Divisional Police Officer (DPO) kidnapped in Nigeria

The Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Fugar Division in Etsako Central local government area of Edo state, identified as Ibrahim Ishaq has been reported kidnapped near Ise river along the Auchi – Ekperi-Agenebode road. According to reports, Ishaq was travelling with his orderly on Friday evening, November 26, when they were attacked by the kidnappers. A source close […]

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9 arrested as police bust notorious kidnap syndicate in Ekiti

The Ekiti State Police Command has arrested members of a notorious kidnap gang including a dismissed policeman, Ayo Samuel and one Johnson Apotire, who impersonates herdsmen due to his physical resemblance to Fulani men. Briefing newsmen on Wednesday, spokesperson of the command (PPRO), ASP Sunday Abutu, who represented the State Commissioner of Police, Tunde Mobayo, […]

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Uganda may lose its only international airport to China over loan

The Uganda government, on Tuesday, 17 November 2015, signed an agreement with Export-Import Bank of China (Exim Bank) to borrow $207 million at two per cent upon disbursement. The loan had a maturity period of 20 years including a seven-year grace period. It has now emerged that the deal signed with the Chinese lenders virtually […]

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Finally, Nigerian Judge declares bandits as terrorists

Judge of Nigeria’s federal high court sitting in the federal capital territory, Abuja, Nigeria, Justice Taiwo Taiwo, has in a ruling on Friday, declared the activities of the “Yan Bindiga Group” and the “Yan Ta’adda Group” and other similar groups in any part of the country, especially in the North-West and North-Central geopolitical zones, as […]

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My wife changed names on all our property documents in Nigeria to hers, plans to eliminate me ―Nigerian man based in Italy laments

A Nigerian man living in Italy, Vivian Olusola Omololu Wiwoloku has accused his estranged wife, Veronica Bolaji Wiwoloku of planning to kill him and take over all his properties in Italy and Nigeria. Olusola also alleged that his wife falsely wrote to the Italian government to deport him to Nigeria. Veronica had in an interview with a […]

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After 15 years in prison custody, 19 men acquitted of claims they were MASSOB members

The Federal High Court sitting in Awka, the Anambra state capital, Nigeria, presided by Justice Nicholas Oweibo, has discharged and acquitted nineteen persons accused of being members of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) and held in detention for 15 years. The nineteen persons shed tears of joy after […]

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We are now more worried about police officers on the road than armed robbers ―Actor Baaj Adebule says

Actor Baaj Adebule says Nigerians are now more worried about police officers on the road than they are worried about armed robbers. Adebule said he was on his way home on Tuesday night and was only worried about police officers he might encounter on the road and not armed robbers. He shared this thought on […]

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Billionaire Ayiri Emami and others arraigned over alleged invasion of Palace

The Delta State Police Command arraigned Chief Ayirimi Emami before a Magistrate court sitting in Warri over the alleged invasion of the Palace of the Olu of Warri. The dethroned Ologbotsere of Warri Kingdom, Ayiri Emami, was on Wednesday, Nov. 24, arraigned by the police before a Warri South Chief Magistrates’ Court in Delta State […]

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Nightclub owner, his alleged mistress, found dead inside car in Nigeria

Operatives of the Kano State Police Command, Nigeria, has commenced investigation into the death of a popular nightclub owner, Steven Ayika and one Chiamaka Emmanuel, said to be his mistress. Ayika, the CEO of Knight House and Chiamaka were found dead inside a Lexus car along Katsina Road in Fagge Local Government Area of Kano State in the […]

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Njideka Iheme, daughter of Supreme Court Justice Mary Odili, sworn in as FCT High Court Judge

Njideka Iheme, the daughter of former Rivers State Governor, Peter Odili and a justice of Nigerian Supreme Court, Justice Mary Odili, has just been sworn in as a Judge of the Federal High Court. The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Honourable Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad, sworn in Mrs Iheme and 20 others as Judges of the […]

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After 43 years in prison for murders he didn’t commit, man freed for wrongful conviction

A man who was in jail for 43 years for a triple murder he says he didn’t commit has been exonerated and released. Kevin Strickland, 62, from Missouri in the United States, was wrongly convicted of the crimes in 1978, and was found guilty on all charges the following year. He has pleaded innocence ever since he […]

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Police trail man who allegedly kills girlfriend, stuffs her body in fridge

Police operatives are on a manhunt for one Frank suspected to have killed his girlfriend and stuffed her body in a refrigerator at Ho-Fiave, the Volta Region, Ghana. Volta Regional Police PRO (PPRO), DSP Efia Tenge, who confirmed the incident on Monday, November 22, said: “The police in Ho received a wired report about a […]

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Gunmen raze Local govt Police Divisional headquarters in Imo, kill policeman

Suspected gunmen have attacked and burnt a police Divisional headquarters in Arondizuogu in Ideato Local Government Area of Imo state, Nigeria. Reports say, the attack which happened around 2:00 am on Tuesday left one of the police officers on duty dead. Sources in the community disclosed that the attack left the Divisional Police Officer of […]

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Fani-Kayode arrested by EFCC for alleged forgery

Former Nigerian Minister of Aviation, Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode, has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in Lagos. Fani-Kayode was said to be under investigation for alleged forgery and manipulation of documents. According to Punch, the former minister, who rejoined the All Progressives Congress in September, was brought to the Lagos Zonal Office […]

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Lady dies three weeks after her younger sister died in the Ikoyi building collapse

The Enekwe family is grieving another loss as a lady by the name Amaka Enekwe has died three weeks after her younger sister, Onyinye, died in the Ikoyi building collapse in Lagos Nigeria on November 1, 2021. This was revealed by a Facebook user named Blessed Nasa Eriamah, on Tuesday, who shared the news of […]

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Those who macheted me said they did so because I testified before Lagos EndSARS panel ―Victim (Video)

One of the witnesses who testified before the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Restitution for Victims of SARS Related Abuses and other matters, Kamsi Ochuko, has narrated how she was attacked by unknown men at Crown Estate bus stop, Sangotedo, in Lagos on Sunday, November 21. Counsel to EndSARS protesters, Adesina Ogunlana, earlier […]

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Man killed by bandits, one month to his wedding in Nigeria

A young man identified as Ishaku has been killed by bandits one month to his wedding in Kaduna, Nigeria. According to varsity lecturer, Sama’ila Yunusa DanMairo, the deceased was among three people killed when bandits attacked Unguwar Shukau community in Ikara Local Government area of Kaduna state last week Tuesday, November 16. Ishaku and his […]

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Nigerian couple, other relatives arrested for selling 13-year-old pupil to sex traffickers for N150,000

Nigerian man, his wife and two other relatives have been arrested for allegedly trafficking a 13-year-old girl, Chiamaka, to Burkina Faso, for prostitution. Chiamaka was taken from her village at Ikwo, in the Ikwo Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, with the promise of engaging her as a house help. However, she was taken to […]

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As gunmen kill soldier in Imo, hotel, houses were razed

People believed to be gunmen on Monday afternoon killed a military officer when they attacked some soldiers in Awo Mmamma in the Oru East Local Government Area of Imo State, Nigeria. In retaliation, military men regrouped, stormed the town and allegedly burnt a hotel, cars, houses and shops, reports say. The incident which happened at […]

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