Anxiety has enveloped some areas of Abeokuta, Ogun State, following the killing of Olumide Ifeoluwa, an alleged cult kingpin and popular area boy. Our correspondent gathered that, Ifeoluwa, popularly know as Tescom, was shot dead by suspected members of eiye…
Fleeing residents still hiding in the forests – Okuama indigene
Residents of Okuama, Omosuomo, and other communities in Ughelli South Local Government Area, Delta State, still confined in the forests since the ongoing Army clearance operations in their domains over the killing of 17 soldiers on March 14, weekend, sent…
Fulani kidnappers spread, abduct, kill cops, residents in Delta
On January 24, rampaging gunmen\kidnappers suspected to be Fulani herders abducted three police officers detailed to respond to a distress call in Delta State. The authorities drafted the police officers at a nipping point in Ohoror community, Ughelli North Local…
Police in manhunt for killers of 2 A’Ibom brothers
Five days after the murder of two brothers in Nnung Iyoho, Afaha Offiong, Nsit Ibom Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, police say they are closing in on the killers. The brothers, Enefiok Michael Etuk, aged 70 and Ebongeti…
Taraba CJ asks police to prosecute ex-council boss over killing of former lawmaker
Taraba State Chief Judge, Justice Joel Agya, has asked the Commissioner of Police in the state, David Iloyanomon, to arrest and prosecute Shiban Tikari, a former Chairman, Takum local government council over abduction and killing of a former Taraba lawmaker,…
Kidnapping of 5 sisters sparks outcry in Nigeria
The violent abduction of five young Nigerian sisters near Abuja has sparked a national outcry and raised fears about insecurity in the country’s capital.The sisters were kidnapped at the start of the year by armed men who burst into their…
Fish out killers of 17 youths in Kaduna, Fulani leaders tells CDS
The leaders of the Fulani community in the Kachia Local Government Area of Kaduna State and the Northern Consensus Movement have called on the Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa, to probe the alleged arrest and killing of 17…
Ukraine launches investigation into unarmed soldier killing
Ukraine has launched an investigation to find Russian soldiers who apparently killed an unarmed Ukrainian prisoner of war, after graphic footage emerged. “We will find the murderers,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said late on Monday. In the video, the Ukrainian soldier…
Mursal Nabizada: Gunmen kill former Afghan MP at home in Kabul
A former Afghan MP and her bodyguard have been shot dead at her home in the capital Kabul, Afghan police have said. Mursal Nabizada, 32, was one of the few female MPs who stayed in Kabul after the Taliban seized…
Court remands officer over lawyer’s killing
A Yaba Chief Magistrate’s Court in Lagos has remanded in the Ikoyi Correctional Centre, Mr. Drambi Vandi, the Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) that is alleged to have shot and killed an expectant lawyer, Mrs. Omobolanle Raheem in Lagos on…