Kwara NSCDC prepares to deploy 2,500 personnel for general elections

24 Feb 2023

Muhammed Tukur Ibrahim, the Kwara State Commandant of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, has deployed 2,500 personnel for Saturday’s 2023 general elections in the state’s 16 local government areas.  According to a statement issued by the defence corps’s spokesman, Ayeni Olasunkanmi, in Ilorin on Thursday, the deployment was made to ensure a smooth […]

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Man arrested for stealing aboard a plane

24 Feb 2023

A man has been arrested by the Murtala Muhammed Airport command of the Nigeria Police for reportedly stealing aboard an aircraft. The man, identied as Kunle Oni, was caught stealing aboard Air Peace flight P47139 from Abuja to Lagos by other passengers. Mr. Oni was arrested on the flight on Saturday. Several bundles of naira […]

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Gunmen attack houses of chairmen of APC and LP, kidnap Monarch’s wife

24 Feb 2023

Gunmen on Wednesday kidnapped the wife of the traditional ruler of Amuro autonomous community in the Okigwe Local Government Area of Imo State, Ugoeze Umugborogu. Apart from kidnapping the monarch’s wife, the rampaging gunmen also burnt the country homes of the chairmen of All Progressives Congress and Labour Party in Amuro ward. The development caused […]

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Gunmen attacks PDP campaign convoy, driver dead

24 Feb 2023

Gunmen have attacked the campaign convoy of the Peoples Democratic Party candidate for Enugu North/South Federal Constituency, Oforchukwu Egbo, on Wednesday, 22nd February 2023 The incident happened at Eke-Otu in Amechi Awkunanaw, Enugu South Local Government Area of the state. Driver of one of the buses in the convoy was killed during the attack. It […]

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Tension in Rivers as gunmen launch multiple attacks, police arrest Reps member in 2023 polls

23 Feb 2023

Political thugs have attacked the home of King Tony Gboms, the Social Democratic Party’s House of Representatives candidate for the Obio-Akpor Federal constituency in Rivers State. According to sources, there were heavy shootings on Tuesday night (yesterday) at the Gboms premises. It is still unknown whether anyone was hurt in the attack. On the same […]

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Two people arrested for kidnapping and raping a pregnant housewife in Adamawa

23 Feb 2023

In Adamawa State, a pregnant housewife was kidnapped and raped by her uncle and a neighbor in Maiha Local Government Area. Suleiman Adamu, 29, and Ahmadu Umaru, 26, both residents of the Machimin community in Maiha LGA, were apprehended by Adamawa State Police Command operatives. Suleiman was identified as the victim’s uncle, and Ahmadu, a […]

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Two Beninese kidnappers were apprehended with a teenage girl near the Ogun border

23 Feb 2023

Two men, both citizens of the Republic of Benin, were apprehended near the Idiroko border in Ogun State’s Ipokia Local Government Area. Kazeem Moye (25 years) and Kokuyi Moye (20 years) were apprehended by So-Safe Corps operatives on Monday around 02:45am while attempting to elope with an underage female abductee through the border. The So-Safe […]

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Court remands lawmaker for felony, conspiracy and inciting violence

23 Feb 2023

A Chief Magistrate Court sitting in Port Harcourt has remanded the lawmaker representing Etche/Omuma Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Hon Ephraim Nwuzi, to the Nigerian Correctional Centre in the Rivers State. This followed a remand proceeding preferred against him by the Rivers State Police Command. The police had accused the federal lawmaker, who […]

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The forfeited properties were just EFCC being desperate- Kogi government

23 Feb 2023

The Kogi State Government has faulted the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for reportedly confiscating 14 of its properties in Lagos State, Abuja and the United Arab Emirates, following an order from the court. The government described the forfeiture as a “desperate concoction of confused unintelligent officials” and the EFCC as “Nigeria’s corruption headquarters headed […]

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