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EFCC raises Special Task Force against dollarisation of economy, currency mutilation

Octogenarian Ilumoka recounted how spiritualist duped her N36m

Ayodeji, also known as Otunba, is facing a three-count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretence, contrary to Sections…
Court sentences vigilance operative, Onyeka Eze to death by hanging for the murder of a phone repairer, Anayo Ugbo at Okpoko, Anambra State

Seyi Akinleye to die by hanging for armed robbery in Ekiti

To prove his case, the prosecutor, Mr Julius Ajibare, called five witnesses and tendered statement of the convict, two laptop…

Ighalo celebrates new age

Ighalo represented the nation at the 2018 World Cup and was the highest goalscorer in the 2019 Africa Cup of…
Manager

Ibadan man Mohammed Bello remanded for killing friend

Earlier, the Prosecution Counsel, Mr Philip Amusan told the court that the defendant allegedly committed the offence on May 3,…
Murder

Chinonso Ejiogu remanded for stabbing girlfriend

Ekhueorohan alleged that Ejiogu stabbed his girlfriend with a kitchen knife multiple times in the stomach.
Pensioners in Rivers undergoing verification on Wednesday

Rivers’ retirees undergo verification for payment of pensions, gratuities

Spokesman for the Rivers State Pensioners, Mr Lucky Ati, expressed happiness that the state Governor Nyesom Wike finally heed their…
FG bans hotels in Nigeria from lodging underage girls

Police rescue 35 teenage girls from sex slavery in Anambra hotel

Ikenga added that police operatives combed the hotel on June 13 and rescued the girls being used as sex slaves,…
Murder

Nigerien Idris Suleiman docked for killing Kebbi housewife, daughter

The defendant allegedly macheted the woman to death and hit the little girl’s head on the mother’s room tiles, which…
Bara Ogidi

DSS arraigns Bayelsa publisher Bara Ogidi for cyberstalking

Ogidi had allegedly accused Wabote of offering him the sum of N10 million to lure him to testify in Wabote’s…
The suspects

30 Internet fraud suspects cracked in Abuja

The suspects were arrested on Tuesday, June 14, 2022, in Lugbe and Kubwa suburbs of Abuja, following credible intelligence on…
A fire incident

LASEMA battles fire in Ikoyi residence

Confirming the fire incident, LASEMA boss Oke-Osanyitolu said that the fire broke out at Ilabare Road, Ikoyi and all hands…
Police speak on efforts to arrest a gang of robbers who hijacked $11 million from a trader at gunpoint in Abeokuta, Ogun state on Friday.

Police confirm abduction of 2 worshippers from Ogun church

Gunmen had on Monday, at 11.00 p.m., entered into the Church and kidnapped two worshippers, Oluwaseun Ajose and Dagunro Ayobami.
Suspected Chibok girl, Mary Ngoshe with child: Intercepted by Nigerian Army troops while on patrol in Ngoshe area of Borno State

Troops intercept abducted Chibok girl Mary Ngoshe in Borno

About 276 students were kidnapped on April 14, 2014 by Boko Haram terrorists in GSS Secondary School Chibok
Gunmen abduct Islamic cleric, Alfa Fasasi Ola Mejabi, younger brother along Lokoja/ Obajana/ Kabba road of Kogi State

‘How gunmen in 4 tricycles killed 2 businessmen in Aba’

The attack took place just a few metres from the Eziama Police Station, Aba, Abia State
Gunmen abduct Bishop Oluwaseun Aderogba, wife in Oyo

Anglican Bishop Aderogba, wife, driver regain freedom

Bishop Aderogba, his wife and the driver were abducted on Sunday night along the new Oyo/Ogbomoso Expressway in Oyo State.…
Edo High Court remands 38-year-old Pastor, Simeon Okehielem, for allegedly raping and impregnating a house wife, Mrs Isoken Vivian Aigbedo.

Covid-19: Rabiu jailed over Facebook posts on deaths in Kogi

Kogi State Epidemiologist said that as at the time of the Facebook posting, the death rate was normal contrary to…
Governor Obaseki, wife (3rd and 4th left) and others at the workshop

Uwaila: Obaseki slams police over failure to solve murder riddle 2 years after

Uwaila, a 22-year-old 100-level Microbiology student of University of Benin (UNIBEN), was murdered in June, 2020, inside a church in…
Aderibigbe

Nigerian fraudster Aderibigbe on FBI-wanted list jailed for N22m fraud 

Aderibigbe, a member of a syndicate operating in the United States, specialises in stealing of United States citizens' data to…
EFCC arraigns “Mama Boko Haram”, two others for N150m fraud

Mama Boko Haram Aisha Wakil jailed in Maiduguri

The judgment was the climax of a trial that commenced on Monday, September 14, 2020 when the defendants were re-arraigned…
Court sentences Kamilu Olona to eight months imprisonment for stealing items belonging to his father’s tenants at Bodija Market, Ibadan.

Ekiti man Oguntuase bags life jail for defiling JSS student

Oguntuase defiled the minor on July 7, 2020 at Ire- Ekiti in Oye Local Government Area of Ekiti.
Abba Kyari and others in court

Drug deal: Abba Kyari’s co-defendants bag two-year jail term

Umeibe and Ezenwanne are the two alleged drug traffickers arrested at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport in Enugu by the…
Ogbu

Abuja beggar Ibrahim Musa remanded for stabbing passer-by

Ogada alleged that, on May 11, at about noon while the complainant waited for a taxi to work, the defendant…
Kebbi

Gunmen attack Celestial church, abduct two, demand N50m ransom

The gunmen abducted two worshippers and demanded a ransom of N50,000,000 (Fifty Million Naira).
Suspect teacher killer, Abdulmalik Tanko and Hanifa Abubakar

Hanifa’s murder: Court gives judgment date

Tanko, the proprietor of Nobel Kids Comprehensive College, Kano, was alleged to have kidnapped Hanifa, on Dec. 4, 2021, and…
Mr Umar Sanda, Bauchi Commissioner of Police

Police probe lynching of motorcycle thief in Bauchi

A middle-aged man, whose identity had not been determined, was attacked by a mob who beat him to a pulp…
Motorists queuing to benefit from Amuzu free fuel

June 12: Ogun PDP candidates dole out free fuel to motorists, others

Adejoke Adeleye,Abeokuta A House of Representatives candidate under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) in Ogun, Toyin Amuzu marked…
Most Rev. Israel Amoo

Anglican Communion demands release of kidnapped bishop, others

The Bishop was kidnapped with his wife and driver while returning to Jebba from an Episcopal engagement at Yewa area…
Gunmen

Gunmen abduct three missionaries in Kogi, demand N20m ransom

One of the victims, Peter Adigidzi is a member of the Evangelical Church Winning All, ECWA. The others are Pastors…
Lagos CP Alabi Abiodun

Police graduate 6 Ph.D holders, 169 others as spies

The six Ph.D holders promoted into the cadre of CSP are Dr Peter Akhideno, Dr Elvis Otobo, Dr Kehinde Oduns,…
Sanwo-Olu

Sanwo-Olu declares three-day mourning over Owo killings

Terrorists stormed St. Francis Catholic Church, Owo, Ondo State on June 5, 2022 and shot 40 people dead and injured…