Troops Raid Gun Factory In Taraba, Recovers Weapons, Two Suspects Arrested

A weapon fabrication factory located at Wukari village in the Wukari local government area of Taraba State was raided by troops of Operation Whirl Stroke and two suspected gunrunners were arrested and recovered weapons. The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) in a statement on Saturday by the Director of Defence Media Operations; Major General Musa Danmadami, said the troops on April 28 acting on credible intelligence conducted raid operations. “The troops arrested two suspected gunrunners found at the...

Kidnappers Collect N2.5m As Ransom, Shot Dead Victim’s Husband

Operatives of the Adamawa State Police State Command in collaboration with Hunters in Mubi, Adamawa State have apprehended two kidnappers including the Master Planner of kidnapping activities in Mubi and its environs while three others were at large. The kidnappers on 3/04/2023 killed one Alhaji Ahmadu Mohammed of Digil Village, Mubi North Local Government Area of the State, and abduct his wife Aisha Ahmadu, 28 years old. SP Suleiman Yahaya Nguroje, spokesman of the Adamawa...

24 Years Old Man Strangles, Buries Friend In Enugu

The Enugu State Police Command has arraigned a 24 years old man, Agbo Onuabuchi, a native of Ebonyi State, but resident in Ogidi town, Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State, for strangling to death and burying his male friend, Mr. Peter Ukekwe aged 44, in a shallow grave, at Amuri community in Nkanu West Local Government Area on Saturday 1st of April 2023. The Police official bulletin, signed by the Police Public Relations...

Angry Youths Buried Two Persons Alive In Benue State 

Two persons were buried alive in Konshisha local Government area in Benue State over allegedly being behind the thunder strike that affected one Henry Ihwakaa, his wife, and a two-week-old child. Ihwakaa, the father of Henry, was accused by the youths of bewitching people with a thunderstorm in the area any time it rains. The youths were said to have mobilized themselves on a fateful day, attacked Ihwakaa and his alleged collaborator, and later dug...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

NDLEA Apprehends South American With 117 Parcels Of Cocaine

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...

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...

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