Fourteen-year-old Wendy Hudakoc disappeared after leaving a party with an older man, sparking immediate concern. Initially thought to have run away, her family soon realized their biggest fears might have come true. Over two decades later, investigators are still searching for answers but have identified Ron DePeppo, the man at the party, as a person…
Eighteen-year-old Anita Knutson was a bright student working two jobs, putting herself through college, and living on her own. Her family became concerned after she failed to show up to work, so her father went to her house, where he found her stabbed to death. Nearly 20 years after her death, investigators arrested Anita’s roommate,…
PORT HARCOURT – The Take It Back Movement has strongly condemned the violent dispersal of peaceful protesters by security operatives during a demonstration in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on Monday, 7 April 2025. In a press statement issued on Monday, the Movement described the incident as a “brutal and insensible attack” carried out by a…
CALABAR – Officers and Men of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Cross River/Calabar Free Trade Zone/Akwa Ibom Area Command, have intercepted a large consignment of illegal wildlife products at Calabar’s Mfum/Ekok Joint Border Station. Speaking at a press briefing in Calabar on Monday, 24 March 2025, the Customs Area Controller (CAC), Comptroller Chukwudi Ogbonna, disclosed…
CALABAR – In a significant blow to illegal mining activities, the Cross River State government’s Anti-Illegal Mining Taskforce, led by Chairman Prince Paul Bassey Effiong, has arrested 21 suspected illegal miners in a joint operation with the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC). The operation, which spanned several days across Biase, Yakurr, and Obubra…
