Seven suspected illegal dealers in new naira notes have been arrested by the Police in Benin by the Edo State Police Command, with the sum of N12. 5m seized. The action was in line with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) law prohibiting illegal sales of new naira notes. The Commissioner of Police, Babatunde Johnson Kokumo on Friday, 9 November, 2018 paraded the suspects before the media at the Edo State Police headquarters in Benin. He told journalists that the suspects also were specialists in counterfeiting the naira notes. The...

18 year-old Akpobome Samuel has confessed to killing his mother Mrs. Gift Samuel after which he made love to the corpse for money making ritual. He confessed while being paraded by the Edo State Police Command alongside other 84 suspects. The 84 suspects were paraded for various crimes ranging from cultism, kidnapping, rape, armed robbery, murder and burglary in Benin City. Akpobome said he acted on the instructions of the native doctor whom he visited in Ologbo, Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area of the state. He said the native doctor told...

Police in collaboration with vigilante operatives weekend shot dead an armed gang leader in Igbodo, Ika North East Local Government Area of Delta State.. The notorious armed robber, simply identified as “Chopping” was in the early hours of the day shot dead along a member of his gang in their attempt to attack and rob a Dangote trailer loaded with cement. The police also recovered some locally made guns from the deceased suspects at the scene of crime reports said. Contacted, the Delta State Commissioner of Police, Muhammad Mustafa confirmed...

She went down on her knees as she was ushered into my office, weeping uncontrollably, she muttered, 'Officer, please, help me. I need your help. Yes, I acted stupidly, but I didn't do it'. Having comported herself, I demanded to know her story regarding a case of fraud of N5, 000, 000 (Five Million Naira) I was investigating. Amaka, 33, tall, elegant, hippy and busty, a young graduate in Owerri, is an active citizen of social media. She belongs to many Facebook groups. On one of the groups, the Admin...