Angry natives on Monday set two suspected ritualists ablaze for allegedly defiling a 10-year-old girl to death in Ede-Oballa, Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State. An eyewitness from the community, who pleaded anonymity, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the incident had thrown the community into...
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By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The United Nation Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has commended the Nigerian Police Force over the recent rescue of 50 abducted children, who were being held by a church at its premises in Ondo Town. The UNICEF Nigeria Representative, Peter Hawkins, who gave the commendation in...
By OlA MODUPE, Akure – Operatives from the Ondo State Police Command have rescued about 77 people for the case of suspected abduction from The Whole Bible Deliverance Church in Ondo Town, Ondo West LGA of the state. The state police spokesman, SP Funmilayo Odunlami, confirmed the rescue operation...
The Abia State Police Command has confirmed electrocution of a suspected electric accessories thief at Amoji-Ukwu Village, Obingwa Local Government Area of the state. The police spokesman, SP Geoffrey Ogbonna, said the suspected thief was electrocuted in the early hours of Friday while cutting two cables linked to a...
Police operatives from the Ondo State Police Command have rescued no fewer than 50 children from an underground apartment in a church in Ondo Town of the state.. It was learnt that children were abducted and kept in the underground cells. The pastor of the church and other accomplices...
By BARBARA KALU, Abakaliki – Operatives from the Ebonyi State Police Command have raided the camp of The Indigenous People of Biafra/ Eastern Security Network (IPOB/ESN) suspected camp, killed one and arrested another. The command’s Spokesman, SP Chris Anyanwu, said in a statement on Friday in Abakiliki, that the...
INTERPOL, in collaboration with the US Secret Service, South African Police and other agencies, has arrested an alleged Nigerian cybercrime kingpin, James Aliyu, in connection with $12m romance scam and business email compromise fraud. Aliyu was arrested in a luxury Sandton estate in South Africa on Wednesday, June 29 and...
A former Deputy President of the Senate Ike Ekweremadu has appeared before the Uxbridge Magistrate court in the UK over organ harvesting charges. The prosecutor claims that David Ukpo, who alleged that he was coerced to donate his kidney to the Senator’s daughter, is 15 years. The case has...
ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Bauchi State Council, has condemned the arrest and detention of the Publisher of WikkiTimes, Haruna Mohammed and his reporter Kamal Idris, by the Nigeria Police Force in the state. In a statement jointly signed by the State Chairman and...
By PATRICK ABANG Calabar – The Director of Information and Public Orientation in Cross River State Civil Service, Mrs. Roseline Irek has narrated how some armed soldiers on Sunday morning allegedly kidnapped her twin grand children in Calabar. Mrs. Irek, who narrated her ordeal in a interview with journalists...
A woman has been found dead at the scene of a house destroyed by a gas explosion in Birmingham in central England, the fire service confirmed on Monday. Emergency services have been at the site in Dulwich Road, Kingstanding, through the night following the blast, which happened shortly before...
The Nigerian Immigration Service(NIS) has clarified the man at the centre of the alleged transplant saga involving former Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice, Nwamini David Ukpo, is actually 21 and not 15 as alleged in many media reports. The Comptroller General of NIS, Isa Jere,...
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Sunday mourned “22 teenagers” who died at a tavern in East London, Eastern Cape Province, in the early hours of the day. Ramaphosa is “concerned about the reported circumstances under which such young people were gathered at a venue which, on the face...
A 30-year old man, Ebube Oba was on Sunday arrested by the police over alleged murder of his neighbour, Mrs Uzomaka Ekpe. This is coming less than 24 hours after the arrest of 30 years old man for raping a septuagenarian. A statement by DSP Tochukwu Ikenga, Police Public...
By HARUNA AHMED, Gasua – The Zamfara State Government has directed residents of the state to obtain guns in order to defend themselves against bandits terrorizing different parts of the state. The Commissioner for Information Mr. Ibrahim Dosara disclosed this in a statement issued to newsmen on Saturday in...
At least 17 young people were found dead at a nightclub in a township in South Africa’s southern city of East London on Sunday, police said. “We got a report about 17 (people) that died in a local tavern in Scenery Park which is based in East London,” a...
David Nwamini Ukpo, the young man whose name is behind the travails of Senator Ike Ekweremadu and his wife, has come out on social media to tell his own side of the story. According to him, he was promised a job in the United Kingdom while he was hustling...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed has charged security agencies in the state to be just and fair to everyone and respond immediately to emergency calls of residents when bandits attack them. The governor stated this on Saturday at Sabon Gida Jada in Alkaleri Local...
The Niger Police Command on Saturday confirmed the abduction of two residents of Doma village by gunmen in Lapai Local Government Area of the state. DSP Wasiu Abiodun, Command Public Relations Officer, announced this to the News Agency of Nigeria ( NAN) in Minna on Saturday. Abiodun said on...
The desperation to save the life of their daughter yesterday landed former Senate Deputy President Ike Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice Nwanneka, in London detention. They now face charges bordering on organ harvesting, which attracts a 10-year jail term. The alleged offence involves removing parts of the body against...