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...

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

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...

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

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)...

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

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...

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...

Police In Abuja Apprehends 19 Members Of Proscribe Shiites’ Movement

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...

Abducted 10 year old boy rescued by Enugu police

Police in Enugu State have rescued a 10 year old boy, Kamsiyo Sunday also called Kamsi, at Nsukka, along MCC Road. The police command on Tuesday rescued Kamsi who was abducted from his parents’ home at Ukwuinyi Ogrute in Enugu-Ezike community of Igbo-Eze North Local Government Area, on 26/03/2023 at about 4pm by yet to be identified criminals Daniel Ndukwe, the Police Spokesman of Enugu State command stated this on Tuesday in a statement made...

Police Arrest Vigilante Member For Gang Raping In Adamawa

The Adamawa State Police Command has arrested one Bello Abdullahi 30 years, a member of a Vigilante group for gang-raping two Girls in Sangere village, Yola South local government area, of the state while two accomplices are at large. A statement by the Police Public Relations Officer in the state SP Suleiman Yahya Nguroje said the suspects lured their victims to a nearby bush in the remote side of the community and forcefully had Carnal...

Pastor defiles 12-year-old daughter in Anambra

The founder of one Holy Trinity Healing Ministry, Arinze Obiwenite, has been arrested for allegedly defiling his 12-year-old daughter. Mrs. Ify Obinabo, the state Commissioner for Women and Social Welfare, in Anambra confirmed the development to newsmen on Saturday. The commissioner noted that Obiwenite’s residence at Abacha town in Idemili North Local Government Area was raided on Monday following a tip-off. The 12-year-old victim and her two younger siblings were, however, taken away by the...

Armed Men Gun Down 2 Police Operatives In Enugu

…Vehicles Used By Perpetrators Recovered The Commissioner of Police Enugu State Command, CP Ahmed Ammani has confirmed the attack and death of two police operatives serving in Uwani Police Division of the Command. In the command’s official bulletin signed by the Police Public Relations Officer DSP Daniel Ndukwe, the two dead operatives were on routine stop and search duty at Osadebe Street, along Campus Gate Road, by Kenyatta Market Enugu on Sunday 26/03/2023 at about...

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