Crime News

Gunmen have killed about 50 persons in an attack on a church during Sunday morning service, Africa Update has learnt. Sources disclosed that the gunmen suspected to be bandits, stormed the St. Francis Catholic Church in Owo, headquarters…

The Federal High Court in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on Friday, convicted and sentenced a former Special Assistant to Dan Abia, erstwhile Managing Director of Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC), George Turnah, to four years’…

Rivers State Police Command has arrested an impostor identified as Philip Agbe Chukwuemeka, who parades himself as a medical doctor in Port Harcourt. The suspect, Africa Update learnt was arrested at Mgbuoba NTA Road area of the…

No less than 9.5 million tablets of pharmaceutical opioids: Tramadol and Exol 5 worth over N5billion have been seized at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja Lagos, the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja and Edo state by…

The Police in Anambra have arrested six persons, including a native doctor and two women, for allegedly involving in parading a widow naked in public. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the woman was accused of causing the…

Vivien Vihimga Akpagher, the mother of a deceased 14-year-old boarding student of Premier Academy, Keren-Happuch Aondodoo Akpagher, who was allegedly raped, has filed a lawsuit seeking N10 billion as damages from the school and other…

The Rivers State Police Command has confirmed that investigation has commenced to unravel circumstances surrounding the sudden death of an unidentified man, whose lifeless body was discovered in a hotel room in Rivers State, according…

The spokesperson of the Nigeria Police Force, Frank Mba, has handed over the duties and responsibilities of the Force Public Relations Department to his deputy, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, according to an official statement.Mr Adejobi, whose…

Some daredevil gunmen have reportedly killed one Soldier and with two others sustaining injuries in the early hours of Sunday, January 30. The incident Africa Update gathered occured at the boundary between Emuoha Local Government Area…

A Sharia Court sitting in Rijiyar Zaki area of Kano has sentenced one Mallama Rabi to 30 days community service for abusing and calling her neighbour a “prostitute”. Judge Halhalatul Khuza’i of the Sharia court found Rabi guilty on…