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TASUED suspends religious studies’ HoD over sex-for-marks
The Management of the Tai Solarin University of Education (TASUED), Ijagun, Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State, has suspended a lecturer, Dr Olaniran Balogun, who was declared wanted by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences…
30 suspects arrested over Edo cult killings
The Edo State Police Command has arrested 30 suspects connected to cult killings.
In a statement on Friday by the Deputy Spokesperson, Jennifer Iwegbu, the command swung into action after reported killings in different parts of the state.…
Terrorists kill driver, abduct two in Katsina
On Wednesday evening, a commercial driver, simply identified as Bello, was killed by terrorists during an ambush along the Katsina/Jibia highway in Katsina State.
Babangida Kachile, 56, and Halimat Shuaibu, 50, were kidnapped by the…
Kidnapper killed, 3 cultists arrested in Edo
Operatives of the Edo Police Command have killed a suspected kidnapper and arrested three cult suspects in different operations in the state.
ASP Jennifer Iwegbu, Deputy Public Relations Officer of the command stated this on Thursday in a…
Police arrest 11 undergraduates over cultism, unlawful possession of firearms
Operatives of the Nigeria Police Intelligence Response Team, IRT, have arrested 11 undergraduates of Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma over alleged criminal conspiracy, cultism and unlawful possession of prohibited firearms.
The Force Public…
Lagos lawyer arraigned for trafficking 11-year-old girl
A lawyer, Igwe Ifeoma, has been arraigned before Chief Magistrate P.E Nwaka sitting at the Magistrate’s Court, Yaba, Lagos State, on Wednesday, on charges bordering on child trafficking, assault of an 11-year-old girl, Esther Onwa.
Ifeoma…
EFCC arraigns Cubana manager over $164,000 fraud
The Economics and Financial Crime Commission on Wednesday arraigned a manager with Cubana Group, Lucky Uchechukwu Ndukwe, for an offence bordering on conspiracy to launder and money laundering.
Ndukwe, known better as Cubana Prime Minister,…
NSCDC nabs suspected oil thief in Akwa Ibom
In Akwa Ibom, the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) apprehended one suspect and impounded two vehicles transporting 1,500 litres of suspected adulterated Automotive Gas Oil.
Mr Suleiman Marafa, the state Commandant of the…
NSCDC cracks down on ‘underaged criminal’ syndicate, arrests suspects in Yobe
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC), Yobe State Command, said its operatives have arrested an underaged syndicate who specialized in ‘pickpocket’ on market days in Damaturu.
The Command’s Public Relations Officer, ASC Bala…
Why I stoned my two kids to death – 25-year-old father
Elisha Tari, a 25-year-old man, has revealed why he stoned his two children to death in his home.
Elisha was arrested by the Adamawa State Police Command for stoning two of his children, ages 3 and 5, to death.
On Monday, while being…