The Ogun state Police Command has arrested the suspected operator of baby-making factories in Mowe and Ofada in the Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of the state, one Mrs Florence Ogbona. The command had recently busted two baby factories and freed more than 20 victims, including pregnant teenagers and children. The Police Public Relations Officer
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said on Monday at least 140 internet fraudsters had been arrested in Lagos in the last three months. The Zonal Head of EFCC in the state, Abdulrasheed Bawa, who stated this when he featured in a programme on 91.3FM, said 38 suspected fraudsters including seven girls were arrested
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A Federal High Court in Lagos Thursday remanded two lawyers, Sarah Ajibola and John Demide, in Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) custody, following their arraignment for allegedly rigging the August 2018 Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) national elections. Justice Chuka Obiozor ordered that they remain with the anti-graft agency for seven days in order to
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A man identified as Hon. Skin Kinikanwo Amadi has allegedly been stabbed to death by his wife in Nkpolu-Rumuigbo, Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State. The victim, a one-time supervisory Councillor in Obio/Akpor LGA, was allegedly killed by his wife, Ihuoma Amadi, the biological mother of his (Skin’s)children Wednesday night. It was gathered that
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A Nigerian national holding six fake passports of the United Nations has been arrested in Islamabad, Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) said on Wednesday, December 9. The Nigerian man had visited the Turkish embassy in Islamabad a few days ago and applied for the visa on the fake UN passport and ID. During the verification
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The Cross River State Police Command, has said it has arrested three suspected car theives over the alleged robbery of a household in Calabar, the state capital. It was learnt that the car thieves, carried out the operation in the victims’ house and made away with a 2018 Corolla Toyota worth N8 million. It was
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A final-year student of the Institute of Management Technology IMT, Enugu, Okoro Joseph, was on Tuesday sentenced to eight months’ imprisonment over $15,000 fraud by the Federal High Court in Enugu. Joseph was arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission before Justice Dugbo Oghoghorie on five counts bordering on impersonation and obtaining by false
Read moreThe Benue State police command on Saturday confirmed the arrest of a student of Federal University of Agriculture Makurdi, Jeremiah Nnamdi, over the alleged killing of a lecturer at the institution, Karl Kwaghger. The command spokesperson, Catherine Anene, confirmed the development in a statement in Makurdi. Kwaghger was killed at the Tarka Foundation, Gboko, on
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Operatives of the Edo State Police Command have rearrested three of the inmates who escaped from two correctional centres following an attack by hoodlums during the ENDSARS protests, for armed robbery. The suspects, Osamuyi Omoregbe, Raymond Aimua and Omon Ayo, were among 34 suspects police paraded at the command headquarters on Friday, December 4, for
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Men of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the Department of State Services in Bauchi, on Saturday, arrested a top State government official during the Dass State Assembly Bye-election for alleged vote buying. It was learnt that the official, Abdon Gin, who is the Special Adviser on Civil Service Affairs to the Bauchi State
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Suspected kidnappers who murdered a lawmaker, Musa Mante Baraza representing Dass constituency in the Bauchi State House of Assembly, few months ago has been arrested by the Nigeria Police, Bauchi State Command . According to the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of the Command, Ahmed Wakil, a joint operation by two police units unravelled the
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More troubles for Maryam Sanda as Court of Appeal in Abuja, on Friday, upheld the conviction and death sentence that was handed to her, daughter-in-law to a former Chairman of the PDP, Mohammed Haliru. Delivering judgment, Justice Stephen Adah, who read the decision on behalf of the three-member panel of justices held that the trial
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Man by name Ifeanyi Nwagboroga, has allegedly killed his lover on Adekunle Street, Oshodi, Lagos State, thereby ending a three-year relationship on tragic way. The suspect, Ifeanyi Nwagboroga, allegedly hacked the victim, Faith Ebubeeze, with a cutlass, leaving her in a pool of blood and fleeing the scene. City Round learnt that the couple were
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The Federal High Court in Abuja, on Friday, remanded the runway former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Taskforce Team (PRTT), Abulrasheed Maina, in prison custody. A Federal High Court in Abuja ordered Mania remanded in prison after he was brought to court by a combined team of policemen and operatives of the Economic and
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Three suspects in connection with the attack on the Christian Universal Church International that belongs to the father of Rivers Governor, Nyesom Wike, in Port Harcourt, the state capital, were arrested on Thursday, 3 December and paraded by the police command in Rivers State. The suspected IPOB members pertaining to the information gathered from them
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