Police in Katsina state have arrested a housewife identified as Aisha Abubakar for allegedly killing her four-year-old stepdaughter and namesake, Aisha, with rat poison at Rimi in the Rimi Local Government Area of the state on Tuesday, August 17. Residents of the community disclosed that Aisha and the mother of the deceased …
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One Prophet Adeleye Akingbaso has been remanded in the Nigeria Correctional Centre, Ado Ekiti, for allegedly defiling a teenager. An order to remand the 45-year-old man was granted by Ekiti State Chief Magistrate Court, sitting in Ado Ekiti. According to the charge, Prophet Adeleye Akingbaso was reasonably suspected to have committed …
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Angry residents of the Mariri community in Kaduna State’s Lere local government lynched Hajiya Bilkisu after learning that the seven people she had been housing were bandits. Members of the community descended as she was trying to escape after troops of Operation Safe Haven arrested the seven suspected bandits from …
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Officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have apprehended the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Marvelrock Pharmaceuticals and Stores Limited, Mr Orakwe Celestine, for allegedly engaging in sales of illicit drugs on a popular e-commerce platform, Jiji.ng. Orakwe, a graduate of Business Administration, University of Abuja, registered …
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Salma al-Shebab, a 34-year-old Saudi student at Leeds University who was said to be returning to the United kingdom for a holiday when she was arrested has been sentenced to 34 years for using a Twitter account and for following and retweeting dissident activists. It was gathered that the mother of two …
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A stray bullet has reportedly killed a young woman during a gun duel between unknown gunmen and the Nigerian Army operatives in Orlu, Imo State. The deceased was identified as Ifeoma Nnebuo. On Sunday, there was alleged to have been a gunfight between the soldiers and the assailants. During the …
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Rev. Father Chinedu Nwadike, a priest of the Catholic Church, and a seminarian who were abducted on Friday along the Okigwe-Enugu Road in Abia State have been released. Father Nwadike, a priest of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit (CSSP) and the current deputy registrar of Spiritan University Nneochi (SUN), …
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A suspected vandal has lost his life after being electrocuted in Osogbo, the Osun State capital. While reportedly trying to steal cables from a transformer at Kolade Estate in Ogo Oluwa area of Osogbo, the suspect was electrocuted to death. The incident happened on Monday afternoon, August 15. In other news, a …
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Some gunmen suspected to also be kidnappers have invaded the Agbedo —Akpanya market in Igalamela/Odolu Local Government Area of Kogi State. One Johnson was killed during the invasion while others were abducted. The kidnappers further demanded the sum of N20M as ransom to release those abducted. It was gathered that the suspected …
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Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Port Harcourt Zonal Command, have arrested one hundred and twenty suspects (120) for alleged illegal oil bunkering in a joint operation with with personnel of the 6 Division Garrison, Nigerian Army Port Harcourt They were arrested on Saturday, August 13, 2022 …
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