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June, 2021

  • 25 June

    Police narrate how Chidinma was tracked, traced and arrested

    During her parade, Chidinma confessed to withdrawing N380,000 from the deceased’s account to pay her school fees. The state Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, had earlier said the 21-year-old undergraduate was tracked for 48 hours and was arrested at her parents’ residence in the Yaba area of the state on Wednesday. Casual workers cleaning the building, where the incident took ...

  • 25 June

    One Dies as Robbers Fleeing With Snatched Car Ram Into Road Median

    By Felix Mordi Three members of an armed robbery gang on Sunday, June 19, 2021, got more than they actually bargained for as, after committing the criminal act of dispossessing a man of his Toyota Camry car, at gun point, while escaping, they got involved in a fatal accident that claimed the life of one of them. The hoodlums, Crime ...

  • 25 June

    Unilag lecturers, fellow students comment about Chidinma of Ataga death Saga

    A lecturer in the department, has said, “I know her (Chidinma) because of her beauty and innocent look. She is an introvert to the core. Left for her striking beauty, she is not likely to be noticed by anyone, because she doesn’t talk in class.” Another lecturer also confirmed that Chidinma is a 300-level student in the department. “Yes, in ...

  • 24 June

    Senate President opens up on leaking roof & approved N37b

    A key question on the mind of many about the leaking National Assembly Complex may have been answered. The question is :Did the N37Bn appropriated for renovation of the National Assembly complex in 2020 not take care of this leaking roof? Answering, Lawan the Senate President said “Everyone knows that this place is overdue for rehabilitation. We went to see ...

  • 24 June

    Polaris Bank Ex- Staff, Hannatu Jailed For N.5 Fraud

    The Maiduguri Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has secured the conviction and sentence to one year imprisonment of one Hannatu Nuhu before Justice Umaru Fadawu of the Borno State High Court, Maiduguri on a one count amended charge which bordered on criminal misappropriation to the tune of N500,000.00 (Five Hundred Thousand Naira). She was arraigned ...

  • 24 June

    EFCC drags Ex-FIRS officials to Court over N4bn fake tours

    The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has re-arraigned two ex-directors and top officials of the Federal Inland Revenue Service on allegations of fraud. They were said to have pocketed huge sum meant for a tour that never happened. The EFCC re-arraigned the officials on Wednesday at the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja. Justice Bolaji Olajuwon, who presided over the ...

  • 24 June

    10 persons in a family die after drinking local herbal mixture

    Tragedy struck in Biogberu village via Gwanara in the Baruten Local Government Area of Kwara State, where 10 members of a family died after consuming a local herbal mixture. Two persons have been arrested by the police in connection with the tragedy The incident occurred in the rural community last Friday, but was reported on Tuesday. The victims were a ...

  • 24 June

    Man cuts aunt’s head, buries it in shallow grave

    A 24-year-old man, Christian Edem Eyo, has been arrested for allegedly killing his aunt in Calabar, Cross River State. It was gathered that the incident happened on Wednesday where they live in the same compound along Inyang Street in the Calabar South Local Government Area. It was gathered that after killing the woman, Uduak Effiong, Eyo buried her body in ...

  • 23 June

    Village head, wife abducted in Ibadan

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    Baale of Araromi Village in Ibadan, Chief Tafa Apanpa, and his wife have been abducted by some kidnappers. The incident happened very late on Tuesday 22nd of June, at Araromi Village The duo was reported to have been kidnapped by gunmen, who stormed the village located in Bakatari area of Ibadan, on Tuesday night. Bakatari in Ido Local Government Area ...

  • 23 June

    Truck crushes 3 on Okada to agonising death !

    Truck crushed three to death at the Total Garden area of Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. It happened on Wednesday morning. The dead victims were on the same motorcycle and that the Okada rider was trying to overtake the truck when the accident happened. An eyevwitnes claimed the accident was not the fault of the motorcyclist. The accident YOU NEWS ...