Gunmen on Friday night attacked a police station in Ebonyi State, killing three police officers. Two others sustained bullet wounds in the attack on Onueke Police Station in Ezza South Local Government Area of the state. PREMIUM TIMES learnt that the the slain officers included two male inspectors and a policewoman. The attackers reportedly carted […]
The Ogun State Police Command has arrested a former guard, Mela Samaila, for allegedly stealing the offering box of the Grace Nations Church, aka Liberation City. In a statement issued on Friday, the Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said the suspect who worked for the church as a security official, broke into the auditorium. […]
A Kano Magistrate Court presided over by Magistrate Farouk Ibrahim, on Friday has ordered that two men; Jabir Idris, 25, and Salisu Hamisu,32, be given 12 strokes of the cane each forstealing mobile phones in the state. Idris, a resident of Jakara Quarters, and Hamisu of Dandishe Quarters all in Kano were convicted on a […]
There are indications that several crime suspects including kidnappers, armed robbers and cultists have escaped from the custody of the Edo State Police Command. The suspects allegedly escaped from the detention facility of the State Criminal Investigations Department (SCID) at the command’s headquarters in Benin City. All the police officers on duty at the SCID […]
A mob on Monday set two persons ablaze over alleged robbery at Molete and Oke-Ado areas of Ibadan. The Police Public Relations Officer in Oyo State, SP Olugbenga Fadeyi, confirmed the incident in a statement in Ibadan. Fadeyi said that the incident occurred in the morning. He added that one other person was rescued by […]
Some residents of Abule -Ijoko , in the Ifo Local Government Area of Ogun State have turned the tables on a five – man robbery gang that attacked them during the week, killing one of the robbers. City Round learnt that the robbers armed with a locally -made gun and cutlasses ransacked two apartments occupied […]
A man suspected to be the chief priest to the late Benue’s militant leader, Terwase alias Gana, was among the 60 ‘criminals’ arrested and paraded by the Army Special Forces, on Wednesday. The suspected kidnappers, bandits, armed robbers and gunrunners were paraded in Doma Town, Nasarawa State. According to the army, the priest was arrested […]
A notorious robber and rapist , Adeniyi Ajayi , escaped from the custody of the Lagos State Police Command during the #EndSARS protest. A source at the command headquarters said Ajayi , aka Ogologo, shortly after his arrest by operatives of the defunct Special Anti- Robbery Squad , was arraigned and remanded by the court […]
..…I was arrested when invited for peace talk A 26 year old suspected cultist, Tolu Omojuwa has confessed that his group, ‘Eiye fraternity killed three members of a rival cult group known as Black Axe over supremacy tussle in Igbokoda, headquarters of Ilaje council area of Ondo State. Omojuwa who was paraded alongside 33 other […]
A young man suspected to be an armed robber on Wednesday night met his waterloo as he was burnt alive by angry mob along Abak Road, Uyo Akwa Ibom State. It was gathered that the victim of jungle justice was apprehended by Abak road residents while he was trying to snatch a mobile phone from […]
