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Police Arrest Special Adviser to Kogi State Governor Over Okene Killings

The Commissioner of Police, Kogi State Command, Mr. Muhammed Katsina, on Thursday confirmed the arrest of a Special Adviser to Kogi State Governor, Alhaji Yahaya
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31-year-old woman stabs and kills fiance on wedding day

An eastern Pennsylvania woman who was supposed to be spending her first full day as a newlywed was instead in jail Sunday, accused of killing...
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Bayelsa State Police officer arrested for killing driver

The Bayelsa State Police Command on Monday evening confirmed the arrest of a police officer attached to MOPOL 30 Squadron in connection with the killing...
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Police Nab Suspected Kidnapper, Release 2 kids

WARRI—POLICE in Delta State have set free two kids; Master Udesen Akpere and Master Akposere Akpere, aged four years respectively, who were abducted in Amukolo...
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OPC Warns Boko Haram Against Attacks in S’West

The Oodua Peoples Congress has warned the Boko Haram sect not to extend its activities to the South-West region to avoid reprisals capable of causing...
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Murder of Monarch: Abia Police Arrest 20 Suspects

UMUAHIA—ABIA State Police Command has said no fewer than 20 suspects have been arrested in connection with the killing of the traditional ruler of Ugwuleru...
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Buju Banton's Transcripts of Audio Recording of Cocaine Meeting

CS: Let me ask you. With the ..... I hate to say, ask, with the cocaine, cocaina.MYRIE:  YeahCS:  You friends.  They wanna bring it here...
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3 Youths Gang-Rape Teenager On Footbal Pitch

Three youths, Chizoba Amara, 23, ThankGod Okoro, 23, and Godwin Godday, 20, have been arraigned before a Lagos court for gang-rape and trespassing into a...

17-Year-Old Girl Raped Twice When She Went To A Nightclub (Photo)

A teenage girl separated from her friends on a night out was put in a taxi and driven to a muddy park 25 miles away,...

Car Snatching Thrives In Maiduguri Despite State Of Emergency

Despite the State of Emergency declared in Borno State, gunmen, suspected to be members of the Boko Haram, have defied the heavy security presence in...

Court sentences banker to 6 months in prison for breach of trust

Bello Jimoh, a 52-year-old banker, was on Tuesday sentenced to six months imprisonment, by a Karu Senior Magistrates’ Court for misappropriating  N621,387 in his custody. The Senior...

Acid Attack Victim Fights For Justice

At 17, Sonali Mukherjee had everything going for her. She was a beautiful, intelligent and ambitious young woman, dedicated to excelling in her studies. She was...

Police nab fake army officer, recover N15m cars

Plateau State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Chris Olakpe, has said that his command has recovered various brands of cars worth over N15 million. He said that...

Nine minors informant to kidnappers, assassins nabbed

By Godwin OghreSapele - Nine minors, all males, suspected to be members of four different dreaded cult groups that have been disguising and acting as informants...

Nigerian Court Jails Iranian Accused of Importing Arms to Nigeria

Azim Aghajani, a member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has been found guilty of smuggling weapons into Lagos and sentenced to five years in prison by...

Should Asari-Dokubo be arrested?

The statement made last week by Alhaji Mujahid Asari-Dokubo, leader of the Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force, that President Goodluck Jonathan must be allowed to...

Tailor, 27 Breaks Into House From The Ceiling, Rapes 15-Year-Old Girl

A 27-year-old tailor, Sulaimon Jelili, has been arraigned before an Osogbo magistrate’s court for allegedly raping  a 15-year-old girl (name withheld). The charge sheet obtained...

Police Parade Ex-Governor, Alao-Akala's Cleaner For Stealing

A Beninoise, Mr. Francise Kadibuwa, was on Monday paraded by the Oyo State Police Command, Eleyele, Ibadan for burgling the Bodija residence of former Governor...

ICPC Vs Ogbulafor: Court adjourns hearing to June 6

An Abuja High Court on Tuesday adjourned to June 6 hearing in the trial of former PDP Chairman, Vincent Ogbulafor, over alleged N107 million fraud. The ICPC...

Oil Theft: International Community Is Not Sincere With Nigeria By Ifeanyi Izeze

For the Federal Government to disclose that it has commenced efforts to recover huge oil revenues laundered abroad by companies involved in the growing incidents...

Court Orders Police To Vacate Obio/Akpor Secretariat

A Federal High Court in Port Harcourt has ordered the police to vacate the Obior/Akpor Local government secretariat in Rivers State, South-South Nigeria.The court gave...

20 Year Old Man Arraigned For Beating, Attempting To Use Mother For Ritual

A 20-year-old boy is standing trial for inflicting grave injuries on his mother. A 20-year-old man, Gbenga Adeniyi, who allegedly attempted to kill his biological mother...

Police arrest four kidnappers, conman in Enugu

*Rescue abducted UNN don’s wife By Tony Edike ENUGU – FOUR members of a notorious kidnap gang that has been terrorizing residents of the university town of...

ICPC grills eight over Oyo N8.5b contract scam

The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) has interrogated another set of aides of the immediate past governor of Oyo State, Adebayo...

Shun Corruption, Cleric Tells Lawmakers

Rev. Bosun Olugbodi of First Baptist Church, Ogbogbo in Ijebu-North East area of Ogun State, has advised members of the seventh National Assembly (NASS) to...

4 Killed In Ijora As Tricycle Operators, Youths Clash

At least four persons have been killed and several others injured, with many property damaged following the crisis that broke out between the executives of...

Bankole granted bail, re-arrested

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA – Barely 10 minutes after Justice Donatus Okorowo of a Federal High Court in Abuja,  Monday, released the embattled former speaker of...

Kidnap of hunchbacked student sets Ogun university town on edge

The kidnap of an undergraduate of the Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State,...

EFCC arrests former deputy speaker, Nafada

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday arrested the immediate...

Akwa Ibom Insecurity: Kidnapped Catholic Priest Freed Due To Ill Health

The  Catholic Priest kidnapped last week in Ikot Ekpene has been released apparently to avert his death in the hands of kidnappers. SaharaReporters gathered that the...

Court orders Abacha’s link man to repay £26.5m

A man who laundered money in a business deal with ex-Nigerian dictator, General Sani Abacha, has been ordered to repay £26.5m by Jersey’s Royal Court. Raj...

Shun corruption, Katsina-Alu tells judicial officers

BY IKECHUKWU NNOCHIRI ABUJA-For the judiciary to retain its pride of place in the present democratic setting, judicial officers across the country must avoid bribery and...

Security intensifies effort to release 5 kidnapped corps members

 By Jimitota Onoyume Port Harcourt-Security operatives in Rivers State have intensified effort to  secure the release of  five corps members allegedly kidnapped at Ikwerre Local Government...

N75bn fraud: Lawal, ex-minister, re-arraigned, sent back to prison

By IKECHUKWU NNOCHIRI ABUJA – Travails of the former Minister of Works and Housing, Dr. Hassan  Lawal, continued, yesterday, as he was again re-arraigned by the...

Police Nab Pastor, 18 Others For Kidnapping

The Delta State Police Command says it has arrested a pastor and 18 others for alleged kidnapping, armed robbery, impersonation and vandalism of PHCN cables in...

INCEST IN LAGOS: Lekki Farmer Impregnates Daughter

[unable to retrieve full-text content]A 50-year old farmer, Yesiru Onajobi, alleged to have commited incest by having sex with his daughter and impregnating her in...

Assassins kill octogenarian

By Austin Ogwuda Asaba-AN 84-year-old community leader has been murdered in a farm in Aniocha, Delta State.  The man identified as Pa Tongo John was said...

Student docked over theft of N500 food stuff

Lagos -  A hungry student, (names withheld), was docked on Monday at the Ilupeju-Oshodi Magistrates’ Court for stealing food stuff worth N500. The 21-year old, is standing trial...

Nigeria’s Crude Oil Theft: Shell Et’al And Their Half Truths?

Even the federal government knows and had publicly acknowledged that Nigeria on a daily basis loses huge volumes of its produced crude oil to thieves...