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The Lagos State Police Command says it arrested one Chimereze Chinedu for allegedly defrauding a Thai national to the tune of $216,000 and N30m respectively. The command’s Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, in a statement made available on X.com on Tuesday, disclosed that the suspect allegedly promised to supply his victim with 37 tricycles which…
Atiku Abubaka, the presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has urged the Kano State government to take steps and investigate the explosion at Larabar Abasawa in Gezawa Local Government Area of the state. Atiku disclosed this in a statement via his verified X(Twitter) handle on Tuesday. Recall that a 38-year-old- man, Shafi’u Abubakar,…
The Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has convicted and sentenced one Daniel Walter Anga to prison for internet fraud. He was prosecuted by the Port Harcourt Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on a one-count charge of impersonation and using false identities in Gmail and Facebook for…
Human right activists and men of the Abia State Police Command have rescued an 11-year-old girl from her allegedly abusive ‘uncle’ in Aba. The Abia State Director of Behind Bars Initiative, Ochiegbu Marvelous, who disclosed this on Saturday, May 18, 2024, said the girl works as a maid for the suspect and they are not…
A stepmother, Rachel Geoffrey, 23, has been arrested by the Adamawa State Police Command for setting the hands of her two stepchildren on fire. The suspect who resides in Federal Housing Estate, Girei Local Government Area was arrested for setting fire to the hands of her stepchildren, Genesis Geoffrey, 7, and Idadai, 3. …
The young woman who was brutally murdered by her boyfriend in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State has been identified as Edima, an auxiliary nurse. The suspect, simply identified as Elisha killed the victim and allegedly chopped her body. The incident happened in a house along Atiku Abubakar Way in the Uyo metropolis. The spokesperson of…
Two senior staff of the National Assembly were in the early hours of Friday brutalized by operatives of the Department of State Services, DSS, for allegedly not properly identifying themselves at the second gate of the Complex. The staff, Chris Odoh, a Deputy Director, and John Nnadi, of the Senate Committee on Petroleum (Downstream), ran…
A 10-year-old boy with “big plans for the future” has taken his own life. Sammy Teusch, from Greenfield, Indiana, died by suicide on May 5 and, according to his family, he was being bullied up until the night he passed away. The boy had been bullied again and again at school over his teeth…
The Lagos State Police Command has apprehended singer Habeeb Okikiola, widely known as Portable, due to his failure to settle a debt accumulated from the purchase of a G-Wagon from a state auto dealer. According to sources, Portable allegedly only paid N13 million of the N27 million car transaction, neglecting the remaining N14 million owed…
An Ogun State High Court sitting in Abeokuta, on Monday, April 14, sentenced a 47-year-old secondary school teacher, Ojo Ezekiel, to life imprisonment for raping a seven-year-old girl. Ojo Ezekiel, who was first arraigned on July 1, 2022, was convicted on a sole count of rape contrary to section 3 (1) and punishable under…
A Nigerian man, Olubunmi Abodunde, who murdered his wife, Taiwo, with a skateboard and blamed his loss of control on medication has been jailed for life in the United Kingdom. Vanguard reported that Abodunde, 48, a resident of Exning Road, in Newmarket, Suffolk killed his wife on 28 November, 2023. He admitted to killing Taiwo,…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is preparing to arraign Godwin Emefiele, the former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor, on Wednesday. Emefiele faces charges related to authorizing the printing of N684.5 million at the rate of N18.96 billion. Initially scheduled for April 30, 2024, the arraignment was rescheduled following consultations with the involved…
A landlord, Bola Abiodun, and her husband, identified simply as Sunday, have flown their Temidire community home in the Ifo Local Government Area of Ogun State after allegedly disposing of their tenant’s body in a canal. Our correspondent learnt that the incident, which occurred at about 12:05 pm on May 8, 2024, led the state…
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has dismantled an illegal alcohol factory in Badagry, Lagos State in a bid to rid the country of fake and substandard products. In a statement on Sunday in Lagos by NAFDAC Resident Media Consultant, Sayo Akintola, the agency said its enforcement team was aided…
A Nigerian man has shared CCTV footage showing the moment his friend’s phone was stolen by a woman in a restaurant in Woking, the United Kingdom. Posting the video on his X handle, Alex Oluwatobi stated that the suspect had an accomplice and they both pretended to be beggars. ‘’Always stay at alert, no…
A lecturer at Federal University in Lokoja, Kogi state, on Friday, May 10, was stripped near naked over allegations of sexual harassment of a female student. The lecturer whose full name is yet to be ascertained, incurred the wrath of some other female undergraduates of the English Department, where he teaches. They insisted that…
In a decisive counter-terrorism operation in Kaduna State, troops of the Nigerian Army have successfully eliminated several terrorists and thwarted the activities of violent extremists and kidnappers in Giwa Local Government Area. According to a statement by Major General Onyema Nwachukwu, the Director of Army Public Relations, the operation targeted the terrorists’ stronghold in Basurfe…
The Nasarawa State Police Command has arrested five suspected rapists for allegedly defiling six minors aged between 4 and 14. The State Commissioner of Police, CP Shehu Nadada stated this when he paraded the alleged rapists and 28 other suspects at the Police Headquarters in Lafia, the state capital on Thursday, May 9, 2024….
The Kano State Police Command has arrested a 35-year-old man, Sadiq Zubairu, for the murder of Bello Bukar Adam, a staff of the Kano State Electricity Distribution Company (KEDCO). His corpse was later found at a location in Kumbotso Local Government Area of the state. Bello’s younger brother, Abdullahi Abubakar, said the deceased was at…
A commandant serving with the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Christopher Oluchukwu, has been sentenced to five years in prison for his involvement in an employment scam. The verdict was delivered by the Katsina State High Court 3, following a case brought forth by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission…
Former Aviation Minister, Hadi Sirika, along with his daughter, Fatima, and son-in-law, Jalal Sule Hamma, have entered a plea of not guilty to charges of alleged corrupt practices amounting to approximately ₦2.7 billion, leveled against them by the Federal Government. Appearing before Justice Sylvanus Oriji at the Federal High Court in Abuja, the defendants, including…
Videos out of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukuwu University (COOU), Uli campus, show chaos unfold as cultists clash off campus. Students of the institution, formerly called Anambra State University (ANSU), are seen running as cultists on bikes and on foot unleash mayhem. Gunshots can be heard ringing out as the clash, said to have been…
A US-based Ghanaian couple will spend the next 25-years of their lives in prison for second-degree murder in the death of their five-year-old son. Valerie Owusu, along with her boyfriend, Emmanuel Addae, both 28 years old and residing in Corona, Queens, New York, had been convicted in March of depraved indifference murder for the death…
An Islamic cleric, Ahmed Ojo, has reportedly set fire to his wife’s house in the Egbe Odo area of Isua Ijesa in Ekiti State after she refused to join him in observing a late-night prayer Speaking in an exclusive interview with the punch on Wednesday, May 8, 2024, the wife, Bosede Afolabi, disclosed that the incident happened…
The immediate-past Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, and his daughter, Fatimah, have arrived at the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory in Abuja. Sirika and his daughter will be arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for an alleged N2.7bn fraud in connection with the botched Nigerian Air project. They are…
A 21-year-old woman, Sindisiwe Buhle Mkhize, was allegedly shot dead by her boyfriend in Mabopane, Pretoria, South Africa. Women For Change, a non-profit organization that advocates for the constitutional rights of women and children in South Africa, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday, May 7, 2024. The incident occurred on 3 May 2024. According…
A tenant, Manlafy Danso, who is married with two children, has been accused of eloping with his landlord’s 20-year-old daughter in Wellingara Coastal Road, in Gambia. It was gathered that Danso, a native of Niamina Sotokoi, disappeared with the girl on Friday, May 3, 2024, in Wellingara Coastal Road. Soon after, the girl’s parents filed…
The Ekiti State High Court in Ado Ekiti has handed down a death sentence by hanging to three individuals—Oyebanji Sola, 31; Jimoh Azeez, 31; and Ogunlade Babatunde, 28—for their involvement in armed robbery. Additionally, 28-year-old Babalola Bidemi has been sentenced to 10 years behind bars, while Akinwale Oluwaseun, 26, has been acquitted of all charges….
In a tragic turn of events, two individuals, Ojulewa Alex and Alonge Samuel, have tragically lost their lives after imbibing a native concoction during the annual age group festival in Ipe-Akoko, situated within the Akoko South East local government area of Ondo State. Dubbed as the “Ibogbel” festival, the event witnessed another participant, Adu Johnson,…
Efforts to broker a ceasefire in Gaza and facilitate the release of hostages intensified as talks resumed in Cairo yesterday. Hamas stated that its delegation approached the negotiations with a positive outlook after reviewing the latest ceasefire proposal, expressing determination to reach an agreement that meets the Palestinians’ demands. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken…
Justice Isa Dashen of the Federal High Court in Yenagoa has ruled against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for its unauthorized publication in the media, declaring Pastor Oyinmiebi Bribena and his wife, Beatrice, as wanted individuals without a valid court order. The court deemed the publication unjustified, unlawful, and unconstitutional. In a verdict…
