Police in Adamawa has arrested two suspects for alleged raping of two minors in Jambutu, Yola North Local Government Area of the state. DSP Sulaiman Nguroje disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria ( NAN) on Sunday in Yola. Read Also: Major Nigeria Newspaper Headlines For Today, Sunday, August 2nd, 2020 Nguroje said that … Read more
The Chairman of Toto Local Government Council of Nasarawa State, Nuhu Dauda, on Sunday called for calm following the July 27 attack on Dausu community by gunmen. The attack led to the death of five persons and the abduction of 14 while houses and property were burnt. Read Also: Major Nigeria Newspaper Headlines For Today, … Read more
The Police Command in Nasarawa State has vowed that it will fish out the killers of Mr Amos Obere, the District Head of Odu Village in Nasarawa Local Government Area. Obere was murdered by unknown gunmen on Friday. Read Also: Major Nigeria Newspaper Headlines For Today, Sunday, August 2nd, 2020 Nansel Ramhan, the Police Public … Read more
Bandits on Friday murdered the village head of Odu, Amos Ewa Obere, in Nasarawa Local Government Area of Nasarawa State. Read Also: Fire Guts Foam Market In Mushin SaharaReporters gathered that the bandits stormed the village in large numbers on motorcycles, armed with weapons and operated for hours. Some residents of the village were also … Read more
A young man identified simply as Kingsley, was allegedly shot dead by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) from FCT Command, Abuja. It was gathered that Kingsley was trying to rescue a male drunk, Tuesday, near a shop opposite the DSS quarters, Sharp Corner, Mararaba. The incident led to uproar by some residents … Read more
Senator Ali Ndume has disclosed that one of the repentant Boko Haram fighters, who was reabsorbed into the community, has killed his father and absconded with his cows. Ndume also faulted the programme, saying the government should have started by rehabilitating the victims before working on the attackers. Read Also: Major Nigeria Newspaper Headlines For … Read more
The Police Command in Ebonyi says it has rescued the remaining victim and arrested another kidnap suspect in the state. The Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Loveth Odah, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Abakaliki. NAN reports that the command had on July 26 said … Read more
One Tunde Oyediran has been arrested by the Police in Osun State for allegedly matcheting his wife, Sarah to death with a cutlass. The suspect was also said to have used the same weapon to kill two children living with the couple around 11 pm on Friday. Read Also: BREAKING: COVID-19: Nigeria Records 555 New … Read more
A lawmaker representing Ipokia-Idiroko constituency in the Ogun House of Assembly, Mrs Sikiratu Ajibola, has prescribed life imprisonment for rapists in the country. Ajibola made the suggestion in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abeokuta on Sunday. Read Also: Major Nigeria Newspaper Headlines For Today, Sunday, July 26th, 2020 Ajibola, who … Read more
A 70-year-old man, Mohammed Sani Umar, accused of molesting an eight-year-old girl, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison. Mohammed raped the minor twice by luring her with N80 in the Chanchaga area of Niger State. Read Also: Fake Lawyer Bags 3 Years In Ogun The suspect, while being tried before a Chief Magistrate … Read more
A Nigerian citizen in U.S. Damilola Bamidele Isaac Samuel, has been sentenced to federal prison for ATM fraud. Samuel, 22, was convicted in Shreveport, Louisiana for using fraudulent ATM bank cards to steal more than $260,000 from dozens of bank customers. Read Also: Fake Lawyer Bags 3 Years In Ogun According to federal prosecutors, Chief … Read more
The U.S. Government has condemned the killings of five humanitarian aid workers by Boko Haram terrorist group in Nigeria’s North-East. The Public Affairs Department of the U.S Embassy in Abuja made the condemnation while commiserating with the victims families in a statement on Thursday. Read Also: Anambra Govt To Boost Tourism Potential By Upgrading Resorts … Read more
Gunmen on Thursday attacked a convoy of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS) and freed six inmates at the premises of the state High Court in Barkin Ladi Local Government Area of Plateau. ASC Martha Banda, the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Plateau Command of NCS, confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria … Read more
An Abeokuta Magistrates’ Court in Isabo, Ogun, on Thursday sentenced a 47-year -old man, Omotola Ayokanmi, to three years imprisonment for impersonation. The Magistrate, Mrs Folake Ogundele, sentenced Ayokanmi after he pleaded guilty to a charge of impersonation. Read Also: Zamfara Citizens Reject Title Conferred On Fani Kayode, Threaten Legal Action Ogundele sentenced the convict … Read more
President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned the recent murder of five staff of humanitarian agencies in Borno State, who were kidnapped by Boko Haram Terrorists a month ago. The president, in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, in Abuja on Wednesday, sympathised with the families of the five … Read more
The drug scene in Indonesia is something of a contradiction. Indonesian drug laws are among the strictest in Southeast Asia, yet the use of illegal drugs is relatively high in some parts of the country. Indonesia’s war on drugs is somewhat compromised by the country’s size and island geography. Read Also: Philippines Warns Of More … Read more
The Federal Government has set up a Presidential Joint Board Audit Investigation Panel to probe alleged N3.4 billion financial infractions levelled against the suspended Managing Director of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund, NSITF, Adebayo Somefun and three other directors. The suspended directors are: Jasper Ikedi-Azuatalam, Executive Director (ED), Finance and Investment; Mrs Olukemi Nelson, … Read more
Rivers State police command has apprehended two suspected notorious kidnappers in a sting operation and have recovered decomposing body of the victim. It was learned that suspects had earlier abducted a man identified as Ereba Dinabari on Friday, May 5, 2020, at Woji, Port Harcourt and demanded a ransom and collected N1m, but the victim … Read more
Enugu state police have arrested a Nigeria based Ghanaian man, Emmanuel Opoku, who allegedly poured hot water on his lover’s, Chiamaka Ngwu (25) breast. It was gathered that the incident happened at their home in Akuke-Awkunanaw, Enugu. The 28-year-old man was arrested after a petition was raised against him on July 10 by the Women … Read more
Members of Kano State Assembly on Wednesday unanimously adopted castration as punishment for rape in the state. The adoption initiated a process to further amend the State’s Penal Code amendment (No.12), Law of 2014. Read Also: BREAKING: Nigeria Records 643 New COVID-19 Cases, Four Deaths Nuraddeen Alhassan (APC-Rano) had sought a review of the law … Read more