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Mayokun Lawson-Alade

APC candidate Lawson-Alade wins Akure Reps seat[ Results at a glance]

According to INEC result portal, 407 of the 408 results from polling units have been uploaded.
Pastor Peter Omope with the gun and the ammunition he was arrested with

Ogun cleric Peter Omope arrested for attempted murder

Omope was arrested at his place of worship at Olambe Junction in Akute area of Ogun State.
The arrested suspects and the drugs seized from them

NDLEA raids Lagos Island drug den, smashes female kingpin, 6 others

The agency also recovered 5,862 kilograms of assorted illicit drugs, including Loud and Codeine in a raid on Saturday 26th…
Kidnapper caught while collecting ransom from victim's parents

Serial kidnapper of children Sunday Alani busted in Ogun

Ajani told the police that that he had previously stolen two children from Egbeda in Lagos and Akute area of…
Ovie Oktogbo; arrested by the police in Edo for defiling young boys

Teenage boy sexually abused by security man, dies in Edo

The suspect, a 43-year-old father of three and resident of No. 15 Ugboguhi Street Off Uwasota, Ugbowo, Benin City, was…
Gunmen kidnap 19 INEC staff, cart away election materials

Gunmen open fire at mourners at funeral service in Anambra

The 34-year-old man whose funeral was holding at the time of the incident was killed on Dec. 30, 2021, also…
Court sentences Lagos man, Eniola Wasiu Ibrahim, to life imprisonment for forcefully having sexual intercourse with his girlfriend

Harrison Ezekiel jailed 6 months for stealing

Ezekiel on January 24 2022, went to Agric market, Odunade, Amukoko and entered a shop owned by the complainant, Ajayi…
Nwonwu

Alleged N.9m fraud: Lagos businesswoman drags worker to court

Wenike reported that her sales representative, Ihusal sold goddess cream, platinum cream, premium cream and other cosmetics and soap in…
Getaway cars abandoned by the Uromi robbers in Ubiaja

Uromi robbers abandon N37M, five getaway cars

Mr Phillip Ogbadu, the Commissioner of Police said that about N37 million and five cars suspected to have been used…
Nigerian

Lagos women docked for allegedly selling poisonous salt to public

By Paul Iyoghojie The Police at the Area ‘B’ Command, Apapa, of the Lagos State Police Command, have arrested two…
Strokes of cane

Kano boy Abdulsalam gets 12 strokes of cane for receiving stolen phone

Abdulsalam attacked and stole the cell phone from Isma’il and later sold it to the second defendant at a give-away…
Evans

Breaking: Kidnap kingpin Evans, two others sentenced to life imprisonment

Evans and two others were found guilty of the kidnap of Mr Donatius Dunu, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of…
Rev. Fr. Gabriel Ekpe,

Catholic Priest bags 12 years in jail for child sex abuse

He was said to have abused children and adolescents over many years, his youngest victim was a 9-year-old girl.
Evans

Breaking: Billionaire kidnap kingpin Evans, two others convicted

In a three-hour judgment on Friday, Justice Hakeem Oshodi also convicted two of Evans’s co-defendants, Uche Amadi and Okwuchukwu Nwachukwu.
Mr. Nyong Effiong Major

ICPC charges retiree Effiong Major with pension fraud

Effiong Major was charged before Justice H. Muazu of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court 27, sitting in Abuja,…
Hajiya Fatima Alhaji charms supplier

Hajiya Fatima supplying charms to bandits arrested

“She is an abettor, an informant and also a supplier of charms to bandits terrorising the state and its environs",…
Kogi governor Ahmed Ododo says his administration's efforts to combat crime are yielding fruits with recovery of 53 stolen transformers

Cable thief electrocuted in Rivers

The incident happened inside the Judicial Staff quarters, beside the Choba Magistrate Court.
First Bank, one of the banks the robbers operated

Update: Two policemen, five others shot dead as robbers attack four banks in Edo

Eyewitnesses said the gunmen got to the town in their numbers and in several vehicles before they attacked the four…
Gunmen abduct BEDC driver in Ondo, demand N10m

Breaking: Sporadic shootings as robbers attack four banks in Edo

According sources in the town, the affected banks are Zenith Bank, First Bank, Unity Bank and the United Bank for…
Momojimoh Abdulmalik

Ex-First Bank cashier Abdulmalik to rot in jail 10 years for stealing

The defendant was arraigned on an amended two count charges of stealing over N9 million from the bank by the…
Oyo Govt seals Premier Hotel

Oyo Govt. shuts Premier Hotel, Event Centre, 80 shops

Oni further emphasized that the enforcement would continue to take place lest people understood the need to take care of…
Mr Muhammad Nami, Executive Chairman, Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS)

FIRS urges court to strike out UAC’s appeal against N2.4bn tax liability

In the alternative, FIRS said the court should mandate UAC Plc to deposit the sum of N2,452,398,121.00 being the judgement…
Court sentences Lagos man, Eniola Wasiu Ibrahim, to life imprisonment for forcefully having sexual intercourse with his girlfriend

Stephanie slashes boyfriend’s ‘side chick’ with razor

Akandu caught her boyfriend with another woman and attacked her by slashing her on the back with a razor.
FRSC

FRSC arrests 2,410 number plate violators in Edo

The sector commander further disclosed that there was increased and renewed enforcement on Speed Limiting Device (SLD) by the command.
Abba Kyari

Abba Kyari: Court dismisses NDLEA’s objection to bail application

Kyari's lawyer had approached the court seeking bail and asking the court to enforce his fundamental human rights which he…
Hoodlums

Bloody PDP Congress: One killed, others injured in Osun

The command’s Spokesperson, SP Yemisi Opalola, said that the victim, a member of PDP participating in the congress in Iwo,…
Ovie Oktogbo; arrested by the police in Edo for defiling young boys

13-year-old boy defiled by father of 3 suffers liver, kidney damage

Oktogbo who works as a guard in the area confessed that he has had anal sex with about nine young…
Three of the children taken away by the mysterious lesson teacher in Rivers

Police hunt for ‘lesson teacher’ who abducted 5 kids in Rivers

The woman reportedly disguised as a lesson teacher and abducted five children from two different families in the community.
Dorothy Chigozie Amalili

Amalili revenue officer with National Orthopaedic Hospital jailed

A former revenue officer with the National Orthopaedic Hospital, Enugu, Mrs. Dorothy Chigozie Amalili, has been sentenced to three years…
Tunji Bello, who represents Sanwo-Olu unveiling the standard bins

Sanwo-Olu unveils Adopt-a-Bin programme, rolls out 40,000 smart bins

The Adopt-A-Bin Programme is carefully designed to promote effective waste management in the state, with emphasis on waste sorting right…