Crime

The United Nations (UN) said on Friday it welcomed as an “important milestone” the release of 833 children by the Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF). The group was formed in 2013 to protect communities and support the country’s security forces against Boko Haram extremists, but it also recruited young boys and girls into its ranks. “This is an important development …

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Tayo Olanipekun Police on Friday paraded 16 suspects for killings and harvesting sex organs of innocent people, selling same for ritual purposes in Ankpa town and environs of Kogi State. In a statement signed by the Force Public Relations Officer, Jimoh Moshood, police said the leaders of the suspects have acquired properties suspected to be from the proceeds of the …

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The Weight and Measures Department in the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment has shut down 30 filling stations in Benin. Nwachukwu Cordelia, Chief Media Mythology Officer of the Federal Ministry of Industry Trade and Investment, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Benin on Friday. Nwachukwu, who was in the state for a surveillance inspection …

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Tayo Olanipekun U.S. has invested a total of $75m into efforts geared at combating human trafficking and modern day slavery since 2017, the Secretary of State, Michael Pompeo, has said. The country made this commitment through the congressionally-funded U.S. foreign assistance program, Program to End Modern Slavery, launched last year to reduce the prevalence of modern day slavery in specific …

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  An Igbosere Chief magistrate court Lagos state south west Nigeria has adjourned till Friday 12th of October, 2018, the trial of three accused men Alhaji Ismaila Adeniyi ,Stanley Ekerume, and James Imoudu alleged to have conspired together to obtain money by false pretence. In a six count charge filed  before the court by Inspector A. Okere from Zone two …

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Before a decision was made on her five-year-old marriage on Wednesday, an estranged wife, Mautin, stunned the court as she revealed that she did not know that her husband had two wives and six children before marrying him. “I was seven months pregnant when I discovered that my husband already had two wives and six children which he hid from …

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Tayo Olanipekun Nigerian Army has said its troops successfully repelled Boko Haram terrorists who wanted to take over the position of the military,killing 76 of the insurgents. In a statement on Wednesday through its official social media handle,the Army also said it lost seven of its men while 16 were also wounded during the attack near Kangarwa in Borno State. …

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The International Press Centre (IPC) has called on the military authorities to act with civility in their search for the missing retired Major General, Idris Alkali. This follows a “brutal” military operation in Dura-Du in Jos South Local Government Area (LGA) of Plateau State in the efforts to unravel the circumstances surrounding the missing of Major General Alkali (rtd), IPC …

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The President, Mapo Customary Court, Ibadan, Oyo State, Chief Ademola Odunade, at the weekend dissolved a seven-year-old marriage on the grounds of sex-starvation. The petitioner, Mr. Wahab Olabanmiji, sought dissolution of his marriage because his wife, Tawakalitu, denied him sex. Odunade said the marriage was dissolved because the estranged couple were resolute in their decision to part ways. He granted …

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Folake Sokoya Mubashiru Yusuff and his gay partner that escaped arrest since 15 after being caught in the act by Olalekan’s ex- wife are still at large,National Wire can report. The incident of Gay activity happened in Onikoko,Panseke area of Abeokuta,where the ex-wife was said to have always noticed her ex husband’s car. The woman also said she had always …

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