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Selling newly minted naira notes is an offence that attracts six months imprisonment and seven suspects are now in police net for trading and hawking newly minted naira notes in Onitsha, Anambra state. According to the State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Garba Umar, the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has raised alarm over the illegal activity going on for a while now unchecked and calls for swift action to arrest the culprits who even brazenly display them in public as a product. Garba while addressing the press over the matter cites sections 20 and 21 of the CBN Act that makes it an offence for anyone to sell or hawk naira or coin issued by the Central Bank of Nigeria, cautions citizens to desist from abusing the naira and says those arrested will be prosecuted. At the Anambra State Police Headquarters in Amawbia, seven suspects have been paraded by the police for illegal trading and hawking of newly minted notes in Onitsha. The police upon arresting the suspects on December...

Egypt has hanged 15 militants who were convicted of carrying out attacks on security forces in the Sinai Peninsula in 2013, authorities say. The executions were carried out on Tuesday at two prisons in the north of the country, where the men were held.   They were convicted of killing soldiers, carrying out assassinations, and destroying military vehicles. It was the first mass execution in the country since six jihadists were hanged in 2015. Sinai has in recent years been beset by an insurgency, with jihadist groups including so-called Islamic State (IS) attacking targets including army, police and judges. Last week, IS blew up a grounded helicopter with an anti-tank missile at a North Sinai airport, killing an army officer and wounding two others.  And in November, suspected IS militants carried out a devastating bomb and gun attack on a mosque in North Sinai that killed more than 250 people.  In the wake of that attack, President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi ga...

                     In Lokoja Kogi State today were Deadly Kidnappers including the Overall Commander Of Kidnappers in Kogi State Halti Bello and 20 of his Gang-members Terrorizing Okene-Lokoja Road, Okene-kabba Road and Ajaokuta Axis Of Kogi State and Responsible For the recent Kidnapping and Murder of A Portuguese Expatriate and Many Innocent Nigerians in Kogi and Edo States were Arrested Jointly by IRT and Kogi State Police Command Personnel. Force Public Relation Officer FPRO CSP Jimoh Moshood Paraded the Kidnappers before the Press in Lokoja Today.

The Katsina State Police Command have arrested one Abubakar Sule, 23, over attempted murder of his girlfriend, Aisha Dikko. It was gathered that Sule had tricked Aisha, 21, into a bush at Tamawa village in the Kurfi Local Government Area of the state, allegedly slashed her throat with a knife and fled believing she was dead. Fortunately, a Good Samaritan found the victim and rushed her to the General Hospital , Kurfi, where she is currently recuperating. Confirming the incident  on Saturday , the state Commissioner of Police, Beseng Gwana, said that Sule would be charged to court soon. "The Suspect abandoned the lady in the bush thinking that she was dead but the victim was later found by a Good Samaritan and was rushed to the General Hospital, Kurfi," said Gwana. "The suspect was traced and apprehended. He confessed to have committed the crime out of jealousy, because the victim had been betrothed to another man." he added. The suspect told ne...

Today, the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Kano state confirmed that 11 women died in a ghastly auto crash in Kano metropolis on Saturday night.  FRSC Public Relations Officer, Mr Kabir Ibrahim-Daura told newsmen in Kano that the incident occurred  around 8.30 p.m. at the old tollgate near Sa’adatu Abubakar Rimi College of Education.    According to him, the women were conveying a bride from Unguwa Uku to Yan’lemu area when the driver lost control of the vehicle and hit the tollgate. He said eight women died on the spot while the remaining three died at the hospital. “Eight persons died on the spot because the vehicle after hitting the tollgate it divided into two instantly, Daura said. He said three other women and the male driver were still at the hospital receiving medical attention. The FRSC spokesman attributed the accident to over spending and urged other motorists to drive with utmost care by obeying all the traffic rules and regulations...

On 22 December, 2017, at about 8 pm, a gang of two armed robbers attacked one Francis Chibueze of Bakery Road, Azikoro Village, Yenegoa, Bayelsa State. Luck ran against the gang as one of the robbers mistakenly shot and killed his partner. The victim Francis Chibueze escaped unhurt. The deceased armed robber was identified as Thankgod Smith ‘m’ 25 years, and his partner who shot him is Peter Napoleon ‘m’ 23 years. Policemen swung into action, and the suspect in hiding panicked and came to the Azikoro Police Station on 23 December, 2017 on his own volition and confessed to the armed robbery and killing his gang member. . He led Police Detectives to an uncompleted building in Bakery Road, Azikoro Village, where the gun was recovered.

A man pretending to be mentally ill was reportedly caught with N100m cheque, ATM cards, and condoms among other items in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital. Punch reported that the middle-aged man whose name could not be ascertained, as of the time of filing this report, was recently nabbed near the state Ministry of Environment and Forestry along the Ahmadu Bello Way in Ilorin. Sources revealed when he was searched, a cheque of N100m, pictures he allegedly took with top politicians in Nigeria, four automated teller machine cards, male and female condoms, Valium injections and Infinix Hot 5 phone were found in his possession. The insiders also added that the 'mentally-ill' man, who would have been lynched by a mob, was rescued by another man at the scene. When Kwara State Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Ajayi Okasanmi, he said he came across the photo of the fake 'mentally-ill' man circulating the internet but couldn't authoritatively confirm.

A 17-year-old in northern Virginia is facing two counts of murder for allegedly killing his girlfriend's parents after the couple tried to get their daughter to stop dating him because of his suspected neo-Nazi views. According to police and family members who spoke to the media, the couple, Scott and Buckley Kuhn-Fricker, were shot in their home by the teenager, who then shot himself. Fairfax County Police spokeswoman Reem Awad said the suspect, whose name is being withheld by police because he is a minor, is hospitalized in critical condition with life-threatening injuries. He is under police guard. Four other family members who were in the home at the time were uninjured. Buckley Kuhn-Fricker recently discovered private tweets on her daughter's phone that concerned her. The tweets, which she believed were connected to the boyfriend, included one that responded to a photo of a candy shop featuring a Jewish dreidel with the comment "ima run in there with my...

Troops of 21 Brigade, Operation LAFIYA DOLE, in conjunction with elements of 121 Battalion, on Friday 22nd December 2017, laid an ambush for Boko Haram terrorists at one of their suspected crossing points near Firgi, Bama Local Government Area of Borno State. During the ambush, the troops neutralized one of the terrorists suspected to be an expert Improvised Explosives Device (IED) expert, while other terrorists escaped with gunshot wounds. The gallant troops recovered 1 Gas Cylinder suspected to be for IED, 2 Water Bottles and 1 Motorcycle. In another development, troops of 3 Battalion, 22 Brigade, Operation LAFIYA DOLE on Saturday 23rd December 2017 following a report that suspected Boko Haram terrorists have rustled and carted away over 200 cows at Makandari Village in Kala Balge Local Government Area, mobilized a fighting patrol which pursued the terrorists to Beneri village where contact was made. The patrol team engaged the terrorists and neutralized 2 of the crim...

A sick video on suspect Tarek Hawchieh's Facebook page shows him performing a sex act with a fish. Suspect Tarek Hawchieh was pictured with a semi-automatic weapon on Facebook An Uber driver accused of  raping  and  murdering  a British diplomat told police he targeted her because she was wearing a short skirt, it has been reported. Tarek Hawchieh has been named as the man suspected of killing 30-year-old Rebecca Dykes in Beirut, and a horrifying Facebook video shows him taking part in a sex act with a fish. The murder suspect is also photoed smiling as he poses with an assault rifle. Ms Dykes, who worked at the British Embassy in the Lebanese capital, is believed to have been strangled after being picked up from a bar, where she had met with friends. Her body was found by police dumped at the side of the road, and the 29-year-old driver was identified using tracking information from his car. A Lebanese police source told  MailOnline : "He said he ...

The 19-year-old was missing for two days before her body was discovered in a forest. A stunning student has been  strangled to death  and her naked body wrapped in clingfilm after she applied for a job as a governess with "model looks". The 19-year-old was missing for two days before her body was discovered in a forest. Kristina Prikhodko had been sexually attacked, say  police  , who have arrested two men, both aged 28, on suspicion of murder. They warned about men using advertisements to lure young women for  sex under false pretences . It is known that Kristina had posted revealing pictures of herself and was this year registered on a site where women can meet “sugar daddies” . Kristina had been missing for two days before her body was found in woodland One theory was that the men intended to use her in an “erotic photoshoot”, according to local reports. Her naked body was wrapped in clingfilm and put inside a zip-up bag which was found on...

                            Today, drug law enforcers in Senegal invited the press to watch 4.5 tonnes of cannabis being burnt and social media is asking if observers inhaled the smoke and get stoned themselves? BBC's Mamadou Ba, who took pictures in the Mamelles neighbourhood of the capital, Dakar, said he watched the proceedings for a while but left specifically because he did not want to get high. The cannabis, which is illegal in Senegal, was confiscated along with small amounts of cocaine and heroin.                             The idea of holding a press conference to burn cannabis has long been the butt of jokes - including this scene in the British comedy Drop the Dead Donkey where the reporter gets increasingly high while making a TV dispatch.

Footage has emerged online of gang members openly boasting about shooting people and gang violence but police say they are finding it difficult to have the content removed. Gangsters are threatening rivals and glorying their  crimes  through a string of viral videos. An investigation revealed Birmingham gang members have been using grime music videos to issue chilling threats to each other on  YouTube  . Gang members boast about shooting people in the clips   Police chiefs say they are working to identify criminals and remove the clips but admitted it is "very rare" for them to be taken down from social media, despite repeated requests by officers. One video, posted in December, appears to make reference to a shooting and a separate  stabbing in the city, the  Birmingham Mail  reports. Viral videos in which gangsters are making chilling threats have been posted to YouTube And earlier this year sickening footage emerged of Burg...