Yet to be identified men have killed a Police Officer attached to the Special Anti-robbery Squad, SARS, headquarters in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, whose name was not ascertained at press time. It was alleged that the killers were members of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, who had vowed that there was no going back on […]
The Ogun Command of the Nigeria Police Force has arrested four persons for allegedly being in possession of a human skull. Mr Abimbola Oyeyemi, the state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), disclosed this in a statement issued in Abeokuta on Monday. Oyeyemi said that the suspects, names withheld, were arrested on Sept. 25. He said […]
A Jos High Court on Tuesday dismissed an application by former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Dr Obadiah Mailafia, seeking to stop Police from investigating him. Mailafia was invited by the police for questioning at the Force Headquarters Abuja, last month. The police said the invitation was based on “investigating a […]
A 36-year-old man, Mr. Samuel Kalu aka ‘Akilu’ (Bitter Kola) has been shot dead by unknown gunmen while having a haircut at a barbing saloon located at Umuibe Street, off Item Road, Ndiegoro Aba, Abia State. New Telegraph reports that the incident, which took place on Sunday morning, threw residents of the area into panic, […]
Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have abducted the Caretaker Chairman of Kaura Local Government Area of Kaduna State, Bege Katuka. A commercial motorcyclist was reportedly killed during the kidnapping incident. Although the police and government authorities are yet to confirm the incident, sources told Channels Television that the council chairman was kidnapped on his way […]
At least 30 chiefs are said to have been killed in Gwer West Local Government Area of Benue State by youths in the area allegedly using charms and other fetish powers. The pararamount ruler of Tyoshin community in the local government, His Royal Majesty, Chief Daniel Abomtse, disclosed this Friday during the burial ceremony of […]
Two persons have been killed in a renewed boundary war between the people of Izzi in Ebonyi State and their neighbours in Obubara, Cross River State. The two neighbouring communities have been at war for many years with many killed and properties worth millions of naira destroyed. The age-long boundary war, which restarted on Wednesday […]
Speaker, House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila has stated that the current insecurity being experienced across the country is a potential threat to Nigeria’s corporate existence. He stated this yesterday in Abuja while declaring open a two-day retreat and workshop on promoting effective legislation and oversight of the security sector in Nigeria, organised by […]
Palpable tension has enveloped the Amaeze Community in Ishiagu, Ebonyi state, after 30-year-old Miss Chinenye Aroh, was brutally attacked and abandoned unconscious in a farm by yet-to-be identified assailants. A relation of the victim, Christy Aja, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abakiliki on Wednesday that Aroh was attacked in a remote farm […]
Fulani herdsmen in the early hours of Sunday invaded Governor Samuel Ortom’ s village, Tse – Apera in Nzorov, in Guma Local Government Area of Benue State and killed five persons . According to a native , who simply identified himself as Tseagba , several people were also injured during the invasion of the governor […]
