The last time Nigeria released a crime statistics report was June 2018 and experts say this is costly for a country wrestling with insecurity across various fronts. The federal agency in charge of data generation, analysis and publication, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), had first released crime-related data in 2014. But it only covered […]
Read More
Inibehe Effiong, human rights advocate and family lawyer of Kubiat Isaac, a graduate of University of Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, South-south Nigeria, who died in police custody, said an autopsy revealed Isaac was tortured to death. Isaac, said to be an only son of his parents, was arrested on Aug. 29 along with his friends […]
Read More
Nigeria, on Sunday, Aug.22, reported eight deaths and 674 new COVID-19 infections, raising total confirmed cases to 185,267, according to government data. The Nigeria Centre Disease Control (NCDC) said the fresh infections were spread across 12 states including the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja. Lagos, the country’s epicentre of the pandemic, reported the most infections […]
Read More
Twenty-year-old Uduak Akpan, suspected killer of Hiny Iniobong Umoren on Monday, July 26, 2021 pleaded guilty to the charge of murder and not guilty to the charge of rape brought against him. Akpan, who was arraigned before an Akwa Ibom State High Court in Uyo, the state capital, pleaded guilty to the murder of the […]
Read More
A wave of attacks on Nigeria’s electoral commission offices in southeast Nigeria is raising concerns about preparations for upcoming electoral events, particularly the 2023 general elections. In May alone, at least five offices of Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) were torched in a series of ramped-up attacks that were reminiscent of the election-related violence […]
Read More
Police in Akwa Ibom State, South-south Nigeria has identified the killer of Ms. Iniobong Ephraim Umoren, as a 20-year-old Uduak Frank Akpan. In a press statement released Sunday afternoon, Odiko Macon, Police spokesperson in the state, disclosed that 20-year-old Akpan kidnapped, raped and murdered Umoren. In the statement, the police revealed that the suspect owned […]
Read MoreA job seeker, Iniobong Umoren, who was declared missing on Thursday, April 29, has been found dead, a friend to the deceased has confirmed. Umoren’s friend with the Twitter handle, ‘Happiness Activist @UmohUduak1,’ who had announced on Thursday that Umoren was in trouble after going for a job interview along airport road, disclosed that she […]
Read More
Residents of Umuahia and Aba metropolis in Abia State, Southeast Nigeria, have been instructed to stay indoors between the hours of 10 p.m to 6 a.m with effect from Monday, April 5 till further notice. Okezie Ikpeazu, the State Governor, imposed a curfew on Monday which he said was as a result of security reports […]
Read More
Five officials of the Deeper Life High School who were arraigned before a Magistrate Court sitting in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, have pleaded not guilty to the charges brought against them over the alleged molestation of Don Davis, a JSS 1 student of the school. The officials include Ndidi Solomon, the suspended principal of the […]
Read More
Some officials of the Deeper Life High School, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Southsouth Nigeria have been detained by the police in the state over the alleged molestation of Don Davis, a JSS1 student of the school. They are currently being prepared to be arraigned before a competent court of law, HumAngle learnt. They were said […]
Read MoreThe Deeper Christian Life Ministry, the owner of Deeper Life High School, has responded to the allegation of sodomy of a JSS 1 student of its Uyo campus, Don Davis, who was allegedly molested by senior students of the school. In a video which has been making rounds on social media, a woman identified as […]
Read More
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has arraigned a professor for election fraud in Alwa Ibom, South-South Nigeria, while another is on the run for a similar offence. Peter Ogban, a professor of Soil Science at the University of Uyo, was on Tuesday arraigned before Justice Augustine Odokwu of Akwa Ibom State High Court in […]
Read More