A 23-year-old man in Adamawa State has confessed to intoxicating a student and raping her. The youth, Safiyanu Abubakar, a resident of Angwan Chamber in Toungo Local Government Area of southern Adamawa, made the confession to operatives of the state Police Command, who arrested him, according to a statement obtained …
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AN Ondo State Chief Magistrate Court sitting in Akure has ordered the remand of a man, Sunday Clement, in prison custody for allegedly killing a farmer, Taye Alatoye. Following the incident, the 24-year-old labourer defendant was arrested by the men of the state police command and was later charged to …
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A stray bullet suspected to have been fired by cultists has killed a year-one student of Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UNIZIK), Awka, Anambra State. Trojan News Media gathered that the incident occurred on Thursday evening at Miracle Junction in Ifite, Anambra State. The female student was identified as Uche Jovita Chigozirim. …
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A housewife identified as Hajiya Kara’atu Tanimu been kidnapped in Jalingo, the capital of Taraba State. Her abduction is coming barely a week after the wife of a Chief Superintendent of Police, CSP, was kidnapped in the Mile-Six area of the city. Confirming the housewife’s abduction on Friday, the spokesperson …
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THE President, National Union of Road Transport Workers, Tajudeen Baruwa and 21 others, including three other national officers of the union are currently being detained by the police in Abuja, and have been charged with alleged criminal conspiracy, culpable homicide, public disturbance, and conduct likely to cause breach of peace. …
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THE Ibadan Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arraigned Emmanuel Ajibola Obakin for allegedly stealing N251,685,000 belonging to a firm, Lee Fakino Nigeria Limited. The EFCC made these declarations via a statement issued on Tuesday. Wilson Uwujaren, Head, Media and Publicity of EFCC, in the statement …
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A 22 year-old man, Halifa Sani, has been arraigned before a Kano State Sharia Court for allegedly causing grievous harm. The defendant, who lives in Gadon Kaya Quarters, Kano, is facing a one-count charge of criminally causing grievous harm. The prosecutor, Inspector Abdullahi Wada, told the court that the complainant, …
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THE Police on Tuesday arraigned a Bureau De Change Operator, Atoyebi Bamidele, also known as Bam-Bam, before the Federal High Court, sitting in Lagos for allegedly obtaining N157m from traders in Alaba Market under false pretence. Bamidele who operates under the name Prosocial International Limited is facing three counts of …
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THE Kogi Police Command has confirmed the case of suicide by a yet-to-be-identified man, who allegedly jumped into a river in Lokoja. The Command’s Public relations officer, SP Williams Ovye-Aya, who confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria, said it happened between 12.30 p.m. and 1p.m. Ovye-Aya said …
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OPERATIVES of the Adamawa State Police Command have trailed and dislodged some gangs of suspected criminals, killing two in the process. The command said in a statement that the hideouts from which the suspects were dislodged were in Yola South and Fufore local government areas. “The operation, which was carried …
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