Crime

Tayo Olanipekun Albania’s Ministry for Europe and Foreign affairs has fired with immediate effect an Indian serving as its Honorary Consul in Nigeria, after learning he was wanted in his country for money laundering and that he got the appointment through questionable means. According to  agency reports on Tuesday, the ministry interrupted Nitin Sandesara’s mandate as a Consul in Nigeria …

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Tayo Olanipekun Chairman of the Conference of Islamic Organisations (CIO), an umbrella body for various Islamic organisations in Nigeria, Sheikh Abdur-Rahman Olanrewaju Ahmad, has called for the arrest of one Comrade Chidi who allegedly praised the terror attack in New Zealand and called for same on the Abuja Central Mosque. Ahmad decried the action of Chidi over the attacks on …

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Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership (CACOL) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to as a matter of urgency direct the ICPC to

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The lawmaker representing Lagelu/Akinyele Federal Constituency of Oyo State in the House of Representatives, Olatoye Sugar, has been shot dead, according to reports. A source told National Wire that although the University College Hospital (UCH) Ibadan has not confirmed the lawmaker’s death, it has revealed to some of its worker Sugar has actually died. “They’re yet to put him in …

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Bayo Akinloye Today, the high economic cost of violence against children in Nigeria was revealed in an unprecedented report, launched jointly by UNICEF and the Federal Government, under the leadership of the Ministry of Budget and National Planning and the Federal Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development. According to the report, the economic impact of the violence against children …

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  Tayo Olanipekun The International Organization for Migration (IOM) in partnership with the Government of Mali has organized a training to assist law enforcement agents working in the West African country’s borders and airports identify traffickers and their victims. The training, which took place from February 25 to 28, 2019 in Bamako, was in response to the increasing number of …

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A trader, Mrs Tope Ogba on Monday told an Ikeja Domestic Violence and Sexual Offence Court, that her husband, Mr Gabriel, allegedly raped their two adult daughters. Led in evidence by Mrs K A Momoh-Ayokambi, the Lagos state prosecutor, Tope also alleged that her husband defiled their underage daughter and almost set her ablaze when she reported him to the …

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The International Press Centre (IPC), Lagos has expressed strong concern over reported incidents of attacks on journalists and other media professionals during the Presidential and Senatorial elections held of Saturday February 23, 2019. Information gathered by IPC’s media and election situation room revealed that not less than five journalists and media professionals faced one form of harassment or the other …

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Multiple explosions were heard in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital in Northeast Nigeria on Saturday morning as people are setting out for elections. Ahmad Salkida, a journalist believed to know the workings of the insurgents and with sources among them, said the explosions were more  10 and that the attacks started around 5:50am. He also reported on his verified Twitter …

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Folake Sokoya The Ogun Police Command has arrested a 45 year old woman , Ayinde Aderonke, while trying to dump the corpse of her lover in the bush. The State Police Public Relations Officer(PPRO), DSP Oyeyemi Abimbola, disclosed to National Wire that the arrest of the suspect followed a report lodged at Oke-Itoku Police station by one Makinde Ishola , …

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