Category: Crime

About 40 worshippers were kidnapped during dawn prayers (Subh) on Monday, 15 September, 2025 at a mosque in Gidan Turbe village of Tsafe LGA of Zamfara State. According to Zagazola Makama, a counter-insurgency publication, the gunmen arrived the mosque around 5:30 am, surrounding the building and whisking away the worshippers at gunpoint. The abductors reportedly moved the captives into the forests near the Gohori axis in Tsafe. The attack has plunged the rural community into confusion and despair, coming barely a day after reports of a “peace deal” involving local…

A District Court in California, United States has convicted one Paulinus Iheanacho Okoronkwo, a former General Manager of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC), of $2.1 million bribery scheme linked to oil drilling rights in Nigeria. Okoronkwo, 58, a dual citizen of Nigeria and the United States and also a practising lawyer in Los Angeles. He was found guilty on multiple charges, including three counts of unlawful monetary transactions, one count of tax evasion, and one count of obstruction of justice. The verdict was returned after a four day trial…

Heartless armed bandits have launched a deadly attack on Wake village, in Kachia Local Government Area of Kaduna State early Sunday, killing eight people and injured at least 20 others. The attackers also kidnapped an unspecified number of locals during the unfortunate raid. The community has already conducted burials for the deceased while mobilizing care for the severely injured ones. Zagazola Makama, a counter insurgency reporter, confirmed the killing via his X platform; @ZagazOlaMakama, at 5:07PM, Sept 7, 2025. He added ”the exact number of individuals abducted remains unknown ”…

Unknown gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have killed eight personnel of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC) attached to the BUA Cement Factory located in Okpella, Etsako East local government area of Edo State. NSCDC spokesperson in the state, Ogbebor Efosa, revealed this in a statement made available to Journalists in Benin City, the state capital. Efosa narrated that the gunmen also abducted one of the Chinese expatriates while four persons were injured and currently receiving treatment at an undisclosed hospital, while one civilian badly injured. He said…

The Boko Haram group Boko has waged an overnight attacked on a village called Darul Jamal, home to a military base on the Nigeria-Cameroon border, killing at least five soldiers, and over 60 people according to local source. On Friday night militants struck the village killing at least five soldiers. The Nigerian Air Force said it killed 30 militants in strikes after receiving reports of the raid on the village, where residents had recently returned following years of displacement. The attack comes amid a resurgence in jihadist activity with Boko…

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…