A tricycle driver from Opuama in Southern Ijaw LGA, Freeborn Newton Ogelle, has been apprehended by the Bayelsa State Vigilante Service for his alleged involvement in armed robbery. Ogelle and three other suspects armed with guns were robbing innocent victims in different locations within Yenagoa metropolis when they were exposed on Thursday night, January 20….
A 25-year-old house help has been sentenced to 15 years imprisonment by a court in Nyamira County, Kenya after she was found guilty of s3xually assaulting her employer’s 2-year-old daughter. The accused; Martha Bosire, was arraigned before Keroka Senior Resident Magistrate Simon Arome for committing the offence on diverse between November 14, 2021, and December…
Troops of Operation Safe Haven, acting on credible intelligence, have bursted and neutralized a notorious gang of kidnappers in Plateau State. Military Information Officer, Major Ishaku Takwa, who disclosed this in a statement on Friday, January 21, said that the syndicate has been on the watchlist of Operation SAFE HAVEN and believed to have masterminded…
There was drama at the headquarters of the Kano State Police Command when Fatima Maina, mother of late 5-year-old Hanifa Abubakar, attacked the teacher who killed her daughter. It would be recalled that Abdulmalik Mohammed Tanko, a teacher and proprietor of Noble Kids Nursery and Primary School, Kawana, Kano, was arrested for kidnapping and killing the child…
A senior student of Elkanemi College of Islamic Theology Maiduguri has slit the throat of an 11-year-old junior student of the Islamic theology college, Jubril Mato. The junior student, Jubril, who is currently on admission at the intensive care unit of the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital was, according to the report, being punished by…
Some gunmen have kidnapped the Bayelsa State Commissioner for Trade and Commence, Mr Otokito Federal Oparmiola, from his house in the state. According to Daily Sun, some investigations revealed that Otokito was kidnapped by heavily armed men from his residence at Otuokpoti community in the Ogbia Local Government Area. Sources said the gunmen invaded…
A woman, Wasila Musa Ibrahim and her company, Najaatu Petroleum Limited, have been arraigned by the Kaduna Zonal Command of the EFCC, on Thursday, January 20, before Justice Mohammed Nasir Yunusa at the Federal High Court, Kano. They were arraigned on a 10-count charge bordering on money laundering and tax evasion. The complainant, alleged that…
Two staff of The Nigeria Telecommunication Limited (NITEL) have lost their lives after a telecommunication mast collapsed in Kastina-Ala Local Government Area of Benue State on Wednesday, January 19. The workers were seven in number atop the mast located at NITEL premises near Takum junction in Kastina-Ala. They were reportedly trying to dismantle the mast…
The PUNCH reports that the Kano State Government has ordered the immediate closure of a private school, Noble Kids Academy, at Kwanar Dakata, in the Nassarawa Local Government Area, where the body of an abducted girl, Hanifa Abubakar, was buried by the suspects. The deceased, a five-year-old girl was allegedly abducted in November 2021, at…
A man has set his pregnant girlfriend ablaze. According to the Detroit Police Department, the man has been identified as 41-year-old man, Devonne Marsh. The Michigan woman who is 6 ½ months pregnant with twins, was hospitalized this week after being set on fire by her partner. In videos shared by the police, Marsh allegedly…