Crime

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), yesterday, told a Federal Capital Territory High Court in Abuja that the former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole and his deputy, Usman Nafada who are being prosecuted over alle...

The Economic and Financial Crimes  Commission (EFCC) yesterday tendered three documents as evidence  in the prosecution of the former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mallam Nasir el-Rufai and two others for the alleged alloca...

Operatives of the State Security Service (SSS), yesterday, arrested four ex-militant leaders over their involvement in the September kidnap of an Italian, Carmello Stella and the unlawful demand of N120 million as ransom before the release of their vic...

A suspected member of the religious extremist sect, Boko Haram, met his waterloo yesterday, after he detonated on explosive at the London Chikin ward of Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. The early morning blast which sent fears down the spines of the...

Nigeria’s secret police, the State Security Service (SSS) yesterday, paraded three suspected high-profile fraudsters, who attempted to use the names of President Goodluck Jonathan, and Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Senator ...

  The Oyo State Commissioner of Police, Mr Moses Onireti, has said that security agencies were still capable of curtailing crime in the country irrespective of the nefarious activities of criminals. Onireti was speaking while delivering a lecture ...

There was anxiety yesterday in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital on whether or not the trial of the former Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala and two others would begin today as directed by Justice L. Abass. The  two other accused persons facing charges of c...

The Head of Operation an three officials of the  Independent National Electoral (INEC) were yesterday arraigned before a Federal High Court sitting in Benin, for allegedly receiving N2m bribe to falsify ballot papers. The INEC officials, Chinedu N...

Four suspected kidnappers were at the weekend killed by men of the Rivers State police in Oyigbo local government area of  the  state. The State commissioner of police, Mr.Suleiman Abba, while displaying the bodies of the suspected kidnappers...

Following the bomb blasts in Jos, the Plateau state capital, on Saturday the Operation Officer of the Special task-Force on Jos crisis (STF) Col. Joseph Iwara , has assured residents of Jos and its environs of their safety, saying the special task forc...

One woman was killed while two others sustained gunshot wounds following an attack on Kukum Dutse, a village in Kagoro, Kaura Local Government Area of Kaduna State. “The village was attacked in the midnight; one person was killed while two sustai...

There are indications that ministers of the Christ Apostolic Church (CAC) worldwide would resume their 18- year-old-legal battle on December 13 before Justice J.E. Sharkarho of a Federal High Court Ibadan in Oyo State. President of the church, Pastor E...

A man, Innocent Eze, 35, has been arrested by the Ekiti State Police Command for allegedly defiling a 12-year--old primary school pupil. The victim has been discharged from General Hospital, Ijan Ekiti, where she was treated for  injuries she sust...

Wednesday was a terrible day for the Kogi State Police Command, following the killing of four policemen by  unknown gunmen at Okene. LEADERSHIP reliably gathered that the fallen policemen were ambushed at about 8pm at Ahache junction, along Okene-...