17 persons have been killed in Omoku, Ogba / Egbema /Ndoni Local Government Area of Rivers State by a group of gunmen. The assailants , who raided the town in the early hours of the New Year, are suspected to be lead by the Elder brother of the most wanted militant leader , Don Nwanee. The State Police Command said it was aware of the development but details were still sketchy. Share on: WhatsApp
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The Nigerian Navy said it rescued a naval personnel abducted together with his daughter in the late hours of Dec. 28 in Ozuoha/Omademe community in Rivers.Naval officers getting set for Nigerian Navy Day celebration Commodore Sam Bura, the Commander, Nigerian Navy Ship Pathfinder, Port Harcourt, said in a statement on Saturday that the victims were freed shortly after gunfire with their abductors. He said five suspects, who carried out the kidnap, were arrested at the scene while their leader escaped with gunshot wounds, adding that troops were currently on trail…
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A 67-year-old American advance fee fraudster Michael Neu posing as a Nigerian prince has been arrested by the police in Louisiana. He was said to have duped hundreds of people across America using emails and face 269 counts of wire fraud and money laundering following an 18-month investigation, police said in a facebook post. Police in Slidell, Louisiana, say they finally caught up with one of the people behind some of those emails. He’s not exactly Nigerian royalty, either, police wrote in a Facebook post. According to The Sacramento Bee…
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Four prison inmates have been confimed dead while 36 others escaped in a jailbreak that took place at the Ikot Ekpene Prison in Akwa-Ibom state. According to a statement by the Akwa Ibom state prison command, ASP Ogbajie J. Ogbajie, some prison inmates attacked other inmates that were serving in the prison’s kitchen. They seized an axe from their fellow inmates, inflicted a deep cut on their head and immediately made for the rear entrance of the prison. They broke the door with the axe and engaged the staff that…
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Safiyanu Kamala, a 50-year-old man has been arrested by the Katsina Police Command for allegedly impregnating a mentally retarded woman, one Ms. Islamia. Kamala, a farmer and resident of Jino village in Kankara Local Council, had reportedly confessed to the police that he was responsible for Islamia’s 28-week-old pregnancy. It was learnt that the suspect was in the habit of luring the woman to his farm, where he had “carnal knowledge of her.”The victim, who currently lives with members of her family, had reported the incident to the police on…
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Oba Pius Akinfesola Adewola, a traditional ruler in Ondo State, , would spend this yuletide period in prison as a Chief Magistrate Court in the state sentenced him to two years imprisonment over allegation of fraudulent conversion, and obtaining money under false pretense. Adewola who is the traditional ruler of lgburowo Community in Odigbo Local Government Area of Ondo State was sent to prison by an Ore Chief Magistrate court. Delivering judgement on the matter, the presiding Magistrate, O. J. Adelegan, said, “from the antecedents so far garnered on the…
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In a foiled robbery attack, an armed robber died from his partner’s bullet during an attack on one Francis Chibueze, along Bakery road, Azikoro village, Yenagoa. Confirming the incident, the spokesman of the State Police Command, DSP Asinim Butswat, said that the armed robber mistakenly shot and killed his partner. “On December 22, at about 8:00 p.m., a gang of two armed robbers attacked one Francis Chibueze of Bakery Road, Azikoro Village, Yenagoa.“As they were trying to attack their victim, one the robbers mistakenly shot and killed his partner, while…
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Maryam Sanda, the lady charged for killing her husband, Bilyamin Bello, was refused bail by a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Jabi District. The judge, however, granted the other defendants bail on the condition that the defendants will produce two sureties with evidence of residence within Abuja. They are also required to deposit their travel documents in court. The two sureties shall deposit documents for their landed property to the registrar of the court. Maryam, daughter of a former Executive Director of Aso Savings and Loans, Hajiya…
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Operatives of Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested a cable thief syndicate who specialise in vandalising government and private company’s cable in different parts of the metropolis. The officers also recovered 168 meter long cable which the suspects stole at the same point in the previous weeks as well as two sledge hammers and a green Volkswagen wagon Passat with the registration number LSR 664 CW. The six suspects were arrested on Friday when men of the Decoy Team of Rapid Response Squad acting…
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A warder has shot dead a man who pretended to be one of the kidnappers of the six pupils of Lagos Model College, Igbonla, at the Ebute Meta Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday. The suspect, Chizoba Okoye, was fleeing the court premises shortly after his case was adjourned till January 2018 when he was shot dead. The corpse of the 24-year-old was said to have been taken into a prison ambulance and deposited in a morgue. It had been reported that Okoye was first arraigned at the Chief Magistrate Oluwayemisi Adelaja’s…
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