Tag Archives: Arrest

With a Manhattan grand jury indictment likely but its timing unclear, Donald J. Trump sought to rally supporters to his side, declaring that he would be arrested on Tuesday and calling for protests. Mr. Trump made the declaration on his site, Truth Social, at 7:26 a.m. on Saturday in a …

Russian leader , Vladimir Putin, 70, was seen limping as he made a surprise visit to Crimea, the annexed territory of Ukraine on Saturday, March 18.   It was the first time the Russian strong man had been seen publicly after the International Criminal Court issues an arrest warrant for …

  Operatives of the Economic and Financial Commission, EFCC, monitoring the ongoing governorship and state houses of assembly elections have intercepted bales of fabric meant for voter inducement and arrested a number of persons suspected to be involved in vote buying. Thirty five (35) bales of fabric allegedly belonging to …

Soldiers providing security in Enugu State for the governorship and House of Assembly elections have reportedly arrested 140 thugs with arms and ammunition in the university town of Nsukka in the Nsukka Local Government Area. About 140 political thugs have been arrested by soldiers deployed to Enugu to provide security …

LONDON — The International Criminal Court accused the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin, of war crimes and issued a warrant for his arrest on Friday, a highly symbolic step that deepened his isolation and punctured the aura of impunity that has surrounded him since he ordered troops into Ukraine a …

The International Criminal Court on Friday, March 17 issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin for war crimes over his alleged involvement in abductions of children from Ukraine. In an unprecedented move, the court said in a statement that Putin “is allegedly responsible for the war crime of …

Bauchi State Police Command has confirmed the arrest and detention of the publisher of a Bauchi-based online investigative newspaper, Wikki Times, Haruna Mohammed.   Mohammed was arrested in Governor Bala Mohammed’s hometown, Duguri, Alkaleri LGA, last Saturday. Eyewitnesses told Daily Trust that the publisher was interviewing some women who were …

A lecturer of the Department of Philosophy in the University of Calabar, Gabriel Agabi Akwaji has been arrested by the police in Cross River State for allegedly impersonating an ad hoc staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Dr. Dominic Abakedi, in the Presidential and National Assembly polls held …

Pro-Biafra separatist agitator, Simon Ekpa, has been released by Finnish authorities hours after he was arrested and grilled.  Earlier Thursday, Feb. 23, Finnish police escorted Ekpa out of his apartment in Lahti.    He was later released on Thursday evening.  He took to Twitter to share a post after his …

Nigerian entertainer and activist, Charles Oputa, popularly known as Charly Boy, has reacted to the arrest of a self-proclaimed disciple of the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, Simon Ekpa. The news of Ekpa’s arrest by the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) broke the …