A UK-based Nigerian doctor, Dr Kelvin Alaneme, was secretly filmed by the British Broadcasting Corporation in an undercover investigation, allegedly selling fake job opportunities to foreign nationals. According to a BBC documentary, Dr Alaneme, a psychiatrist who had worked for the National Health Service, is the founder of CareerEdu, an agency based in Harlow, Essex….
A 20-year-old man on Sunday, March 30, stabbed the guard of Emir Muhammadu Sanusi II to death on the Eid prayer ground. The Nigeria Police said the deceased who who protecting the Emir was attacked by the man during prayers. According to the police, one of the security personnel present at the scene of the…
A 14-year-old Secondary School Student, identified as Nicknes Ayo, has committed suicide after her mother pressured her to name the man who impregnated her. The incident happened on Saturday at Egba in the Agatu Local Government Area of Benue State. A neighbour who identified herself as Mama Enyi told our correspondent on the phone that…
A security guard and father of three, identified as Ifeanyi Ani, was allegedly beaten to death by a customer at a popular eatery in Rumukrushi in Obio Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State on Thursday evening. According to sources who spoke to our correspondent on Saturday, the customer who came to purchase food at…
No fewer than eleven persons, including a pregnant woman, the husband, and a ten-year-old girl, were killed, with some others sustaining serious injuries in an attack by assailants on the Ruwi village of Bokkos Local Government Area of Plateau State. In a statement, the Bokkos Cultural Development Council (BCDC) Vanguard Chairman Farmasum Fuddang said the…
The Edo police command says its operatives have arrested 14 suspects in connection with the killing of 16 travellers and the torching of their truck in Uromi town. On Thursday, a mob allegedly attacked and killed 16 hunters of northern descent who were travelling from Port Harcourt to Kano. The incident happened on the Uromi/Obajana…
The Kano State High Court on Friday sentenced a housewife, Fadila Adamu, to death by hanging for kidnapping and throwing an eight-year-old girl into a well, causing her death. The defendant, who lives in the Sabuwar Gandu Quarters, Kano, was convicted of kidnapping and culpable homicide. Delivering judgment, Justice Yusuf Muhammad-Ubale ruled that the prosecution…
A magistrates’ court in Isabo, Abeokuta, on Friday, sentenced a mother and daughter, Falilatu Amidu and Ayisatu Amidu, to six months’ imprisonment each for stealing dry ponmo (cow skin), stock fish and dried meat valued at N1 million. The defendants, who reside at No. 21 Ago-oko area in Abeokuta, Ogun, were convicted on a two-count…
At least 16 travellers from Northern Nigeria were brutally killed in the Udune Efandion community of Uromi, Edo State, after being labelled as kidnappers. It was gathered the incident occurred on Thursday when the victims, reported to be primarily Hausa hunters, were en route from Port Harcourt to Kano for the Sallah festivities. They were…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday re-arraigned Mamman Nasir Ali, son of former Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ahmadu Ali, over an alleged N2.2 billion oil subsidy fraud. Ali alongside Christian Taylor and their oil company, Nasaman Oil Services Limited were brought before before Justice Mojisola Dada of a Lagos Special Offences…