The Police, on Monday, said they neutralised a suspected terrorist and repelled his group’s attack on Magamar-Jibia in Jibia Local Government Area of Katsina State. The state command’s spokesman, SP Gambo Isah, announced this in a statement Monday evening in Katsina. “Today Monday, Jan. 2, at about 0430 hours, terrorists in their numbers, shooting sporadically […]
By Our Correspondent ……assures of enabling environment for justice The Inspector-General of Police (IG), Usman Baba, has recommended the immediate suspension of ASP Drambi Vandi, for allegedly killing Omobolanle Raheem. The NewsZenith reports that ASP Vandi allegedly killed Raheem, Lagos-based lawyer on Christmas Day in Lagos. The Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Muyiwa Adejobi, […]
By Our Correspondent The Police, on Friday in Ibadan, arraigned eight men for allegedly cutting a dead person’s body parts. The defendants include Waheed Tijani, 50; Taiwo Yunusa, 38; Afeez Ariyo, 43 and Kazeem Tejumaje, 47. Others are Abdulrasheed Tanimola, 55; Muritala Kewulere, 65; Dauda Azeez, 52 and Abdulhakeem Oriola, 51. They appeared before an […]
An Upper Area Court in Jos, on Monday, sentenced a 35-year-old trader, Musa Mohammed, to one-year imprisonment for stealing two bottles of vegetable oil from a provision shop. The judge, David Damulak, sentenced Mohammed after he pleaded guilty to the charge. Damulak, however, gave the convict an option of a N20,000 fine or 12 months […]
The Green Chamber of the National Assembly has applauded the Department of State Services (DSS) for curtailing the spate of insecurity in the country. Chairman, House Committee on National Security and Intelligence, Sha’aban Sharada, gave the commendation while on oversight visit to the DSS headquarters in Abuja. Sharada remarked that the role of the security […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has conducted a public auction of 190 vehicles and electronic devices at its Zonal Offices in Abuja, Benin, Port Harcourt, Kano, Ibadan and Uyo. EFCC Spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday. The exercise was preceded by a public inspection of the displayed photographs of […]
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, […]