Crime

The 27 students abducted by bandits from Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka, Kaduna State, have been released, Daily Trust reports. One of the persons who received the students said the release was facilitated by […]

The Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Mohammed Adamu has revealed that the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)/Eastern Security Network (ESN) is behind the attack that was carried out on the Imo prison facility.  The IGP’s statement […]

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has a notorious suspected drug trafficker, Hassan Taiwo, with three parcels of cocaine concealed in a false bottom created in his suitcase. Mr Femi Babafemi, who is the […]

The nine abductees include a whole family of six, a housewife and her two children. Gun-wielding bandits have attacked the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria quarters in Kaduna, abducting about nine persons. The nine abductees […]

Dikwa town is about 90km from Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, and has experienced several attacks from the insurgents since the liberation of the town in 2016. Boko Haram terrorists have pulled out of the […]

Police in Zamfara has said that about three-hundred and seventeen (317) students were abducted from the Government Girls Science Secondary School Jangebe in Jangebe, Zamfara State.  Channels Television had earlier reported that the school which […]

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested four of its officers who allegedly harassed and extorted N70,000 from a 16-year-old student. Olumuyiwa Adejobi, spokesman for the command, disclosed this in a statement issued on Friday. […]

The Nigeria Police Force has arrested a 20-year-old man, Abubakar Amodu, for masterminding the abduction of his father. Amodu was one of the 25 suspects paraded by the Force Public Relations Officer, Frank Mba, for […]

The kidnapped chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Nasarawa State, Phillip Shekwo, has been found dead. This was confirmed to Channels Television by the Commissioner of Police, Bola Longe, on Sunday The Police […]

A Polytechnic graduate, Olaoye Akintayo was shot dead on Saturday evening by a police officer while unwinding with his friends in an Ekiti hotel, Channels Television can confirm. The suspected extrajudicial killing comes as the […]

Hoodlums on Tuesday set ablaze a police station at Orile Iganmu area of Lagos State. Some unidentified men who are said to have hijacked the End SARS protest had stormed the area and set the […]

A jealous housewife in Diso village, Gwale Local Government area of Kano State, Hauwa Aminu, has allegedly killed two of her children over rivalry and because her husband, one Ibrahim Haruna Aminu, married a second […]

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibadan zonal office, have arrested two pairs of brothers: Ayoola Timilehin, Olusola Timilehin, and Oladayo Fayemi, Tolulope Fayemi and three others suspected to be internet fraudsters. […]

Ofori killed his wife, who was identified as Barbara Tommey, outside the Navy Federal Credit Union branch where she worked. A Ghanaian pastor, Sylvester Ofori, has been arrested for shooting his wife dead in the […]