Ten criminal suspects were on Wednesday January 20, paraded before newsmen in Cross River state. The state Commissioner of Police CP Sikiru Kayode Akande who disclosed that the suspects were arrested for various offences, said they will be arraigned before a competent court soon. One live cartridge, one handset, ATM Card, Scissors, condemned substance…
A 44-year-old Nigerian national identified as Chuks has been arrested in Bangkok for allegedly committing banking fraud against three Thai victims, Immigration Police chief, Lieutenant General SompongChingduang said on Tuesday, January 19. The alleged scammer then reportedly used the given information to log into mobile banking applications before transferring all the money from the victim’s…
The Federal Capital Territory Police Command (FCT) have arrested a notorious fraudster, Mohammed Abdulrahman, who has been defrauding unsuspecting members of the public by impersonating as a Superintendent of Police and operative of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Spokesperson of the Command, AP Mariam Yusuf, who confirmed this in a statement on…
A 3-year-old boy, who was rescued alive from a well in Sapele, Delta State, has alleged that a yet-to-be-identified woman threw him into the hole. The incident happened at Comprehensive Road in Amukpe area of Sapele on Saturday night, January 16. It was gathered residents of the area heard a child crying from inside the…
Operatives of Ogun Police Command raided a drug dealers’ hideout in Abeokuta, recovered a cash sum of N2,722,750 cash and illicit drugs worth over N10m. Other items recovered from the den named “Mayas,” an abandoned hotel at Lafenwa, Abeokuta, included 55 packs of codeine; 110 parcels of weeds suspected to be Indian Hemp; and two packs of Emzoline. Ajogun…
Operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Kano Command, have arrested an 18-year-old man, Isameel Abubakar, for allegedly raping a 5-year-old girl (name withheld). Abubakar of Kofar Ruwa quarters in Dala Local Government Area was arrested last Friday on the same day the crime was allegedly committed. Confirming the incident, the…
The police in India have arrested a 26-year-old Nigerian man, Bethel Kelechi Aroh, after seven kilograms of heroin was found on him. According to the police, Kelechi who resides in Delhi, was supposed to deliver the banned substance to one of the city’s pubs when he was arrested on Thursday, January 7. He was said to…
The Zamfara state police command has confirmed the abduction of six family members in the state. According to the state police spokesperson Shehu Mohammed, six of the abducted persons are children of Alhaji Gyare, while the seventh is a female picked from a neighbouring house all in Kadauri Village in Jabaka District of Maru LGA. Mohammed said; …
The police in Ogun state have arrested Obehi Ehis Frank Ogbeh pictured above who escaped from Edo prison after hoodlums hijacked the EndSARS protest in October 2020. The Ogun state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, who disclosed this on Wednesday, January 6, said that the prison inmate was arrested following a piece of…
Justice Lateefa A. Okunnu of the Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja, on Tuesday, January 5, 2021, convicted and sentenced Okey Nwosu, a former Managing Director, Finbank Plc, to three years imprisonment over 10m fraud. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, had arraigned Nwosu alongside Dayo Famuroti, Agnes Ebubedike and Danjuma Ocholi on…
