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Police rescue abducted corps members, others abandoned in Ondo

5 months ago1074 min

The Ondo State Police Command, on Monday, said the travellers, which included five members of the National Youth Service Corps who were kidnapped along the Benin-Owo Expressway had been rescued after being abandoned in the forest by the abductors. The kidnappers, numbering about 15, armed with AK-47 rifles, were reported to have accosted the Sienna bus conveying the travellers, at about 11 pm on Thursday at the Omi Alafa Village in Ifon, Ose Local Government...

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Hoodlum threatening residents with kidnapping, murder nabbed

5 months ago5186 min

A man known only as Gabriel, who had been threatening residents of the Ogbere area in Ogun State with abduction and assassination to extort money from them, has been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command. Our correspondent learnt on Sunday that the suspect was arrested on July 17, 2024, while attempting to withdraw money sent to him by one of the victims at a Point-of-Sale operator’s shop in the community. Our correspondent learnt from...

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Iraq hangs 10 terrorism convicts

5 months ago886 min

Iraq hanged 10 “terror” convicts on Monday, officials said, in the fourth such execution in three months, prompting a rights group to call for an end to the death penalty. Courts have handed down hundreds of death and life imprisonment sentences in recent years to Iraqis convicted of “terrorism”, in trials rights groups have denounced as hasty. Under Iraqi law, terrorism and murder offences are punishable by death, and execution decrees must be signed by...

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Gunmen rob, kill businessman in Bayelsa

5 months ago1082 min

Gunmen, suspected to be armed robbers, on Monday robbed and killed a businessman in his office, opposite Ekeki Motor Park, Yenagoa. The businessman, who simply identified as Cletus, was said to have been trailed to his office in the early hours and stabbed several times in the head until he died. The assailants were said to have left with an undisclosed amount of money, his mobile phone and a Highlander jeep, packed opposite the office....

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Ethiopia landslide kills at least 55

5 months ago932 min

At least 55 people were killed in a landslide in a remote area of southern Ethiopia on Monday, local authorities said, warning that the death toll could rise. “More than 55 bodies have been found from the landslide,” a statement from the Gofa zone Communications Affairs Department said, quoting local chief Dagmawi Zerihun, who warned “the death toll could yet increase”. The landslide occurred around 10am (0700 GMT) following heavy rains in the remote region,...

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Kano NSCDC nabs three for cable theft

5 months ago993 min

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Kano State Command, has nabbed three suspected vandals and dismantled a syndicate, said to be responsible for destroying critical national assets. Operatives of the Anti-Vandalism unit apprehended Sunusi Musa (30) and Musbahu Habibu (32) at Eid ground, IBB way, Kano, while melting stolen streetlight cables. Another suspect, identified as Muhammad Ado (47), was caught packing vandalised streetlight wires at Race Course Road, Nassarawa GRA, Kano. The three suspects...

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Rivers court remands 12 over cop’s murder

5 months ago1114 min

A Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has remanded 12 suspects to the Port Harcourt Correctional Centre in connection with the alleged murder of a female Police Inspector, Christiana Erekere. The suspects, including a groom identified as Efeoghene Uwheraka, were arraigned by the police on 13 counts bothering on conspiracy to murder, among others. They were arraigned after allegedly killing the police officer who stopped them for a search operation along the Taabaa...

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NDLEA intercepts over 1m bottles of codeine from India

5 months ago2734 min

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have again intercepted another batch of seven containers bearing 1,229,400 bottles of the codeine worth over N9,835,200,000 shipped from India at Onne ports in Rivers State. This development came barely three weeks after seizing 6,125 cartons of codeine syrup containing 1,050,000 bottles of the opioid worth over N7, 350,000,000 in street value, at the Port Harcourt Ports complex, Onne. According to a statement signed by the NDLEA’s...

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ICPC to probe 13,350 missing diapers at Kebbi hospital

5 months ago2783 min

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission has vowed to unravel the alleged missing of 13,350 diapers meant for antenatal care at a Primary Health Centre in Sambawa community, Kebbi. The commission said it would investigate the criminal conduct and bring the culprits to book. The Chairman of ICPC, Dr Musa Adamu, said this during a one-day conference, organised by the ICPC in Abuja, on Thursday. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that...

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Abuja man protesting hardship on mast released on bail

5 months ago973 min

The Federal Capital Territory Police Command said a man identified as Shuaibu Yushau, who was arrested on July 8 for attempted suicide, had been released on bail to his lawyer, Deji Adeyanju. The FCT Police Command’s spokesperson, Josephine Adeh, in a statement on X.com on Friday, said Yushau’s release followed a mental assessment conducted by the FCTA SDS. She said, although the assessment report indicated that he is mentally stable, symptoms of anxiety, persistent worry,...

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