By Our Correspondent The Upper Chamber of the National Assembly, on Tuesday, postponed the hearing of the report on the Cash withdrawal policy by the committee on Banking and Financial Institutions. The Senate had last week commissioned the committee to grill the two newly re-appointed deputy governors of the Central Bank of Nigeria during their […]
The Police Command has vowed to deal decisively with the hoodlums terrorising Imo state after attacking the INEC office in Owerri. The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state, Micheal Abattam told newsmen that men of the Command have killed three members of the hoodlums. Abattam described the breakthrough made by the command to the […]
Hoodlums enforcing five-day sit-at-home order in the South East, killed three persons, including a pregnant woman in Enugu on Saturday. The NewsZenith gathered that the pregnant woman was killed by a stray bullet at New Market during a gun duel between the hoodlums and policemen. An eyewitness claimed a bullet hit the woman where she […]
By Our Correspondent The Police have charged 52-year-old Adebayo Oyebamiji before an Ejigbo Magistrate’s Court for allegedly obtaining N640,000 fraudulently. Oyebamiji, whose residential address was not provided, is standing trial on a two-count charge of stealing and fraud. The prosecutor, ASP Benedict Aigbokhan, told the court that the defendant committed the offences on Aug. 24, […]
Mrs Rose Bassey, a former Accountant General of Cross River State and three others have been abducted at the Uyanga axis on the Calabar-Ogoja highway. Gunmen, who laid siege on the busy highway, abducted the persons, by shooting at the motorists to force them to stop. They shot a popular evangelist, Edim Edim Omin during […]
Two persons died in a clash between policemen on duty and gunmen on Monday night in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State. SP Chris Anyanwu, Spokesman of the Police Command in Ebonyi, said the incident claimed the lives of a mobile police officer and a member of the gunmen. Anyanwu said the attack occurred at Presco axis, Abakaliki […]
By Our Correspondent Four suspects, arrested for allegedly invading the residence of Senator Sani Musa (Niger East), have confessed they planned to kidnap him. The Police Public Relations Officer in Niger, DSP Abiodun Wasiu, announced this in a statement on Monday in Minna. The NewsZenith reports that one of the suspects said the gang claimed […]
By Our Correspondent The Inspector General of Police, Usman Baba, has ordered the immediate deployment of armed officers drawn for the resumption of railway services along the Abuja-Kaduna rail lines. The Force spokesperson, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, announced this in a statement, late on Sunday in Abuja. Adejobi said the officers were drawn from the Mobile Force […]
By Our Correspondent The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), on Friday, charged a 19-year-old unemployed man, Abdullahi Aliyu before a Federal High Court in Lagos for alleged drug trafficking. In a five-count charge, bordering on illegal peddling of restricted narcotics, the NDLEA Counsel, Mr Lambert Nor, alleged that Aliyu committed the offence on Oct. […]
By Our Correspondent Police have arrested three suspected armed robbers, believed also to be Eiye secret cult members, recovering guns from them in Benin, Edo. The Police Public Relations Officer, SP Chidi Nwabuzor, confirmed this in a statement on Tuesday in Benin. Nwabuzor said the Anti-Robbery Team arrested the dare-devil armed robbers and members of […]