•Gunmen The Rivers State Police Command has confirmed the abduction of five persons following an early-morning attack on Rumuche/Rumuohia community in Emohua Local Government Area. According to a police statement, the incident occurred around 2:30 a.m. yesterday when about five suspected cultists stormed an isolated part of the community, shoo...
•Exhibits The Lagos State Police Command has arrested eight suspected armed robbers and cult members allegedly planning an operation in the Ikorodu area of Lagos. The suspects: 25-year-old Nurudeen Dolapo; 27-year-old Fadiya Ayodele; 28-year-old Lawal Rasheed; 26-year-old Akerele Demilare; 23-year-old Alimi Victor; 25-year-old Okiki Alufoge; 2...
•Police The Ogun State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of 21 suspected cultists, including two soldiers, during a midnight raid at a hotel in Osiele, under the Odeda Police Division, Abeokuta, the state capital. According to the police spokesperson, Omolola Odutola, a total of 21 suspects were apprehended during the raid. The operation...
•Armed Fulani herdsmen Gunmen suspected to be Fulani herdsmen have killed a police inspector, Yakubu Dauda, and seized his rifle in the Chwelnyap Rim community of Riyom Local Government Area, Plateau State. Also in Rivers State, rampaging cultists have killed a police corporal identified as Francis Friday and a member of a vigilante group, OSP...
Fifty-six-year-old, Thomas Synclair shares his grief with our correspondent about the gruesome murder of his 21-year-old son, Ayakpo, a Computer Science graduate of the Niger Delta University by suspected cultists, reports Saturday PUNCH. Can you tell us the circumstances that led to the murder of your son? My son had just completed his univer...
•Cultists Two graduates of the Niger Delta University, Amassoma, have been hacked to death by suspected cultists at the Gbarantoru community in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. One of the victims was identified as Ayaokpo Sinclair from Tombia community, while the identity of the second victim had yet to be confirmed as of [&hell...
•Dr Samson Adegoke Dr. Samson A. O. Adegoke is the outgoing Rector of Osun State College of Science and Technology, Esa Oke (OSCOTECH), and is also the Chairman of Committee of Rectors of State-owned Polytechnics. In this interview, he speaks on his experiences in the institution and on issues relating to technical education in Nigeria, [&hell...
•Edo State governor, Monday Okpebholo The Governor of Edo State has signed the Secret Cult and Similar Activities Prohibition Bill, 2025, into law repealing the Edo State Secret Cult Prohibition Law, 2018. The new law recently passed by the Edo State House of Assembly and signed by Governor Monday Okpebholo takes effect from January 24, [&hell...
•Police The Oyo State Police Command has apprehended 15 suspected cultists and armed robbers in Ibadan, the state capital. The suspects were paraded today by the State Commissioner of Police, Ayodele Sonubi, at the Command headquarters in Eleyele, reports The PUNCH. While addressing journalists, Sonubi expressed concern over the rising menace ...
•Cult Suspected cultists, who stormed a kingdom in Ahoada communities, in Ahoada East Local Government Area of Rivers State, have continued their rampage in the area, killing two more persons, yesterday. The cultists who resumed hostility in the Edeoha community and its neighbouring communities had on Sunday killed four people and caused panic...
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