey building on fire, on Bigard Seminary Avenue by Hassan Lane Uwani,…
Again, suspected kidnappers attack passengers on Lagos-Ibadan expressway
Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers on Tuesday launched an attack on passengers travelling on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway. This is coming…
Kwara police arrest four kidnappers of former MILAD’s wife
Kwara State Police Command said it has arrested four suspects in connection with the Saturday abduction of the wife of…
Gunmen did not attack our checkpoint in Anambra ― Police
The Anambra State Police Command has debunked a report making a round that its checkpoint was attacked by gunmen at…
14 burnt to death in Kano auto crash
THE Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) Kano state chapter has said that 14 passengers were burnt to death on Gaya-Wudil…
Many feared dead as gunmen attack Police checkpoint in Anambra
Some persons have been feared dead after gunmen attacked a Police checkpoint in Anambra State. Some others were also said…
Navy rescues 10 from capsized fishing trawler in Lagos
The Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) BEECROFT has rescued 10 crew members from a fishing trawler christened OLOKUN XII, which capsized…
Police arrest vandals in Lagos
The police in Lagos State have arrested two suspected vandals, Akpan Fortune and Stanley Umebuane, who have allegedly been destroying…
Court directs convicts to sweep, wash toilets, others for defaming Ganduje on Tiktok
Kano State Magistrate Court presided over by Aminu Muhammad Gabari on Monday ordered 20 lashes be administered on Mubarak Isa…
Soldier who stabbed 34-yr-old man to death now in our custody ― Abia Police
Abia Police Command has confirmed that it has in its custody a Private soldier, Saeed Sabo of the 82 Division…
Man sets five stepchildren ablaze in Ondo
Men of the Ondo State Police Command have arrested a 54-year-old man, Joseph Ojo, who allegedly set five of his…
Five die, two injure in Bauchi fatal accident
A fatal accident has claimed 5 lives while 2 others were seriously injured in Bauchi. According to road traffic crash…
NDLEA arrests two Pakistani businessmen with cocaine at Lagos airport
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), have arrested two Pakistani businessmen at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Lagos with 8 kilograms of cocaine concealed in a public address system while attempting to board a Qatar Airways flight to Lahole, Pakistan via Doha. The two suspects: Asif Muhammed, 45 and Hussain Naveed, 57, who hold Nigerian residence permits suspected to be fake are frequent travelers to Nigeria under the guise of doing textile business. They were arrested on Saturday 5th November at the Lagos airport barely a week after they came to Nigeria, that is, Sunday 30th October. Operatives at the SAHCO import shed of the airport on Friday 4th November seized 13 cartons of Tramadol 225mg and 200mg imported from Karachi, Pakistan. The consignment has a total weight of 465.10kg and 642,800 pills of the pharmaceutical opioid. The previous day, Thursday 3rd Nov, operatives at the NAHCO export shed of the airport also intercepted a consignment of different illicit drugs: Cannabis, Cocaine and Methamphetamine as well as Tramadol 225mg and Rohyphnol concealed in footwears and soap packs going to UAE, Dubai. A 32-year-old Oladitan Serah Olufunmilayo who presented the consignment for export was arrested. Meanwhile, two businessmen who have been on the run for months over their involvement in drug trafficking have been arrested by anti-narcotic officers assigned to track them. Nnebo Ikechukwu Christopher who has been wanted for his role in the importation of 40 cartons containing 346,800 pills of Co-codamol, a brand of paracetamol with Codeine seized at the cargo wing of the MMIA local airport since March 2022, was arrested on Thursday 3rd Nov. In the same vein, operatives on the trail of an automobile parts dealer, Omeje Oliver (a.k.a David Mark) since April eventually arrested him on Monday 31st October in Enugu where he fled to after abandoning his business at Aspanda, Trade Fair Complex Lagos. He was wanted in connection with the seizure of 600 grams of heroin concealed inside soles of lady’s footwears going to Liberia on April 16. On the same day Omeje was arrested, operatives at the SAHCO export shed of the Lagos airport intercepted 550 grams of cannabis loud concealed in machine parts going to Dubai, UAE, while the sender, Ogbure Victor Ifeanyi was later arrested. In Katsina state, operatives on patrol at Malumfashi-Zaria road, arrested a blind man, Bukar Haruna, 52, and his son Saka Haruna, 30 while heading to Niger republic with 20.5kg cannabis and 10 grams of exol-5. They hail from Damagram area of Niger republic. No less than 2, 685.5kgs of cannabis were recovered in four different operations conducted in parts of Edo state in the last week. While 53 bags of C/S weighing 742.5kgs were seized on Wednesday 2nd Nov at a camp in Esioriri, Owan East LGA with four suspects: Chukueke Igba, 32; Solomon Peter, 34; Emmanuel Jeremiah, 36 and Happiness Chidi, 37 arrested, another raid in the house of Joy Zubaru, 45, led to her arrest with 30.5kgs of cannabis recovered. In the same vein, operatives on Thursday 3rd Nov stormed the Egbeta forest in Ovia North East where they recovered 112 bags of cannabis and 8 bags of seeds with a combined weight of 1,598.5kgs, while another team evacuated 27 bags of same substance weighing 314kgs at Amahor village in Igueben LGA. In Mubi area of Adamawa, operatives on Tuesday 1st Nov. intercepted a Toyota Corolla car transporting 9,600 pills of tramadol. A follow-up operation later led to the arrest of the owner of the consignment, Mamuda Ramadan, (a.k.a Muller), while another suspect, Alhassan Muhammed, was arrested on Sunday 30th Oct. along Abuja-Kaduna express road, with 136,000 pills of tramadol concealed inside his car’s spare tyre. While commending the officers and men of the MMIA, Edo, Katsina, Adamawa, and Kaduna Commands of the Agency for the successful operations in the past week, Chairman/Chief Executive of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd), CON, OFR urged them and their counterparts across the country not to rest on their oars until all drug syndicates operating in Nigeria are completely dismantled and the last gram of illicit substance taken out of the streets.
Twenty-one abducted Katsina children released
Twenty-one children kidnapped while working on a farm at Kamfanin Mai Lafia village in Faskari Local Government Area of Katsina…
No trace of kidnapped wife of Head of Special Intelligence Squad ― NSCDC spokesperson
THE Nigeria Security and Civil Defence High Command has confirmed the kidnapping of the wife of the Head of the…
