The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has raised an alarm of real estates in the country being allegedly used to launder illicit funds. Appearing before a House of Representatives Ad-Hoc Committee investigating the activities of estate developers in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT)…
A 27-year-old man has surrendered himself to police in Oloitoktok, Kajiado County, Kenya and confessed to killing his girlfriend after an argument. The man, who identified himself as an IT intern, admitted to stabbing his girlfriend, a 22-year-old Kenya Medical Training College (KMTC) student, Miriam Chepchirchir, to death on Friday, October 22. The suspect told police…
Operatives of the anti-kidnapping and cybercrime unit of the Edo State Police Command have arrested two employees of a cement company over alleged plan to kidnap their supervisors in Okpilla, Etsako East Local government of the state. The suspects, Obi Bright and Favour Edi were arrested while trying to recruit some gunmen in Okpilla for…
A 25-year-old woman, Lebogang Matlou, was brutally murdered by her boyfriend in Limpopo, South Africa. The 30-year-old suspect and a female suspect alleged to be his ex-girlfriend, were scheduled to appear before the Mokerong Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday, October 20, after they were arrested for allegedly killing Lebogang. The body of the deceased was found lying…
A drug cartel reportedly abducted a retired National Drug Law Enforcement Agency officer, after its operatives arrested a 19-year-old female drug dealer, Mngunengen Achir, in Benue State. NDLEA spokesman Femi Babafemi confirmed this in a statement, saying that Achir was arrested with 5.5kg cannabis and 112grams of diazepam on October 6 in Aliade area of the state. Babafemi revealed…
Operatives of the Delta State Police Command have rescued a kidnapped victim and arrested one of the suspected kidnappers in Oghara, Ethiope West Local Government Area of the state. Spokesperson of the command, DSP Bright Edafe, who disclosed this in a statement on Friday, October 8, said information got to operatives of the Oghara Division,…
15 people have been arrested by the police in Benue state for stealing at least 255 railway slippers from different locations of the state within the past two months. Commissioner of Police, Tunji Akingbola disclosed this during his maiden press briefing with journalists in Makurdi, the state capital on Thursday October 7. Akingbola said within the…
Zamfara state Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism, Alhaji Ibrahim Dosara has said that the telecommunication shutdown in the state has been sucessful as over 2000 ‘informants’ have been arrested. Speaking in Kaduna State on Thursday September 30, while giving an update on the ongoing military operations in the state, Dosara said the suspected informants are undergoing serious interrogation for…
An Upper Area Court in Makurdi, Benue State, has sentenced a commercial sex worker, Dooshima Anems, to four years imprisonment for biting customer’s tongue during sex. The police charged Anems with assault and causing grievous hurt. The Magistrate, Ms Rose Iyorshe, on Thursday, September 30, sentenced Anems after she pleaded guilty and told the court…
The police in India have arrested a Nigerian actor, Chekwume Malvin, on charges of drug peddling and seized hashish oil worth Rs 7.5 lakh. Chekwume, 45, who hails from Delta state in Nigeria, was arrested near the HBR Layout BDA Complex, where he had allegedly gone to sell drugs. According to Indian newspapers, Chekwume who…
