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12 Bayelsa women arraigned for allegedly using ‘juju’ to stop road construction No fewer than 12 women from Agobiri community in the Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State have been arraigned by the police for allegedly plotting to scuttle the ongoing construction of the Yenagoa-Oporoma Road by the …

A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the Nigerian Police Force to pay N15m fine to seven suspected members of Boko Haram over their unlawful detention for three years without trial. The suspects who were said to have been arrested inside a Maiduguri market were allegedly dumped at the detention …

A Ghanaian school boy has been caught by the aiprot officials trying to relocate abroad by hiding inside plane’s engine, Newsextra24 reports. A viral video shared on instagram by Newsextra24 has shown a boy coming down from an aeroplane’s engine after security agents caught him. The boy had ‘perfectly’ hid …

Armed thugs in Kano have set the new campaign office of Senator Ibrahim Shekarau-led faction of APC on fire. Newsextra24 reports that hundreds of thugs arrived at the Maiduguri Road office of the party, vandalising billboards, furniture and setting part of it on fire. The State Government on Wednesday sealed …

POLICE AUTHORISED THE BURIAL OF OAU MBA STUDENT TIMOTHY ADEGOKE- VANGUARD FOR THE TRUTH FOUNDATION. A non-governmental organisation, Vanguard for The Truth Foundation which has been conducting an independent investigation into the case of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Timothy Adegoke Oludare has again revealed some shocking new facts chiefly …

Barely 24 hours after an Abuja-based Federal High Court ordered the Kano State Government to apologise and pay the sum of N10 million to the deposed Emir of Kano, Lamido Sanusi, for violating his fundamental human rights, his counsel, Nureni Jimoh, who secured the judgment, was on Wednesday locked up …

15-year-old opened fire at his Michigan high school on Tuesday, killing three students, including a 16-year-old boy who died in a deputy’s patrol car on the way to a hospital, authorities said. Eight other people were wounded, some critically. Photos: Swarms of police officers swooped in and arrested the suspected …

“This is my 12 years old cousin that was beaten to death at a school that cost over 1 million naira. They tried to put him in cult, he refused and they killed him. Secondary school o. Anybody that can kill me hould kill! me now, my brothe won’t die …

A 21-year-old photographer, Muhammed Zubairu, has been remanded in prison custody over the death of his pregnant girlfriend, Miss Sane Fidelis in Adamawa State, Newsextra24 reports. Muhammed, of Sabon Pegi, Mayo Belwa Local Government Area, was arraigned before the Chief Magistrate Court sitting in Yola for criminal conspiracy and causing …

Twenty people have been confirmed dead with seven others rescued after a boat carrying passengers capsized in Bagwai River in Bagwai Local Government Area (LGA) of Kano State. According to an eyewitness, the accident happened on Tuesday evening. It was gathered that the canoe was carrying Islamiyah schoolchildren and other …