A serving Police Corporal attached to the Elimgbu Division, Onwukwe Godswill, has been arrested by operatives of the Anti-Cultism Unit (ACU) of the Rivers State Police Command over alleged involvement in cult-related activities. Godswill was arrested during the sign-out party by final year students of the University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT). Also arrested was a…
Operatives of the Benin Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested 92 suspected internet fraudsters in Edo State. They were arrested in a sting operation on Monday, September 29, 2025 at various locations within Benin City, Edo State. Their arrest was based on credible intelligence about their suspected involvement in…
A 38-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly faking his own abduction in an attempt to extort N20 million from his family members in Anambra State. The Anambra State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, disclosed this in a statement issued on Tuesday. Ikenga revealed that the man was apprehended in Rivers State by…
An Abuja-based lawyer, Victor Giwa, whose bench warrant was issued by the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court in Apo earlier last week, has been arrested by operatives of the Nigeria Police Force in Lagos. Giwa has represented embattled Senator Natasha Apoti-Uduaghan in her cases against the senate and Senate President, Godswill Akpabio. Justice Jude…
The Edo State Police Command has said it was going to sanction its operatives arrested for extorting N300,000 from a furniture maker. The officers are attached to the Oba Market Area Command, Benin City. This was contained in a statement by the Police Public Relations Officer of the command, Moses Yamu, on Monday. Yamu said…
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested an Indian businessman, Gupta Ravi Kumar, and three Nigerian accomplices in connection with the interception of 2,248,000 pills of tramadol (200mg/225mg) at Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos. The shipment, disguised as multivitamins in 114 cartons and declared from Delhi, India, arrived at the…
Two church leaders in the United States have been arrested in an alleged multi-million-dollar conspiracy after multiple Federal Bureau of Investigation raids across the country on Wednesday, including one in Hillsborough County’s exclusive Avila neighborhood. In a statement issued via its website on Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Justice said Michelle Brannon, 56, was arrested…
Primate Elijah Ayodele, leader of the INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church (IESC) Worldwide, has issued new prophesies concerning the Boko Haram insurgents. Ayodele said that the group will soon face a big defeat when one of its top leaders is arrested. The financiers of the insurgents, he said, would be exposed, even if many of them…
The Nigerian Police Force Public Relations Officer FPRO, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, has taken to social media to react after some Nigerian police officers who were captured on video, counting money in their patrol van were arrested. According to the video shared on X, the Nigerian Police officers were spotted in their patrol van counting bundle of…
Eight members of Anambra vigilante group who molested and stripped a female youth corper have been arrested, dismissed and handed over to police for prosecution. The Anambra State government disclosed this on Wednesday. A viral video has shown the moment armed men believed to be operatives of Operation Udo Ga-Achi — also known as the…
