The federal government has released a total of 64 inmates from the various Custodial Centres in Edo State as part of its efforts to decongest Custodial Centres in Nigeria and to give indigent convicted inmates a second chance to turn a new leaf. This was contained in a statement made available to journalists in Benin, […]
•CP Wale Abass Delta State Commissioner of Police, CP Wale Abass, has banned the sale and use of fireworks, knockouts, firecrackers, and other pyrotechnics in Delta State. Abass who disclosed this in a statement signed by Bright Edafe, Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) and made available to journalists, said that the act posed a threat [&...
The Ekiti State Police Command has vowed to arrest the perpetrators of a bank robbery in the Ikere-Ekiti area of the state. Robbers had attacked two new-generation banks in Ikere-Ekiti yesterday evening, carting away an undisclosed amount of money with three persons feared killed. In a statement after the incidents, the police spokesman in the...
•Captain Musa Nuhu The Presidency yesterday said the suspended Director-General of the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Capt. Musa Shuaibu Nuhu, will be probed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Earlier, President Bola Tinubu suspended Nuhu as the head of the NCAA, replacing him with Capt. Chris Najomo. Presidentia...
Three persons were feared killed as armed robbers attacked two commercial banks in Ikere-Ekiti, the headquarters of Ikere local government area of Ekiti State. It was gathered that the daredevil armed robbers numbering twenty stormed the town around 5:15pm and carried out the attacks on the two commercial banks simultaneously, reports The Nati...
•Olu Agunloye The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday declared a former Minister of Power and Steel, Olu Agunloye, wanted over alleged fraud to the tune of $6bn. Agunloye, who served under the administration of President Olusegun Obasanjo as a minister between 1999 and 2003, had earlier been invited and quizzed by the ...
•Late Onoh Chukwuma A Facebook user identified as Onoh Chukwuma yesterday reportedly took his own life by ingesting an insecticide allegedly for losing N2.5m to betting. Onoh had on his Facebook wall posted a message saying that it was his last day on earth and that he was going to meet his maker. Unknown to […]
Residents of Dei-Dei town located off Kubwa-Zuba Road, under Bwari area council in the Federal Capital Territory, were thrown into shock at the weekend following the abduction of over 23 residents of the community, mostly taken from three housing estates in the area. The kidnappers, mostly said to be in military uniform, arrived at the [&helli...
•Prison The High Court in Bauchi, Bauchi State, has sentenced Adamu AbdulRauf and Abdulkadir Wada to 35 years in jail for luring six-year-old Hauwa’u Ya’u to an uncompleted building and cutting off her genitals. The crime happened three years ago in Jama’are Local Council. In January 2021, Bauchi State Police Command had arrested the duo [&hel...
•Adepoju The Controller General of Immigration (CGI), Caroline Wura-Ola Adepoju, has warned that if the practice of bringing in and employing foreign prisoners in foreign-owned companies operating in Nigeria was permitted in the past, it would no longer happen under her watch. She handed down the warning at a press conference at the Immigratio...
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