Tag: arrested
120 suspected cultists arrested in Ogun
Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta Hard times await suspected cult members in Ogun State, western Nigeria, as the police operatives deployed by the…
4 suspected kidnappers arrested after collecting N3m ransom
Cyriacus Izuekwe Operatives of the Department of State Security Service, DSS, have arrested four suspected kidnappers and charged them before…
Accountant arrested for paying self salary arrears
Cyriacus Izuekwe A female accountant, Mrs Sola Amusu, has been arrested and charged before Isolo Magistrates’ Court for paying herself…
Journalist arrested over body armour
Thai authorities have arrested a Hong Kong-based photojournalist for carrying body armour and helmet. Anthony Kwan travelled to Bangkok to…
List of indicted and arrested football officials
Nine current and former football officials have been indicted on corruption charges by the US Justice Department, just as world…
Over 160 Boko Haram suspects arrested in Niger
More than 160 people suspected of having links to Boko Haram have been arrested in Niger’s border area with Nigeria…
Over 500 traffic offenders arrested monthly in the FCT
Over 500 traffic offenders are arrested monthly for various traffic offences in Federal Capital Territory (FCT), as part of efforts…
Amaechi arrested, detained by soldiers
Rivers state governor, Rotimi Amaechi has been arrested in Ondo state by soldiers. The Rivers State Government issued a statement…
NUJ, NGE demand release of detained The Sun editor
The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) on Saturday called on the Nigeria Police to release the Associate Editor of the…
Mexico nabs world’s most wanted drug lord
Mexican Marines have arrested the world’s most wanted drug lord, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. He was captured Saturday by and…
Venezuela: Fugitive opposition leader surrenders
Fugitive Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez turned himself in to authorities Tuesday at a march in Caracas by thousands of…
Nigerian scammer arrested for murder of Australian woman
Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, on Monday said it had arrested a 28-year-old man wanted in connection with the…
Dollar bribe policeman arrested, faces trial
Police authorities in Nigeria have confirmed the arrest of the policeman caught in a hidden camera allegedly demanding “dollar bribe”…
Asari-Dokubo Arrested In Cotonou
Simon Ateba/Lagos Ex-Niger Delta militant, Mujahid Asari-Dokubo, has been arrested in Cotonou, Capital of Benin Republic, his lawyer, Festus Keyamo,…
Man with 56 drug packets in stomach arrested
A man from Guinea-Bissau stopped at the Geneva airport at the weekend was carrying 56 packets of drugs in his…
Gunman arrested near White House
A Texas man carrying a pistol and two knives was arrested Tuesday in the park across from the White House…
Ex-Bayelsa governor arrested after hide and seek game
Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Wednesday arrested Timipre Slyva, the former governor of Bayelsa State, after the…
Second Boston bomb suspect arrested critically injured
An ethnic Chechen teenager suspected of conducting the Boston marathon bombings is in a serious condition and being treated in…
US agents arrest G/Bissau drugs kingpin
US agents have captured the former head of Guinea-Bissau’s navy, an alleged kingpin in the west African nation’s drugs trade…
MD Faces Trial Over N29m Theft
The Managing Director of Fintrack Asset Management Company, Limited in Lagos, southwest Nigeria, Mr. Abiodun Simeon Jegede, 39, has been…
Man Stabs Landlady’s Son To Death Over N50
The police in Lagos, Lagos State, southwest Nigeria, have arrested an okada rider identified as Igali for stabbing a landlady’s…
Currency Trafficking: Governor Lamido’s Son Arrested
Aminu Lamido, son of the Governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido, has been arrested by operatives of the Economic and…
Shocking: Nigerians are turning robbers in UAE !
A gang of eight members, seven of them Nigerians has been arrested by the Sharjah Police in the United Arab…
Security men working for Boko Haram arrested
Nigeria’s military special task force said last night it had arrested a number of security personnel over links to Islamist…
Teenage Chinese sex workers arrested in Lagos
EROMOSELE EBHOMELE Officials of the Nigerian immigration Service have arrested 13 teenage prostitutes who were brought in from China by…
4 herdsmen with sub machine guns arrested
The Nigerian Police Command in Nasarawa State have arrested four herdsmen in possession of sophisticated arms and ammunition, the Police…
Killer cop arrested in Lagos
The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a police corporal, Pepple Boma, who shot a man to death while on…
Fraudulent Pastor In Police Cell
The police in Lagos have arrested a pastor with the Lord’s Chosen Charismatic Ministry in Lagos, Pastor Favour Nweke and…
El-Rufai Arrested
Former Federal Capital Territory minister, Malam Nasir el-Rufai has been arrested. Reports say operatives of the State Security Service, SSS,…
Bankole Evades Arrest By EFCC
Dimeji Bankole, the outgoing Speaker of House of Representatives who escaped arrest by operatives of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,…