Crime
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The Minority Caucus of the House of Representatives has called on security agencies to track and bring to justice, those involved in the assassination attempt of Benue State GovernorSAMUEL ORTOM. The leader of the Caucus, NDUDI ELUMELU, in a statement said the caucus, is alarmed by the assassination attempt on Governor ORTOM, describing it as […]
The Rivers State Police command has paraded an alleged serial rapist, FAVOUR IBAMA who drugs, rapes and robs his victims after luring them to hotel. The suspect who is a father of four children, usually lures his victims through social media with enticing promises. Speaking to journalists in Port Harcourt after parading, the suspect, the […]
Traders in Okrika in Rivers State are living in fear following the activities of hoodlums who are stationed at every junction of the local government area to collect an illegal toll. The businessmen are made to pay a so-called survival package to the boys who are believed to be members of cult groups. It may […]
The Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps NSCDC says it seized 119 gallons of suspected adulterated petroleum products in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State. The Commandant of the NSCDC in Rivers State, Commandant MUKTAR LAWAL said operatives made the seizure in an illegal dump yard along Rumuomasi community. Speaking during an inspection to […]
Police operatives of the Elekahia Division in Port Harcourt have arrested an officer and his suspected accomplice who were robbing people of their valuables. The Police Public Relations Officer, Superintendent of Police, NNAMDI OMONI, said the suspects were identified as Sergeant IBRAHIM ODEGE attached to the Operations Department of the Rivers Police Command and one […]
The Rivers State Task Force on Street Trading, Illegal Markets and Motor Parks has sacked 11 members of the newly-formed task team for alleged extortion. Our correspondent gathered the affected task force members were dismissed yesterday after reports emerged that they were extorting money from motorists around the Choba axis of Obio Akpor Local Government […]
A Magistrate Court sitting in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, has granted a five hundred thousand naira bail to the suspended Principal of Deeper Life High School, NDIDI SOLOMON and four other staff members in child molestation suit. The school officials are accused of involvement in the alleged molestation and starvation of a JSS1 student of […]
A pastor with a new generation church in Eneka, Obio/Akpor local government area of Rivers State, identified as Sodje Masodje, has been arrested by operatives of the 6 Division, Nigerian Army, Port Harcourt, over the alleged disappearance of a 20-year-old undergraduate, Beauty Nwigbaranee. It was gathered that Beauty, a final year student of Education at […]
The Ogun State government has suspended the Commissioner for Environment, ABIODUN ABUDU-BALOGUN over an allegation of sexual harassment of a 16-year-old girl identified as BARAKAT MAYOWA MELOJUEKUN. In a statement issued in Abeokuta, the Secretary to the State Government, TOKUNBO TALABI, announced the suspension of the commissioner pending the conclusion of an independent investigation into […]
Five persons including a male child are reported to be victims of a shoot-out between two rival cult groups in the riverside town of Lobia community in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. However, the police say four persons were killed, while online sources indicated that the casualty figure was five. Eyewitnesses account […]
