Day: March 4, 2025

Police: Ex-Immigration CG not killed by gunmen, died in hotel room after receiving female guest Police

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The Nigerian Police in Abuja have refuted the report that went viral, alleging that former Comptroller General of the Nigerian Immigration Service, Mr. Shikfu Parradang, was killed by suspectaed kidnappers in Abuja on Tuesday. According to the police, the late NIS boss was found dead in a chair in his hotel room after receiving a female guest. Mr. Parradang was discovered a day after he checked into the hotel by a concerned friend, a military officer, who, along with hotel staff, traced him to his room. In a statement titled “FCT Police…

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Ex-Immigration CG killed by kidnappers in Abuja

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Former Comptroller-General of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), has been killed by kidnappers in Abuja. A counter-insurgency expert, Zagazola Makama revealed that, Parradang was abducted in the Area 1 axis of Abuja in the early hours of Tuesday. Makama said after being trailed from a bank where he had withdrawn money, the assailants took the cash from him before eventually killing him. “The tragic incident has raised fresh concerns over security in the Federal Capital Territory, particularly regarding the increasing cases of kidnappings and targeted attacks,” Makama said in a…

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Celestial Church pastor kills member, stole N1.5m from his account

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A pastor in charge of Celestial Church of Christ, CCC ILERI OLUWA PARISH, LASU 2, Shepherd, Sup. Evang. Whepetoji Babaniyeh has been arrested for killing Ogubode Quadri Adedamola. Adedamola, a 28-year-old graduate of Political Science from Lagos State University and CEO of Horlar Edu Consultancy runs a private business at the LASU Campus. The news first broke via  Celestial Reality, a Facebook page that specialises in reporting Celestial Church events. It was reported that, Adedamola had gone missing on January 16. Findings revealed that, he was traced to the church…

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Dolly Parton loses husband

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Carl Dean, the husband of Dolly Parton, died Monday aged 82, the country music superstar said, after nearly 60 years of marriage kept out of the spotlight despite the singer’s chart-topping fame. “Carl and I spent many wonderful years together. Words can’t do justice to the love we shared for over 60 years,” Parton wrote in a post on X. The singer-songwriter and actor met Dean in 1964 outside the Wishy Washy Laundromat in Nashville, Tennessee on the day she moved to the country music capital. She was 18 and…

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Obasa reinstated as speaker of Lagos Assembly, Meranda becomes deputy

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Members of the Lagos State House of Assembly, yesterday, re-elected its embattled former speaker, Mr. Mudashiru Obasa. This followed the resignation of Mrs. Mojisola Meranda. Obasa’s re-election by his colleagues followed a series of interventions by the leadership of the All Progressives Congress, APC, both at the national and state levels. Though there were speculations that the reinstated Speaker may resign, it was gathered that a strategic meeting that led to the resolution of the crisis in the Assembly reined in the anti-Obasa lawmakers. A source familiar with the crisis…

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Man arrested for killing mother with pestle

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20-year-old Safiyanu Dalhatu has been arrested by the Bauchi State Police Command for allegedly beating his mother to death. This was disclosed in a press release issued on Tuesday by the command’s Police Public Relations Officer, Ahmed Wakil. He explained that, “On February 24, 2025, Peace and Security Committee members in the Abujan Kwata area of Bauchi reported an incident to the ‘A’ Divisional Police Headquarters. “At about 3pm, Safiyanu Dalhatu, a 20-year-old male resident of Abujan Kwata, allegedly assaulted his biological mother, Salama Abdullahi, a 40-year-old female of the…

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