Crime Report

  Justice James Omotosho delivered the judgment on Monday, March 23, 2026, after finding Nwabuoku guilty on multiple counts of money laundering in a case prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) involving N868,465,000. A Federal High Court in Abuja has sentenced former Acting Accountant-General of the Federation, Chukwunyere Anamekwe Nwabuoku, to 72 years in prison over a …

  Benue’s landscape is marked by a complex terrain of challenges, from farmer-herder clashes and communal disputes and political contestation to rising youth violence and rising criminality like kidnapping and cultism. Climate change has intensified competition for limited land and water, while displacement and deepening economic hardship have further strained the state’s fragile social fabric. The toll is visible in …

A daring night operation by troops of 4 Brigade, under 2 Division of the Nigerian Army, has left a suspected notorious kidnapping kingpin dead and four abducted victims freed in Edo State. The operation, carried out under Operation IGBO DANU 1, took place on March 3, 2026, in the dense Warake Forest, Auchi, Etsako West Local Government Area of Edo …

…Property linked to cult killings demolished in Amagba; Interpol alerted as security dragnet widens Edo State Government’s renewed offensive against cultism has extended beyond Nigeria’s borders, with a Canada-based suspect in last week’s deadly cult violence in Benin City, Edo State capital, declared wanted and placed on an international watchlist. This development came as security operatives, on Thursday, demolished a …

Edo State Police Command said it dealt a major blow to criminal networks in Edo State, with the arrest of 129 suspected criminals and rescue of 30 kidnapped victims in intelligence-led operations across the State. The Commissioner of Police, CP Monday Agbonika, disclosed this recently while briefing journalists in Benin City, the state capital. He said the operations, conducted between …

Members of the family of late Vera Uwaila Omozuwa, a 22-year-old Microbiology undergraduate of the University of Benin, are demanding justice for their daughter, nearly six years after she was raped and murdered inside a church in Benin City, Edo State of Nigeria. Omozuwa was attacked on May 27, 2020, when she went to the Redeemed Christian Church of God …

Edo State Police Command said it has recorded major operational breakthroughs after rescuing two victims of kidnapping and arresting eight suspected kidnappers during coordinated security operations across parts of the state. The Command also said five suspects were arrested over the alleged vandalism of a Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC) petroleum pipeline in Edo Central Senatorial District. In a …

The Police Command in Niger, has confirmed that suspected armed bandits set ablaze a Police Station and part of a church in Agwara community in the early hours of Sunday. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, SP Wasiu Abiodun, confirmed this in a statement in Minna on Sunday. Abiodun said that the attack occurred at about 3:40 a.m., …

The Media Rights Agenda (MRA) said that it documented 86 incidents of attacks against journalists, media organisations and citizens across Nigeria in 2025. The MRA revealed this in its 2025 Annual Report on Freedom of Expression in Nigeria, titled: “The Reign of Impunity,” which was released on Thursday in Lagos. The 147-page report identified the Nigeria Police Force as the …

  China has executed 11 members of the notorious Ming family criminal gang, who ran mafia-like scam centers in Myanmar and killed workers who tried to escape, Chinese state media reported on Thursday. The Ming family was one of the so-called four families of northern Myanmar — crime syndicates accused of running hundreds of compounds dealing in internet fraud, prostitution …