In its determination to demonstrate unwavering commitment to protecting the nation’s biodiversity and to uphold Nigeria’s obligations under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), operatives of the Seme Command of the Nigeria Customs Service on Sunday, November 16, intercepted one Lion Cub and two Patas Monkeys being…
Operatives of the Edo State Police Command have arrested 21 secondary school students for allegedly plotting a violent cult attack in Benin City. The suspects, all students of Ogioma Public Secondary School, were reportedly planning an assault on neighbouring Osemwende Secondary School when police acting on intelligence swooped in on them. Weapons, including knives and…
A 27-year-old man, Chukwuebuka Eweni, has been taken into custody by New Orleans police after reportedly stabbing his father to death and injuring his two sisters in a domestic attack on Pebble Street. Family members confirmed to WWL Louisiana that Samuel Eweni was a computer sciences professor at Southern University at New Orleans. Relatives said…
A 54-year-old man, Edward Ngozi Odega, has been arrested by the Delta State Police Command for alleged incestuous acts with his three daughters aged between 13 and 24. Our correspondent gathered that the father, also a suspected pedophile, started a sexual relationship with his daughters at a young age. The Command’s Public Relations Officer, SP…
The Kano State Police Command has opened an intense investigation after two women — who are senior and junior wives — were gruesomely killed. This was after some unknown attackers set them ablaze inside their matrimonial rooms in broad daylight. The chilling incident happened on Thursday afternoon in Tudun Yola, Gwale Local Government Area, at…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday arraigned Obinna Nwaobi, a former head of operations at Access Bank Plc, over the alleged diversion of $510,000 belonging to a customer. Nwaobi was arraigned before Folashade Giwa-Ogunbanjo, judge of a federal high court in Enugu, on a nine-count charge bordering on forgery and criminal diversion….
Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have attacked and abducted a trader and former ward chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Boriya–Shiya Ward, Baruten Local Government Area of Kwara State, Abubakar Sise. Sise was kidnapped from his residence in the Boriya community in the early hours of Thursday. According to information gathered, the attack…
The abductors of six senior directors of the Federal Ministry of Defence have demanded a ₦150 million ransom, deepening the anguish of their families, who say they have no idea how to raise such an enormous amount. Relatives told newsmen that the demand has intensified their trauma, leaving them desperate for the safe return of…
A tragedy has struck Akyempim in Ghana’s Central Region, where a man allegedly set his house on fire, killing his wife and six children in what authorities believe was a deliberate act. According to the Ghana National Fire Service, the victims included the woman, five of her children aged between one and fifteen, and the…
The Ondo state high court in Akure has sentenced Dare Ojo, a commercial motorcyclist, to death by hanging over rape and murder of Zainab Adeyemo, an 11-year-old girl. Yemi Fasanmi, the trial judge, convicted Ojo on a two-count charge bordering on rape and murder. THE CRIMES The motorcyclist was said to have committed the crimes…