Crime

By Aliyu Abdulwahid Lokoja Local Government Transition Chairman, Comrade Abdullahi Adamu has declared curfew in Felele phase 1&2, Adaba, Back of NPC and ADP, Mawog, Sarkin Noma and Lokoja Poly Village in Lokoja Local Government area. In a statement signed by the special adviser on security to the chairman,Bala Muhammad said residents are advised to…

By News Desk A staff of Kogi State Internal Revenue Service (KGIRS) identified as Mohammed Dahiru has been allegedly accused of diverting revenue meant for the state government to his personal account. The alleged fraud was revealed in a radio program sponsored by Wadata Media and Advocacy center , (WAMAC) and aired on a private…

By Aliyu Nasidi Kaduna-based Muslim cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, has revealed his intention to dialogue with bandits who abducted about 287 schoolchildren from Kuriga Government Secondary and LEA Primary Schools in the Chikun Local Government Area of the state. Gumi said this in a bid to facilitate the release of the abducted schoolchildren should President…

Daga Hukumar EFCC Bamaiyi Haruna Mairiga, mai gabatar da kara na shida, PW6, a shari’ar da ake yi wa tsohon gwamnan babban bankin Najeriya, CBN, Godwin Emefiele a ranar Alhamis, 7 ga Maris, 2024, ya shaida wa Mai shari’a Hamza Muazu na babban kotun birnin tarayya, FCT,   Abuja. , Wannan jarrabawa ta bincike ta nuna cewa…

By Musa Aliyu Nasidi A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, the nation’s capital, has ordered that the former minister of Power and Steel, Olu Agunloye, be remanded in Kuje prison pending the perfection of his bail conditions. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had arraigned Agunloye over allegations of fraud to the tune…

By News Desk Six person have been kidnapped in the last three weeks in Yagba East Local Government Area of Kogi State. The member representing Yagba East in the Kogi State House of Assembly Hon. Emmanuel Obaro disclosed this on Tuesday when he moved a motion of urgent public importance on the floor of the…

By news desk The Assistant Inspector General of Police in charge of Zone 2 Command comprising Lagos and Ogun States, AIG Ari Muhammed Ali, fcia, psc+, PhD, has ordered the dismissal of AP. No. 279495 Inspector Sunday Adetoye and AP. No. 223521 Inspector Ogunleye Stephen attached to the Zonal Command Headquarters Onikan Lagos for the…

Some yet-to-be-identified arsonists have set ablaze a 75-year-old woman identified as Mallama Meimunat Opaluwa Sani in Idah, Kogi State. The incident occurred in the early hours of Thursday morning at her Oketekwe residence in Idah Local Government Area of the State. Theanalyst reliably gathered that the tragic incident also affected her first daughter, Hajarat Usman…

By Musa Tanimu Nasidi Recently a police officer trending on social demanding foreign currency from a female raises condemnation by Nigerians,the Dutch woman, according to reports was on a tour of Nigeria. The Police Special Constabularies who were caught in a viral video at Ojongbodu area along Iseyin/Ogbomosho Road in Oyo, Oyo State have been…

By Aliyu Abdulwahid The recent  upsurge in attacks by bandits who now have a free day on the federal highways in Kogi state especially the Kabba- Obajana-Lokoja road wherein commuters are attacked by these men of the underworld needs to be addressed by the authorities. Despite, Governor Yahaya Bello’s administration famed success on security of…