Bayelsa State chapter of International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA) has filed a petition to the state Commissioner of Police over alleged trafficking of two girls for prostitution. The petition, signed by the Chairperson of FIDA, Debra Pamosoo, alleged that two girls (names withheld) aged 17 and 18 years, were transported from Ibiono-Ibom council of Akwa…
A 300-level student of the University of Jos (UNIJOS), identified as Jennifer Anthony, has been killed and her body mutilated, with some parts missing. This paper learnt that the deceased, who was a student of the Department of Special Education and Rehabilitation Science, was lured to a hotel on Zaria road in Jos, by a…
A number of bandits have been reportedly killed as they unleashed terror on Karakkai village, in Nahuche district of Bungudu Local Government Area of Zamfara state on Saturday. They were also said to have killed seven indigenes. Some of the villagers revealed that over twenty bandits were neutralized by joint task force between Nigerian Army…
Unknown gunmen suspected to be kidnappers who abducted the Magaji Erubu of Ilorin Emirate, Dr Zubair Folorunsho Erubu on Thursday night, have demanded N60m ransom for his freedom. Sources disclosed in Ilorin on Saturday that the kidnappers on Friday contacted the family of the captive. Dr Erubu, a retired Permanent Secretary in the state and…
A Nigerian lady who died while in prison at Ivory Coast, Itunu Babalola has been buried in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. It was gathered that the corpse arrived in Nigeria through Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Ikeja Lagos on Friday. Our correspondent gathered that the Nigerian was wrongly jailed in Ivory Coast. She later…
So far nobody knows the reason why they were brutally killed by ethic group(s) believed to be Christians in Plateau State. The two commercial buses according to eye witnesses are heading to Plateau State from Bauchi where they went on annual religious zikr. Acting on local intelligence, the two buses was said to have been…
The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu has described the new claims made by Chidinma Ojukwu, the suspected killer of the Chief Executive Officer of Super TV, Usifo Ataga, as an “afterthought”. In a video that went viral on Monday, the undergraduate denied killing the Super TV CEO, a claim that is contrary to…
