The Commissioner of Police in Kwara, Lawan Ado, on Saturday said seven suspects have been arrested in connection with Thursday’s robbery attacks in Offa. The robbery attacks on Union Bank, Eco bank, Guaranty Trust Bank, First Bank, Zenith Bank and Ibolo Micro Finance Bank resulted in the death of 17 people including seven police officers. […]
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The death toll from Thursday’s robbery attack in Offa town in Kwara State has risen to at least 30. About 30 robbers had hit the town, raiding five commercial banks along the Owode Market Area of the town in Offa Local Government Area of the state. The attack which lasted for hours had left the […]
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A Court in Manhattan on Thursday sentenced Abdullahi Shuaibu, 53, who worked at the UN in 2013, to two years in prison after an exhaustive plea agreement with the court. It was a stunning defeat for the prosecutor who had asked that Shuaibu be sentenced to five years under the indictment. Shuaibu pleaded guilty to one […]
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Kogi Government in collaboration with various security agencies had recorded tremendous success in checking criminal activities in November and December 2017. Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi, who stated this to State House correspondents in Abuja on Friday, said state’s crime statistics covering the affected months indicated that the state recorded no single case of armed […]
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Armed robbers, who specialised in raping and killing their victims were on Thursday arrested by the Oyo State Police Command in Ogbomoso after they were traced through a mobile telephone they stole from one of their victims. Police Commissioner in the state, Mohammed Katsina, said while parading the robbers that one of them died during […]
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Gun battle between the Oyo State Police Command and a gang of suspected armed robbers raping women and terrorising Ogbomoso and Oyo town has left one of the bandits dead and two others with serious injuries. The Commissioner of Police, Mr. Muhammadu Musa Katsina, said all the suspects arrested were six in number. Parading the […]
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An Army private, Elijah Owoh, who absconded from his duty post in Biu, Borno state was among the ten suspects arrested and paraded by Rivers Police command for robbery before Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike. The state Commissioner of Police, Chris Ezike, who paraded the nine other suspects before Governor Wike and the acting national […]
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BY AYO OLOWO CHANNELSTV reports that the suspects were paraded to newsmen at the State Police Command in Damaturu. The State Commissioner of Police, Mr Marcus Danladi, said that the suspects have been carrying out various operations along the road which links Yobe through Jigawa to the commercial city of Kano State, northwest Nigeria. On […]
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