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Some activists have demanded that the Lagos State Government must not allow Lagos to be burnt down again like it was last year. They say that they will do everything possible to prevent a repeat of the riots that led to the burning down of the Lagos DNA and Forensic …

A group known as the ‘Save Nigeria Movement’, SNM, has called for the immediate resignation of the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Yakubu Mahmoud and the National Commissioner for logistics, Prof. Ibeanu Okechukwu. Newsextra24 learned that the group made this call at a Press conference on …

Ayo, a 16-year-old Senior Secondary School Student of Itokin Community High School, Ogun state has been arrested by the Police following the death of his classmate, Habeeb Adeosun, 17. According to reports, Adeosun and his classmate, Ayo engaged in a fight during school hours on Monday. According to Newsextra24, late Adeosun’s …

A 15-year-old Zimbabwe JSS 1 student has reportedly committed suicide after he was caught by his mother having sex with a 14-year-old girl, Newsextra24 reports. The boy was said to have had a quarrel with his mother after being caught red-handed in the act at their house in Unit G. …

Kano State police apprehended three alleged kidnappers yesterday at Sharada quarters in Kano Municipal. DSP Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa, the command’s spokesman, confirmed the arrest in a statement to the media. He said the arrest followed a report received from a resident of Kwanar Ganduje, Sharada Phase II Quarters, Kano last …

About seven persons were feared dead, while unspecified numbers of persons sustained varying degrees of injuries when hoodlums suspected to be smugglers engaged operatives of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) in a gun battle on Saturday in Ogun State. The incident, which occurred at Kobape village, along Abeokuta – Sagamu …

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, Kwara State, has arrested one Mr Garuba Ashin for allegedly stealing a goat in his neighborhood in the state’s Kaiama Local Government Area. Garuba, a native of Kaiama’s Iwala neighborhood, was apprehended on Thursday, according to the corps’s spokesman in Ilorin, Babawale …

A self-confessed serial child killer, Masten Wanjala, who escaped from police custody three days ago has been killed by an angry mob in western Kenya. The police said Wanjala was traced by villagers to a house in Bungoma town and beaten to death. Newsextra24 had earlier reported that Wanjala escaped …

Criminal gangs, flush with ransom money, are growing more brazen, stealing heavy munitions and extorting the government. The masked men emerged from the forest on motorbikes, surrounding a young intelligence officer clutching a cash-filled bag. The ransom, nearly $50,000 in crisp Nigerian bank notes, wasn’t for a person, but to …

The former governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, whose secret and illegal offshore activities PREMIUM TIMES reported in the ongoing Pandora Papers series, has been summoned for questioning by the EFCC, Nigeria’s anti-corruption agency. It is the first known action by any Nigerian law enforcement agency since PREMIUM TIMES started reporting …