BENIN — The police in Edo on Friday arraigned a 72-year old man and two others before an Ogbeson Chief Magistrates’ Court, Benin for allegedly stealing 50 units of tricycles, valued at N25 million. The three defendants were Ifeanyi Onukwube, 35, Chima Sunday (AKA Papa), 72, and Bethel Abraham, 27. The Police Prosecutor, Sgt. Kehinde Iyawe, said that the accused were arraigned on a four-count charge, bordering on conspiracy and stealing. Iyawe said that the defendants...

Security agencies, on Thursday evening, quelled an attempted jailbreak by inmates of Kurmawa prison, located within the precinct of Emir’s Palace, Kano. Sporadic gunshots were heard within the centre as most residents settled to break their fast Thursday evening. The Public Relations Officer, Kano State Correctional Center, DSC Musbahu Lawal Kofar Nasarawa told reporters in Kano that there was an attempt by some condemned prisoners to cause pandemonium in the prison.  “We have put down...

Kano State Coordinator of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Alhaji Shehu Abdullahi says it has received 276 cases from January to March 2021 in Kano State. Abdullahi who disclosed this in an interview with newsmen on Wednesday in Kano said out of the 276 cases, 203 cases have been completed while 73 are still ongoing. “Some of the cases include abandonment, child abuse, domestic violence, sexual and gender-based violence, rape, indecent assault, neglect of...

Suspected bandits allegedly launched an attack on a military camp in Zazzaga community, Munya LGA of Niger state early Wednesday morning. At about 4 am on Wednesday, unknown men with arms invaded Zazzaga community in groups, shooting sporadically. As reported by TheCable, differents groups attacked different areas of the community. While a group attacked the military camp located near a junior secondary school in the area, another group blocked the major road that leads to...

The Christian Student Movement (SCM) of Nigeria has raised concern over the rising spate of banditry and general insecurity in the South-East. The President of the SCM, Mrs. Eberechukwu Ubesie disclosed this on Wednesday in Enugu during her inaugural press briefing as the newly elected leader of the group. Ubesie said that the group was worried that the current state of insecurity in the region, especially, in Ebonyi, had displaced some members of certain communities...

Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have invaded a private university in Kaduna state and abducted some students on Tuesday night. The academic institution, Greenfield University, is located along the Kaduna-Abuja Highway in Chukun Local Government Area. The institution private university in the state and was established in three years ago. The latest attack is the major one that the bandits will launch on communities around the Kaduna-Abuja Highway since 300 female soldiers were deployed to...