The Kano State Police Command has arraigned 333 suspected political thugs arrested in various parts of the state during last Saturday’s by-election for various electoral offences. The suspects were arraigned before Magistrate Courts in Nomansland and Gyadi-Gyadi, Kano, for prosecution. Commissioner of Police, Ibrahim Adamu Bakori, who disclosed this while briefing journalists on the security operations in Bagwai/Shanono and Ghari/Tsanyawa constituencies, said the suspects were charged with disorderly conduct, possession of offensive weapons, intimidation, snatching...

In less than two weeks, bandits have abducted 110 people in separate incidents in Bakura and Zurmi local government areas of Zamfara state, North-west Nigeria. A resident of Gusau, the state capital, Mallam Kawu Sule, in an interview with West African Pilot News, said 60 people were abducted in Bakura LGA, and 50 others in Zurmi LGA and Kaura Nomada LGA 38 other abductees were ordered by the bandits to slaughter themselves. He attributed the...

Sixteen (16) inmates have escaped in a violent jailbreak that left five correctional officers injured, two of them critically at the Medium Security Custodial Centre in Keffi, Nasarawa State, in the early hours of Tuesday. The incident had sparked nationwide manhunt and renewing concerns over prison security across the country. The spokesperson of Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) Umar Abubakar who confirmed the incident in a statements, said the escape occurred when a group of inmates...

Comfort Emmanson, the female passenger who assaulted airline crew and security personnel on an Ibom Air flight from Uyo to Lagos, has been charged to court and remanded at the Kirikiri Correctional Facility. Officials confirmed on Monday that Emmanson was arraigned before a magistrate court in Ogba, Lagos, which ordered her remand until 6 October after she failed to provide adequate sureties. The incident, described by the Airline Operators of Nigeria (AON) as “one of...

His Worship Osondu Chukwuani, of Court 1, Enugu North, in the case of Levi Obieze and cohorts, recommends that a higher court presides over the case, as the Magistrate Court has no jurisdiction to try capital offences. The Magistrate stated this after the defendants pleaded not guilty to the seven-count charge against them; Recall that Levi Obieze aka ‘E dey play, e dey show’ was arrested at Badagry-Seme border as he tried to flee the...