A Federal High Court, sitting Abeokuta in Ogun State presided over by Justice Demi-Ajayi has convicted and sentenced two smugglers, Felarun Oluwasegun and Fakorede Jelili to two years imprisonment with hard labour without any option of fine by Court for assaulting Nigeria Customs officers. Felarun Oluwasegun and Fakorede Jelili were first arraigned in Court in...
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Police officer killed in Imo prison attack, gunmen set inmates free
Tragedy struck at the Nigerian Correctional Centre on Monday Okigwe Correctional Farm Settlement in Imo State, which is one of the States dominated by Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB in South Eastern part of Nigeria. The latest attack happened barely three years after gunmen unleashed terror at the Nigerian Correctional Centre in Owerri, the State...
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NDLEA arrests drug supplier to terrorists, pregnant lady in Anambra
A suspected supplier of illicit drugs to terrorists in Banki, a border region between Nigeria and Cameroon. Spokesman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Femi Babafemi disclosed this in a statement on Sunday. He said 42-year-old Ahmad Mohammed was arrested by NDLEA operatives on Friday 9th February at Bama check point. Babafemi said 20,000...
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BEDC official dies of electrocution near Edo police headquarters
It was a gory sight to behold when a yet-to-be identified Nigerian suspected to be a staff of Benin Electricity Distribution Company, BEDC reportedly died after suffering shock on Sunday afternoon in Oredo Local government Area of Edo State. The 35-year-old male victim accompanied by other Engineers, was carrying out maintenance work on electricity Cables...
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Alleged ‘land racketeer’ remanded in prison for alleged N25m scam
A Borno State High Court presided over by Justice Aisha Kumaliya has remanded Mohammed Umar Aji at the Nigeria Correctional Centre for alleged land fraud worth the sum of N25, 000,000.00 (Twenty Five Million Naira). The defendant was remanded after he pleaded not guilty to a one- count amended charge bordering on criminal misappropriation of...
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Esama of Benin loses bosom friend
The Esama of Benin, Chief Gabriel Osawaru Igbinedion has lost one of his bosom friends, ‘Pa. Nehizena’, leaving the later crestfallen. Nehizena was the most senior elder in God’s Historic Chapel at Okada Avenue in Benin City, Edo State. He marked his 97th Birthday last year, lived in Owina street, off Sokpomba road, Oredo Local...
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Women plead with Oba of Benin over Ikpoba Communal crisis
Ikpoba Community women in Ikpoba-Okha Local government Area of Edo State have appealed to Omo N’Oba N’ Edo, Uku Akpolokpolo, Ewuare II, CFR Oba of Benin, to intervene in the Community crisis, Osaigbovo Iguobaro, the Chief Press Secretary to Oba of Benin said in a statement. He said the group made the appeal during a...
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Access Bank CEO, Wigwe, wife, son killed in helicopter crash
The co-founder of Access Bank and the founder, Wigwe University, Herbert Wigwe has reportedly died in a helicopter crash in California, United States on Friday. His son, wife and Mr. Abimbola Ogunbanjo, the former group chairman of Nigerian Exchange Group Plc (NGX Group) were also in the ill-fated helicopter crash. TheNewspad reports that business associates,...
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Two suspected drug dealers caught with king size of cannabis
Operatives of the Nigeria Police Command in Edo State have arrested two suspects for conspiracy and unlawful possession of illicit drugs. The Command’s spokesman, SP. Chidi Nwabuzo confirmed the arrest of 40-year-old Gladys Omoruyi and 20-year-old Emmanuel Nworie in a statement on Saturday. SP Nwabuzor alleged that the suspects were nabbed on February 9th 2024...
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Edo 2024: APC chair returns car gift over refusal to endorse aspirant
The chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC in Egor Local government Area, Mr Emmanuel Iyase has returned a Toyota Sienna car he received as a gift from former House of Representatives aspirant for Ikpoba-Okha/ Egor federal Constituency, Mr Pius Alile. whose wife is the national women Leader of the ruling party in Nigeria. Iyase...