The Edo state assistant commissioner of police, Godiri Agabi who was reported to be dead by TheNation newspaper is said to be alive, Crimefacts.News can confirm. Earlier, Crimefacts.News reported how suspected cultists at Upper Sokponba in Benin on Wednesday last week shot ACP Godiri Agabi. Also recall on Saturday how TheNation newspaper alleged that ACP […]
The security situation in Benin, Edo state capital, has taken a turn for the worse following an increase in cases of cult-related killings, kidnapping and armed robbery. No fewer than 30 people are said to have been killed in cult-related killings within the past week. The cult-related killings, mostly linked to clashes between rival vikings […]
Against the backdrop of attacks by suspected Cultists and criminal elements, particularly escapee and jailed criminals who escaped from two Prisons facilities in Benin and Oko, the Inspector General of Police has ordered the deployment of Five (5) Mobile Police Units to Edo state. This followed fears and uncertainty making the rounds in both Edo […]
The security situation in Benin, the capital of Edo state, has taken a turn for the worse following a jump in cases of kidnapping, armed robbery and cult-related killings. According to the investigation done by the News Agency of Nigeria, the upsurge in the crimes was first noticed since the #ENDSARS protests that led to […]
• Police Area Commander, Others Shot At least seven suspected cult members were feared killed yesterday during renewed cult violence in parts of Benin City, the Edo State capital. This brings the number of lives lost in cult-related clashed in the state capital that started on Wednesday to 12. An Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) […]
The Lagos State Police Command on Tuesday released the names of 13 suspected cultists arrested in Mushin and Ikorodu area of the state. Four of the cultists allegedly belong to Omo Kasari Confraternity while nine others are members of the Aiye Confraternity. A statement issued by Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Muyiwa Adejobi on Tuesday […]
Italian police have arrested dozens of alleged members of a notorious Nigerian mafia group called the Vikings. The Vikings, one of several Nigerian organised crime groups active in Italy, is involved in drug dealing and prostitution. Around 200 police officers arrested alleged members of the gang in Turin and Ferrara, a city in the northern […]
Gunmen suspected to be members of a cult , on Sunday , invaded a Pentecostal church in Inen Ikot Esse community , OrukAnam Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State , and shot one of the elders . The hoodlums , who were armed to the teeth, got to the church premises around 7. 05am […]
There was pandemonium at Umusume community , Obiaruku, in the Ukwuani Local Government Area of Delta State on Tuesday as residents discovered the lifeless body of a young lady . PUNCH Metro gathered that the lady , identified as Miss Anwuli Agu , in her 20s was said to have been killed by hoodlums . […]
The Ogun police command has arrested eight members of a dread cult group, ‘Black Axe’, also known as ‘Aiye’ while mourning one of their members who died recently. The command spokesman, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, disclosed this to newsmen in a statement in Abeokuta on Sunday. According to the statement, the suspects were arrested on September […]
