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Police van torched, officers injured in UK after fatal stabbings

5 months ago1086 min

Disorder erupted Tuesday night outside a mosque in Southport, UK, following a knife attack that left three girls dead in the Merseyside town. A police van was set on fire, and officers were injured during the chaos. A group of masked men in hoodies clashed with officers, chanting “English till I die” before violence ensued. Police suspect the men are affiliated with the far-right English Defence League. The disorder comes after the Home Secretary Yvette...

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El Chapo’s son pleads not guilty to drug charges

5 months ago1064 min

The son of the former Sinaloa drug cartel leader El Chapo pleaded not guilty Tuesday to a raft of charges linked to one of the world’s biggest illicit narcotics operations, prosecutors said. Joaquin Guzman Lopez was arrested in a scheme allegedly orchestrated by Washington without the involvement of Mexico, in which he was detained in Texas on Thursday. The judge in the case denied bail and remanded him in custody, ordering a case management hearing...

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BREAKING: Nigerian Police Chief Says Military Will Intervene If #EndBadGovernance Protest ‘Gets Out Of Hand’

5 months ago1104 min

The Inspector General of Police (IGP) Kayode Egbetokun has disclosed that there are plans to involve the Armed Forces if things get out of control during the planned nationwide #EndBadGovernance protests. Egbetokun disclosed this while hosting a Zoom meeting with concerned prominent human rights lawyers Femi Falana (SAN) and Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa (SAN), Take-It-Back Movement, representatives of the Nigerian Bar Association, and various civil society organisations on Tuesday afternoon, which was monitored by SaharaReporters. ...

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Two killed as gunmen kidnap ex-Rep in Delta

5 months ago1033 min

Two police orderlies attached to former House of Representatives member Joan Onyemaechi and her driver are feared dead following an attack on Tuesday evening in Asaba, the Delta State capital. PUNCH Metro gathered that the gunmen stormed her church, King Jesus and I, located on Ogajifo Street off DSB Road. They shot two police orderlies and her driver before abducting the former lawmaker and her children. Sources in the area reported that a stray bullet...

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BREAKING: Gunmen Abduct Former Delta Commissioner In Church, Kill Two Orderlies

5 months ago1132 min

Mrakpor had resigned her appointment to enable her younger brother to contest the chairmanship election of Aniocha South Local Government Council. Former Delta State Commissioner for Higher Education, Joan Mrakpor has been kidnapped. SaharaReporters learnt that the armed men who kidnapped the former commissioner reportedly killed two police orderlies attached to the former commissioner, leaving others with bullet wounds. Mrakpor had resigned her appointment to enable her younger brother to contest the chairmanship...

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BREAKING: #EndBadGovernance Protest Organisers Reject Police Chief’s Proposal for Restricted Demonstrations, Insist On Public Marches

5 months ago1064 min

Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa (SAN), one of the lawyers for the Take-It-Back Movement, said the specified venues to the police will be used as meeting points and Nigerians will not be confined there during the 10-day protests. The organisers of the planned nationwide protest have rejected the proposal of the Nigeria Police Force for confined protest. SaharaReporters had reported how Nigerians have started mobilising themselves in thousands to hold a public demonstration across the country, tagged...

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VIDEO: Money Shared To Dissuade Igbo Youths From Joining #EndBadGovernance Protest As Ohanaeze Youth Group Calls For Boycott

5 months ago1005 min

Video obtained by SaharaReporters shows Igbo youths in Southeast Nigeria receiving payments to reject the upcoming #EndBadGovernance protest. The youths, brought together in Enugu, later revealed they received between N10,000 and N15,000 to dissuade their participation in the protest scheduled for August 1-10. While they denied knowledge of the sponsors’ identities, some observed that this was the first time money was distributed at an Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth gathering. One of them said, “I...

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Police nab three rice thieves in Nasarawa

5 months ago1005 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 and transported 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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BREAKING: Police Chief Egbetokun To Hold Zoom Meeting With Falana, Adegboruwa, TIB Movement, NBA, Others Tuesday Over #EndBadGovernance Protests

5 months ago894 min

The Inspector General of Police Kayode Egbetokun will hold a virtual meeting with prominent human rights lawyers Femi Falana (SAN) and Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa (SAN), representatives of the Nigerian Bar Association, and various civil society organisations on Tuesday afternoon. The meeting, scheduled for 3:30 pm via Zoom, aims to discuss the planned #EndBadGovernance protest. Earlier on Tuesday, SaharaReporters reported that the Take-It-Back Movement, a pro-democracy group, had proposed a Zoom conference with police authorities to facilitate...

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EFCC arrests nine for internet fraud in Abuja

5 months ago1182 min

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has apprehended nine individuals suspected of involvement in internet fraud. They were arrested on Monday in the Wuye area of Abuja, following an intelligence-led operation by the Commission’s Abuja Zonal Directorate. An EFCC statement posted on Tuesday via X said, “Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Abuja Zonal Directorate, have arrested nine suspected internet fraudsters. “They were arrested on Monday, 29 July 2024, at Wuye axis...

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