The Imo state police command has uncovered an illegal motherless baby’s home where about 17 pregnant teenage girls are held hostage for the purpose of child making and trafficking in Imo state, south-east Nigeria. The locked-up girls are impregnated and after delivery, their children are taken away from them for fee and they (the girls) are returned back into the disguised house for another cycle of breedin ...

Five out of a seven-man kidnap gang were gunned down at Aguleri, Anambra East Local Government Area of Anambra state by officers of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). The remaining two were arrested with severe bullet wounds as five corpses of the slain kidnappers were displayed at the SARS premises in Awkuzu. The dead kidnap suspects were shot during a gun battle with the police officers who trailed th ...

In one of the biggest ever bank heists, a global cyber crime ring stole $45 million from two Middle Eastern banks by hacking into credit card processing firms and withdrawing money from ATMs in 27 countries, U.S. prosecutors said on Thursday. The U.S. Justice Department accused eight men of allegedly forming the New York-based cell of the organization, and said seven of them have been arrested. The eighth, ...

Fourteen casual workers of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) accused of vandalising petroleum pipes to siphon crude oil for sales to foreigners have been sent to Kuje Prison on remand. The defendants arrested by a unit of the Guards of Brigade of the Nigerian Army with 14 tankers loaded with crude oil were sent to the prison by Justice Evon Chukwu after the federal government put them on tr ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday arrested the former governor of Bayelsa State, Timipre Sylva. A statement signed by EFCC's Acting Head of Media and Publicity, Wilson Uwujaren, said the former governor was "picked up at his Abuja home, at No. 3, Niger Street, Maitama" by the EFCC officials who stormed the former governor’s home at about 10.00 am. According to the statement, t ...

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Felix Adedayo a 43 year old bus driver on Monday, appeared before the Magistrate court in Yaba Lagos, for raping a 17 year old food vendor. Mr Felix pleaded not guilty before Magistrate Patrick Adekomaya and was granted bail in the sum of N100,000. The prosecutor, Godwin Anyanwu, said Adedayo who stays at Adisatu Close in Orile, raped the 17-year-old on July 30 at the Oyingbo Motor Park. The prosecutor also ...

A Lagos State High Court has sentenced Bike John Niye , a 22 year old suspected internet fraudster to one and a half years imprisonment for defrauding Laura Wallmam of Indiana, United States of America the sum of $53,500 (N8.56 million). Justice A Akinlade slammed the prison term on Mr Niye having found him guilty of the four of obtaining money by false pretense preferred against him by the Economic and Fin ...

 The Joint Task Force (Operation Restore Order) has intercepted a Hilux Van stocked with high profile weapons including eight rocket propelled grenades and their accessories in Borno state. A statement by the spokesman of Joint Task Force Lt. Col Sagir Musa said the interception of the weapons was made around 9:00pm on Monday the 30th of July 2012 at Daban Masara a border village between Nigeria and Chad in ...

Against the backdrop of recent suicide bombings at banks across the country the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar on Tuesday announced the creation of a special protection unit as part of training for security officers deployed to banks in Nigeria. Mr Abubakar made this known at a meeting with heads of security in banks across the country in Abuja. The closed door meeting is expected to map out ...