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Police arrest boy for burying brother alive in Kogi

A boy who has yet to be identified is being held by the Kogi State Police Command for allegedly burying his younger brother alive. The suspect claimed he was only following his mother’s instructions, who allegedly asked him to punish his brother for stealing. SP William Aya, the state Police Public Relations Officer, confirmed to our correspondent that the boy had been arrested. “We are aware of the incident, and the young man has been...

Group faults BBC’s report on Tinubu’s CSU certificates

The National Democratic Coalition, a pro-democracy organisation, slammed Wednesday’s British Broadcasting Corporation report on President Bola Tinubu’s academic records at Chicago State University, calling it an attempt to perpetuate colonialism in Nigeria. This was as it observed the BBC was rapidly losing its ethical and journalistic credentials in its apparent “attempt to launder the image of President Tinubu,” saying it was shocking that the British media outfit had chosen to engage in “this image-laundering project,...

Police detain Hausfrau from Bauchi for allegedly killing her stepdaughter

An 18-year-old pregnant housewife in Bauchi State was arrested for beating her five-year-old stepdaughter to death for defecating on her. The Bauchi State Commissioner of Police, Auwal Muhammad, told journalists at the command’s headquarters on Tuesday while presenting the suspect. After injuring the youngster, Khadija Adamu, a resident of Kandahar, a neighborhood of Bauchi, was detained. On 28 September 2023 at 9.25 pm, Abdulaziz Adamu, male (38), of Kandahar area Bauchi, reported at A’ Divisional...

Four Nasarawa university students were abducted, according to police

With regard to its strategy for battling corruption worldwide, the Federal Government stated on Tuesday that it was taking into consideration the mounting calls for the creation of an International Anti-Corruption Court. Nigeria’s progress, stability, and prosperity are all negatively impacted by corruption, according to the government. In a speech given in Abuja during the 33rd Anti-Corruption Situation Room, which was organized by Human and Environmental Development Agenda, also known as HEDA Resource Center, in...

Police confirm abduction of four Nasarawa varsity students

Four university students from the state were abducted and taken to an unidentified location following the incursion of gunmen into a community in the Keffi Local Government Area, according to the Nigeria Police Force’s Nasarawa State Command. The pupils were abducted in Angwan Ka’are in the LGA early on Tuesday morning, according to DSP Ramhan Nansel, the state’s police public relations officer, who confirmed the occurrence. To save the victims’ lives, he claimed, the manhunt...

Police apprehend 1005 perpetrators, free 171 abducted victims, recover 600 stolen animals in Katsina

According to the Katsina State Police Command, it has detained 1005 people in connection with 853 recorded criminal crimes during the course of the previous four months, from June 1 to September 30, 2023. According to the Command, 395 of the 1005 cases are presently being prosecuted in several Katsina State courts that have the necessary jurisdiction. In the same time frame, the Command claimed to have successfully freed 171 abducted victims, neutralized five alleged...

Abia Govt unveils plan to revive Ojukwu bunker, other museums

To revive and renovate national museums and other sites around the State, the Abia State administration has made a firm decision to work with the federal government. A Senior Special Assistant (SSA) on tourism and entertainment, Martins Okey Justice, informed the governor of Abia State of the development. The State government’s intention to revitalize the industry was conveyed by the SSA during a courtesy visit to Professor Abba Tijani, Director-General of the National Commission for...

Breaking: Court sentences ASP to death for murder

On Monday, the suspended Assistant Superintendent of Police, Drambi Vandi, who assassinated Lagos-based lawyer Mrs. Omobolanle Raheem, was sentenced to death by hanging by the Lagos High Court, which was seated in Tafawa Balewa Square on Lagos Island. The ASP was sentenced by Justice Ibironke Harrison after he was found guilty of killing the expectant lawyer. Harrison determined that there was no reasonable doubt in the prosecution’s case. The judge also ruled that the dead...

NDLEA arrests 67-year-old trafficker raising fund to marry new wife

At the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja, Clement Chukwuemeka, 67, was taken into custody by National Drug Law Enforcement Agency agents on suspicion of trafficking drugs after he consumed 100 wraps of cocaine. After squandering thirty years of his life in Brazil, Ethiopia, and Thailand, the suspect was cited as saying he turned to illegal enterprise to earn enough cash to marry a new wife and begin a new life. In a statement made...

NUJ-NAN condemns FCT VIO’s reported attack on journalist

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) condemned the reported attack on Mrs. Philomina Attah, the agency’s editor and assistant chief correspondent, by a representative of the FCT Vehicle Inspection Office (VIO) of the Directorate of Road Traffic Services. This is stated in a letter headed “PROTEST LETTER AGAINST ASSAULT OF A NAN JOURNALIST, CAUTION YOUR OFFICERS” that was sent on October 5 to the director of the...