A cloud of mystery hangs over the sudden death of a a high-ranking police officer in Lagos State, Deputy Commissioner of Police Gbolahan Olugbemi, who was found dead in his Ogbomoso residence on Monday, in what appears to be a suicide. DCP Olugbemi was attached to the Force Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (FCIID) in Lagos. According to multiple reports, the DCP “was found hanging in his home” on Monday. The late DCP was a...

A 40 year old man identified as Chigozie Okpara, a native of Imo State has been arrested by the Police in Rivers State for allegedly defiling an underage boy in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital. Report has it that the suspect was caught in the act by neighbours after he lured the minor with food and snacks to his house in Okujagu community, Trans Amadi axis of Port Harcourt on Sunday night. A reliable...

Police in Anambra State have arrested a man carrying a bag containing an AK 47 rifle in Awada, Idemili North Local Government Area. The man who was arrested during the Easter holiday, on sighting the police, took to his heels and was chased apprehended and searched. A press release by the state police command’s spokesperson, SP Tochukwu Ikenga said: “When the bag was searched it was found to contain an AK-47 Rifle with breech No....

In a desperate plea for federal intervention, Zamfara State Governor Dauda Lawal has declared his state the “centre of banditry” in northern Nigeria. Lawal met with President Bola Tinubu in Abuja on Tuesday, urging approval for drastic measures to combat the rampant banditry plaguing the Northwest state. “Zamfara has become the centre of banditry as we speak today,” Governor Lawal lamented to State House correspondents after the meeting. “If nothing is done in Zamfara State,...

A Kano High Court judge sentenced a 47-year-old Chinese national, Frank Geng-Quangrong, to death by hanging on Tuesday. The court found Geng-Quangrong guilty of the murder of his Nigerian girlfriend, Ummukulsum Sani, aged 22. Justice Sanusi Ado-Ma’aji delivered the verdict, stating the prosecution had presented a strong case. “The defendant’s testimony is inconsistent. I hereby find him guilty,” the Judge said. Geng-Quangrong, a resident of Kano’s Railway Quarters, had pleaded not guilty to the charge...