The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Kwara State Command, has arrested one Ganiyat AbdulRaheem, for allegedly stealing a bundle of clothes, valued at half a million naira. According to a statement by Mr. Babawale Afolabi in Ilorin on Wednesday, the suspect committed the crime on July, 15 at Ago Market, Ilorin. “A case of theft was reported at our office on July 18. It was transferred to the Intelligence and Investigation Unit of...

Zamfara State Police Command has confirmed that it rescued 100 kidnapped victims, most of them Nursing Mothers with their kids. SP Mohammed Shehu, the Command’s Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), who revealed this during a Press Briefing at the Command headquarters in Gusau, said the victims were rescued unconditionally and no ransom paid. While Presenting 80 Persons among the rescued Victims, PPRO said the rescue was coordinated by the Police and Zamfara State government under...

BIRNI KEBBI, (Kebbi State) —The Emir of Gwandu and the Chairman Kebbi State Council of Chiefs, Alhaji Muhammadu Bashar has blamed parents on increase in banditry and other forms of criminality in the country. The emir stated this in his Eid-el-Kabir speech shortly after the completion of two Rakaat prayers at Eid Praying ground in Birnin Kebbi on Tuesday. He said most of the criminality being perpetrated in society could be traced to indiscipline and...

KADUNA — The Kaduna State Commissioner of Internal Security and Home Affairs Samuel Aruwan says the state records 774 kidnap cases while 222 persons were killed due to banditry and other violent crimes in three months. Aruwan while presenting security reports to Governor Nasir El-Rufai and other top government officials on Tuesday noted that 87 bandits were killed within the period. The report shows that the bandits have started collecting levies from farmers in communities...

YOLA — Adamawa State Police Command says it has recorded no fewer than 25 cases of rape and defilement between January and June 2021 in the state. DSP Suleiman Yahaya Nguroje, the spokesman of the command, who disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Yola, said that 16 of the victims were minors and nine adults. He added that all the suspects, who were mostly from within the neighbourhoods, had...