Crime

The Nigerian police have arrested a man, identified as Benjamin Ezeukwefor, who allegedly masterminded a scam and defrauded several people in a purported price slash at the Dangote Cement Company. The Lagos State Police Command confirmed the arrest in a statement by its Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, on …

Thirty-four people have been arrested following “huge destruction by a riotous mob” in Dublin, Irish police have said. Three young children were injured in a stabbing incident outside a primary school which sparked violent protests and clashes with Police. A five-year-old schoolgirl and a female teacher, believed to be in …

Derek Chauvin, the US police officer whose murder of George Floyd sparked massive racial justice protests in 2020, was stabbed in prison on Friday, the New York Times reported citing unnamed sources. Chauvin knelt on the 46-year-old Black man’s neck for more than nine minutes on a Minneapolis street despite …

Since a social media post indicated that the immediate past Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mr Godwin Emefiele and one-time Deputy Governor of CBN, Mr Tunde Lemo returned princely sums of money to the Nigeria government, there has been a growing concern in the polity against the backdrop …

Justice Hamza Muazu of the Federal Capital Territory High Court Abuja, has granted the immediate past Governor of the Central Bank, Mr Godwin Emefiele, bail in the sum of N300 million and two sureties in like sum. The sureties must have certificates of occupancy and titles of properties within the …

Saheed Azeez, 33-year-old conman, won refugee status in Britain by claiming he was persecuted in Nigeria for being gay. He was later to have three children with three women in Britain and masterminded a £220,000 Facebook and eBay parcel fraud racket. Saheed, an asylum seeker, had been allowed to settle …

The National Security Adviser (NSA), Nuhu Ribadu, on Wednesday, said investigation has commenced into an assault on the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero. The NSA also said some suspects have been arrested in connection to the incident in Owerri, the Imo State capital, on November 1, …

The Edo State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of the husband of Mrs Toluige Olokoobi, mother of  “mummy calm down” boy, days after news broke that she committed suicide. An X user broke the news of  Olokoobi’s death on Monday. The X user, who said he was at the …

With hours to the November 11, 2023 governorship elections, the Department of State Services (DSS) has cautioned politicians against provocative comments. In a statement, DSS spokesman, Peter Afunanya, “observed rising trends and patterns of incendiary comments by some personalities of influence and representatives of non-governmental entities within and outside the …

A secondary school teacher in Ogun State, Lateef Olaniran, has been arrested for allegedly raping a young lady. Olaniran, a native of Ipokia Local Government of Ogun State, is a Mathematics teacher at Ebenezer Grammar School, Iberekodo, Abeokuta. The State Commissioner for Women Affairs, Adijat Olaleye, disclosed this on Wednesday. …