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Kidnappers of Ekpe Ogbu, Benue State Commissioner for Housing and Urban Development, have contacted his family and demanded a ransom of N5m. A family source revealed that the abductors contacted the commissioner’s family through his driver’s phone. The commissioner, alongside his driver, aide and one other, was kidnapped on Sunday at Adankari village along the Otukpo/Ado Road. Earlier, the state Police Public Relations Officer, Catherine Anene, explained that the incident happened around 6.20pm on Sunday at a forest along Otukpo/Ado Road. In a statement on Monday, Anene said police officers,…

Ekpe Ogbu, Benue State Commissioner for Housing and Urban Development, has been abducted by gunmen. He was kidnapped alongside Honourable Agbo Ode, one of his in-laws and the driver. It was gathered that they were kidnapped along David Marks Farm, after Akpa Otobi while on their way from Otukpo to Utonkon in Ado Local Government Area of the state. The commissioner was said to have attended a Church programme, where Senator Abba Moro, representing Benue South Senatorial district, dedicated his newly inaugurated Campaign Council to God at St. Augustine Catholic…

Police in Jigawa State have arrested a woman, Balaraba Shehu, and her boyfriend, Amadu Sale, for burying their newborn baby alive. The command’s spokesperson, DSP Lawan Shiisu, who confirmed the development, said Balaraba after delivering the baby out of wedlock conspired with Amadu to commit the crime. Shiisu said the baby’s body was exhumed from a grave the mother dug near a toilet within their residence. According to him, “On December 2, 2022, at about 2350hrs, report at command’s disposal revealed that one Balaraba Shehu, 30-year-old, of Tsurma village, Kiyawa…

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA in Ibadan, Oyo State and Rivers State have arrested a 60-year-old grandmother and a pregnant woman for being in possession of drugs. The spokesman of the agency, Femi Babafemi, said: “During the operations, 5,527.15 kilograms of methamphetamine and cannabis Sativa as well as 132,090 tablets of tramadol and 2,000 bottles of codeine were seized by the NDLEA across five states and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja in the past week. “The grandma, Mrs Ibinosun Sandra Esther, was arrested in Ibadan, Oyo…

N15.5 million cash being moved from Daudawa village in Faskari Local Government Area of Katsina State to terrorist groups in Zamfara State has been intercepted by troops deployed under Operation Hadarin Daji. Director, Defence Media Operations, Major General Musa Danmadami, who disclosed this, yesterday, said the huge amount of cash was intercepted during troops’ stop and search operation on November 17, 2022, adding that troops arrested 5 bandits collaborators at the community and recovered a vehicle and five mobile phones from the suspects. Danmadami disclosed that in an operation to…

Senator representing Uyo senatorial district, Senator Bassey Akpan, has been sentenced to 42 years imprisonment for corruption by the Federal High Court sitting in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State. Akpan, who is also the governorship candidate of the Young Progressive Party (YPP) in the state, was prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commissíon (EFCC). He was sentenced yesterday by Justice Agatha Okeke of the Federal High Court on a six-count charge bordering on money laundering and receipt of exotic cars worth N204 million. Akpan, popularly known as OBA, has been…