The Bayelsa state police command has arrested a 27-year-old man, Promise David, for allegedly beating his 18-year-old ‘baby mama’, Esther Pascal, to death during a fight over food and welfare money for their baby at his home in Ebis Mechanic Road, Yenagoa, the state capital, on Sunday, December 6. The Nation reports that the deceased has a two-year-old…
A 24-year-old Nigerian man, Samuel Odupitan, who stabbed a stranger to death in order to steal his second-hand Gucci bag in Croydon, London was convicted on Tuesday, December 1, 2020. Odupitan, of Longheath Gardens, Croydon, killed 24-year-old Tyler Roye on February 26 in Bywood Avenue, Croydon. He appeared at Croydon Crown Court on Tuesday December 1, where…
Embattled ex-chairman of Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, who jumped his bail, has been rearrested. According to Daily Post, the operatives of Nigeria Intelligence Service and anti-graft agents, the Economic And Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) arrested Mr. Maina in Niger Republic. Maina – who is being prosecuted on 12 counts of money laundering to the tune…
Three women were shot at in Yenagoa, Bayelsa state, while police officers on patrol duty were dispersing traffic. The incident occurred on Wednesday, Nov 25, along the popular Tombia market area of the state. The women hit by stray bullets have been identified as Alice Azaghene, Mrs Ebinipiri Onojamadu, and Mudufuro Blessing. According to reports, the policemen allegedly…
Zamfara State Governor, Bello Matawalle has facilitated the unconditional release of 11 kidnapped victims. A statement issued by Jamilu Iliyasu Magaji, the Press Secretary to the governor, on Saturday, November 21, said the victims were rescued without ransom payment but through the carrot and stick initiative of the state government. While receiving the rescued victims on Saturday night…
An 18-year-old man identified as Kabiru Ahmed has been arrested by men of the Bauchi state police command for allegedly stabbing another man to death over a girlfriend. The spokesperson of the state police command, DSP Ahmed Wakil, said in a statement released that a resident of the state reported the matter to the police. “On November 11,…
The Ministry of Human Services and Social Development in Kaduna, has announced the arrest of a 40-year old man for allegedly defiling a 13-year-old girl in the state. The suspect, Musa Hassan was arrested by the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Kaduna State Command. The Ministry said in a statement that the suspect brutally raped…
Operatives of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested three members of robbery gang who have been terrorising Iju Ota and its environ. The suspects, identified as Bamidele Oluwashina, 31; Adebowale Kehinde, 32; and Oluwasegun Abayomi, were arrested following a distress call received by the police at Onipanu Divisional Headquarters at about 9:30pm on November…
Two dismissed corporals were arraigned at the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Kubwa in Abuja on Monday, November 9, for the killing of a 69-year old man, Solomon Eze. The duo, Abubakar Adamu, 28, and Ibrahim Alfa, 36, both operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) FCT Command, allegedly shot and killed Eze,…
A woman identified as Mrs Amarachi Johnson has told the Anambra State Judicial Panel investigating cases of alleged police brutality that her husband was arrested and allegedly murdered by the officers of the defunct Federal Anti-Robbery Squad (F-SARS), Awkuzu Unit, Anambra State in 2017. Mrs Johnson told the panel on Thursday, November 5, that her husband, who…