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14-year-old boy remanded for raping minor

Dec 15, 2021 topnews

A 14-year-old boy (name withheld) has been remanded in a correctional centre on the order of an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State on Tuesday, for allegedly defiling a 13-year-old girl. Magistrate O.A Layinka, who did not take the juvenile’s plea, directed the police to send the case file to the state Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for legal advice. She adjourned the case until Jan. 12, 2022, pending legal advice from the DPP’s office. The Prosecution Counsel, Insp Lucky Ihiehie, told the court that the juvenile committed the offence…

18-year-old arrested for attempting to murder her guardian

Dec 14, 2021Dec 14, 2021 topnews

Men of Ogun State Police Command have arrested an eighteen-year-old Senior Secondary School student, Tope Fasanya, for attempting to kill her guardian, Mrs Esther Bada by poisoning her food. The suspect, Tope according to a statement by State Command Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, was arrested following a complaint by the victim, who reported that she was served food by Tope and immediately after eating the food, she felt sharp stomach pain and became uncomfortable. Oyeyemi said, “When the pain was becoming so severe, she called Tope to eat…

Corruption cause of Nigeria’s problems — Sultan

Dec 13, 2021 topnews

Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, the Sultan of Sokoto and the President-General of Jama’atu Nasril Islam, JNI, yesterday, attributed the problems confronting Nigeria to the citizens’ misdeeds, corruption and political recklessness. While he urged Muslims across the country to hold special prayers, called Al-Qunut against insecurity in the country, he said that supplication and invocation to God is the greatest weapon of believers, especially Nigerians at a difficult time like this. The Sultan, in a statement by Secretary-General of JNI, Dr Khalid Aliyu, said governments, at all levels, should brace…

Ogun pastor allegedly rapes teenage chorister

Dec 13, 2021 topnews

A pastor, Peter Taiwo, of the Christ Apostolic Bible Church, Alaja Oke, Saje, Abeokuta, hàs been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly defiling a 16-year-old chorister in his church. The police also arrested his wife, Elizabeth Taiwo, for allegedly conniving with him by shutting the door on the victim during the act. The state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, in a statement on Sunday, said the pastor and his wife were arrested on Friday following a complaint lodged by the victim at the Adatan divisional…

COVID-19: Cases surge as Omicron spreads in Africa

Dec 10, 2021 topnews

World Health Organisation (WHO), yesterday, said the Omicron variant was reaching more African nations, as weekly COVID-19 cases on the continent surged by 93 per cent. However, there are signs of hope, as preliminary data indicate that hospitalisations across South Africa remain low. The WHO African Region, at a virtual press conference on vaccine rollout and impact of the new variant on the pandemic, facilitated by APO Group, said the continent recorded more than 107,000 infections in the week ended December 5, up from around 55,000. Five countries accounted for…

I no longer associate with bandits — Gumi

Dec 10, 2021 topnews

Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, Islamic cleric, has said he no longer had anything to do with bandits, following their declaration as terrorists by the court. Recall that on November 25, a Federal High Court in Abuja had declared the activities of all bandit groups in the country as acts of terrorism. Gumi is known for demanding amnesty for bandits who are said to have killed thousands and abducted many, including schoolchildren. Speaking in an interview on Wednesday, the cleric said he would no longer mediate for bandits. He said: “Since the…

Saudi Arabia cancels flights from Nigeria over Omicron COVID-19 variant

Dec 9, 2021 topnews

The Saudi Arabia authority yesterday, suspended all flight operations coming from Nigeria into the kingdom over the outbreak of Omicron variant of COVID-19. An official statement issued by Saudi General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) directed to all airports and private aviation operators in the Kingdom ordered suspension of all flight coming “directly or indirectly” from Nigeria. Incidentally, Saudi came with the restriction order barely seven days after the country recorded her index case of Omicron from a passenger returning from North Africa into the country. The statement said: “The…

UBA takes over disco as power sector privatisation records major loan default

Dec 9, 2021 topnews

the Federal Government has given it’s endorsement to the United Bank for Africa Plc to take over the majority stake in the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company. Minister of Power, Abubakar Aliyu, announced this on Wednesday. Aliyu said the Deposit Money Bank had to take over the power firm due to the inability of the AEDC’s major investor (Kann Consortium) to effectively service the loans obtained from UBA when it acquired the Disco in 2013. UBA had acted as the mandated lead arranger, underwriting $122m (about N20bn then) for Kann Consortium’s…

Man arrested for attempting suicide over loss of savings to forex scam

Dec 9, 2021 topnews

Police in Rivers state have arrested a middle-aged man, Egbe Godfrey, who claimed to have lost all his savings to a trading firm, MBA Trading and Capital Investment Limited in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, for attempting suicide. Godfrey had climbed a telecommunications mast at the Garrison axis of Port Harcourt on Tuesday and threatened to hang himself when residents got him distracted and rescued him. MBA Trading and Capital Investment Limited, operated by one Maxwell Odum, collapsed due to his inability to pay investors agreed return on investment. Thousands of…

RCCG pastor stabbed to death in church by new converts

Dec 9, 2021 topnews

A pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God in FESTAC Town, in the Amuwo Odofin Local Government Area of Lagos State, has been stabbed to death by two new converts suspected to be hoodlums. It was gathered that the victim, Pastor Babatunde Dada, was killed inside the RCCG Chapel of Resurrection on 13 Road, 6th Avenue, FESTAC Town. The killing, which happened on Thursday, December 2, was said to have been perpetrated by two new converts who came to the church for the first time a Sunday before the…