A Minna Chief Magistrate Court has remanded 16 boys charged for being suspected members of a secret cult and joining unlawful gathering in Lapai. The boys mostly students and graduates of the Niger state University also known as the Ibrahim Badamasi Babaginda University Lapai (IBBUL), according to the First Information Report (FIR) were on Thursday arraignment before the court on 2 count Read More
The Federal High Court sitting in Minna Niger state Wednesday remanded two persons accused of publishing injurious statement on social media against former Head of State, General Abdulsalam Abubakar, linking him with ownership of a Chooper suspected to be supplying arms to bandits in the state. The accused suspects, Abdulkareem Ajibola and Anas Umar were charged under section 24(1B) of the Cyber crime law. The Read More
The leadership and members of Hunters Group of Nigeria Wednesday declared their unalloyed support for the Administration of Governor Adegboyega Oyetola in the State of Osun. The hunters also endorsed the governor for second term, saying they were ready to do everything possible to ensure his re-election in the forthcoming governorship election. This is even as the governor inaugurated the Read More
Crisis seems to be looming in Ogun state All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of the local government elections as aspirants in Obafemi-Owode Local Government area of the state took to the street to protest the selection of a Chairmanship candidate battling certificate forgery scandal. The protesters who storm the premises of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) Iwe Iroyin, Oke Read More
Osun State Command of the Nigeria Police has confirmed the death of four policemen and three civilians in the bank robbery that took place at Apomu/Ikire on Wednesday evening. According to the spokesperson of the command, SP Yemisi Opalola, armed robbers numbering about 35 stormed the towns around 6:10pm in attempt to rob banks. Opalola explained that four policemen, ASP Read More
Less than 24 hours after gunmen burnt down the Atta Police Station in Njaba Local Government Area of Imo State, another police station in Izombe, Oguta Local Government Area of the state has been touched by people believed to be unknown gunmen. However unlike the Atta incident, four of the hoodlums met their untimely death in an exchange of fire Read More
Nine members of Eye cult group, were on the 24th of May 2021 arrested in Ajegunle area of Ibogun during a supremacy battle between them and members of Alora confraternity. The arrested was contained in a press statement issued by the police public relations officer (PPRO), DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi and made available to Blueprintthe suspects, Sodiq Olabisi, Oluwatosin Andrew, Oladimeji Oyedele, Read More
A 47-year-old woman, Olanshile Nasirudeen, has been apprehended by men of the Ogun state police command for stabbing her 51-year-old husband, Jimoh Nasirudeen to death. DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, the police public relations officer (PPRO) made this known in a press statement made available to Blueprint in Abeokuta Thursday. According to Oyeyemi, the suspect was arrested following a distress call received Read More
The Association of Ebonyi State Indigenes in the Diaspora (AESID) has condemned the kidnap of the former Coordinator of Anuagata Development Centre, Okposi in Ohaozara Local Government Area of Ebonyi state, Barr. Amos Ogbonnaya allegedly some political thugs. The victim was said to have been abducted at a gun point after he was bombarded with series of threatening text messages Read More
The men of the Ogun State Police Command in the early hours of Saturday 15th of May, 2021 engaged some dare devil armed robbers in gun battle at Ipamesan area of Sango, in Ado-Odo Ota Local Government area of the state. This was revealed by the police public relations officer (PPRO), DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi in a press statement made available Read More
The Sokoto state Police command has rescued 12-year-old girl identified as Joy, who was allegedly locked up in a room by her parents for eight months in Dadin Kowa area of Sokoto. Joy who was said to have been locked up and deprived of food due to her unstable mental condition, was rescued after the police were alerted by neighbors. Read More
Four members of a kidnap syndicate, have been arrested by operatives of Ogun state police command for kidnapping a 13-year-old girl in Onipanu area of Ado odo ota local government area of the state. The suspects, John Nelson, Adeleke Ayotunde, Adekunle Basit and Abey Fagbemi were arrested, following a complaint lodged at Onipanu divisional headquarters, by one Adejunwon Odunowo, who Read More
A 28-year-old woman, Favor Oko, from Ugwuegu community in Afikpo North local government area of Ebonyi state, has been arrested by the police for allegedly killing her co-wife’s three-year-old son. She was said to have killed the little boy for lack of her husband’s attention. Meanwhile, Police in Abakaliki said they discovered decomposing bodies of two young men Silas Nkwuda and Chukwuemeka Nwoba in Read More
More revelations are unfolding as no fewer than 12 shallow graves have been uncovered in the compound of Mr. Uduak Akpan, the suspected killer of one Miss Iniubong Umoren, a graduate of philosophy in the guise of offering her a job in Uyo, Akwa Ibom state The suspect who is now under interrogation at the police Headquarters at Ikot Akpan Abia, Read More
The Association of Ebonyi State Indigenes in Diaspora (AESID) has strongly condemned the recent dastardly attacks on several communities in Ebonyi state, even as it cautioned the perpetrators to give peace a chance. The group described as “traumatic” for citizens and residents of Ebonyi state following reported cases of attacks on individuals and public facilities by some unknown gunmen. In Read More
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) Akwa Ibom state command says it has arrested two suspects with over 3,000 litres of suspected adulterated Automotive Gas Oil (AGO) concealed in a truck laden with yoghurt drink.The Akwa Ibom commandant of NSCDC, Mr Samuel Fadeyi, disclosed this while briefing newsmen at the command exhibits yard in Uyo on Wednesday . Fadeyi Read More
Senator Clifford Ordia (PDP Edo Central), was on Monday, attacked twice by suspected bandits along Okenne-Lokoja and Lokoja-Abaji roads. Ordia who heads the Senate committee on Local and Foreign Debts, lamented to newsmen on Wednesday on how escaped death by whiskers, when the daredevil suspected bandits opened fire on his convoy, while returning to Abuja from his hometown in Edo Read More
Nineteen suspected agents of bandits have been arrested by men of the vigilantes in Munya and Shiroro local governments of Niger state. It was learnt that five of the informants made up of two brothers of the same father and the other three, fulani herdsmen were apprehended at Chiri village in the Shiroro local government of the state while the Read More
Unknown gunmen Monday night killed two Soldiers at military checkpoint located at Amasiri Junction, Afikpo North local government area of Ebonyi state. Blueprint reliably gathered from a top security source that the incident took place at around 8pm on Monday. “The gunmen also carted away the riffles of the two dead soldiers”, the source added. Also a source in the Read More
At least one worshipper was shot dead after suspected bandits invaded a church in Chukun Local Government Area of Kaduna state. Details of the incident which happened Sunday morning are still sketchy but newsmen gathered that some worshippers were abducted while others sustained injuries. Chukun has been under siege by bandits and all efforts to secure residents have not yielded Read More
A day after disclosing to newsmen that 50 suspects of the Easter Monday Imo attacks have been arested and that they were sponsored by politicians, Governor Uzodimma’s palacial building at his country home, Omuma, Oru West LGA of Imo state has been razed. Although the Police Public Relations Officer(PPRO) Imo Police Command, Mr Orlando Ikokwu could not be reached to confirm the Read More
The police in Ondo state have arrested a woman, Titilayo Kudaisi, for selling her one-year-old baby. The state commissioner of police Bolaji Salami, while parading the suspect and others at the state police headquarters, said Titilayo sold the baby for a sum of N300,000. Titilayo said he was lured to sell the baby by a friend for N300,000 on the Read More
Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have abducted about 18 persons on the Igboora-Eruwa Road in Ibarapa area of Oyo state. Blueprint gathered that the 18 persons were abducted by the gunmen on Wednesday night while traveling in an 18-seater bus said to be coming from Abeokuta, and heading for Eruwa through the Igboora- Eruwa road. The gunmen alleged to be herders Read More
A 25-year-old operative of Amotekun was on Tuesday shot dead by suspected armed bandits at Fiditi town, in Afijio local government area of Oyo state According to the Oyo state Commandant of Amotekun Corps, Col Olayinka Olayanju (rtd), during the attack, another Amotekun operative was shot by the suspected bandits. Col Olayanju (rtd) in a statement made available to journalists Read More
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