Hotelier, Ramon Adedoyin, and six other suspects in the death of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, student, Timothy Adegoke, have arrived in Osogbo, Osun State, for trial today. Counsel to Adegoke’s family, Femi Falana, demanded that the matter be transferred to Osun after the suspects had been arraigned before a Federal High Court, Abuja. The hotel […]
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The Abuja Bureau Chief of the Nigerian Tribune, Leon Usigbe, was attacked by suspected armed robbers at the Phase 4, Federal Secretariat junction, Three Arms Zone, of the Federal Capital Territory. The robbers were said to have stabbed him multiple times and at different parts of his body. The incident was said to have happened […]
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Police Inspector General Usman Baba A contractor, Hakeem Oladimeji, has allegedly committed suicide after killing his yet-to-be-identified girlfriend in the Bariga area of Lagos State. It was gathered that Oladimeji, who lived in Ogun State, was with his girlfriend in a rented apartment around Bariga when an argument ensued between them. The argument was said […]
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The Commander General of the Harmonised Vigilante Group, Ridwan Hussein, has urged Osun State Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola, to intervene and end killings and other criminal activities in Ede town. Ede town has come under series of attacks lately, which have resulted in loss of lives and destruction of property. One Rasidi Oko’lu has, however, been […]
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Adamawa State Police Commissioner, Mohammed Barde A pregnant housewife has been remanded for allegedly kidnapping herself and collecting a ransom from her lover. The suspect, who hails from Wauru Jabbe in the Yola South Local Government Area of Adamawa State, allegedly abducted herself and collected the sum of N2m from one mallam of the Federal […]
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Ogun State Police Commissioner, Lanre Bankole Men of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested a randy pastor for allegedly forcibly having carnal knowledge of a 19-year-old member of his church (name withheld). The pastor, who was in charge of Life and Power Bible Church Ogijo, Sagamu in Ogun State, was arrested after he reportedly […]
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Ogun State Police Commissioner, Lanre Bankole A woman has allegedly killed her husband at a Fulani settlement at Iyana Ilewo, in the Abeokuta-North Local Government Area of Ogun State. The mother of two was reported to have poured hot water on her husband, which led to his death. Our correspondent gathered that the suspect fled […]
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Four men have been arraigned before a Yola Chief Magistrate’s Court over the death of a 28-year-old man, Adamu Ahmadu, who was wrongly accused of stealing a phone. Ahmadu, who was the son of a security guard working with the Adamawa Broadcasting Corporation, Yola, was accused by Hamidu Umar, the son of the deposed […]
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A farmer, Mr Femi Alawiye and nine of his farm workers lured to the farm and abducted in Ogbese area of Ondo state have regained their freedom after parting with N10.7m ransom. A family member said that the kidnappers counted the money and ensured it was complete before they freed those kidnapped. Recall that the […]
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Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has accepted a family request to lead their legal team in the case of the alleged murder of Timothy Adegoke, a postgraduate student of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile Ife, Osun State, reportedly killed in a hotel. “We have accepted the instructions of the bereaved Adegoke Family. We shall […]
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