Four Female Students Of FGC Yauri Regain Freedom After Two Years In Captivity

Crime & SecurityEducationNewsNigeria Four Female Students Of FGC Yauri Regain Freedom After Two Years In Captivity

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)April 23, 2023

Four out of the 11 remaining Federal Government College (FGC) students, Birnin-Yauri, Kebbi State, abducted two years ago by bandits, regained freedom on Saturday after payment of an undisclosed ransom. Recall that bandits in large numbers with sophisticated guns had attacked the college when students were writing examinations in May 2021 and abducted over 350 male and female students to an unknown forest after killing some policemen at the gate for entry. Those freed are Faiza...

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Former NPA Staff Bag 14 Years Imprisonment Over N24.3m Fraud

Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaFormer NPA Staff Bag 14 Years Imprisonment Over N24.3m Fraud

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)April 21, 2023

Former staff of Nigeria Ports Authority, Nasiru Ogara has been sentenced to 14 years imprisonment over N24.3m fraud. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission had charged Nasiru Ogara before Ikeja Special Offences Court on a four-count charge and his company, New Age Motor Waste Basket Ltd. Nwandu Ukoha to the Commission’s counsel said Ogara induced the Director of Kelly Newton Nigeria Ltd, Usman Ademoye, in 2017, to confer a benefit on him by delivering 8,000...

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Man 35, In Prison Custody For Allegedly Raping Two Year Old Baby

Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaMan 35, In Prison Custody For Allegedly Raping Two Year Old Baby

PilotnewsApril 15, 2023

Children, Sexual and Gender Based Violence Magistrate court in Awka has remanded one Joseph Egwuatu, a 35 year old man who allegedly raped a 2 year old baby in Anambra West Local Government Area. Joseph who hails from Nzam in Anambra West LGA was arraigned before the Children, Sexual and Gender Based Violence Magistrate court in Awka on Wednesday, April 12, 2023 on a two count charge bothering on rape. Though the charge was read...

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NDLEA Apprehends South American With 117 Parcels Of Cocaine

Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaNDLEA Apprehends South American With 117 Parcels Of Cocaine

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)April 11, 2023

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA have apprehended a 34-year-old South American man from Suriname, Dadda Lorenzo Harvy Albert at the Port Harcourt International Airport, Rivers State with 117 parcels of cocaine concealed in extra-large latex condoms factory packed inside bottles of 100ml body spray. Femi Babafemi, NDLEA spokesman in a statement, said the suspect claimed to come to Nigeria in search of his lost Nigerian father by name Omini. According to...

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Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaInvaders Kills 134 People In Otukpo, Benue State

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)April 11, 2023

Armed invaders within five days in separate attacks on villages in Otukpo, Apa and Guma local government areas of Benue state have killed at least 134 people. Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State said the death toll of Wednesday’s attack on Umogidi village in Otukpo LGA rose to 52 from the initial 46 recorded on the spot, adding that three people had been killed in the same village a day before the massacre. Ortom, who...

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Benue: Herdsmen kill traditional ruler’s two children, 34 others

Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaBenue: Herdsmen kill traditional ruler’s two children, 34 others

By Uzoamaka Ikezue (Staff Reporter)April 9, 2023

Injure 38 others Ortom summons emergency security meeting Not fewer than 36 people have been confirmed killed by suspected Fulani herdsmen in Nyiev council ward of Guma Local Government Area (LGA) of Benue State by criminals suspected to be herdsmen on Friday night. The attackers razed down an undisclosed number of houses, set fire on barns of yam seedlings and other farm produce warehoused in the affected houses. Reports have it that the majority of the...

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 Naira Redesign: Three In NSCDC Net Over Fake N2 Million, US Dollars

Crime & SecurityNewsNigeria Naira Redesign: Three In NSCDC Net Over Fake N2 Million, US Dollars

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)April 6, 2023

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) Zamfara state command has recovered fake United States Dollar currency notes and fake newly redesigned N1000 notes worth about N2 million from three persons in the state following their arrest. The command while parading the suspects at its headquarters on Wednesday in Gusau, the state capital said they were arrested in Gusau on the 3rd of April 2023 while paying for transport fare to a tricycle (Keke Napep)...

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Kaduna State Government Imposes 24 Hour Curfew On Sabon Garin Nassarawa-Tirkaniya

Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaKaduna State Government Imposes 24 Hour Curfew On Sabon Garin Nassarawa-Tirkaniya

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)April 4, 2023

Following breakdown of law and order in Sabon Garin Nassarawa-Tirkaniya of Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State which led to the killing of two citizens, the Kaduna State Government has imposed a 24-hour curfew on the community. According to the State Commissioner, Ministry of Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan in a statement on Monday, security agencies had been directed to enforce the curfew in the area. Aruwan said the curfew takes immediate...

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Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaGunmen Invade Dabna Community In Adamawa State, Killing Three Persons

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)April 4, 2023

Three persons have been killed, and properties worth millions of naira destroyed by yet-to-be-identified gunmen who invaded the Dabna community in the Hong local government area of Adamawa State in the early hours of Monday. Dabna is a village close to the Sambisa forest in Borno state, the den of Boko Haram. Recall that in July 2021, gunmen attacked the same community killing 21 persons including a pregnant woman. In a swift reaction, the Adamawa...

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Police In Abuja Apprehends 19 Members Of Proscribe Shiites’ Movement

Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaPolice In Abuja Apprehends 19 Members Of Proscribe Shiites’ Movement

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)April 1, 2023

The Police Command of the Federal Capital Territory FCT has apprehended 19 members of the proscribed Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), aka Shi’ite movement for unlawful procession. Recall that in July 2019, the Federal Government obtained a court order from the Federal High Court in Abuja to proscribe the Shiites’ organization. On Thursday, the Federal High Court in Abuja has rejected an application filed by El-Zakzaky, leader of the movement, requesting the Department of State...

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