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Man in police net for forging letterhead of Makinde’s CPS

A middle-aged man, named Fakorede Olabisi Johnson was on Tuesday nabbed by the Police for forging the letterhead of the office of the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor of Oyo State in a bid to secure employment as Coordinating Secretary of the State’s Local Government Service Commission. The arrested impostor was picked up at…

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Police launches anti-cultism operation as it parades 202 suspected cultist in Ikorodu

The police in Lagos Monday paraded 202 suspected cultists said to have terrorised Lagos in recent times. The Nation gathered that the suspects were arrested between February and weekend and a handful of them had earlier been charged to court. Police Commissioner Zubairu Muazu, who paraded the suspects, also launched an operation to flush cultists,…

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Tambuwal buries 25 persons killed in fresh bandits attack in Sokoto as CP confirms 4 arrests

Gov. Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State on Sunday attended the funeral of 25 persons killed by bandits in a fresh attack which occurred on Saturday in three communities in Rabah local government area of the state. According to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Tambuwal together with heads of security agencies, traditional rulers and government officials…

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Husband forces wife into prostitution to rob her clients

A sex worker has told a magistrate that her husband forced her into prostitution and they ended up conniving to rob her clients. The woman, her husband and two other men appeared in court for allegedly conniving to rob her clients. Lindiwe Ncube (31), who stays in Sgwindiri Compound, was hired by two clients on…

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Photo: Man cut off 11-year-old boy’s hand over alleged theft

The Police Command in Lagos State on Sunday said it has arrested a fish farmer, Jeremiah Obifor, 61, for allegedly cutting off the hand of an 11-year-old boy, Goodluck Amechi. According to the Spokesperson of the police in Lagos state, DSP Bala Elkana, the man cut off the boy’s hand who he suspected had come…

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Woman arrested for forcing her 13 year-old daughter into prostitution

A homeless Romanian woman has been arrested in Sicily for forcing her 13-year-old daughter into prostitution, in return for which she would obtain money, cigarettes, drinks, the use of a shower or a place to sleep. In a statement, Italian police said they also apprehended four men who sexually abused the teenager, including a 90-year-old….

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Cultists go on rampage in Ikorodu as couple, another killed

•Hoodlums vandalized shops, police arrested 21 Suspected members of the Black Axe cult group in Ikorodu area of Lagos State at the wee hours of Friday murdered a couple and a mentally unstable woman. The killings occurred around 3:42am at Itupate after armed men said to be over 80, stormed the area in search of…

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NGO decries assassination attempt on former P.A to Are Gani Adams, Akanni Segun by OPC men

The Global Forum for Human Rights and Sustainable Development has alerted the public of a clandestine attempt by the incumbent Aare Ona Kakanfo, Aare Gani Adams to instigate some members of the Oodua Peoples Congress OPC, to begin a manhunt with the aim to assassinate its Executive Director, Prince Akanni Segun Olalekan and that of…

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Unknown gunman kills Sunday Igboho’s boy

One of the Sunday Igboho’s aids identified as Ebenezer Abiola, was reportedly murdered on Wednesday in the Oke Fia area of Osogbo, Osun State, by some unknown gunmen. Punch reported that the circumstances surrounding the incident were sketchy as of the time of filing the report. The security sources said Abiola returned to Osogbo from…

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Police nabs killer of female student of Nnamdi Azikiwe University

The Anambra State Police Command has announced the arrest of the suspected killer of a female student of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Chinasa Agbata. The undergraduate was murdered in March and her corpse dumped by the gate of the institution. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Haruna Mohammed, told journalists on Wednesday…

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