Operatives of the Zone 5 Police Headquarters, Benin City, have arrested sixsuspects for allegedly conspiring to assassinate one Etionsa Ighodalo of Iyowa community in Ovia North- East local government area of Edo State. Briefing journalists in Benin at the weekend, […]
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An NGO, United Nigerians in the Diaspora (UNID), says the Federal Government and the National Assembly have yet to meet their responsibilities to Nigerians facing prison sentences on trumped-up charges abroad. UNID raised the concern as more Nigerians are placed […]
A con man who misrepresented himself as President Buhari’s son with the promises of giving them lucrative contracts from the government, has been arrested by operatives of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). A statement from the […]
A 49-year-old housewife, Mrs Hannah Okujaiye, has sought the dissolution of her 32-year-old marriage to her husband, Andrew, before an Igando customary Court sitting in Lagos State. Hannah is seeking the dissolution on the grounds of public assault and blackmailing, […]
THE presiding judge on the N8bn currency scam involving some staff members of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and commercial banks in Ibadan, Oyo State, Justice Olayinka Faji on Friday refused to disqualify himself and granted stay of […]
A disagreement over parking spaces involving lawyers and operatives of the Directorate of Security Service (DSS) disrupted the sitting of magistrates’ court in Awka, Anambra State, on Friday. The disagreement started when operatives of the DSS, who were on an […]
The Lagos State Internal Revenue Service (LIRS) has shut down six companies for failing to remit N11.3 million personal income taxes of workers to the state government. The new Head of the LIRS, Distrain Unit, Ajibike Oshodi-Sholola, told the News […]
BY VERA WISDOM At the age of 16, Lukman Mohammed (not real name) said that he was lured into becoming a member of Black Axe Confraternity. An unholy union which turned him into a serial killer. He was said to […]
No fewer than 59 cultists were on Wednesday night arrested during a raid on strategic locations in Warri, Delta State by a crack team of policemen from ‘B’ Division of the state police command. Beside, another 34 were earlier apprehended […]
Two days after they were remanded in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over charges bothering on money laundering, former Governor of Adamawa State, Admiral Murtala Nyako (rtd) and his son, Abdulaziz, yesterday, secured bail from […]