In a verdict delivered on Monday, 6 May 2024, an Ekiti State High Court sentenced three men to death by hanging for armed robbery. The convicts, identified as Oyebanji Sola, 31; Jimoh Azeez, 31; and Ogunlade Babatunde, 28, were found guilty of robbing occupants of a private student hostel located along Federal Polytechnic Road, Ado Ekiti, on 3 October 2018. Justice Lekan Ogunmoye, who presided over the case, stated that the prosecution successfully proved the...

Petitions against “brazen act of corruption and human rights abuse” going on at the SCID Awka under the watch of  Mr Fakorade Awka-based lawyer, Mr Richard Okonkwo, has called on the Nigerian Police authority to beam searchlight on the activities of a Deputy Commissioner of Police in-charge of the Anambra State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID Awka, Mr Akin Fakorade in order to bring sanity and professionalism back to the department that will ensure safety of...

Operatives of the Anambra State Police Command have arrested no fewer than seven persons for suspected cultism and armed robbery in the State. The Police Public Relations Officer, SP Ikenga Tochukwu disclosed this in a statement issued to newsmen. According to him, the gang members were arrested at about 10.pm on Friday when the officers swooped on them. He said a cut-size double barrel gun, one tricycle without a reg number, and some hard drugs...

The Nigerian Defence Headquarters, DHQ, has announced significant progress in the fight against terrorism, claiming that troops neutralized over 715 terrorists and rescued 465 kidnapped victims in operations conducted throughout April. Major General Edward Buba, Director of Defence Media Operations, revealed these figures during a press briefing in Abuja on Thursday. He elaborated that the operations involved a combination of ground and air offensives carried out across the country. “The synchronised strikes between the ground...

A 24-year-old lady Sheba Simon was stabbed with a knife by a phone snatcher in Damaturu, the Yobe State capital near Damaturu City College in Malali Byepass around 9:30pm on Saturday, April 27, 2024. It was learned that the victim was chatting with her phone after she dropped from a commercial tricycle and was trekking home from work when the attacker stabbed her with a knife and fled with her cell phone, leaving her in a...

The Lagos State Police Command has apprehended the gang of robbers responsible for the attack on a Divisional Police Officer, DPO, at the notorious Otedola Bridge. The arrest comes just two weeks after the daring attack on 9th April, where CSP Tokunbo Abaniwonda of Alausa Division was targeted by armed robbers while conducting an undercover operation. The robbers inflicted machete injuries on the DPO and stole her phone before escaping. The police refused to let...

A Boko Haram militant, Sajeh Yaga, willingly surrendered to Nigerian army troops on Sunday. The surrender took place in the town of Mafa, a location frequently targeted by Boko Haram attacks. Details surrounding the reasons for the militant’s decision to defect remain unclear. However, it might not be unconnected to the heightened military operations against the terrorists that have led to a wave of increased Boko Haram defections in recent months. The surrendered militant handed...