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Three kidnappers were killed in a gun battle and two of their informants arrested early Saturday morning along Lokoja-Okene highway by team of hunters and neighbourhood watch from Okehi and Adavi LGAs of the state. The kidnappers who were planning to stage an attack on innocent citizens that ply the …

A member of Neighborhood watch identified as Ashiru Musa Danrimi last Thursday allegedly stabbed himself to death in Kano over a failed romance. Eye witness account told Independent that Musa Danrimi took his own life when he learned that his girlfriend, was married off to another man. The young lady …

BBC Reporter Kiki Mordi Accused Of Being The ‘Hitman’ In Threatening Seyitan Over Rape Accusation Against D’banj Popular Nigerian journalist and a reporter for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has been put on blast on Nigerian Twitter. Featured24 reports that this comes after human rights activist, Segun Awosanya, took to …

The Edo State Media Campaign Council of the APC for the governorship election has accused Governor Godwin Obaseki and his party, the PDP, of unleashing violence on the people in Benin City following a confrontation in which the Governor was booed while trying to gain entrance into the palace of …

During Lockdown, NDDC Paid Staff N655m For Training, Foreign Trips That Were Not Attended–Report The report also added that N171m was paid in cash to 300 drivers to attend a driver training course, scheduled to take place when the nation was on lockdown. The embattled Interim Management Committee of the …

Nigerian singer, Joel Amadi has taken to social media to report that suspected Fulani Herdsmen in Kaduna have shot his father dead. The singer also in his post called out governor Nasir El-Rufai and accused of him of not doing enough to curb terrorism in Kaduna State. He wrote: ‘It’s …

Newsextra24 reports that the Anambra State Police Command has paraded twenty-five male suspects over cultism related activities including drugs possession and illegal possession of firearms. The suspects who are mostly teenagers, were arrested in different parts of the state by the command’s Special Anticultism Squad, SPACS. Speaking with pressmen during …

Again, Fulani Herdsmen Attack Southern Kaduna Village, Kill Six People, Many Declared Missing No less than six people have died after armed Fulani herdsmen attacked Doka Avong Village in Kaduna State. This is the fourth attack in less than five days on predominantly Christian farming villages in Southern Kaduna area …

A lady, Seyitan Babatayo, who accused musician, Oladapo Oyebanjo aka D’Banj, of rape has written a letter to the police withdrawing her petition. This happened just as the police said it has been unable to establish a case of rape against the musician, In a letter dated July 17, 2020 …

  Musician, Oladapo Oyebanjo, aka D’Banj, is forging ahead with the N1.5bn libel suit filed against Miss Seyitan Babatayo, who accused him of rape, despite the latter withdrawing a petition submitted to the Inspector-General of Police. D’Banj’s lawyer, Mike Ozekhome (SAN), disclosed this in an interview with Newsextra24 on Friday. …