Crime

A 60-year-old man, Charles Jide-Oni, who claimed to be a professor at the Obafemi Awolowo University (O.A.U), Ile Ife, Osun State, was arraigned at a Federal High Court, Lagos for allegedly obtaining money under false pretence and advance fee fraud. ...

Internet fraudsters sponsoring politicians for public offices, says EFCC The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has said Internet fraudsters were sponsoring politicians into elective offices. The Port Harcourt Zonal Head of the commission, Abdulrasheed Bawa, while giving updates on ...

A  member representing Ughelli North, Ughelli South and Udu Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Rev. Francis Ejiroghene Waive, has called on the Federal Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA) to fix all federal roads in Delta State. The cleric-turned-politician decried ...

The Lagos State Police Command Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Bala Elkana, In a press release said:  On 30th August, 2019 at about 12:00, a team of policemen attached to Lagos State Taskforce on Environmental Sanitation and Special Offences, Oshodi ...

A Federal High Court in Lagos has discharged and acquitted former Senior Special Adviser to immediate past President Goodluck Jonathan on Domestic Affairs, Waripamo-Owei Dudafa, and a banker, Joseph Iwuejo, who were charged with an alleged N1.6 billion fraud. The ...

The Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has prayed a Wuse Zone 2 Senior Magistrate’s Court in Abuja to grant an order for the remand of the National Coordinator of the Federal Civil Service Staff with Disabilities ...

The Abia Police Command has arraigned the dismissed 29-year-old army corporal Ajayi Johnson before an Umuahia Chief Magistrate’s Court on a one-count charge of unlawful killing of one Chimaobi Jeremiah Nworgu, a commercial motorcyclist, at his Umuokereke Ngwa village in ...

Palpable fear gripped residents of Enugu State as hoodlums attacked the Ikerike Police Station on Agbani Road, carting away arms. Sources said no fewer than six police officers were injured during the attack, which took place around 2.00am yesterday by ...

Armed kidnappers invaded Malali, a suburb of Kaduna metropolis at the weekend and abducted seven persons, carting away huge sums of money. Following the incident, residents of Narayi Community have sent a Save Our Soul (SOS) message to the police ...

A young couple who were manhandled by Polaris Bank Security team of a mobile Policeman and an internal security officer yesterday for simply seeking to know how 97,000 disappeared from their account have been rescued by men of the Ikotun ...