Gunmen on Saturday abducted scores of travelers on the Benin-Owo Expressway in Ifon, the headquarters of Ose Local Government Area of Ondo State. The number of victims could not be ascertained as some sources said the victims were over 40 while others gave their number as 32. One of the sources at the town who […]
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Ondo State Police Commissioner, Oyeyemi Oyediran A missing Director in the Ondo State Teaching Service Commission (TESCOM), Mr Gbenga Olofinmoyegun, has been found dead, according to the police. Confirming the incident to NAN in Akure, the state capital, on Sunday, the state police command spokeswoman, SP Funmilayo Odunlami, said that the mutilated corpse of the […]
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In the following touching story, Olamide Famuwagun captures the anguish of parents in a Lagos slum over the unknown whereabouts of their children: Hot tears rolled down the distraught face of 57-year-old tyre repairer, Oriyomi Onikoyi, while recounting the agony of his four-year-old daughter, Alimot’s disappearance in the Otto Ilogbo community in Ebute Metta, Lagos. […]
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The police in Lagos have arrested a 39-year-old man for allegedly raping his friend’s wife in their bedroom in Surulere, Lagos. The incident happened at about 2:00 a.m. on 22 August. It was gathered that the suspect allegedly burgled the apartment of the victim and unlawfully had sexual intercourse with her. The victim said that […]
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Lagos State Police Boss, Abiodun Alabi Residents and traders at Mile 12, in the Kosofe Local Government Area of Lagos State, have been living in fear after cultists allegedly killed a Chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, Sulaimon Onaolapo, aka Ariku, in the area. In a video which trended online on Sunday […]
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Edo State Police Command has said that the building where mummified bodies were found can not pass for a morgue, as the principal suspect has no approval to operate such, noting that a severed body at the facility showed there was more happening at the place than claimed. At a press conference on Monday, the […]
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Police Inspector General, Alkali Baba Usman Two widows alleged to be witches have been lynched in Boki Local Government Area of Cross River State. The victims identified as Mrs Martina Osom and Mrs Rose Akon, were on Saturday, August 27, allegedly tortured to death by youths. It was gathered that the incident happened in Ebbaken […]
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Some five assailants, operating in the cover of the night at the weekend, killed a member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Samaila Awudu. It was gathered that the assailants got at Awudu in the early hours of Friday at his lodge in the Adamawa State capital, Yola. The incident occurred at the Yolde […]
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Police Inspector General Enugu State Police Command has arraigned three women for alleged conspiracy, trafficking of newborn twins and subsequent killing of their mother. This was contained in a statement by the command’s spokesman Daniel Ndukwe. The statement noted that the suspects who are aged 25, 39 and 56 respectively were remanded in the Enugu […]
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Katsina Police Command on Thursday said the 25-year-old man, … who used a pestle to kill his stepmother last Thursday in Katsina would be arraigned in court anytime from now. The command’s spokesman, SP Gambo Isah, made the disclosure shortly after the suspect was paraded at the command’s headquarters, katsina. Also displayed during the parade […]
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