The Police on Thursday restricted the Non-Teaching Staff Unions in the Universities from carrying out a planned streets protest in Abuja over their members’ withheld salaries and other sundry issues The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports the unions comprise of the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and...
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An Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court on Thursday remanded a 72-year-old man, Patrick Ukpenor in a correction centre for sexually assaulting a six-year-old girl. Magistrate E.Kubrinhe remanded Ukpebor at Kirikiri Correctional Centre where he will be until Aug. 13 for trial. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that...
A Florida man has been arrested for making threats against US President Joe Biden, just days after an assassination attempt on his Republican rival Donald Trump. Jason Patrick Alday, 39, was arrested on Monday, the US Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Florida said. Alday, of Quincy,...
The police command in Bayelsa has begun a manhunt for the killers of one Francis Palowei, a final year student of the Niger Delta University (NDU), Amasoma, over N500 levy. The command’s Spokesman, ASP Musa Mohammed said on Wednesday in Yenagoa that some youths killed the student...
By HARUNA AHMED, Dutse – No fewer than 14 persons have been killed and four others injured in a ghastly motor accident on Kano-Kanya road in Babura Local Government Area of the state. The spokesman of the Jigawa State Police Command, DSP Lawan Shiisu, confirmed this in a statement...
The Police Command in Katsina State, says it has successfully killed a suspected bandit at Ketare Ward, Kankara Local Government Area (LGA). The command’s Public Relations Officer, ASP Abubakar Sadiq-Aliyu, who disclosed this in a statement in Katsina on Tuesday said one AK-47 rifle was also...
Chief Magistrates’ Court in Makurdi, Benue, has ordered the remand of 99 suspects, over crisis that broke out in Ukum Local Government Area of the state on July 3. The suspects, brought to the court by the Police, were charged with criminal conspiracy, mischief by fire, culpable homicide,...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – The Police Command in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has banned the procession of the proscribed Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) to commemorate the 2024 Islamic calendar day of Ashura in Abuja. The command’s spokeswoman, SP Josephine Adeh, disclosed this in a statement issued...
Police in Kenya have arrested a suspected serial killer in connection with the discovery of mutilated women’s bodies at a rubbish dump in the capital Nairobi. According to the police on Monday, the 33-year-old man was arrested on Sunday evening while watching the European Championship final in a...
Benue State Police Command on Monday said suspected herders attacked Egwuma community in Agatu Local Government Area of the state and killed five persons. The State’s Police Public Relations Officer, SP Sewuese Anene, confirmed the development to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Makurdi on Monday. Anene said...
The Police Command in Osun on Sunday confirmed the rescue of two persons who were trapped under a collapsed building at Sabo Area of Osogbo. SP Yemisi Opalola, Police Spokesperson in Osun made this known in a statement issued in Osogbo on Sunday. Opalola said an uncompleted storey...
The Police Command in Lagos State said it had detained one of its officers who allegedly raped a 17-year-old girl at the Area H Command, Ogudu. The command’s spokesperson, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, who confirmed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday, however, denied report that...
A former Deputy Vice Chancellor of the Ekiti State University Ado-Ekiti, (EKSU), Prof. Femi Olaofe, has been reportedly kidnapped by unknown gunmen, and whisked to undisclosed location. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Olaofe, a native of Are-Ekiti, Irepodun/Ifelodun local government area of Ekiti, was a...
A 40-year old man, Bello Musa, was on Friday arraigned in a Chief Magistrate’s Court over alleged poisoning of Shamsiyya Usman, 31, to death. The defendant, also known as Katuka Dingyadi, is standing trial on three count charges of culpable homicide, false information and fraudulent activities. The defendant,...
Minister of Women Affairs, Mrs Uju Kennedy-Ohanenye, has announced a N1million bounty on one Magnus Okpalannadi, 62, who allegedly defiled his three-year-old daughter. This was contained in a statement signed by Mrs Grace Njoku, Head of Information and Public Relations of the ministry, on Wednesday in Abuja. Kennedy-Ohanenye,...
An Ekiti State High Court sitting in Ado Ekiti has sentenced one Olukayode Dayo, a former officer of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) to life imprisonment over an offence of rape. The 39- year- old convict was arraigned before Justice Lekan Olatawura on May...
A school bus driver, Michael Mowete, was on Tuesday sentenced to life imprisonment to spend for defiling a three-year old girl ( name withheld). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Justice Rahman Oshodi of the Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court held that the prosecution...
Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has expressed surprise at the prolonged silence of the Nigerian Police Force over the attempted detonation of explosive device beside the Presidential Hotel. Governor Fubara disclosed this after swearing in Mr Emmanuel Frank-Fubara as the new Commissioner for Finance at the Government House...
The Lagos State Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court in Ikeja, on Monday, sentenced a security guard, David Jackson, 72, to life imprisonment for defiling a 7-year old girl. Justice Abiola Soladoye sentenced Jackson to life imprisonment and held that the prosecution had proved the three ingredients...
Unknown gunmen, on Sunday night, opened fire on a patrol vehicle, killing three vigilance operatives and a passerby at Umuaka Community in Njaba Local Government Area (LGA) of Imo. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) learnt that the incident occurred near the local Afor Umuaka Market and Hilltop...