Crime

The Nigerian Army on Sunday said its troops killed two Boko Haram insurgents in the ongoing clearance operation at Kajeri community in Mafa Local Government Area of Borno.

The Nigerian Air Force has deployed Alpha Jets and helicopters on special surveillance in efforts to flush out bandits in Sokoto State and environs.

Operatives attached to the Inspector-General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team have arrested two men who admitted to killing three policemen escorting senior workers of Total Oil Nigeria.

The Chairman, Abakaliki Rice Mill Company, Chief Joseph Ununu, has revealed his reason for luring the deaf suspect who allegedly assaulted a catholic priest at the mill to the police.

The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons says it is making efforts to rescue about 20,000 Nigerian girls trapped in different parts of Mali.

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission have arrested six suspected internet fraudsters in separate raids carried out in Abuja.

The Police on Friday dragged a 36-year-old nursing mother, Folake Ogunrinu, before an Iyaganku Magistrates’ Court for allegedly assaulting her maid by piercing her back with blade.

The Kwara Government has handed the prosecution of Offa robbery case to a private law firm, Wahab Egbewole and Co.

The National Agency for Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons says it will scale up its efforts to prevent the scourge of human trafficking in Nigeria by carrying out surveillance activities of areas that are endemic.

The Police Command in Rivers has confirmed the kidnap of Dr. Anugbom Anuoha, the Special Adviser to Governor Nyesom Wike on Lands and Survey by unknown gunmen in military uniform.

Hoodlums in Wukari, Taraba, on Thursday attacked the motorcade of All Progressives Congress Governorship candidate in Taraba, Alhaji Sani Danladi, News Agency of Nigeria reports.

Ahmed Hussein-Suale was shot three times by men on a motorbike while driving home from work on Wednesday in the capital Accra, said his production company Tiger Eye PI.

A Federal High Court sitting in Yenagoa has ordered the Joint Military Task Force code named, “Operation Delta Safe”, to release two women including a nursing mother in their custody pending the determination of the suit.

An Osun State High Court sitting in Osogbo on Thursday sentenced one Sunday Palms to death by hanging for murder.

The Police Command in Ebonyi said Thursday it has arrested the man, who allegedly assaulted a Catholic priest, Rev.-Fr. Mathew Orie, at the Abakaliki Rice Mill on Monday.

The Minister of Interior, Lt.-Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau (retd), says the farmers/herders conflict is a complex issue as well as regional.

The Police in Anambra, on Thursday said they had arrested a teenage boy for allegedly stealing a woman’s underwear for ritual purposes.

The Kenya Red Cross on Thursday said all people missing after an attack on a Nairobi hotel complex had now been accounted for.

The suspects denied complicity in the offence for which they were paraded

Two suspected Indian hemp dealers, Sunday Femi and Friday Ami, have been paraded by the Ondo State Police Command for allegedly hacking to death a 75-year-old grandmother, Modupe Olorunfemi, on her farm in Owo area of the state.