Category: Crime
NDLEA arrests China-bound auto parts dealer at Kano airport for ingesting 95 wraps of cocaine
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), said its operatives have arrested a 62-year-old Lagos-based businessman Nwabueze Nicholas Izueke at the Mallam Aminu Kano International…
Court jails BDC operator over naira rejection, illegal forex dealings in Kwara
The Ilorin Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has secured the conviction of a 46-year-old Bureau De Change (BDC) operator, Muhammed…
Computer operator, one other, sentenced to 3yrs imprisonment in Ilorin
A magistrate court, sitting in Ilorin, the Kwara State capitalon Monday, slammed two middle aged business men three and half years imprisonment for forging police…
Bandits demand ₦500m for five abducted Kwara workers, families cry out
Bandits have demanded a ransom of ₦500 million for the release of five road construction workers kidnapped in Kwara State. THE PRIME NEWS had reported…
Kwara Governor condemns attack on women protesters, calls for accountability
Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq on Monday expressed outrage over a video showing hoodlums attacking women protesters near the under-construction Government House gate over the weekend. In…
Police arrest two notorious bandit leaders in Kwara, seize gun, cash
The Nigeria Police have arrested two suspected bandit and kidnapping kingpins believed to be behind violent crimes across Katsina, Zamfara, Niger and Kwara states. According…
Police arrest suspected kidnapping kingpin in Kwara
The Kwara State Police Command has arrested a man believed to be a key member of a kidnapping gang operating in parts of the state….
NSCDC officer bags 7-year jail term for forgery, corrupt advantage
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has secured the conviction of one Hassan Abdullahi, a Superintendent of the Nigeria Security and…
DSS, military tracked, pressured bandits to free 38 Kwara church worshippers – Presidency
The Presidency has said that Nigeria’s security agencies deployed precision intelligence and coordinated engagement to secure the release of 38 abducted worshippers in Eruku, Kwara…
Kwara sets up committee over bandits’ attacks
Kwara State governor, Alhaji AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, on Tuesday, announced a cabinet-level security committee to midwife alternative short-to-long term solutions to curtail further security breaches. The…

