Crime News

The Rivers State Response Team on Violence Against Women and Children is happy, and commends the Rivers State Police Command over the arrest and prosecution of a Senior Lecturer with the Rivers State University, Dr. Samuel Egbuchu, over…

A High Court in Bayelsa on Monday adjourned the trial of former General Manager of Radio Bayelsa, John Idumange, who raised an alarm over alleged diversion of N3 billion Agric loan by government officials until July 29. The court had on…

Daredevil gunmen have abducted the mother of the Secretary to the Bayelsa State Government, Mrs Betinah Benson. Reports reveal that her abductors were allegedly dressed in military uniform.Africa Update gathered that Konbowei Benson’s…

The whereabouts of about eight members of Maritime Workers Union is a source of concern to many following an ambush by some gunmen along the Kula waterways in Akuku Toru Local Government Area in Rivers State.Africa Update gathered that…

A man has been arrested in Osun in possession of a human skull, police said. Semiu Oyewo, 38, of Alamole area in Ile-Ife, was also found with some charms, police said while parading him on Tuesday in Osogbo. He was intercepted in a black…

The police in Nairobi, Kenya, are investigating the death of two Nigerians who died at a house party on Thursday, July 8, under unclear circumstances.  The deceased were among 15 Nigerians who had gathered to mourn the death of another…

More details have emerged on the gruesome murder of the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Scientific Equipment Development Initiative, SEDI, Enugu State, Prof. Simon Ndubuisi, who was reportedly assassinated in Enugu…

Gunmen suspected to be hired assassins have killed a mobile policeman attached to a chieftain of the Delta State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Micheal Johnny. The gunmen also murdered a personal driver to the…

The Port Harcourt Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday, arraigned a former President of Port Harcourt Club 1928, Chief Diamond Tobin- West, Afro- Rivers Nigeria Limited, and four other club…

It is a sad day for family and friends of Michael Usifo Ataga, the Chief Executive Officer of Super TV, and a director in Super Network Limited, a telecoms firm, as he has been gruesomely murdered by his side chick. Ataga who resides in…