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THE Niger State Police Command has made public their success in recapturing Kazeem Murtala, age 54, who had escaped from the Kuje Custodial Centre. In a statement signed by the state Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, DSP Wasiu Abiodun, he said the inmate was captured by police on patrol around …

Pandemonium in Udo Idiong junction, Obio Okpa campus of the Akwa Ibom State University, OrukAnam local government area of the state as a roadside petrol dealer reportedly set ablaze one Enwongo Akpan, a 200-level philosophy student of the institution, over a minor disagreement. Sources learnt that trouble started when the …

The Ghana Immigration Service has ordered its personnel to put in place strict measures that would prevent fleeing inmates from entering the country. Recall that terrorists had attacked the Kuje Medium Custodial Centre on Tuesday, July 5, and freed 879 inmates including those linked with terrorism. 443 had so far …

The Inspector General of Police, Usman Baba, has ordered the deployment of a clutch of men to Osun ahead July 16 governorship election. In a state issued by the Police spokesman CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi on Sunday, the IGP also approved the temporary replacement of the police commissioner in the state. …

Due to the declining security situation in Takum and Ussa local government councils of Taraba State, commercial drivers using the roads have resorted to using other routes Speaking to newsmen on Monday in Jalingo, the state capital, some of the drivers disclosed that they have stopped plying the roads because of …

Housemaid simply identified as Chidimma, has narrated how her mistress beats her almost every night for refusing to lick her private parts and suck her breasts in Warri, Delta State. The 10-year-old girl who spoke in pidgin English in a video clip that is two minutes, 38 seconds long insisted …

Tragedy as fire reportedly gutted a section of the popular Bodija Market in Ibadan, the capital of Oyo state. Sources learnt that the fire started very early in the morning on Monday. Some traders said they lost goods worth millions of naira in the incident. As at the time of …

52-year-old grandmother, Christiana Kehinde, has been arrested by the police for allegedly burning her eight-year-old granddaughter’s hand with hot water over alleged theft in Ondo town. The victim was alleged to have stolen a piece of meat from her grandmother’s pot of soup. The suspect, who was paraded at the police …

A teenage undergraduate, Jamila Abu, went missing after she dropped a suicide note at home in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. Jamila was said to have gone out of her parents’ house on Ireakari Estate, along the Akala-Expressway, Ibadan, Oyo State, on Wednesday, July 6. According to PUNCH, her mother, …

Dr Hassan Suleiman, Director of the Universal Basic Education Board (UBEB) in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), who was kidnapped on the Abuja-Kaduna-bound train in March 28, has narrated his ordeal. Suleiman, who was among the seven kidnapped passengers released on Saturday, July 9, said it was hell being under terrorists …