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The Department of State Services (DSS) has accused Tukur Mamu, the Kaduna train attack negotiator, of aiding and abetting acts of terrorism. This was made known in an affidavit in support of an ex-parte motion filed before Justice Nkeonye Maha of the Federal High Court in Abuja. Justice Maha had issued a ruling on the […]

Police in Yobe state have paraded two suspected soldiers and three others in connection to the alleged murder of Islamic cleric, Sheikh Goni Aisami-Gashua along Gashua-Kano road in the state. The soldiers are Lance Corporal John Gabriel with registration number N/A13/69/1522 and Lance Corporal Adamu Gideon with registration number N/A13/70/6552 both of Recce battalion Nguru, […]

The FCT Police Command has rejected claims that the capital metropolis has been invaded by the terrorist group ISWAP. A statement signed by the Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Josephine Adeh on behalf of The Commissioner of Police, FCT Police Command, described ongoing media publications of a said invasion as “erroneous” and misleading. assuring residents […]

Police in Liverpool, northwest England, on Wednesday urged criminals to give up a gunman after a nine-year-old girl was shot dead in the crossfire of a suspected gang war. Olivia Pratt-Korbel was killed on Monday night when the shooter’s intended target, a 35-year-old man, burst into her house to try to escape his attacker. Merseyside […]

The police in Edo State have arrested three male suspects while busting a ritual shrine along Asoro slope, off Ekenhua Road, Uzebu quarters in Benin. Deputy Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Jennifer Iwegbu, disclosed the arrest in a statement on Thursday, saying operatives acted on information from members of the public. She said […]

Two unknown gunmen and a yet to be identified soldier attached to the 14 Brigade,Ohafia, Abia State, have been killed in a gun duel in the area. The soldiers were said to be responding to a distress call from their colleague in Ebem community where he was attacked by the unknown gunmen, but later rescued […]

Zamfara Governor Bello Matawalle has signed into law a death penalty on anybody found guilty of banditry, cattle rustling, cultism, or serving as a bandits’ informant. Matawalle announced this in a broadcast to the people of the state on Tuesday morning. Matawalle stated that the measures were part of his administration’s unrelenting efforts to tackle […]

A Kwara High Court in Ilorin on Thursday convicted one Christopher Adetuberu, a National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member serving in Ogbomosho, Oyo state, for offences bordering on internet fraud. The Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) secured the conviction. The Presiding Judge, Justice Ibrahim Yusuf said that Adetuberu, 28, […]

Officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), in the Ibadan zone, yesterday arrested 29 internet fraud suspects in a sting operation at Omi-Adio area of the Oyo State capital.   Spokesman of the Commission Wilson Uwujaren said in a statement that mobile phones, laptops, two motorcycles, one i-watch, video games and jewellery were […]