A 29-year-old cleaner, Peter Oko who worked with a new branch of Diamond Bank in Nyanya successfully made away with N5.675 million before the long arm of the law caught up with him.
It has been a few days of mixed feelings for Umar Suleiman and his wife who lost their two-year-old daughter, Khadija to kidnap just a day before the arrival of a new baby.
After earlier reports that the abductors of two wives of a Nasarawa commissioner, Aliyu Tijjani have made a demand of N50m ransom, new reports have emerged that the two women have regained their freedom.
A leader of a militant group known as “Black Devils” gave a halfhearted sympathetic explanation to one of his victims, saying he has been left with little or no option than to engage in kidnapping in order to be able to cater for his family.
A heartbreaking incident has rocked a young family’s household in Abuja, as a two-year-old girl, Khadija was reportedly kidnapped by an unknown woman in Kuje, after she left with a 7-year-old boy to buy Awara.
Abductors of Nasarawa Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Mr. Aliyu Ahmed’s two wives have made a demand of N50m ransom before they would be released.
A couple have been arrested by the Delta State Police Command for allegedly stealing two babies during a christening ceremony at Ebedei Adonishaka in Ukwuani Local Government Area of the state.
As far as Shi’ites continued to throng the streets and disturb peace in Kano, the state governor, Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje says the police would be left with no choice but to employ brutal force in dispersing the protesters.
The House of Representatives’ acquisition of N3.6bn cars has been condemned as “unfair and fraudulent” by Abdulmumin Jibrin, the embattled lawmaker representing Kiru-Bebeji Federal Constituency, Kano State.
Mrs. Moji Ladeji, the sister of Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose has been declared wanted by the EFCC over a N200m Abuja mansion located at 44 Osun Crescent, Maitama, a highbrow area in the nation’s capital.
Borno State governor, Kashim Shettima has presented a N10million cheque to Samira, widow of Lt. Col Abu Ali who was killed by Boko Haram terrorists at Malam-fatori, Borno on November 4.
An unnamed Hausa butcher believed so much in an ‘invisible’ charm he had, he decided to test it by repeatedly strolling to a warehouse attached to a local abattoir in Enugu to steal meat.
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) said it has arrested 11 suspects in connection to a N309million worth of cannabis cultivation in Osun, while also destroying 2, 317 bags weighing 30,992kgs in the raid.
90-year-old Sheikh Abdulazeez Yusuf, who was reportedly kidnapped, along with his driver, on his way to condole with the late Sultan of Sokoto, Ibrahim Dasuki’s family on Wednesday has regained his freedom.
The United States has faulted the Nigerian police for its approach in combating IMN members and has charged the Federal Government to account for the deaths of 300 Shi’ite members killed last December.
Fayose clocked 56 on Tuesday, November 15 and he celebrated it in style, as he took to the streets of Ado-Ekiti, the state capital, to share cakes to the ever-ready citizens of his state in another ‘noble’ stomach infrastructure gesture.
Two wives of Nasarawa State Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Aliyu Tijani, were on Thursday night abducted by unknown gunmen from his residence in Nasarawa town.