Category: Crime

A large cache of live ammunition cleverly concealed in jerrycans filled with palm oil has been intercepted by the Federal Capital Territory Police Command, while the suspects linked to the smuggling operation have been arrested. The breakthrough came after operatives from the Nyanya Division, in collaboration with officials of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, apprehended Nuhu Aminu, a 32-year-old man from Katsina State, at the Nyanya bus terminal. A statement on Monday by the command spokesperson, Josephine Adeh, said upon searching his consignment, officers discovered 488 rounds of…

Twelve inmates have reportedly escaped in a jailbreak in the early hours of Monday in Kogi State. Kogi State Government confirmed this in a statement issued by the Commissioner for Information and Communication, Kingsley Femi Fanwo. He commended the swift response of security agencies to the jailbreak at the Federal Correctional Center in Kotonkarfe, where 12 inmates escaped. Fanwo praised the swift response of security agencies and described the escape as ‘unfortunate,’ assuring citizens that the State government is taking decisive steps to prevent a recurrence. According to him, the…

An Indian lady, Ms. Neetu Neetu aged 42, was arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport (MAKIA), Kano, with 72 parcels of heroin, factory sealed in wafer wraps and packaged as chocolates. The class A drug consignment weighing a total of 11 kilogrammes was recovered from Neetu’s luggage after a thorough search, following processed credible intelligence, during an inward clearance of Qatar Airways flight QR1431 from Bangkok, Thailand via Vietnam and Doha at the arrival hall of the Kano…

64-year-old Barrister Donald Mbamah, has been arrested by the Imo State Police Command on Friday over the alleged shooting to death of a 16-year-old student of Urban Development Secondary School, Owerri, Paul Victor. The Imo Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Henry Okoye, disclosed this in a statement in Owerri. An eyewitness stated that the diseased had jumped over the fence into the suspect’s compound on Monday to retrieve a football when he was shot at the buttocks. He was rushed to the hospital where he was pronounced dead. However, the…

Farmers took to the streets of Akure in Ondo state on Wednesday to protest the alleged killing of five people by suspected herdsmen at Aba Oyinbo community in Akure North Local Government Area. It was gathered that the assailants invaded the community in the early hours of Wednesday, opening fire on the victims. The fresh killings come barely two weeks after no fewer than 14 people were reportedly murdered by gunmen in four communities—Ademekun, Aba Pastor, Aba Sunday, and Alajido—all in the same local government area. Angry protesters stormed the…

Ajele Oloyede, an operative of the Nigeria Police Force, has reportedly died on Thursday from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the Igbesa area of Ogun State. While it remains uncertain whether the deceased’s actions were intentional or accidental, the command said that an investigation had been launched to determine the circumstances surrounding the incident. It was learnt that the incident occurred on Thursday at a ceramics company in Igbesa, where the officer had been assigned as part of the company’s security details. According to the command’s spokesperson, Omolola Odutola, the…

A suspected cultist, Segun Ogunfunmilayo, has been arrested by the Osun State Police Command for allegedly shooting a grocery seller in Ede over an unpaid debt. According to the state Police Public Relations Officer, Adeola Adeoye, the incident occurred on March 8, 2025, at around 9:00 p.m. in the Bihari/Ishola area of Ede. Ogunfunmilayo had reportedly purchased an energy drink from the victim, promising to make a transfer. However, when the seller did not receive the payment alert, he confronted the suspect, who allegedly pulled out a pistol and shot…

Lagos State Police Command on Tuesday confirmed the location where the Lagos State University graduate, Adedamola Ogunbode, was buried, following the arrest of the principal suspect, Olaoluwa Ajisomo. It was learnt that the prime suspect, rumoured to have fled to the Benin Republic, was leading police detectives in locating the burial site of the deceased. The command’s spokesperson, Chief Superintendent of Police Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed both developments on Tuesday. The deceased, a Political Science Education graduate from LASU, had been missing since January 16, 2025, amid speculation that his mutilated…

A 34year-old altar servant has been allegedly identified as the brain behind the abduction of the two Catholic Church priests in Numan LG, Adamawa State. They were said to have been kidnapped weeks ago. The suspect, Tahamado Jonathan Demian, whose job as an altar servant, is to provide sundry services to a Roman Catholic priest while performing mass, has also been providing extra information for kidnappers, unknown to the church. It will be recalled that the two clerics that were kidnapped; Rev. Fathers Matthew David Dusami and Abraham Samman, were…