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Assistant Commissioner of Police commits suicide in Edo State

Jan 1, 2017 topnews

An Assistant Commissioner of Police Identified as Osakue allegedly shot himself in the head with his service pistol inside his private residence in Upper Sokponba area of Benin City, on Wednesday. In order to execute his suicide bid unhindered, Osakue allegedly sent a woman and a little boy living with him on an errand and killed himself before they returned. He was said to have suffered partial stroke few years ago and was gradually recovering when he allegedly took his life. It was learnt that the paralysis arising from the stroke…

Boko Haram top commander arrested in Borno council boss’s home

Jan 1, 2017 topnews

Shettima Lawan Maina, Caretaker Chairman of Mafa Local Government Area of Borno State, was arrested on Friday night by the troops of Operation Lafiya Dole for hiding a Boko Haram top Commander (name withheld) in his residence at 1000 Housing Estate, Maiduguri. Military sources, which disclosed this on Saturday, said the arrests followed a tip-off. Also, sources living within the housing estate as the chairman, said it did not come to them as a surprise. It would be recalled that the capture of Sambisa Forest, a stronghold of Boko Haram terrorists…

Tiwa Savage, husband reconciles

Jan 1, 2017 topnews

Gist making the round has it that estranged lovebirds, singer, Tiwa Savage, and her former manager cum husband, Tunji Balogun aka Teebillz are back in each other’s arms. It will be recalled that the once lovey-dovey couple washed their dirty linen in public sometime in April 2016, when the couple fell out big time. Teebillz, who claimed to be the brains behind Tiwa’s music fortunes, accused the singer of cheating on him with several artistes including Don Jazzy, 2face and Dr. Sid. He also blamed Tiwa’s mum for fuelling the…

Wife’s lover murders Greek ambassador to Brazil

Dec 31, 2016 topnews

59-year-old Kyriakos Amiridi, Greece’s ambassador to Brazil was murdered in a plot hatched by his Brazilian wife and her police officer lover, who confessed to the crime, officials said Friday. Amiridi was killed on Monday by the officer, Sergio Gomez Moreira, Rio homicide division chief Evaristo Pontes told a news conference. Amiridis’s charred body was found Thursday in Rio in his burned-out rental car, a day after his wife, Francoise de Souza Oliveira, declared him missing. Oliveira, 40, and Moreira, 29, both admitted to having an affair, police said. The…

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Dec 31, 2016 topnews

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Court remands Edo youth leader, Osakpanwa in prison

Dec 31, 2016 topnews

Comrade Osakpanwa Eriyo, the Edo State Youth leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), and another chieftain of the party, Sunday Osagbona, were yesterday arraigned before the Oredo Magistrate Court Benin City for alleged conspiracy and attempted murder against the state Secretary of the party and Obazulu of Benin Kingdom, Chief Osaro Idah. Eriyo who is also the state chairman of the Road Transport Employers Association (RTEAN), has been in police detention in the past three days following a petition by Chief Idah that Eriyo and others threatened to kill…

Court orders arrest of Osun Monarch, Oba Abdulrasheed Akanbi

Dec 31, 2016 topnews

Oba Abdulrasheed Akanbi, the Oluwo of Iwo’s arrest has been ordered by a magistrate’s court sitting in Osogbo, Osun State. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr. Fimihan Adeoye, has been ordered to arrest and bring him to court on January 6, 2017. The magistrate, Olusola Aluko, gave the fresh order on Friday when the case involving the monarch came up for hearing again. He said he was surprised that the police commissioner had not arrested Oluwo since he first issued the bench warrant of arrest against the first…

Man pursues bank staff with stones and nailed plank

Dec 30, 2016 topnews

Taiye Jimoh, a 33-year-old man, appeared before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for allegedly stoning and pursuing bank’s staff and customers with a nailed-plank. Jimoh, a resident of Akute area of Ogun State, is being tried for breach of peace, intent to commit felony and threat to life. According to the prosecutor, Inspector George Nwosu, the accused committed the offences between October 15 and November 8 at Iju, in the outskirts of Lagos. He said the accused entered into the premises of a branch of Union Bank PLC with…

Gender parity bill rejected by Islamic organisations

Dec 30, 2016 topnews

The gender parity bill currently in the National Assembly has been condemned by the Conference of Islamic Organizations describing it as offensive and anti-Islam. CIO said the bill seeking to ensure men and women have equal right to inheritance among other areas is unaccepatable. The bill, sponsored by Senator Biodun Olujimi (PDP, Ekiti South), seeks to guarantee women equal rights with their male counterparts and it has passed the second reading. The bill also proposes that a widow is entitled to the custody of her children unless it is contrary…

Fayose accuses DSS, urges Buhari to resign

Dec 30, 2016 topnews

Ayodele Fayose, Ekiti State Governor, has accused the Department of State Service (DSS) of recording telephone conversations of Nigerians perceived as critical of President Muhammadu Buhari’s All Progressives Congress (APC) administration, editing the chats and leaking same to an online medium (name withheld), which he said has now become the official propaganda platform of the federal government. Fayose, who said he was not bothered remarked; “Rather than sitting down and be monitoring peoples phones, the federal government should provide food for Nigerians and save the lives of those that are…