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A teenager and one other have been arrested by the Niger State Police Command over the kidnap and murder of a 13-year-old boy, Yasir Salisu. The state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Abiodun Wasiu, in a statement in Minna, said the victim went missing on July 29. Wasiu said the suspects, Nafiu Umar, 18, and Usman Sabiu, 22, confessed to kidnapping the victim to collect ransom from his father. “Usman Sabiu confessed to have conspired with Nafiu Umar and abducted the missing person to the house of Nafiu with the…

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  Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have intercepted about 2.7million tablets of tramadol 225mg weighing 1,650 kilogrammes worth N1.37 billion at Apapa port in Lagos. The consignment packed in 55 cartons of Tapentadol and Carisoprodol types of tramadol was seized during examination of a container marked SUDU 7538656 on Saturday, July 30, following credible intelligence. NDLEA’s Director, Media & Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, in a statement, yesterday, said the action comes on the heels of similar efforts by anti-narcotic officers at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA)…

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37 suspected drug users and dealers have been arrested by the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) and 820 ampoules of pentazocine injections was seized in Katsina State. The NDLEA Commander in the state, Mr Mohammed Bashir on Friday in Katsina said that the suspects were arrested within a 24-hour operation. He explained that five of the 37 arrested were suspected drug dealers, while 32 were drug users, including a woman and a cripple. Bashir said that all the 32 suspected drug users would be tested “and the result would…

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Owo community in Owo Local Government Area of Ondo State was on Wednesday evening attacked by unknown gunmen. This came seven weeks after some suspected terrorists attacked St. Francis Catholic Church in the community, killing no fewer than 40 worshippers. A source in the community said the hoodlums opened fire at Folahami Junction, where a construction company called Craneburg Construction Company was located, and opened fire on everybody at sight. Some said some explosives devices were also used during the attack. However, the casualty figure has not been ascertained as…

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A man identified as Ojo Babatunde, who allegedly assaulted and impregnated his 15-year-old step daughter has been arrested by the Ekiti State Police Command. The state’s Commissioner of Police, Moronkeji Adesina, in a statement signed yesterday, by the Command’s spokesperson, Sunday Abutu explained that the Juvenile Welfare Centre (JWC) of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID) on Friday, July 22, arrested the man identified as Ojo Babatunde of No15, Edugbe Street, Obadore, Omuo- Ekiti for repeatedly assaulting and impregnating his 15-year-old step daughter.    The victim, who is…

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Abu Sanni, a bandit kingpin, in a documentary released, yesterday, by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Africa Eye, said insecurity in Nigeria has become a business everyone, including the government benefits from. Yusuf Anka, a journalist, who crisscrossed remote bandit enclaves in the state, undertook the 50 minutes documentary titled The Bandit Warlords of Zamfara. The BBC documentary sheds light on the mindset of bandit leaders, the booming nature of the kidnap-for-ransom business and how insecurity in Zamfara State may have been triggered by ethnic conflict between Hausa and Fulani…

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Abductors of Kaduna-Abuja train victims have released four from the remaining 43 victims in their custody. The terrorists had, on Sunday, flogged the 43 victims. The victims, who consist of two males and two females, secured their freedom around 11:00a.m. yesterday with their relatives picking them up at a location inside the forest along the Kaduna-Abuja highway. Terrorists had taken hostage 62 passengers of the ill-fated Abuja-Kaduna train on March 28. Security operatives and the Kaduna State government are yet to issue any statement regarding the development. The names of…

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Insecurity fears has increased at the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), after terrorists, who hijacked the Kaduna-bound train released a video, where they threatened to kidnap President Muhammadu Buhari and Kaduna State governor, Nasir el-Rufai, leading to the immediate closure of all unity schools in Abuja. This was after three soldiers sustained injuries in an ambush by Boko Haram terrorists in Bwari Area Council of the FCT. The soldiers from the elite Guards Brigade guarding the FCT as well as the presidential seat of government were ambushed along Bwari Kubwa road,…

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A Bureau De Change operator, Modibo Usman, has died from shock following an encounter with two officers of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority in the Surulere area of Lagos State. It was gathered that Modibo, who was hypertensive, was being conveyed by his son, Mustapha, to the Foremost Radiology Consultant Hospital on Ogunlana Drive, Surulere, to obtain a test result for his daughter, Ummu, when he had the encounter with the officers. Mustapha said his father also had an appointment with his doctor at the Living Heart Hospital in…

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