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Police apprehend five with human skull in Niger

Five persons under the custody of the Niger State Police Command were found in possession of a human skull. The accused admitted to the police that an Alfa had sent them to bring the skull for ritualistic financial objectives. The command’s spokesman, DSP Wasiu Abiodun, revealed this information in a statement released on Friday and stated that it was impossible to locate the Alfa. Two of the suspects, Isah Mohammed, 26, and Idris Mohammed, 28,...

Nasarawa Poly Rector takes a journalist to court over defamation, demands N100m in damages

Rabiu Omaku, the Nasarawa State Correspondent for Universal Reporters, has been sued by Dr. Justina Anjiode Kotso, the Rector of Isa Mustapha Agwai Polytechnic, Lafia, for allegedly writing fraudulent articles disparaging her and the school. In a report titled Rector IMAPOLY (Formerly Nasarawa State Polytechnic) In The Eyes Of The Storm As Allowances Of SIWES Students Disappeared Into Thin Air, Omaku had, among other things, accused the Rector of embezzling funds meant for graduates of...

New York City turns into a “prostitute convention” during the UN General Assembly: diplomats pay $100,000 for Strip Club Sex Workers

It is said that international relations are being elevated to a whole new level by diplomats from around the world in attendance at the UN General Assembly in New York City. The New York Post, citing sources, claims that the diplomats are well-groomed global leaders during the day and upscale hookers at night. The story claims that expensive escorts go from as far away as Las Vegas and Europe to the Big Apple in order...

Bandits kidnap Zamfara varsity construction workers

Bandits have kidnapped nine construction workers at Zamfara State’s Federal University Gusau. According to previous accounts, robbers kidnapped a large number of students from the same university in the early hours of Friday (today). According to one of the staff, Ibrahim Mohammed, the criminals on motorbikes arrived at the university in the early hours of Friday. He claimed that the bandits broke into the building where the constitution workers were resting and stole them away...

‘Why do police use tear gas against mourners who stormed Lekki Tollgate for Mohbad’s candlelight procession’

The Lagos State Police Command has denied firing live bullets at mourners and sympathisers of Mohbad, who gathered at the Lekki Tollgate on Thursday night. It was stated that in a series of social media videos, scores of people were seen taking to their heels after teargas was released into the air. Following the incident, some people were seriously injured and sent to the hospital. The command spokesperson, Benjamin Hundeyin, said in a statement released...

PEPT judgement: No presidential election has been upturned in Nigeria for non-compliance with electoral act

The Judges thoroughly laid forth principles of law and quoted applicable laws, applied them to the facts in issue as submitted by the petitioners, and evaluated the evidence all permitted by the Evidence Act, 2011, as tendered throughout the trial of these three merged cases, and reached a right result. The judgement, in my opinion, revealed a lack of competent legal research and trial planning. Instead of petitioners supplying relevant documents and their lawyers conducting...

Truck driver charged for allegedly killing FRSC official

Kingsley Opara, a 43-year-old truck driver who allegedly drove dangerously and killed a man, was charged with manslaughter on Thursday in an Ebute-Metta Chief Magistrate’s Court. The defendant, who lives at No. 5, Samuel Otusile Street in the Iba Ojo region of Lagos State, is charged with two counts of hazardous driving and manslaughter. Inspector Olatunde Kehinde, a police prosecutor, told the court that the defendant committed the crimes on September 16, 2023. He stated...

Osun housewife shot in bathroom dies

A housewife living in Oke Akute Area, Iba, Osun State, named simply as Adijat, died on Thursday at an undisclosed hospital in Iree, where she was being treated for gunshot wounds. According to Iba sources, the woman was shot while having a bath at her home about 10 p.m. on Tuesday. Adijat, a Fulani by tribe, was rushed to a private hospital in Iree, where she had been admitted since Tuesday. She was nursing a...

Police arrest two brothers for allegedly killing VON journalists

Two suspects are been held at the Tudun Wada Police Station in Gusau, the capital of Zamfara State, for the suspected murder of Voice of Nigeria reporter Hamisu Danjigba. Bilal and Mansur Haruna, the suspects, are the sons of late Danjigba’s elder brother, Malam Haruna. Before the event, they were both residing at late Danjigba’s house in Gusau’s Samaru neighbourhood. Late Danjigba lodged a number of complaints about the disorderly demeanour of the two suspects,...

Appeal Court strikes out Suswam’s Motion to stop Sen Udende

The Court of Appeal, Abuja, on Thursday dismissed a request by former Governor of Benue State, Gabriel Suswam, attempting to prevent the appellate court from hearing Senator Emmanuel Udende (APC Benue North East)’s interlocutory appeal. Senator Udende filed the Notice of Appeal after the National/State Houses of Assembly Election case Tribunal in Makurdi overturned its own judgement, which barred Suswam from calling any more witnesses in his case. On July 17, 2023, the panel’s Chairman,...