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EFCC Arrests Eight Suspected Internet Fraudsters In Abuja

NewsDeskNgMay 11, 2023May 11, 20230

The Abuja zonal command of the Economic Financial Crimes Commission has arrested eight suspected internet fraudsters at EFAB Estate in Gwarimpa and Federal Housing Authority Estate in Nyanya, Abuja. The agency said this in a statement shared via its Twitter account on Thursday, adding that 10 phones, laptops, two Toyota...

Tenant Arraigned For Assaulting Landlady Over Electricity Bill

NewsDeskNgMay 11, 2023May 11, 20230

A 46-year-old tenant, Usman Hammed, on Thursday appeared in Ogudu Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State, for allegedly assaulting his landlady, Josephine Durodola, over electricity bill. During court proceedings, the Prosecutor, Inspector Donjor Perezi, told the court that the defendant committed the offence on April 8, 2023 at around 9pm...

Nigerian Chef Attempts To Break Guinness World Record

NewsDeskNgMay 11, 2023May 11, 20230

A chef from Akwa Ibom State, Hilda Baci, is on a mission to break the Guinness World Record for the longest cooking time. In an attempt to clinch this record, the 27-year-old graduate on Thursday set up a four-day ‘cook-a-thon’ at Amore Gardens, Lekki, Lagos State. She is set to...

Of Hadiza’s Jaundiced Narratives About NPA and Intels Saga

NewsDeskNgMay 11, 2023May 11, 20230

By Paul Njowusi Perhaps the most interesting account in the 17-chapter book, entitled: “Stepping on Toes” by Hadiza Bala Usman, a former Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), is chapter 9 that essentially dwells on the politics of Intels in the context of the...

Electrician Bags Life Sentence For Defiling Neighbour’s 12-year-old Daughter

NewsDeskNgMay 11, 2023May 11, 20230

Justice Abiola Soladoye of Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court in Lagos State on Thursday sentenced 26-year-old electrician, Sunday George, to life imprisonment for defiling his neighbour’s 12-year-old daughter. Soladoye held that the prosecution sufficiently proved the charge of defilement against the convict who is “an irresponsible adult and...

Ronaldo’s Mother Denies Reports Of Son, Girlfriend’s Break-Up

NewsDeskNgMay 11, 2023May 11, 20230

Dolores Aveiro, mother of football star Cristiano Ronaldo, has refuted claims that her son and longtime girlfriend, Georgina Rodriguez, is having problems in their relationship. According to reports in Spanish and Portuguese media last month, the striker was “fed up” with the Spanish model and influencer and they were said...

One Hurt As Van Carrying Oxygen Cylinders Explodes In Milan

NewsDeskNgMay 11, 2023May 11, 20230

A van carrying oxygen cylinders exploded in Milan on Thursday, destroying around a dozen cars but causing no injuries beyond light burns to the driver, officials said. Television footage showed flames metres high and black smoke sweeping across the Porta Romana residential neighbourhood south-east of the Italian city’s cathedral, Duomo....

Customs generates N3.5bn in 3 Months in Kwara command

NewsDeskNgMay 11, 2023May 11, 20230

By Kayode Abdulazeez, Ilorin The Kwara State Command of the Nigeria Customs Service has between January and March, 2023 generated the sum of N3,566,997,587.12. The command also seized some prohibited items, including 451 bags of foreign rice during the period. The new Customs Area Controller for Kwara Command, Comptroller Kehinde...

NGO condemns recent demolition exercise by FCTA in Kabusa

NewsDeskNgMay 11, 2023May 11, 20230

An NGO, Society for the Youth and the Downthroden, SOYD, has condemned very strongly the recent demolition exercise carried out by the Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA at Kabusa Area of Abuja saying that it was conducted without due diligence where many residents were affected. In a press release issued...

Aregbesola decorates 6 NCoS and 2 NIS officers

NewsDeskNgMay 11, 2023May 11, 20230

By Palma Ileye Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola yesterday has charged the newly promoted officers in both Nigeria Correctional Service, NCoS and Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS to live above board through in the discharge of theirs new responsibilities. According to a press release issued yesterday by Afonja Fatai Ajibola,...