Category: Crime

The Department of State Services (DSS) has written to X, the social media platform previously known as Twitter, demanding an urgent deactivation of Omoyele Sowore’s verified X account. The agency said one of Sowore’s recent posts on President Bola Tinubu is capable of inciting violence and threatening national security. On the 25th August, 2025 about 11:38 PM local time (2338 hours) WAT, Sowore had on his X official handle page @YeleSowore disparaging and ridiculing the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The Tweet read: “This criminal @officialABAT actually went…

18-year-old identified as Eze Elechi Amadi has explained why he killed his younger brother, Otu Ifeanyi, in Kajola, in Odigbo council area of Ondo state. The suspect who was paraded by the police alongside 99 other suspected criminals in Akure, the state capital, weekend, was arrested while trying to dispose the body of his deceased brother The Ondo State Police commissioner, Adebowale Lawal, stated that “on 26th August, 2025 at about 3pm, one Oluwafemi Oladipupo of Paragon Street, Kajola, reported at Kajola Divisional Headquarters that he observed a blue plastic…

The Police in Kwara State capital, Ilorin has arrested a man identified as Adeola Badru for allegedly defrauding a federal political appointment seeker of N300 million. The State Commissioner of Police, CP Adekimi Ojo, shared details of the case with journalists in Ilorin recently. Badru, is accused of criminal breach of trust, forgery, and obtaining money under false pretence. In 2023, he reportedly approached his victim, Joseph Olugbenga, claiming to be a seasoned politician with access to top political figures. He allegedly promised to secure Olugbenga a seat on the…

Passenger traveling along Benin – Auchi highway were thrown in to pandemonium on Friday at least 18 passengers travelling in a newly launched Edo Line bus were abducted by unknown gunmen on Friday. The abducted passengers were heading to Abuja where they were stopped, coerced into the bush before the police arrived at scene. In a viral video of the unfortunate incident showed a long queue of vehicles parked on both sides of the expressway as panic spread among commuters. The spokesperson of Edo State Police Command, Moses Iyamu has…

The Department of State Services (DSS) has filed multiple terrorism charges against two commanders of the Ansaru terrorist group, an Al-Qaeda-linked group. According to NTA, Mahmud Usman (aka Abu Bara’a/Abbas/Mukhtar), the self-styled Emir of Ansaru; and Mahmud al-Nigeri (aka Malam Mamuda), Bara’s deputy and chief of staff, who were recently arrested during operations by security forces, are facing charges bordering on leading the terror organisation, financing its activities, recruiting fighters, and coordinating violent attacks across the country. The Service is said to have expedited its investigation to ensure a speedy…

…. Your government Fail to protect the citizens …. Zamfara APC The Executive Governor of Zamfara State, Dauda Lawal has confirmed that he knows the exact locations of bandits operating in the state and could identify them using his phone Lawal made this known while lamenting and condemning the growing insecurity in the state, stressing that his inability to act was due to lack of control over security agencies. The statement was reported through the governor’s official X handle on Thursday, September 4, 2025. He vowed that if given authority…

 Amidst killings, kidnapping, displacing villages, intimidation carried out by some heartless ”run and hide” bandits in some parts of the North West, some community leaders in Katsina State have initiated the signing of the Peace Accord with the Bandits operating in Kurfi Local Government Area. The agreement was signed on Thursday with the hope of ending the prolonged violence, kidnapping for ransom, serial killings, incessant attacks and cattle rustling which have been bothering the local government. Sources said the signing of the agreement took place at Wurma forest, a notorious…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has detained Mr. Sirajo Salisu Usman, brother of the Chairman and CEO of the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON), Professor Abdullahi Saleh Usman (also known as Pakistan), over alleged fraud involving billions of naira. Sirajo was arrested on Wednesday afternoon by EFCC operatives in Abuja. He had previously been questioned earlier this month alongside other senior officials of the commission. Sources within the EFCC revealed that Mr. Usman, nicknamed “ka fi chairman” by colleagues—roughly meaning “de facto NAHCON Chairman”—spent the night in…

By: Bashir Abubakar, in Bauchi Justice Aliyu Baba Usman of the Bauchi State High Court Bauchi, Bauchi State has granted an order empowering the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to continue its investigation of Alhaji Hamza Koshe Akuyam and his company, Pentech Engineering Nig Ltd. Koshe, the former PDP state Chairman in Bauchi had earlier approached the court sometime last year seeking a restraining order to halt the EFCC from investigating and prosecuting him  and his company. He had in a 31- paragraph affidavit asked the court to grant…

The Lagos State Police Commissioner, CP Olohundare Jimoh, has ordered the restructuring of the police squad involved in the “assault of a motorist” during a stop-and-search operation recently in Lagos. The directive follows widespread condemnation of officers caught on camera forcibly trying to remove the motorist’s eyeglass — on suspicion that the pair of glasses had a video recording feature. On Friday, a video circulating on X (formerly Twitter) showed the confrontation between officers and the motorist. The Command’s spokesman, Benjamin Hundeyin, said swift disciplinary action has been taken against…