The Nigerian Army on Tuesday said its troops had repelled attack coordinated by Boko Haram insurgents at a military formation in Kukareta, Damaturu Local Government Area of Yobe. In a statement, Col. Onyema Nwachukwu, the Deputy Director, Army Public Relations,…
A Nigerian Man was killed by unknown gunmen few days after he returned home from Brazil, for the Christmas holiday. The deceased identified, Ndubuisi, has reportedly been in Brazil for a long time and decided to come back home to…
During interrogation, suspected bank robbers who were apprehended by the Police confessed why they engaged in the criminal act. Policemen attached to Ilasamaja division have arrested two suspected members of a robbery syndicate that specialised in attacking customers, who had…
The South-South Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in Port Harcourt, River state, has paraded ten persons for alleged involvement in internet fraud. Naghe Obono-Itam, EFCC’s coordinator in the zone, told journalists on Thursday that the…
A state of emergency was declared in the Sudanese city of Atbara after hundreds of people protested against price increases and set fire to the local headquarters of the ruling party, officials from Nile River state said. A curfew was…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday arraigned the President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Mr. Paul Usoro (SAN), before a Federal High Court, Lagos over alleged N1.4 billion fraud. Usoro, who is to face trial before Justice…
An upcoming Nigerian gospel artist identified as JBlingz was in a near-death attack after being a victim of four ritualists. JBlingz managed to fight off 4 men who attempted to use him for rituals. He sustained injuries during the fight…
Two female suspected robbers on Saturday reportedly engaged the police in a gun battle in a hotel in Ogidi, Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State. On Sunday that the robbers locked out the police and engaged them in…
There was pandemonium on Efon Alaye Close, Ojodu-Berger, Lagos, on Saturday, as a four-man robbery gang operated freely in the area and vandalised many vehicles. A distress call to the 767 emergency line made by one of the residents during…
A yahoo boy and a banker who defrauded a Hong Kong lady of £79,000, have been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. The yahoo boy identified as 30-year-old Favour Oriafoh and the banker Ojo Adefemi Adedoyin, were…
The South-East Zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has raided the homes of two alleged internet fraudsters: Okechukwu Donald Akachukwu and a couple, Onuora Edgar and his wife, Onuora Adaora Lynda, at Independence Layout, Enugu. The…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibadan office, on Wednesday arraigned twenty four students of Olabisi Onabanjo University and the National Open University of Nigeria who were arrested for alleged involvement in various cyber crimes. Ten of the defendants:…
With the massive down turn of low cast income, though the lucrative movie industry. According to YEN magazine, several actors have tried to supplement their income by venturing into other businesses, but this is not an excuse for illegal activity.…
Mr. Wilfred Nwovueze, has insisted that Prince Owabie aka J-BOY, the suspected killer of his pregnant daughter, Betty must marry her corpse. Nwovueze told newsmen on Thursday that the marriage is in line with a compulsory traditional rites of Ndele…
A Yahoo boy in Ghana has cried out for help as he claimed that evil spirits, fire and lions haunt him after his attempt to get rich quick through the fetish means. According to him, his love to get rich…
Four men who specialized in adulterating Dettol disinfectants and Air Wick fragrance, have been arrested in Lagos. The quartet were identified as Francis Ume, 32, Chidubem Achezie, 44, Peter Ume, 44 and Jacob Ejike, 41, were arrested at Okokomaiko in…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested nine suspected internet fraudsters popularly known as Yahoo-Yahoo boys, in Abuja. The suspects were arrested by the Advance Fee Fraud Section of the Commission on November 30, 2018 through an intelligence…
Men of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, in Ondo State, have apprehended a middle-age woman, Mrs Abimbola Oreoluwa, for allegedly inflicting bodily injury on her 12-year-old houseboy. The woman, according to the NSCDC state commandant, Pedro Awili,…
A Federal High Court in Lagos, on Monday, adjourned judgment in a motion, seeking final forfeiture of N2.2 billion recovered from a former Chief of Air Staff, Adesola Amosu. The suit which was earlier fixed for judgment on Monday was…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Lagos office, on Tuesday, November 27, 2018, seized a total of 29 exotic cars during a raid on the office of a Lagos-based car dealer, Astrax Auto Shop. The raid followed intelligence report…