The Cross River State Commissioner for Environment, Mr Mfon Bassey , has been quizzed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission . It was gathered that he was arrested at his residence in Calabar on Thursday. The Uyo Zonal Head of EFCC , Edeh Uchenna , confirmed this on Friday. Uchenna said , “ One […]
The Delta State Police Command said it had launched a manhunt for the abductors of a 12-year – old girl, Blessing Imeh , who was found with a slit throat in Abraka , in the Ethiope East Local Government Area of Delta State . PUNCH Metro learnt that Blessing went missing on January 1, 2021, […]
Kwara State Police command has arrested a 24-year-old Medinat Ibrahim, who allegedly faked her own kidnapping in connivance with two other persons. Parading the three suspects in Ilorin on Wednesday, the state Commissioner of Police, Muhammed Bagega, represented by the command’s Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Ajayi Okasanmi, said that Medinat conspired with her older […]
Justice Lateefa Okunnu of the Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja, on Tuesday, January 5, 2021, convicted and sentenced Okey Nwosu, a former Managing Director, Finbank Plc, to three years imprisonment for over N10.9 billion fraud. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, had arraigned Mr Nwosu alongside Dayo Famuroti, Agnes Ebubedike and Danjuma […]
….I bought human head N20, 000 suspect A murder suspect, Tajudeen Monsuru, 30, involved in Iwo ritual killings has confessed that proceeds from sales of human parts are used to drink beer during his leisure hours. Fielding questions from journalists while he was paraded along with other suspected criminals at the State Police Command Headquarters […]
Bauchi State Police Command said it has arrested 20-year-old Adamu Abdul Ra’uf for allegedly removing the private part of a 6-year-old girl in Jama’are Local Government Area of Bauchi state. The command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Ahmed Mohammed Wakil, disclosed this in a statement on Monday. He said: “On interrogation, the suspect freely confessed to […]
A 20- year- old man in Bauchi State has been arrested by the police for allegedly cutting off the private parts of a six -year -old child for ritual purposes . The Police Public Relations Officer, Bauchi State Command, Ahmed Wakil , disclosed this in a statement made available to journalists on Friday. He said […]
Trial of a self-styled herbalist, also known as Alfa Jamiu Isiaka, who allegedly impersonated the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina and a former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Maikanti Baru, to defraud a South Korean national, Keun Sig Kim, to the tune of N30million, […]
Tension has gripped Obeiba Ihima community , in the Okehi Local Government Area of Kogi State , following the abduction and murder of a 62- year -old hunchback , Ahmad Suberu, by suspected ritual killers. Sources in the community told PUNCH Metro that persons with humps had been disappearing in Obeiba Ihima and Ihima Ba […]
Dr Isidore Ojukwu Nwankwo, a former rector of Enugu Polytechnic has been sent to to prison for scamming his students. Justice N.I. Buba of the Federal High Court, Enugu handed over the sentence on Thursday. Nwankwo was prosecuted by the Enugu Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on a six-count charge, […]
