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Police arrest foreigner, 2 others over alleged kidnapping in Delta

NewsDeskNgMay 16, 2024May 16, 20240

The Police Command in Delta has arrested three kidnap suspects including a foreigner over kidnapping incidents in the state. The command`s spokesman, SP Bright Edafe told newsmen on Thursday in Warri that the suspects were arrested on Saturday and Sunday at their hideouts in Warri. Edafe said the suspects were...

3 cable vandals bag 6 years imprisonment

NewsDeskNgMay 16, 2024May 16, 20240

A Federal High Court, sitting in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital, has sentenced three persons to six years imprisonment for unlawful tampering, disconnecting and damaging of electrical installations belonging to Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company, IBEDC. The convicts, Chibueze Emmanuel and Michael Genesis, were arrested in January 2022, while Ojuolape Olaitan was...

Confusion as judge sentences divorce-seeking housewife to 3 weeks community service

NewsDeskNgMay 16, 2024May 16, 20240

There was confusion in an Area Court in Ilorin when the judge sentenced a divorce-seeking woman, Adenike Aliyu to three weeks of community service for admitting that she committed adultery while her marriage to her husband was legal. The presiding Judge, Hammad Ajumonbi while delivering his ruling, said the punishment...

Two women, boy killed in Abuja riot

NewsDeskNgMay 16, 2024May 16, 20240

No fewer than three persons, including two women and a young boy, were killed in a riot that erupted in Byazhin, Kubwa, Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory on Wednesday. Newsmen gathered that the riot which started on Tuesday night followed a clash between some local scavengers popularly...

Osun NDLEA arrests crack cocaine major distributor, one other

NewsDeskNgMay 15, 2024May 15, 20240

Operatives of the National Drug Law and Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Osun State Command, have arrested a 40-year-old Kareem Alamu and his accomplice, Adeyemi Saheed, 33. The duo, according to a statement by the Osun NDLEA Commander, Nnamdi W. Chidi, were arrested for possession of substances suspected to be narcotics. The...

NSCDC parades 14 suspected employment scam fraudsters in Ekiti

NewsDeskNgMay 15, 2024May 15, 20240

The Ekiti State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, has paraded 14 suspected fraudsters for allegedly defrauding members of the public with fake job offers. Parading the suspects in Ado-Ekiti, the State Commandant of NSCDC, Agboola Sunday said operatives of the Counter Terrorists Unit of the...

Police arrest suspect who bombed Kano Mosque with petrol

NewsDeskNgMay 15, 2024May 15, 20240

The Kano State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of the principal suspect behind the early morning mosque explosion in Gadan village in Gezawa Local Government Area of the state. The state Commissioner of Police, Mr Usaini Gumel, told newsmen on Wednesday that a 38-year-old man, Shafi’u Abubakar, used a...

Court remands man, 25, over suspected burglary

NewsDeskNgMay 15, 2024May 15, 20240

A Chief Magistrate Court sitting at Mapo in Ibadan on Wednesday remanded a 25 year-old-man, Yusuf Bello, in Agodi correctional facility over alleged theft of school furniture worth N1.15 million. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the Presiding Magistrate, Mrs O.O. Latunji ordered that Bello be remanded after he...

Thieves ransack journalist’s home, rob family of valuables in Calabar

NewsDeskNgMay 15, 2024May 15, 20240

Armed robbers have ransacked the home of Ike Uchechukwu, the Cross River State correspondent of Vanguard newspaper, but did not harm him or his wife. The incident happened in the early Tuesday morning when Ike and his newly married wife were still sleeping. Narrating his frightful experience, Ike said the...

Six feared killed, many missing as suspected herdsmen attack Agatu community

NewsDeskNgMay 15, 2024May 15, 20240

Six people were reportedly killed and one still missing as suspected armed Fulani herdsmen attacked Ogbaulu community in Agatu Local Government of Benue State on Tuesday, May. Newsmen reported an ongoing attack at Ogbaulu community on Tuesday. Ogbaulu community has come under frequent attacks by armed herders for the past...