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Anambra vigilantes arrest herbalist with 11 human bones

5 months ago874 min

Security operatives which included vigilantes in Anambra State have arrested an herbalist, identified simply as Ezekiel, with about 11 different human bones in his possession. PUNCH Metro gathered that the suspect, who hails from Ezza in Ebonyi State, was arrested over the weekend by security operatives in Neni, Anaocha Local Government Area of Anambra State, where he resides. In a video currently trending on social media, which our correspondent watched on Tuesday, the security operatives...

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Three suspected rice thieves, 12 others paraded in Nasarawa

5 months ago955 min

The Nasarawa State Police Command has arrested three suspects for allegedly stealing 96 bags of 50 kilograms of rice from a businessman in the Nassarawa Eggon Local Government Area of the state. The businessman was said to have bought 700 bags of rice in Nasarawa State to transport them to Abia State when the hoodlums numbering about 15 attacked his vehicle on the road and carted away with the foodstuffs. The Commissioner of Police, Umar...

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EFCC nabs nine suspected Internet fraudsters in Abuja

5 months ago943 min

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has apprehended nine individuals suspected of engaging in Internet fraud in Abuja. This development was announced by the EFCC via its official X.com handle on Tuesday. According to the commission, the arrests occurred on Monday in the Wuye area of Abuja, following credible intelligence reports suggesting the suspects’ involvement in fraudulent activities. The EFCC statement read, “Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Abuja Zonal Directorate, have arrested...

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Group decries planned demolition in Lagos community

5 months ago985 min

A coalition of victims of the demolished buildings in the Oworoshoki area of Lagos State has called on the government to stop further planned demolition in the area. On Thursday, officials of the Lagos State Environmental Task Force invaded the Mosafejo community, a slum settlement at Oworonshoki, in the Kosofe Local Government Area of the state. The invasion was unprecedented as the dwellers were taken unawares when the armed officials ordered them to vacate the...

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Residents beat Lagos security guard to coma over car theft

5 months ago985 min

There was tension on Monday after a yet-to-identified security guard went into a coma after he was beaten up at the Tanisewun Estate in the Igbogbo area of Ikorodu, Lagos State. PUNCH Metro learnt that the incident happened after a car was allegedly stolen in the area he was securing. Our correspondent gathered that the owner of the car had stepped out to pick up something in his car in the morning when he discovered...

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Two policemen, driver killed as gunmen abduct ex-Rep, children

5 months ago964 min

Two police orderlies attached to a former House of Representatives member, Joan Onyemaechi and her driver were on Tuesday evening killed when bandits abducted her and her children in Asaba, the Delta State capital. PUNCH Metro gathered that the gunmen stormed Onyemaechi’s church, King Jesus and I, located at Ogajifo Street off DSB Road and shot the two police orderlies and her driver before whisking the former lawmaker and her children away. Sources from the...

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Gunmen kill man, burn sanitation agency vehicle in Imo

5 months ago973 min

Twenty-four hours after four policemen and a Point of Sale operator were killed in Irete, Owerri West Local Government Area, gunmen on Tuesday afternoon killed a young man at the nearby Orji in Owerri North LGA. PUNCH Metro gathered that the gunmen who shot sporadically in the air, heading to the Owerri-Enugu Road, also burnt an Imo State Government Waste Management Agency vehicle at the Nkwo Orji Market. When our correspondent visited the Nkwo Orji...

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Council probes Lagos FCE violence, school shut

5 months ago1097 min

Following the violence that erupted on Monday, the Governing Council of the Federal College of Education (Technical) Akoka, Lagos, has ordered an indefinite closure of the institution. The embattled provost, Dr. Wahab Azeez, revealed the council’s decision to PUNCH Metro during a telephone interview on Tuesday. Recall that the ongoing leadership crisis escalated on Monday when videos emerged showing protesting students vandalising the official vehicles of the governing council members, who reportedly narrowly avoided being...

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Kogi court remands man for robbery

5 months ago984 min

A Magistrate Court sitting in Lokoja, Kogi State has remanded an 18-year-old suspect, Ibrahim Musa, for criminal conspiracy and armed robbery. Musa was dragged before the magistrate court by the Department of State Service for committing an offence punishable under Section 298 of the Kogi State Administration of Criminal Justice. The prosecution counsel, Yahaya Olanrewaju, has filed an ex parte motion supported by an 18-paragraph affidavit seeking an application for an order of the honourable...

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Two killed in Ireland helicopter crash

5 months ago992 min

Two people on board a small single-engine helicopter were killed Tuesday after their aircraft crashed into a farm building in central Ireland, said a statement by Irish police. AFP reports that the aircraft crashed onto the roof of a pig-farm outhouse near Mullingar, 80 kilometres (50 miles) northwest of Dublin, around 15:30 GMT. “Two people on board the aircraft were pronounced deceased at the scene,” said the police statement. One of the victims was an...

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