Gunmen suspected to be armed robbers on Thursday shot dead a middle-aged man and dispossessed several passengers of their belongings on the Benin-Ore Road, in Ovia North-East Local Government Area of Edo State.
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ROGUE NSCDC OFFICIALS SHOOT, ROB TANKER DRIVER, OTHERS IN BROAD DAYLIGHT
Two employees of an oil firm in Lagos have been forced to pay heavily for refusing to give N5,000.00 bribe to some operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Lagos State Command.
Continue reading »HERDSMEN ATTACK TRAVELLERS ON ABUJA-KEFFI EXPRESSWAY
Armed robbers suspected to be Fulani herdsmen on Wednesday attacked travellers on the ever-busy Abuja-Keffi Expressway, carting away mobile phones and money from them.
Continue reading »AGAIN GUNMEN KILL POLICEMAN, SNATCH VEHICLE IN IMO
Highway gunmen, believed to be armed robbers, have assassinated a police officer in Imo State. This is coming after gunmen had previously attacked and killed police officers at Orie Mbieri police station, Umudagu – Mbieri and Atta in the Mbaitoli and Local Government Areas of Imo State respectively, carting away their arms and ammunition. The name and the rank of […]
Continue reading »KIDNAPPERS OF EKITI FRSC BOSS, WIFE DEMAND N20M RANSOM
Unknown gunmen who kidnapped an officer of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Ekiti state, Oluwafemi Ojo and his wife, have demanded a ransom of 20 million Naira. This was revealed by a family member whom the kidnappers had contacted on Sunday. The couple were abducted on Saturday in Ogotun-Ekiti, a border town between Osun state and Ekiti southwest […]
Continue reading »DRIVER FOILS TARABA SPEAKER’S DAUGHTER’S KIDNAP
A driver attached to the speaker of Taraba State House of Assembly was yesterday stabbed with a knife by a kidnapper, who attempted to take away a daughter of the lawmaker at his house in Jalingo, the state capital. According to one of the drivers attached to the speaker, who was in the house at the time of the incident, […]
Continue reading »TRUCK KILLS ROBBER WHILE RAIDING PASSENGERS IN LAGOS
A suspected robber has been crushed to death by a truck at the Ojo Lowo bus stop in the Ijanikin area of Lagos State, while allegedly attacking some bus passengers. It was learnt that the suspect, whose name had yet to be ascertained, along with other hoodlums, had at about 10.30pm on Friday stood at the bus stop to waylay […]
Continue reading »EDO: POLICE KILL SUSPECTED HIGHWAY ROBBER, RESCUE FIVE
Operatives of the Edo State Police Command on Friday shot dead a suspected armed robber at Oluku bypass, in Ovia North-East Local Government Area of the state. The suspect was said to have been killed during a shootout between some policemen and an armed robbery syndicate specialized in highway robbery. It was learnt that the deceased robber and other members […]
Continue reading »ROBBERS ATTACK CBN BULLION VANS, KILL TWO POLICEMEN
Two mobile policemen were killed in the early hours of Tuesday at Hawan Kibo along Jos-Abuja road as armed robbers attacked a convoy of bullion vans belonging to the Central Bank of Nigeria. Our correspondent gathered that the bullion vans and their retinue of armed mobile policemen escorts had left Jos in the early hours of Tuesday enroute Abuja.
Continue reading »FRSC, POLICE TO THE RESCUE AT ARMED ROBBERY INDUCED ACCIDENT ON AKURE-IJESA ROAD
The men of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) and Nigerian Police Force were on hand today to prevent what would otherwise have been another tale of woes, bloodbath and carnage. Their timely intervention saved the day when an armed robbery siege on the Ipetu Ijesa-Erin Oke segment of the Akure-Ilesa road in Ondo State at the early hours of […]
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