The Department of State Services (DSS) in Bayelsa State on Friday arrested a 43-year-old Prophet, Kingsley Jeremiah Amos and three others over an alleged attempt to kidnap and sending life threatening text messages to the Chairman of the Yenagoa Local Government Area of the state, Uroupaye Nimizuoa. Others arrested alongside the Prophet were 38-year-old ICT […]
Gunmen have abducted a female professor( name withheld) of the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University , Anambra State . The lecturer, it was gathered , was reportedly abducted on her way to Awka from the university. The President -General Enugwu-Agidi Brotherly Union , Ndubuisi Obijiofor , confirmed the incident in a statement . He said , […]
An American citizen has been kidnapped by gunmen in southern Niger, a senior official told AFP on Tuesday. The American, described as the son of a missionary living in Niger, was abducted by six men armed with Kalashnikovs on the outskirts of Massalata, a village about 10 kilometres (six miles) from the border with Nigeria, […]
Mr Olayiwola Adeleke, the Chairman of Iganna Local Council Development Area of Oyo State, has been reportedly abducted by unknown gunmen. Adeleke was said to be travelling along the Okeho-Ado Awaye road on his way to Ibadan for a meeting scheduled to hold with Governor Seyi Makinde when the gunmen abducted him alongside with his […]
The Ogun State police command says its operatives have arrested two members of a kidnap syndicate who kidnapped a 25-year-old woman Mariam Fagbohun’ and subsequently murdered her 50-year-old mother in the process. According to a press statement by the police public relations officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, Mariam Fagbohun who runs a provision store and a beer […]
After about six months of trial , a High Court sitting in Port Harcourt , the Rivers State capital, on Friday, sentenced Gracious David- West, a serial killer , to death by hanging . Presiding Judge, Justice Adolphus Enebele , while delivering his judgement on Friday said the suspect was convicted of the murder of […]
AN Ondo high court in Akure has sentenced the Founder of Sotitobire Praising Chapel, Prophet Babatunde Alfa and five others to life imprisonment over the disappearance of a one-year-old boy, Gold kolawole in the church last year. Justice Olusegun Odusola in his judgement convicted the defendants having found them guilty of the two-count charge of […]
A 30-year-old kidnap suspect, Mohammed Sani, said he killed more than 50 of his victims because they could not afford to pay ransom. Sani, who was paraded by the Force Public Relations Officer, DCP Frank Mba, alongside 46 other criminals at the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) Headquarters in Abuja, said he carried out his operations […]
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 […]
The Parish Priest, Rev. Fr. Jude Onyebadi of Saint’s Peters & Paul, Issele Asagba, was said to have been monitored and kidnapped in his farm, at the weekend, where he went to inspect his farm, workers and pay them for the work done. Communication Director, Catholic Diocese of Issele Uku, Rev. Fr. Charles Uganwan, who […]
