A 50-year-old man who defiled his 6-year-old daughter a week ago in Megogo Village, Marani, Kisii county, Kenya, has been arrested. The suspect, Julius Ogamba Ongera, was arrested on Sunday, April 11, by detectives with the Directorate of Criminal Investigation, DCI. In an incident that outraged many Kenyans after photos of the minor’s blood-soaked clothes…
A suspected kidnap kingpin, Mohammed Gidado, attempted suicide to evade arrest by the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Taraba State. The suspect, who has been on the watch list of security agencies in Taraba, was arrested on March 28, in Jebjeb community of Karim Lamido LGA, after through intensive intelligence gathering, surveillance and…
The Nigerian Correctional Service has released photos and names of some of the inmates who escaped during the jailbreak in Imo state on Monday, April 5. Unidentified gunmen stormed the Owerri Custodial Center in the early hours of Monday and freed over 1800 inmates. 84 of the inmates have so far returned to the…
A final year student of the University of Port Harcourt identified simply as Gloria, has died few days after writing her first semester exam. It was gathered that the student of the Faculty of Agriculture reportedly collapsed in her room and died on Wednesday, April 7. The cause of her death cannot be ascertain, however,…
Yet-to-be-identified gunmen have abducted a family of five in Ajowa Akoko, a community in Akoko north-west LGA of Ondo state. The victims, Ibrahim Olusa, a native of Daja Ajowa, his wife, and three children were said to be plying the Ajowa-Ayere expressway when they were attacked and abducted on Monday night, April 5. They were said…
Men of Benue Joint security outfit codename “Operation Zenda” have rescued a 13-year-old girl few hours after she was kidnapped by hoodlums in Kwande Local Government Area of the state. It was gathered that the girl identified as Mngusuur Iorlian was kidnapped at about 12 pm on Sunday night, April 4, from her father’s residence, located opposite NKST…
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) Kwara State Command, has arrested four suspects in Esie and Ijan towns, Irepodun local government area of the state for allegedly raping and killing a woman. Spokesperson of the NSCDC in the state, Babawale Zaid Afolabi, who disclosed this in a statement on Monday, April 5,…
The police in Lagos state have arrested one Chukwuma Njoku, for allegedly stabbing his brother, Uchenna Njoku, a businessman, to death during an argument over N3,000 debt at the deceased’s residence in the Odokekere area of Ikorodu North Local Council Development Area of Lagos State. According to reports, Chukwu had paid his older brother a…
The Akwa Ibom State Police Command has exhumed the body of a 36-year-old China-based businessman, Onyeka Oliver Ezewulu, who was abducted by kidnappers, killed, and buried in a shallow grave after collecting N2m ransom from his family. Operatives of the Force Intelligence Bureau (FIB) Special Tactical Squad of the Command had stormed the kidnappers…
Justice Peter Affen of the FCT High Court, Maitama on Tuesday, March 25, sentenced one Ogbelegba Emmanuel Abel to three months imprisonment for offences bordering on obtaining money by false pretence and internet fraud. The convict was arrested on February 25, 2020, in his apartment in Maitama, Abuja following reports received by the Commission on…
