Police arrest 11 suspects caught with 9 human dry skulls, intestines and other body parts

04 Mar 2023

Police in Oyo State have arrested 11 suspects in possession of nine dry human skulls, one fresh human head, intestines and other human body parts. SP Adewae Osifeso, spokesman of the command, disclosed this on Thursday while briefing journalists. He explained that discreet intelligence gathering carried out on February 22, by a police monitoring unit […]

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Rivers: Police arrest man over the deaths of two people on election day

03 Mar 2023

Detectives from the Egbeda Police Division in Rivers State’s Emohua Local Government Area arrested James, an alleged repentant cultist, in connection with the death of two people in Ubimini Community last weekend. James, also known as “Cross and Die,” is accused of orchestrating the crisis that erupted in the Ubimini community during the Presidential and […]

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Prophet sentenced to 21 years in prison for defiling his 10-year-old stepdaughter

02 Mar 2023

Prophet Anwana Peter Essien, pastor of Restoration Bible Church, Itiam Street, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, has been sentenced to 21 years in prison for defiling his 10-year-old stepdaughter. The Prophet, a native of Afaha Ise in Ibiono Ibom Local Government Area, defiled his victim, a JSS 1 student, on August 9, 2019, when her mother […]

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Court remands leader of the house of reps for homicide and arson

02 Mar 2023

A Kano State Magistrates’ Court has remanded the Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Alhassan Doguwa, at a correctional facility over charges of culpable homicide and arson. Doguwa was taken before Court 58 of the Magistrate’s Court in Nomansland area of the state metropolis Wednesday evening following his arrest at the Malam Aminu Kano […]

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NSCDC arrests 19 people for allegedly looting a rice truck on the Kano-Zaria road

01 Mar 2023

About 19 suspects who allegedly looted a rice truck in Kano on Sunday have been apprehended by operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC. According to DSC Ibrahim Idris-Abdullahi, the Command’s Public Relations Officer, the suspects attacked the truck on the Kano-Zaria road. According to him, the truck is registered UGG 532 […]

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Returning Officer wanted for disappearing with election results

28 Feb 2023

The Ebonyi State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Mrs. Pauline Onyeka Ugochi has reportedly declared the Returning Officer for Ezza North/Ishielu Federal Constituency, Professor Paul Obidike ‘wanted’ for allegedly disappearing with already collated, signed and stamped election results for the Federal Constituency Obidike, a lecturer in the Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu Alike Ikwo was alleged to […]

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Children injured as Boko Haram members attacks voters in bornu

28 Feb 2023

Five persons including children sustained injuries when Boko Haram insurgents fired shots targeting voters from Mandara Mountains in Gwoza Local Government Area of Borno State Borno commissioner of police, CP Abdu Umar, who confirmed the incident in an interview with newsmen, said several gunshots were fired at voters from the top of the Mandara mountain […]

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HIJAB IN SCHOOLS CONTROVERSY

28 Feb 2023

As a Christian and a lawyer, I cannot fault the judgment of the Supreme Court (SC) striking down the ban on the wearing of hijab by Muslim female students in Lagos schools. Many Christians would be shocked that my conviction is also premised on my Faith as a Christian. Many do not know that the […]

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CBN AND THE SUPREME COURT

28 Feb 2023

I don’t know what the CBN intends to achieve by not allowing banks to continue to accept deposit of the old notes. I thought that would have been allowed in order to ease the burden on those who still retain the notes. The time limit given by the CBN for its own direct redemption of […]

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