Federal High Court sitting in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State capital, has convicted Yunusa Dahiru for abducting Ese Oruru. Mrs Jane Inyang sentenced Dahiru to 26 years in prison in a judgment she delivered on Thursday. The abduction of Ese, youngest child of Charles Oruru and Rose Oruru, occurred on August 12, 2015 at her mother’s shop in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. Ese, who was 13 years old at the time, was abducted by a man named Yunusa (alias Yellow) and taken to Kano, where she was allegedly raped, forcibly converted into Islam and married off without her parents’…

The US Secret Service has identified criminal actors targeting state unemployment funds using personal information stolen from Americans Some of the criminals are connected to a sophisticated Nigerian crime ring and could have already stolen hundreds of millions of dollars, according to a Secret Service memo first reported by security researcher Brian Krebs. The fraudsters took advantage of states struggling to process a flood of jobless claims amid the Covid-19 pandemic and related government shutdowns. They primarily targeted the state of Washington, and there's also evidence of attacks in North Carolina, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Oklahoma, Wyoming, and Florida. As states…

Bandits have ambushed and killed eight persons in Rafinkada community of Wukari Council of Taraba State. The incident, which took place yesterday, was said to have further fuelled the tension in the area where the Tiv and Jukun ethnic crisis claimed lives and property. Confirming the incident, the council chairman, Mr Adi Daniel said the eight victims were among the 11 travelling from Wukari to Donga Council. The rest three were said to have narrowly escaped with various degrees of gun injuries. He further confirmed that the three injured travellers were receiving medical attention at an undisclosed medical facility in…

Abductors of the four construction workers with Tractia Nigerian Limited have demanded a ransom of N700 million after the company said it could not afford the N1billion earlier demanded. Some armed bandits, it was learned stormed the construction site at Erena in Niger state, kidnapped an assistant chief technical officer and three other staff. It was gathered that the abductors had earlier demanded N1billion from the company to secure the release of their workers. According to a source close to the company, one of the victims had escaped from the bandits on their way to Kaduna while the negotiation is…