A Magistrate’s Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has sentenced a lady, Blessing Stephen, to 10-year imprisonment for conspiracy and child trafficking. The Chief Magistrate, Felicitas Amanze, described Stephen as unrepentant and hardened, adding that the prosecution proved she deceived the child’s mother, Abigail Monday, to sell her baby for N200,000, and gave her […]
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Operatives of Ogun State Police Command have arrested two suspected cultists for allegedly gang raping a 22-year-old lady in Abeokuta, the state capital. The incident happened at Eleweran, Abeokuta, when a 38-year-old man, on Wednesday, allegedly invited his friend and gang raped his lover. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, confirmed the incident […]
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Police Inspector General Usman Baba A man, Kama has allegedly attacked his girlfriend, Ladi Ishaku, with liquid substance suspected to be acid in Adamawa State. Ishaku, who is currently receiving treatment in an undisclosed hospital in Yola, the state capital, was on Sunday allegedly bathed with acid by the suspect, an auto mechanic based in […]
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The Inspector-General of Police Task force on illegal bunkering has paraded 42 suspects linked to illegal bunkering at the Port Harcourt Refinery yard in Alesa, Eleme Council of Rivers State. The team also impounded 41 trucks loaded with forty-five thousand litres of petroleum products with two trucks covered with fertilizer. Acting Force Public Relations Officer […]
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The police in Ekiti State have rescued a girl who was abducted in Ado Ekiti, the state capital, three years ago on her way to an extramural lesson in preparation for her Senior Secondary School Examination. The victim, who was 15 years old when she was kidnapped in March 2019, was, however, carrying an eight-month […]
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Some of the suspects Ogun State Police Command on Monday paraded 15 suspected criminals for various crimes, including armed robbery, murder, kidnapping, among others. The state Commissioner of Police, Lanre Bankole, who paraded the suspects at the police headquarters, Eleweran, Abeokuta, on Monday, said they were arrested in different parts of the state. Speaking during […]
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A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, on Tuesday, applauded the Governor Sanwo-Olu government over the arraignment of a Bus Rapid Transport driver, Andrew Omininikoron, a prime suspect in the gruesome murder of a passenger, Bamise Ayanwola. The senior lawyer, in a statement, also asked the government to apologise to the family of the […]
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Operatives of the Ogun State police command have arrested a housewife and mother of five for pouring petrol on her 10-year-old daughter and setting her ablaze. The suspect was arrested following a report at Mowe divisional headquarters by one man, who reported that the suspect who lives in the same house with him, poured petrol […]
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Police Inspector General Usman Baba A 42-year-old man has been arrested by the police for allegedly beating his wife to death in Orerokpe, in the Okpe Local Government Area of Delta State. It was gathered that the suspect committed the crime around 6.30am on Wednesday after a misunderstanding with his wife. But the cause of […]
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A yet-to-be-identified dispatch rider has been apprehended with a baby found in his courier box in Lagos State. The undated video has gone viral. The suspect was said to have been caught in the Sangotedo area of Lagos. The development comes amid the outrage over the murder of a 22-year-old fashion designer, who went missing […]
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