Category: Crime

Rape: Septuagenarian, four others in police net in Adamawa

  The scourge of rape in the country seems to cur across all ages as police Command in Adamawa said on Thursday it had arrested a 78-year-old man and four others...

Ogun inaugurates nine-man c’mittee on criminal justice monitoring

The Ogun State government has Inaugurated a 9-Man Committee for criminal justice monitoring in order to ensure that persons awaiting trial are, as far as possible, not...

Insecurity: Northern govs meet, agree to set up c’mmittee

…..Engage local vigilantees and hunters to combat menace Governors of the northern states of Nigeria rose up from a meeting held via teleconference on Thursday...

Gunmen kidnap Dariye’s father

  For the second time in five years,Defwan Dariye, father of a former governor of Plateau State, Joshua Dariye, has been kidnapped by masked gunmen. NewsmakersNG...

Six Nigerians incur U.S. sanctions over $6m cyber, romance fraud

The long arms of the law has caught up with six Nigerians who gave the country bad image in the international community through cyber monetary and romance frauds to the...

Scanners to check influx of fake products at seaports – SON

Scanners are henceforth to be deployed at the nations seaports in a bid to enhance the check on the importation of fake and substandard products into the country in line...

Woman steals he-goat

Hemp peddling: Apprentice bags six months imprisonment

  A Federal High Court in Laos, has sentenced one Peter Okolo, 21, to six months imprisonment for peddling 600g of Cannabis Sativa, also known as Indian Hemp. The...

OSPOLY student on the run over girlfriend’s death

  A student of Osun state polytechnic,Iree,Ayo Maliki,is now on the run over the death of her visiting girlfriend,student of Federal university Oye,who was found...

Imo women protest against rape, violence in Owerri

Imo women and girls turned out in their numbers on Wednesday and matched through the streets of the state capital, Owerri, in their black attire to protest against...

Woman steals he-goat

Man bags 24 yrs for money laundering in Ibadan

  Justice Joyce Abdulmalik of the Federal High Court, Ibadan, Oyo State, on Monday, June 15, 2020, convicted Raphael Ayomide Davies of money laundering, and...