The death has been announced of an American rapper, Earl Simmons popularly known as DMX. DMX according to his family died at a hospital in White Plains, New York, aged 50. DMX, released hit songs such as “Party Up (Up in Here)” and “X Gon’ Give It to Ya,” drawing inspiration from his hardscrabble life while also emerging as a Read More
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibadan zonal office Wednesday arrested 7 suspected internet fraudsters in Ibadan. EFCC in a statement made available to newsmen said the arrested 7 internet fraudsters included a 31-year- old Lateef Adewale Adeyemi who works with a private IT firm in Osogbo. The commission identified other arrested suspects as Saheed Olatunji, Read More
In a court somewhere in Nigeria… My Lord by way of allocutus the accused person now the convict pleaded guilty for the crime of cybercrime aka ‘yahoo-yahoo’ at the earliest possible time upon his arraignment, thereby not wasting the honorable time of this honorable court. We therefore urge upon my Lord most respectfully to construe the timeous plea of guilt Read More
Assets and funds worth more than $400m stolen from Nigeria have been traced to the United Arab Emirate, (UAE), according to a leading anti-corruption group on Tuesday. The Human and Environmental Development Agenda, (HEDA Resource Centre) corroborated by foreign anti-corruption experts said during an international conference held in Abuja that more than half of the $400m stolen funds are linked Read More
A car dealer, Timothy Ogbeye, told a National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, on Wednesday that he was tortured by SARS operatives in Anambra for refusing to pay N5million. The NHRC independent, is investigating alleged human rights violations by operatives of the defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, and other police units. Mr Ogbeye stated this while giving evidence before the panel in his Read More
A factional national chairman of the Action Alliance (AA), Mr Kenneth Udeze, was on Tuesday re-arraigned before an Osun state Magistrate Court sitting in the state capital, Osogbo on three count charges.Also arraigned alongside Udeze were chieftains of the party, Mr James Vernibe and one Ogunmodede Oluwagbemi. The accused persons were arraigned in suit no, Charge No. MOS 1715/2021 on a Read More
A 35-year-old man, Baba Emmanuel, who allegedly stole a car valued at N2 million, on Monday appeared before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court. Emmanuel, who resides at Iju, Lagos, is facing a charge of stealing. The Prosecutor, ASP Bisi Ogunleye, told the court that the defendant committed the offence on Nov. 30, 2020 at Oko-Oba, Agege, Lagos. Ogunleye said that Emmanuel Read More
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has called on security agencies to unravel the criminals behind the Saturday’s attack on the convoy of the Benue state governor, Samuel Ortom. The ruling party while condemning the incident, insisted that the attackers must be brought to book. The ruling party in a statement signed Sunday in Abuja by its national secretary of the Read More
The chairman of Blueprint Newspapers Media Conglomerate, Alhaji Mohammed Idris, has advised media organisations to avoid ethnic and religious coloration in reporting security challenges in the country. He said journalists should shun stories that celebrate criminals in the reportage of prevailing insecurity in the country. Idris who is also the Kakakin Nupe stated this at the weekend in a lecture Read More
The Inspector General of Police, IGP Mohammed Adamu, has ordered full-scale investigation into the circumstances surrounding the attack and attempt on the life of the governor of Benue state, Dr Samuel Ortom, at his farm in the outskirts of Makurdi, the Benue state capital, on Saturday, March 20, 2021. A press statement by the Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), CP Read More
The FCT Police Command has arrested 10 suspects for armed robbery and drug peddling along Mpape, Kado-Biko and Life-Camp axis. A press statement by the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) for the command, ASP Mariam Yusuf, Sunday in Abuja, said: “Amongst the suspects are: Ibrahim Abdulrasheed, 26; Abubakar Rabiu, 23; Abdulmumini Bello, 19; Abubakar Mohammed, 20; and an ex-convict Shaban Abubakar, 19; arrested Read More
The brutal murder of Terkura Suswam, the elder brother to Senator Torwua Gabriel Suswam, has sent shock waves reverberating throughout the length and breadth of Benue state and the entire world, as many wondered what lies ahead of him and the family. From what has happened is seems nobody is safe from Zone A political axis and even beyond Read More
Gunmen on Wednesday night killed a Police inspector and kidnapped three persons two of whom are suspected to be female students of Kaduna State University, (KASU) at Ungwa Waziri, Karji in Chikun local government area of Kaduna state. An eyewitness account, who confirmed the name of the police Inspector as John Bello, said, “around 11pm on Wednesday, we received a distress Read More
The Vice Chancellor of the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU) Bauchi Professor Muhammadu Ahmad Abdulazeez, has disclosed plan to unbundle Computer Science programme into different degree courses. He made the plan known Wednesday while presenting computer laptops to staff of the department of mathematical sciences in their Yelwa campus’ e-library. The computers were donated to the department by the National Read More
A former staff of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Edo state council, Mr. Osagie Wealth Efe, has been reportedly assaulted by a police personnel.Osagie was said to have been assaulted by a policeman attached to the Taskforce on Covid-19 Committee at Urhokpota ground, King square in Benin City. Osagie said trouble started when he tried to plead for mercy on Read More
An Oyo state Chief Magistrate Court sitting in Ibadan on Tuesday remanded the 70 years old fulani warlord, Abdullahi Wakili, and his three sons in Correctional custody. Wakili was arraigned before an Oyo state Chief Magistrate Court sitting in Ibadan with his three sons Abu, 45; Samaila, 27, and Aliyu Manu, 20. Wakili and his sons were arraigned by the Police Read More
Jama’atut Tajdidil Islamiy Foundation, a nongovernmental organisation, has filed a suit before Kano state High Court seeking an order of mandamus compelling Commissioner of Police, Kano and Attorney General of the state to institute a criminal proceeding against Abduljabbar Nasiru Kabara who was alleged to have defamed the character and integrity of Prophet Muhammad. Addressing journalists in Kano Monday shortly Read More
The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, in November last year, launched the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) Digital Item Registry, a lost and found database, developed in partnership with Primly Premium Solutions Limited, to assist the police in recording stolen/missing items in all Divisions. In this report, Chizoba Ogbeche, examines the implication of the registry on fighting. It’s been argued that Read More
Samsung heir Lee Jae Yong has been sentenced to two years and six months in prison by a high court in South Korea. The bribery case is a retrial of an earlier one involving the country’s former President Park Geun-hye, who was also jailed for bribery and corruption. Lee has been the de facto head of Samsung Electronics since 2014. Read More
Moment of darkness is an appropriate caption for the #EndSARS oddities that occurred recently. A fiction above realities was the propeller that fuelled the tragedies, what a contradiction!! Vast majority among the youth population joined the bandwagon, without even evaluating the consequences of their actions, they deepened the traumatic experience of innocent citizens who are victims of criminalities. There is Read More
The Kaduna state Police Command has arrested a 30-year-old man, Kabiru Suleiman, his wife, Aisha Musa, and one Salamatu Musa for allegedly stealing a three-day-old child in Kaduna. A statement issued by the Command’s Public Relation Officer (PPRO), ASP Muhammed Jalige, on Friday stated that the suspects after planning the act during the child’s pregnancy took the baby to an Read More
The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has unveiled a cybercrime reporting web portal: https://incb.police.gov.ng/ as part of efforts at ensuring ease of crime reportage by members of the public to enable prompt investigation, arrest and prosecution of perpetrators of cybercrime and other related offences. This is as three suspects: Onwuka Emmanuel Chidiebere a.k.a Ceeceeboss TMT, 32, a native of Aro-Ikpa in Abia state; Read More
Rexlawson Johnson, a 31-year-old indigene of Ebonyi state has been arrested by men of the Ogun State police command over the gruesome murder of his girlfriend. The arrest followed a report by one Adebayo Aladesuyi who is a manager of Molayo Hotel, Ibafo who reported that while they were carrying out routine checks of the hotel rooms, they discovered the Read More
The Anambra State Commissioner of Police, Mr John Abang, has said the force have turned into endangered species in the hands of hoodlums unleashing terror attacks on police formations and officers in disguise of #EndSARS protesters. Abang, who stated this at the state police headquarters in Amawbia while parading 18 suspects in connection with killings and destructions of police formations Read More
The Kwara state police command Monday paraded 144 suspects arrested by joint security agencies in connection with last Friday’s looting of government warehouses and private business establishments in Ilorin, the kwara state capital. The state commissioner of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, who paraded the suspects before newsmen at the state”s police headquarters, Ilorin also showed several items recovered from them .The Read More
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