A female drug kingpin, Mrs. Jemilat Seriki, who is one of the owners of 12,385 pellets of Loud imported from Ghana and intercepted at Eko Atlantic Beach, Victoria Island Lagos on Saturday 27th November 2021, has been arrested by narcotics officers after weeks of manhunt. A statement released by Femi Babafemi, spokesperson of the anti-drug…
A small boy trapped in a well in northern Moroccan for five days has died before rescuers were able to get him out late on Saturday and retrieve his body. Footage posted on social media showed the scene after his body was recovered, with hundreds of distraught rescue workers at the site. Rayan Awram, aged…
Peru’s President Pedro Castillo has sacked Prime Minister Hector Valer Pinto three days after appointing him, following allegations of domestic violence. The leftist Castillo announced the change in a brief television address in which he did not mention Valer Pinto by name.”I have decided to recompose the cabinet,” the president said, meaning Prime Minister Hector…
A magistrates’ court sitting in Isabo, Abeokuta, has sentenced two politicians in Ogun State, Adewale Ogundele and Ibrahim Amoje, to one year’s imprisonment without any option of fine. The police had arrested the two convicts on October 16, 2021 at the venue of the state congress of the All Progressives Congress held at the Ake…
As many as 40 suspected internet fraudsters dressed in white were stopped from entering Mab Global Estate in the Gwarinpa area of the Federal Capital Territory. It was gathered that security personnel manning the gate of the estate prevented them from accessing the estate around 11:45 pm on Friday. According to residents, the suspected fraudsters…
Daud Olatunji writes about the dust raised by the killing of two villagers in Ogun village by police who subsequently labelled them terrorists. ‘I escaped by a whisker when the police ambushed my father and his nephew. They rained bullets on them, but the bullets did not penetrate their bodies. One of the policemen later…
Chukwudimeme Onwuamadike, the alleged kidnap kingpin, alias Evans, said on Friday that he was innocent of the charges slammed against him before the Lagos State Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja. Evans, who is facing four counts of kidnapping and unlawful possession of firearms, claimed that he was not a criminal but was into the…
The Nigerian Upstream Regulatory Commission (NURC) has given reasons why the price of cooking gas reduced in the country. Cooking gas which was sold for up to N800/kg in some parts a few months ago now sells for about N600/kg. Speaking on the latest development, the Port Harcourt Zonal Director of NURC, Professor Godday Ineh…
Suspected kidnap kingpin, Chukwudimeme Onwuamadike, alias Evans on Friday told an Ikeja Special Offences Court that his eyes saw hell in the hands of Abba Kyari and his boys. He also denied kidnapping a businessman, Sylvanus Ahamonu and collecting $420,000 ransom from his family. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Evans is standing…
Suspected kidnap kingpin, Chukwudimeme Onwuamadike, alias Evans, on Friday denied kidnapping a businessman, Sylvanus Ahamonu, and collecting a $420,000 ransom from his family. Standing trial alongside ex-soldier Victor Aduba on a four-count charge of kidnapping and unlawful possession of firearms, Evans said he was tortured and forced by dismissed police officer, Abba Kyari, and “his…