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Police in Cross River paraded a 35-year-old man, Sunday Ushie, on Monday who confessed to killing his girlfriend, identified as Nnena Samuel, and having sex with the corpse. It was gathered that the incident happened on January 26, 2017, in Adijinkpor village, in the Ikom Local Government Area of Cross River State. Ushie, a cocoa farmer in Akparabong, said the deceased never gave him the opportunity to have sex with her while alive. He said that he invited her to his house and killed her with a knife before having…

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A section of the Osun State High Court located in Ayeso area was set ablaze yesterday morning by unidentified hoodlums. There was some drama before the hoodlums succeeded in carrying out their nefarious act, as they reportedly tied up a correspondent, Opeyemi Olawale, and some security men on duty to prevent being challenged. This occurred after the hoodlums, who came in large numbers, macheted a security man while trying to gain access into the court premises. The yet-to-be identified hoodlums also destroyed some documents of the court before leaving the…

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Dr. Obadiah Mailafia, former Deputy Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, disclosed, yesterday, that about 20 percent of the nation’s currencies  in circulation were fake. Also, a coalition of civil society organisations under the aegis of Citizen Wealth Platform, CWP, alleged insertion of a frivolous, inappropriate, unclear and wasteful expenditure proposals in 2017 budget. According to the group, a large sum of N151.536 billion wasteful, duplicated and needless proposals has been identified in the budget which the National Assembly should save by striking out such proposals, some of which…

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A 37 year old lady, Mitchel Harrold has been arrested by Operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of the Lagos State Police Command, in Agbor, Delta State, for allegedly drugging her male friend, a medical doctor, in a hotel in Ojodu area of Lagos and carting away his car, laptop and mobile phones. The lady from Warri, Delta State was on Tuesday arrested after the operatives traced her through a car dealer in Lagos, whom she had engaged to help perfect import papers for the stolen Volkswagen Passat Wagon,…

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Jesus Covenant Bible Church’s pastor was at the weekend found dead in a drainage system along Okpuno-Uzodike street by Bank Road, Nnewi, Anambra State. It was gathered that the deceased was murdered during a robbery attack in one of the commercial banks in the area. A resident who gave her name as Obiageli, said the deceased, whose church houses his residence, met his death after rushing out to ascertain the noise he heard. “The armed robbers were attempting to gain access into one of the commercial banks around the area…

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A renewed clash between the people of Oku Iboku in Itu Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State and Odukpani Local Government Area in Cross River State has claimed nothing less than 20 lives. The people of Ikot Offiong, who are an Efik speaking tribe of Calabar, were said to have been dislodged from their settlement at Ayadehe community, Oku Iboku council, over the decades. It was gathered that in the clash between the two communities which started Friday night, combatants from both communities used sophisticated weapons. It was further…

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Chief Audu Ogbe has blamed the rise in the cost of food prices on what he called extortionist practices of men of the Nigerian Police, Army, and Nigerian Customs Services at the nations various checkpoints and ports. Members of the joint committee on Agriculture were stunned when the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh made the allegation yesterday during a budget defence session at the National Assembly. Ogbeh lamented that despite having written formally to the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, Comptroller General of Customs, Hameed…

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