A Policeman has been arrested for killing a 19-year old, Jonah Samson, in Abuja Jonah was allegedly shot and killed by the unidentified policeman on Saturday in the Apo area of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). Police spokesman ASP Yusuf Mariam said the Commissioner of Police, CP Bala Ciroma, has ordered an investigation into the
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A 46-year year old man, Michael Nwoha has been arrested for allegedly defiling three underaged boys in Nkwelle Ezunaka in Oyi Local Government Area of Anambra State. The suspect, a native of Uzuakoli in Bende Local Government Area of Abia State but resides at NO.10 Uke Street 3-3, reportedly had carnal knowledge with the victms
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A Senior Magistrates’ Court in Lokoja on Friday ordered that a 69-year-old traditional ruler in Adavi Local Government, Asema Uka (Otumi-Ajoko) Momoh Nasir and 10 others be remanded in a correctional centre for alleged homicide. The police charged the traditional ruler and his alleged accomplices with Criminal Conspiracy, Attempted Culpable Homicide, Aiding and Abetting, contrary
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The Cross River State Police Command on Friday disclosed that it has apprehended 13 suspects in the last few weeks including three different groups that specialize in Car snatching in the state and Its environs as well as 300 level Physiology UNICAL undergraduate for armed robbery. Briefing Journalists at the Command Headquarters, Diamond Hill, Calabar
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The Rivers State Police Command on Friday said it has arrested 22 persons in connection with the killing of a policeman in Oyigbo Local Government Area of the state attached to the Special Anti -Robbery Squad in Port Harcourt . The state Police Public Relations Officer, Nnamdi Omoni , added that order had been restored
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A Special Court Martial sitting in Maiduguri, Borno State, on Wednesday sentenced a soldier, Cpl. Aliyu Yakubu, to five years imprisonment for defiling a 13-year-old girl in the state. The President of the court, Brig. Gen. Arikpo Ekubi, who delivered the judgment, also ordered the dismissal of the soldier from service for the offence. The
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The Chairman of Kumbotso Local Government Council of Kano State Alhaji Kabiru Ado Panshekara has been suspended for 14 months over alleged embezzlement of the council’s fund to the tune of N177 million. Seven out of eight council members of the Local Government Area suspended the Chairman for 14 months, a duration that coincides with
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The Office of the Inspector-General of Police has charged the Deputy Chief of Staff to the Governor of Osun State, Abdullahi Binuyo, with fraud involving $120,000. The case marked CR/975/2020 was filed before the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja on September 9, 2020. It contains four charges of conspiracy, fraud, cheating and
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Oreoluwa Adesakin, a former staff of First Bank, has been handed 98 years jail term by Justice Muniru Olagunju of the Oyo State High Court. Adesakin was found to have committed fraud against her employers to the tune of N49,320,652, and additional $368,203. The convict was prosecuted by the Ibadan Zonal Office of the Economic
Read moreA kindergarten teacher in China has been sentenced to death for poisoning dozens of children in an act of revenge against a colleague that left one toddler dead . A court in the central Chinese province of Henan said Wang Yun put sodium nitrite into porridge being prepared for her colleague’ s students , sickening
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The Ogun State Police Command has arrested four persons for unlawfully being in possession of a human skull. The suspects will be charged to court on completion of investigation. The Command Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, made this known on Monday, and gave the identities of the suspects as Muyideen Tolubi, Niyi Folorunso, Sonubi Taiwo,
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The management of Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, Rivers State, has suspended a lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Dr. Rowland Igwe, indefinitely for allegedly impregnating a student of the institution. The Vice-Chancellor of the institution, Prof. Ozo-Mekuri Ndimele, who disclosed this on his official Twitter handle on Friday, also accused the lecturer of sexual
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Umuomaku in the Orumba South Local Government Area of Anambra state was on Saturday thrown into mourning following alleged murder of a 70-year old man by his son, Chisom Ogum. The suspect, 26, reportedly ran amok in a yet to be ascertained circumstance before attacking the father, Christopher with a shovel. He was said to
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A 46years man, Ifeanyi Atogu has been arrested for allegedly raping a deaf and dumb 7-year old girl in Ofenta Nsugbe in Anambra East Local Government Area of Anambra State. The suspect reportedly lured the victim said to be the friend’s daughter to his room where he had unlawful carnal knowledge with her. The suspect
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The Police at Force headquarters on Friday paraded 17 suspects including School Principals, Teachers and Supervisors who were caught engaging in examination malpractices during the last West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) in the country. The 17 suspects were arrested from Kano, Bauchi, Nasarawa and Rivers states while other suspects nabbed for similar malpractices in Delta,
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