The erroneous belief of Police officers about their immunity from prosecution and the sense of impunity has once again been shattered by the High Court of Lagos State in Bolanle Raheem’s case. The point l want to make, my Lords, is that when Police officers are prosecuted or convicted for killing innocent members of ...

Elijah Anthony, a 17-year-old student in Plateau State, has been detained by men of the State Police Command for reportedly murdering his neighbor’s five-year-old kid after receiving N400,000 in ransom from the victim’s parents. Anthony, a Senior Secondary student at Manret High School in the Angul D village of Plateau State‘s Jos South Local Government ...

Four armed robbery suspects have been arrested by Joint Security Forces comprising officers of the Nigeria Police Force, and the Nigerian Armed Forces, amongst others, along Otukpo-Taraku road, Benue State on Saturday. A police source made the development known to our correspondent late Saturday night while sharing a video of the armed robbery suspects. “Four ...

  Fake Kenyan lawyer, Brian Mwenda, who was exposed for practising without a license, has spoken up after his arrest. Mwenda handled 26 cases before Magistrates, High Court Judges, and Court of Appeal Judges and he won all cases. He was finally caught earlier this month. The unfolding saga took a new twist when philanthropist ...

  The police in Benue State have arrested four persons in connection with the murder of a former President of the Customary Court of Appeal, Late Justice Margaret Igbetar, whose decomposing body was found on the 24th of August 2023. The Commissioner of Police in Benue, Bartholomew Onyeka, who disclosed this while briefing journalists in ...

  Las Vegas police have arrested a man in the deadly 1996 drive-by shooting of Tupac Shakur. The development is a long-awaited break in a case that has frustrated investigators and fascinated the public ever since the hip-hop icon was gunned down on the Las Vegas Strip 27 years ago. Duane “Keffe D” Davis was ...

  An elderly man identified as Emmanuel Nwagu, who was said to have claimed to be a Commissioner of Police, has been apprehended at the Lagos State Command. The suspect who was dressed in a Commissioner of Police uni­form was said to also possess an identity card when he appeared at the command, purportedly to ...

Police authorities in Abia State have confirmed the arrest and detention of the General Overseer of Agape Evangelical Ministry popularly called Bishop Timothy Otu over the death of a female evangelist, Happiness Echieze, attached to a Pentecostal church in Aba. The lady evangelist who is a mother of five died during suspected rounds of sex ...

Anthony Igbinogun, a 48-year-old man, and his girlfriend, Joy Umukoro, have been apprehended on suspicion of selling their newborn baby to obtain drugs. The Edo State Taskforce Against Human Trafficking (ETAHT) arrested the couple, along with their friend James Precious, who had connections to the buyer in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Abigail Ihonre, the Head ...

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria and former President of Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Olisa Agbakoba has tackled Senator Adamu Bulkachuwa over his comment suggesting that his wife, Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa extended help to some politicians during her time as President of the Court of Appeal. Bulkachuwa, 83, who represented Bauchi North Senatorial District in the ...

    Former President Donald Trump entered a not guilty plea Tuesday to charges that he lied and schemed to hold on to sensitive national security material that he was supposed to have surrendered when he left the White House. Trump, 76, was indicted last week on 37 federal felony counts, including willful retention of ...

A consortium of lawyers under the platform of United Lawyers for Rule of Law Defence have condemned the midnight invasion of the Lagos residence of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Godwin Emefiele, and his forceful arrest by men of the Department of State Services (DSS), describing the development as undemocratic. In a statement ...

The Force Headquarters on Tuesday confirmed the arrest of the Adamawa Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Barr. Hudu Yunusa-Ari who declared the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) winner of the gubernatorial elections during the recently concluded supplementary elections. A statement in Abuja by the Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi said: “The Nigerian ...

    Frank Nwajugu, who threatened to bring The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to Lagos State, has been arrested by the police. On Friday 31st March 2023, the Eze Ndigbo of Ajao Estate, Lagos State, in a video claimed he was going to invite IPOB to secure South Easterners and their property in Lagos ...

The Nigerian Bar Association, Owerri, has lashed out at the Imo State Government over the arrest and detention of Messrs. Chima Emeka Ndukwe, Akoma Jeremiah, Ikedi Amadi and Nze Moses, senior staff of the National Industrial Court, Owerri. The lawyers’ body said it gathered that the detained senior staff were arrested and taken to an ...

Bayelsa State Police Command has confirmed the arrest and remand of two persons suspected to be among the gang of hoodlums who disrupted a State High Court proceeding in Yenagoa by throwing stones at the presiding judge, Justice Nayai Aganaba Those arrested are: Promise Ogilogi and Azibabin Adiki, while others are still on the run. ...