The Defence Headquarters, DHQ, has confirmed the arrest of suspected members of the Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, who have allegedly carried out renewed attacks in the region lately, blowing up oil facilities. According to the DHQ on Sunday, the suspects are being investigated by security operatives to siphon information from them. Director of Defence Information,…
According to Punch, four men were arrested in Lagos for not eating on time. It was reported that policemen from Surulere Police Division apprehended and detained the men on Tuesday, while eating noodles around 11pm. One of them identified as Sango Svengali, were eating noodles at a shop on Ogunlana Drive around 11pm, when the…
A 41-year-old woman who feigned pregnancy was arrested on Saturday by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, with wraps of substances suspected to be cocaine. The woman, a mother of three and identified as Dorothy Onyekasi, was apprehended during the inward screening of passengers on an Emirates…
Former governor of Niger State, Abdulkadir Kure, has been apprehended by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. Kure was picked by the anti-graft agency on Wednesday for allegedly receiving a N600m contract from a former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki. Punch said an impeccable source disclosed to it that Kure has since been…
The Department of State Service, DSS, Nigeria’s secret police, may have apprehended one of the right men of wanted Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, Khalid Barnawi. According to tweets from Ahmad Salkida, a journalist used by Boko Haram to convey information to the Nigerian government and the public, Barnawi was captured in Lokoja, the Kogi…
Sixteen members of the Ekiti State House of Assembly have now found refuge in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, following alleged plots by the police to arrest them. The congressmen on Wednesday addressed the media at the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, council office in Ibadan, stressing that nothing will make them impeach Governor Ayodele…
Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has debunked speculations that it masterminded the arrest of the Rivers State Secretary to the State Government, Kenneth Kobani, by security operatives on Saturday. Kobani was apprehended by the military during the rerun election in the state yesterday for allegedly stalling the distribution of electoral materials…
Men of the Nigerian Army have apprehended Secretary to the Rivers State Government, Kenneth Kobani. Kobani was arrested for alleged stalling the distribution of electoral materials at a polling unit in his area during the rerun election. According to reports reaching us, the Rivers SSG was at a RAC centre on Saturday morning and allegedly…
Police in Ogun State have apprehended a fleeing member of the dreadful Boko Haram group from the northeast Nigeria. The suspect was said to have been nabbed by security forces in Mowe area of the state, a town very close to Lagos. Parading the suspect on Monday at the headquarters of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery…
A man believed to a major gun fabricator, arms-runner and a covert linkman/courier for the Boko Haram group has been apprehended by the Department of State Services, DSS. A statement issued on Saturday in Abuja by Tony Opuiyo for the DSS disclosed that the suspect, identified as Musa Garba Abubakar, fondly called Muhadis Musa Bin…