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A medical doctor, Morenikeji Oluwaniyi, has been reportedly strangled by a four-man gang in the Abule Egba area of Lagos State. The 27-year-old was said to have converted his Toyota Corolla to a Uber ride to raise money for his sustenance. Newsextra24 gathered that one of the hoodlums, identified only …

Three officers of the Delta State Police Command have been shot dead, with their corpses set on fire. The officers attached to Umutu Divisional Police Headquarters, were killed at a checkpoint along the Obeti/Oliogo Road in Ukwuani Local Government Area of the state. Our correspondent gathered the hoodlums ambushed the …

Maikudi Usman, zonal secretary of south-west MACBAN, made the plea on Wednesday at the public hearing of the Lagos state anti-open grazing bill. He said the members of the association need time to be educated on “how they will be breeding cattle in one place and not transfer to anybody’s …

ST. LOUIS – On September 7, 2021, Rotimi Oladimeji and Olumide Akinrinmade appeared before the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri on a romance scam. The men were arrested in Texas on August 9th after the return of a federal indictment charging mail fraud, wire fraud, …

The police in Adamawa have arrested a 19-year-old teenage bride who allegedly stabbed her husband to death, over the husband’s refusal to grant her request for separation into the forced marriage three weeks after it was consummated by her parents. The late husband Muhammad Adamu was 35 years old. Police …

The Police on Wednesday said they have arrested eight suspects over the kidnap and murder of 93-year-old Mr Defwan Dariye, father of former Governor of Plateau, Mr Joshua Dariye. The Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), Mr Frank Mba, disclosed this during a media briefing in Abuja. He said the nonagenarian …

Gunmen have kidnapped three workers of former President Olusegun Obasanjo at a village in Abeokuta on Wednesday. A source told our correspondent on Wednesday that the gunmen waylaid the three workers at the Obasanjo Holdings in Kobape in the Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area. The source said the workers abducted are …

Section of a bridge in Uzere-Asaba expressway collapses after a heavy downpour Watch video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FTNvQzpDns

  The Taliban announced a hardline new caretaker government for Afghanistan on Tuesday, with veteran Taliban member Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund as interim prime minister and Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, a co-founder of the militant group, as his deputy. Mullah Yaqoob, one of the deputy leaders of the Taliban since …

A housewife, aged 25, identified as Mrs Lubabatu Ibrahim residing in Rigasa area of Kaduna on Tuesday appeared before a Sharia Court seeking a divorce with her husband, Habibu Ibrahim over some challenges she could no longer cope with. The distressed wife said, though her union was blessed with a …