Operatives of the Delta State Police Command have neutralized a syndicate specialized in the manufacture of locally made guns and other arms. The State Police Command's spokesman, DSP Bright Edafe disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday, 02 November, 2022. TheFact Daily reports that the Commissioner of Police in the State,...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested a Kogi House of Assembly candidate with wads of cash suspected to be proceeds of a bank fraud operation. According to a statement Tuesday, by the Commission's spokesperson, Mr Wilson Uwujaren, the Kogi State lawmaker, Ismaila Yusuf Atumeyi was arrested on...
A Chinese national, Gang Deng, had been convicted and sentenced to five years imprisonment for offences bordering on illegal mining and possession of minerals without lawful authority. Deng 29, was sentenced by Justice Muhammed Sani of the Federal High Court sitting in Ilorin, on Wednesday, October 19, 2022. TheFact Daily reports...
Two persons have reportedly lost their lives following an attack by gunmen at the Abdulsalam Abubakar General Hospital, Gulu, in Lapai Local Government Area of Niger State. According to reports, no less than ten persons, including a medical doctor and pharmacist were abducted during the incident which is said to...
Officers of the Osun State Police Command have arrested a tenant who allegedly sold his landlord to some kidnappers for N1 million. Confirming the incident Tuesday, the Police Public Relations Officer in the State, Yemisi Opalola, said the decomposing body of the aged landlord, Oladepo Asaolu, was discovered in a...
Operatives of the Ogun State Police Command say they have arrested two suspected internet fraudsters, popularly known as Yahoo boys, who allegedly killed a 40-year-old man in the Owode-Egba area of the State. The Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, who disclosed this in a statement said the...
A group, Birnin Gwari Emirate Progressive Union (BEPU), has maintained that the two persons lynched on Sunday were not herders but terrorist mercenaries from Sudan. BEPU disclosed this in a statement on Monday, barely 24 hours after Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State condemned the lynching of two persons believed...
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested another suspected billionaire drug baron, Ugochukwu Nsofor Chukwukadibia, from whose residence was seized pills of Tramadol 225mg amounting to N8,860,000,000 (Eight Billion, Eight Hundred and Sixty Million naira). A statement issued by the anti-narcotics agency said that the arrest...
Detectives from the Kwara State Police Command have uncovered bodies of two missing ladies concealed in the office of the Chief Medical Director of Kaiama General Hospital in Kaiama Local Government Area of the State. The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Kwara Command, Okasanmi Ajayi, disclosed this in a statement...
A former Nigerian footballer has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, in possession of 1.40kg of crack cocaine concealed in his luggage. According to a statement on Sunday from the anti-narcotics agency, the suspect, 33-year old Okafor Emmanuel Junior, who hails from Arochukwu Local...