Browsing Category
Crime Watch
Crime News in Anambra State & Nigeria.
Read the latest Crime News in Anambra State and Nigeria, Breaking Stories and Newspaper Headlines Today.
Abia to set up waste mgt, traffic task force for Aba
By Yolamchi Ukaga, Aba
Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia state has charged Abia State Environmental Protection Agency (ASEPA) and the Traffic and Indiscipline Management Agency of Abia…
Police nab 2 suspected child traffickers at Ihiala
By Praise Necherem
The Anambra state police command has arrested two persons suspected of child stealing in Ezialla village in Ihiala local government area of the state.
The police…
3 armed robbery suspects nabbed at Nkpor
Praise Necherem
Three suspected armed robbers have been arrested for allegedly attacking and robbing six persons in Nkpor, near Onitsha, Anambra state.
The suspects, Chukwuebuka…
Navy cracks down on criminals, demolishes hide-outs in Onitsha
By Phil Okose, Onitsha
Operatives of the Nigerian Naval Out Post, Odekpe, near Onitsha, Anambra state, weekend demolished criminal hide-outs in an exercise to flush out miscreants who…
Three killed in renewed cult clash in Obosi
By Phil Okose, Onitsha
At least three suspected cultists lost their lives in a bloody cult clash in Obosi while eight suspects were arrested by the Special Anti-Cultism Squad (SPACS) of…
3 in police net for beating phone thief to death
By Segun Ayinde, Abeokuta
Three men have landed in police net for allegedly beating a 23-year-old man to death over phone theft at Iju-Ota area of Ogun state.
The suspects, Ugo Obi,…
Over 30 persons reportedly killed in Ebonyi Community clash
….As government threaten to imprison stakeholders
By Ruth Oginyi
About 30 persons have been reportedly killed, over 90 suspects including Special Assistant to Governor David Umahi and…
Gunmen kidnap Katsina village head, injure brother
Gunmen suspected to be bandits, early Friday morning, abducted the village head of Raddah community in Charanchi Local Government Area of Katsina State, Alhaji Kabir Umar.
They also…
Nigeria police rescue eight kidnapped health workers
The police in Edo State have rescued eight health workers, while they were being taken by their abductors to a hideout in the riverine area in Benin City.
The health workers, from Oredo…
Wanted kidnap suspect, others nabbed in Kwara
Oluseyi Dasilva, Ilorin
A suspected criminal who had been on wanted list since July 2019 over the abduction of four Turkish nationals by a six-man gang at Gbugbu village in Edu…
12-year-old impregnated by vice-principal not raped, Nigerians react
Nigerians on Facebook and Twitter have reacted to the story of a Vice-Principal in Katsina State, Ibrahim Tukur, who allegedly raped and impregnated a 12-year-old student.
Tukur, who…
Police catches 20-year-old for kidnapping father, collecting N2m
A 20-year-old man, Abubakar Amodu, has been arrested for conniving with a gang to kidnap his father and collect N2 m ransom.
Amodu was one of 25 suspects paraded by the Force Public…
Man sentenced to life imprisonment for defiling step-daughter in A’Ibom
By Theresa Ukpong, Uyo
High court of Akwa Ibom State sitting in Uyo, the state capital has sentenced a 23-year-old man, Iniobong Okon Moses to life imprisonment for raping his 3-year-old…
Okowa orders investigation into death of mother, child in Warri
Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta has ordered immediate investigation into the death of a woman and her daughter in Warri on Wednesday.
The governor gave the order in a statement by his Chief…
Police parade cultist ‘defence minister,’ others in C’River
Joseph Kingston, Calabar
The Cross River state police command has paraded the ‘defense minister’ of the Viking confraternity which is believed to have been part of several deadly…