The Delta state Police Command, have arrested a 21-year-old girl, who stabbed her brother to death on Tuesday, in Warri. State Police Public Relations Officer, CelestinaKalu, said that the culprit was arrested after she was held while trying to escape from scene of the crime adding that
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Police nab perpetrators in three states Four of the 22 man robbery gang responsible for the bloody First City Monument Bank (FCMB) robbery which left three policemen and two civilians dead on March 12, 2015 have been arrested by officers of the Lagos State Police Comm and. The suspects identified as Duke Odogbo (38); the […]
The police in Lagos has arrested one Emmanuel Eto f or allegedly impersonating the National Chairman of th e All Progressives Congress, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The 19 year old suspect who is an ND 2 student of D elta State Polytechnic, Oghara was said to have created a face book account, using the name […]
Some drama took place on Tuesday at the ongoing trial of a Nigerian, Ofonime Sunday Inuk, accusing a couple of holding him in servitude for over 24 years in the United Kingdom . At the resumption of the trial at Harrow Crown court, Mrs Edet’s lawyer, Emma Akuwudike, told the court that the 39-year-old, never […]
Hundreds of people protested in the east of Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday after a machete attack by suspected Ugandan rebels in which a local activist said at least six people were killed. Activist Teddy Kataliko told Reuters that seven other people were wounded and two missing after men with machetes and hatchets attacked […]
A Lagos State Magistrate Court, sitting in Ebute Metta, has ordered the remand in prison of Fatai Afobaje (a.k.a Alfa), who allegedly killed his friend, Rafiu Sulaimon, and shared his body parts. The Magistrate, A. O. Komolafe, said Afobajea should be remanded pending legal advice from the Directorate of Public Prosecutions. The incident which attracted […]
Aliu Bello and Rafiu Rasaq were recruited to serve as security men for Mfe filling station, located along Iju Road , Ifako Agege. But barely four weeks after they resumed duty, they revealed their true identity. Daily Times gathered that both men mobilised their other gang members from far away Okene, Kogi State and robbed […]
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has convicted 8,637 drug offenders in the past five years. The Chairman/Chief Executive of the Agency, Ahmadu Giade, who said that the convictions will serve as a deterrence to drug traffickers, further disclosed that the agency had maintained an impressive annual average conviction of 1,727 since 2010. Spokesperson […]
A secular blogger in Bangladesh, Ananta Bijoy Das has been hacked to death in north-eastern Bangladesh. This is the third time such deadly attack would occur since the start of the year. According to BBC, Bijoy Das was attacked by a masked gang wielding machetes in the city of Sylhet. Mr Das wrote blogs for […]
37 prisoners have been granted unconditional release to 37 inmates from the five prisons in Ogun State. Six prisoners were set free at Ilaro, 11 at 0ba, 15 at Abeokuta, two at Sagamu and three Ijebu-Ode prisons. According to the Ogun State Chief Judge Justice Olatokunbo Olopade who granted their release, the exercise, which was […]
Ousted Former Egyptian President, Hosni Mubarak has been sentenced to three years in jail on corruption charges after a retrial in the capital, Cairo. His sons were given four years each in the same case which centres on the embezzlement of $14m (£9.3m) earmarked for renovation of presidential palaces. They had already been sentenced to […]
Suspected terrorists are among the inmates who escaped a prison in Iraq today, 9th of May during a riot that saw dozens of people die. The death toll at Khalis prison, in Diyala province, has not been confirmed but the Interior Ministry said 30 prisoners and six police officers were killed. Local police and medical […]
Uganda is seeking the extradition of the leader of an Islamist armed group responsible for the massacre of civilians in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, a police spokesperson said on Thursday, according to dpa. Police officials have been sent to facilitate the extradition of Jamil Mukulu from Tanzania, where he was arrested […]
A UN tribunal has ordered the reinstatement of Swedish official Anders Kompass who was suspended for leaking a report to France about child abuse by French peacekeepers in the Central African Republic. The ruling of the internal tribunal was delivered on Tuesday and Kompass “has thus resumed his service”, a spokesperson for the UN human […]
Two students and two women, were reportedly killed, on Tuesday, by suspected cultists in different areas of Benin, the Edo State capital. There have been an increase in cult-related killings recently in the state due to suspected reprisals. It was learnt that the women, said to be the mothers of two men, who had been […]
A middle age man, who had allegedly been parading himself as a policeman attached to the Motor Traffic Warden of the Ondo state Police Command has been arrested. A police source, who requested anonymity, disclosed this to journalists, on Wednesday, in Akure, the state capital. The officer said the identity of the man which […]
Members of a coalition of separatist groups attacked a town in central Mali on Tuesday, killing 11 people and moving violence farther south after a cease-fire was broken last week, a spokesperson and the government said. Moussa Ag Attaher of the Co-ordination of Azawad Movements said that they attacked the town of Tenenkou in the […]
The immediate past Chief of Staff (CoS) to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Senator Bala Mohammed will be docked on Thursday (today) by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the Daily Times has learnt. Also to be arraigned over alleged land scam is one other senior official of the Ministry of […]
A local government staff, in Kogi State, Onu Friday, has the denied any link with an assassination plot, as claimed by a member-elect of the State House of Assembly, Mr. Friday Sanni. He stated that the allegation was a frame-up to tarnish his image. Onu, who was speaking with newsmen, in Lokoja, on […]
Suspected armed robbers have killed one Christopher Timinimi, said to be a younger brother to Mr. George Timinimi, a former Commissioner for Transport in Delta State. According to a family source, “The incident occurred at about 7:30 pm around Idiaregbe by Okere Ugborikoko road when the suspected bandits shot Christopher, a middle aged man from […]
