A Makurdi Magistrate’s Court on Monday remanded two students – Ugosor Japhet and Gwebe Ageba – over alleged culpable homicide and armed robbery. The suspects were arrested for allegedly killing a student of the Benue State University, Erkaa Naomi Dooshima. The Magistrate, Mrs Erdoo Ter did not take the plea of the defendants for want of jurisdiction. She ordered the …

No fewer than 35 persons have been killed in the Southern Kaduna area of Kaduna and Katsina States. Of the figure, 17, including a policeman, were reportedly killed in  Zangon-Kataf communities in Southern Kaduna. Eighteen persons were killed in the Kankara council area of Katsina State. According to The Nation, the trouble started in the Zangon-Kataf area on Thursday when …

The Lagos State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of a 24-year-old security guard, Barnabas Job over the alleged murder of a 26-year-old housemaid, Thereza Ekibi. The spokesman of the command, Superintendent Benjamin Hundeyin, who confirmed the development on Sunday, said that the housemaid was allegedly murdered in her bedroom by the suspect at the same house they both work …

A Nigerian studying at the Cyprus International University, Nicosia, Okail Shedrack has been arrested in the Republic of Benin over cyberfraud-related allegations. He was said to have been arrested on 7 February in Porto-Novo. Efforts to hear from the Benin police authorities proved abortive, as a message sent through the means provided on their website did not go through. However, …

The Zamfara police command has dislodged a bandits’ camp and rescued 14 kidnapped victims in Zamfara, who had spent 68 days in captivity. This is contained in a statement issued in Gusau on Saturday by the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, SP Muhammad Shehu. According to him, “On 10th March 2023, Police tactical operatives in conjunction with the …

Five suspected ritualists have been arrested in Ososa, Odogbolu Local Government Area of Ogun State. The suspects were apprehended following information received by the Police at Odogbolu divisional headquarters. In a statement on Saturday, the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Abimbola Oyeyemi said the gang, who are responsible for a series of corps exhumations within the Ososa community, were …

Scores of residents of the Olomo community in Apete, Ibadan, Oyo State capital, are currently in panic over the invasion by some armed robbers. Apete is one of the communities in the Ido Local Government Area in Oyo State. It was gathered on Saturday that some armed robbers invaded the Eleshin area in the Olomo community in Apete and robbed …

The Defence Headquarters said on Thursday that a total of 1,332 terrorists and their family members surrendered to troops of Operation Hadin Kai across North East in the last two weeks. During the bi-weekly news briefing on the operations of the Armed Forces in Abuja, the Director, Defence Media Operations, Major General Musa Danmadami said the surrendered terrorists comprised 222 adult …

The Adamawa State Police Command has arrested seven teenagers for gang-raping a 15-year-old girl in Kodomun village, Demsa Local Government Area of the state. The spokesperson of the command, Superintendent Suleiman Yahaya, who disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday, said the suspects lured their victim into the house of one of them who is her boyfriend, and forcefully had …

An Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in Etinan has ordered the state Commissioner of Police, and one Inspector Gospel Archibong of the Police Command to pay N2 million as damages for the breach of fundamental rights of a murder suspect, Aniekan Aaron. Trial judge, Justice Ezekiel Enang, gave the order yesterday in the enforcement of fundamental rights application suit …