The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Oyo State Command on Friday, said it arrested no fewer than 133 suspects and convicted 44 for various drug-related offences in 2020. This disclosure was made in a statement by the command’s Public Relations Officer, Mrs Mutiat Okuwobi, made available to journalists in Ibadan on Friday. According to
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The Ogun State Police Command said on Thursday 2,735 suspected armed robbers, kidnappers and other criminals were arrested between July and December in the state. The state’s Commissioner of Police, Edward Ajogun, stated this when he paraded 47 suspects arrested for armed robbery, cultism, human trafficking, and murder, among others at the command’s headquarters in
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A high court in Jigawa State on Tuesday, sentenced two people, identified as Jamilu Harisu and Mustapha Idris to death by hanging. It was learnt that Idris of Daneji village in Ringim local government, was sentenced to death, after he was found guilty of killing his girlfriend, Nafisa Hashimu. It was also gathered that Idris
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Men of the Kaduna State police Command have arrested some youths suspected to be the organizers of the aborted maiden edition of a Kaduna sex party. The Command’s Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), ASP Muhammad Jalige confirmed the development saying, that, police traced the venue and arrested some suspects According ASP Jalige, “We are investigating
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A 26-year-old man, Sabi’u Ibrahim Chamo, has been sentenced to six months imprisonment with 20 strokes of the cane by a Dutse Magistrate’s Court sitting in Jigawa State, for allegedly insulting and defaming the character of the state Governor, Muhammadu Badaru Abubakar, on social media. Chamo was first arrested by the police on December 25
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No fewer than five suspects were on Monday arrested by the Oyo State Police Command, in connection to the attacks on some residents of Ibadan, the state capital on Sunday. It was learnt that on Sunday, some residents of Aremo and other communities were attacked by some hoodlums. It was also gathered that some of
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Police operatives in India have arrested three suspected drug peddlers, including a Nigerian in the city of Bengaluru. The suspects are – Ude Ude Uja (33), Prasoon K (27), and Anand Chandran KV (27). The suspects were caught by police officers from the Central Crime Branch with 100 grams of MDMA drug worth Rs 5
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The Ebonyi State government yesterday said that a total of 37 suspected cultists had been arrested in the state following their alledged involvement in the recent cult clashes in the state. . Briefing Journalist shortly after the enlarged State Security Council meeting at the new government house Abakaliki, the Commissioner for Internal Security and Border
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The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Kaduna State Command, on Monday paraded 148 suspected drug traffickers and peddlers. The acting State Commander, Uche Iyke, who paraded the suspects on Monday, said the agency recovered illicit substances like tramadol, codeine, diazepam from the drug traffickers which were billed for Zaria, Kaduna and the environs. Iyke
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Police operatives in Ogun State have arrested two men, Damilare Oyeniyi and Emmanuel Okori, for allegedly gang-raping a 19-year-old girl in the state. The men also recorded the action with the intention of blackmailing the girl on social media. The spokesman of the state police command, Abimbola Oyeyemi, who disclosed this when he paraded the
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A 27-year-old Nigerian woman, Martha Sherry Anthony, has been sentenced to 18 months imprisonment by an Accra Circuit Court after she was found guilty of stealing GH¢80,000, the equivalent of N5.2m. Anthony who claimed to be an artist, was sentenced on Friday, December 18, by the court presided over by Magistrate Evelyn Asamoah, who found
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Barcelona and Argentina forward Lionel Messi scored his 643rd goal for Barca in their 2-2 draw with Valencia in the La Liga on Saturday. The draw at the Camp Nou means Barca have secured three wins in their past four La Liga fixtures. Messi, who scored just before halftime to cancel the opener by Valencia’s
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Justice G.O Ollor of the Rivers State High Court, Port Harcourt, on Friday ordered the unconditional release of 150 inmates from the Maximum Port Harcourt Correctional Centre. The inmates had spent nine years in jail without trial. The judge gave the directive while ruling on a fundamental rights enforcement suit filed by a lawyer, Nasiru
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Police on Wednesday arraigned the Chairman of Patani local council area of Delta State, Perez Omoun, at the State Magistrate Court, Asaba, for allegedly invading the home of the state’s Commissioner for Power and Energy, Basil Ganagana. Omoun was arraigned on a four-count charge of malicious damage after he allegedly invaded the commissioner’s home last
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A mobile magistrates court in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, has sentenced 10 persons involved in indiscriminate dumping of refuse to two months imprisonment each. The prosecutor, Mrs Bolaji Ogunsan, told the court that “the offenders were caught in the act at Ajilosun and Nigerian Television Area road areas in the state capital. In
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