The Edo State Police Command has vowed to declare persons it invited over the killing of a police officer in Benin City last week wanted if they do not show up. A police inspector attached to the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate for Edo, Monday Okpebholo was killed in the state capital on Thursday, […]
•Rarara and mother Operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) in Kano have arrested one of the masterminds behind the kidnap of the mother of ace political singer, Dauda Kahutu Rarara. It was gathered that the operatives also killed one suspect in a covert operation, reports Daily Trust. According to a highly placed source […]...
•Gunmen Gunmen suspected to be bandits have ambushed and killed the Chief of Chanchanji HRH Alhaji Tanimu Kunbiya, and his son Yusuf Tanimu. The incident happened yesterday evening when the traditional ruler and his son were returning from a funeral service in Takum. A press statement issued by the special adviser to the governor on […]...
A 16-year-old girl (name withheld) who was allegedly gang-raped by three private guards, one of whom was attached to a church in Amumara, in Ezinihitte Mbaise Local Government Area of Imo State, is yet to overcome the psychological and emotional trauma, seven months after, as the traumatic experience has left her feeling vulnerable, scared, an...
No fewer than seven suicide cases were recorded among university students in the country within the last six months. According to newspaper reports reviewed by our correspondent within the period, the undergraduates, comprising men and women, took their own lives between January and June this year, reports Daily Trust. The figure excluded othe...
•A pregnant woman A community dominated by Tiv in Keana Local Government Area reportedly attacked Alago settlement leaving many wounded and a woman raped to death. The incident, according to a chieftain and resident of Keana Mr. Amos Baba, disclosed that the attack took place in Keana-Obosidoma road, about 2 kilometres from Keana town, reports...
•Nigerian troops As the protracted war against insurgency in Nigeria’s North-East zone enters into its second decade, a former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has urged the federal government to contract “defence contractors” to rid the country of blood-sucking terrorists. “We can outsource this fight. We can do this wi...
Delta State Police Command has rescued twenty-three teenagers in a hotel in Ughelli, Ughelli North LGA lured into prostitution by a human trafficking and prostitution syndicate. The state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Bright Edafe, in a statement, today, Friday, July 19, said the rescue effort followed a tip-off on the activities of a su...
•Justice Theresa Chikeka Imo Chief Judge Justice Theresa Chukwuemeka-Chikeka has been granted an interim injunction on the allegation of falsification of age levelled against her by the House of Assembly. Chukwuemeka-Chikeka dragged the Attorney-General of Imo State, Speaker and the National Judicial Council to court, reports The Nation. In an...
A lawyer, Abayomi Oladire, has reportedly been stabbed by the husband of his client, Kunle Kuteyi, for preparing a divorce suit for his wife against him, in Ondo town, Ondo State. He was alleged to have used broken bottle to stab the lawyer, while performing his legal duty to the suspect’s wife, reports Vanguard. It […]

