Crime

Uduji, an elder brother to abduction victim, James Uduji, made the revelation while giving evidence at the trial of Evans, the Anambra-born high-profile kidnapper, known for kidnapping mainly billionaires.

Thailand’s The Nation newspaper reported that all the suspects were arrested on Saturday.

Lewis, 17, was charged with first-degree murder Friday for stabbing Gibson once in the chest, striking her heart and then in the back with a kitchen-style steak knife.

The lawmaker said the move would curtail incessant invasion of bandits into the communities. Daniel made the appeal on Sunday while distributing relief materials to the Internally Displaced Persons taking refuge at Numan 2 Central Primary…

Gunmen killed two persons and rustled 70 cows in Turu village, Kuru District of Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau, Police said on Saturday in Jos.

An NGO, Voice from the East, has urged states and Federal Governments to prosecute government officials that misappropriate funds meant for upkeep of Internally Displaced Persons.

Commuters plying the Abuja-Keffi-Lafia highway in Nasarawa State have expressed concerns over the increasing cases of armed robbery on the road.

A senior traditional chief in Ijero Ekiti Local Government Area of Ekiti State, Adewole Ajayi, has been murdered.

Britain is significantly stepping up efforts to tackle the corrupt money funnelled by Russians and other “corrupt elites” from countries such as Nigeria and China into or through the United Kingdom, a senior police officer said on Friday.

A United States of America-based lady alleged to have jumped into the lagoon off the Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos State, Oluwatoyin Akinloye, was actually duped of N75 million by the syndicate that planted the story in the media, a police…

The figures were contained in a statement on Friday by Ortom’s Special Adviser on Media and ICT, That Agerzua.

According to the highly authoritative newspaper, the killings were carried out by suspected Fulani herdsmen believed to have launched the attack from a village in Taraba State on Thursday night.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the toddler, who could not express herself, was found by some residents passing through the area.

A Mitsubishi pick up van on Friday knocked down a nursing mother backing a baby and holding another child at Odeda on the Abeokuta/Ibadan road, killing both the mother and baby.

Stakeholders from Iregwe and Fulani communities in Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau have advised residents of the area to be tolerant and have mutual respect for one another in order to end the incessant killings in their communities.…

Kennedy Idrisu, the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria in Toto.

The Controller of Nigeria Customs Service, Federal Operations Unit Zone ‘C’ Owerri, Comptroller Olusemire Kayode, disclosed this on Friday

He, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Uduji told the court that Evans was also the “so called doctor” that treated bullet wounds sustained by the abduction victim.

The Rivers Police Command says it has restored normalcy after suspected members of Indigenous People of Biafra allegedly burnt trucks belonging to Dangote Industries Ltd.