Woman arrested for murdering husband with machete in Rivers

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A 51-year-old woman, Gladys Amadi, from Chokocho, in the Etche Local Government Area, has been arrested by the Rivers State Police Command for allegedly killing her husband, Napoleon Amadi, with a machete. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Nnamdi Omoni, disclosed this while parading the suspect at the State Criminal Investigation Department in Port Harcourt, the state capital. Omoni said Gladys, who admitted to committing the crime, was arrested on October 8, 2021. He said, “It is a case of murder of one Napoleon Amadi. The local police swung into…

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Bandits collecting levies doesn’t mean they’ve taken over – Lai Mohammed

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Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Information and Culture, says the fact that bandits are imposing levies on communities does not mean they have taken control. Mohammed said this during in Abuja on Thursday while reacting to an article by The Economist magazinebtitled, ‘Insurgency, secessionism and banditry threaten Nigeria.’ The minister said the London-based magazine was wrong to claim that terrorists had carved caliphates for themselves in the North-East. While answering questions on banditry in the North-West where bandits now impose levies on communities, Mohammed argued that imposing levies does not…

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FirstBank Reinforces Support For Georgian Cup Tournament, Sponsors The 102nd Edition In Kaduna

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First Bank of Nigeria Limited, the title sponsor of one of polo’s most prestigious trophy, the Georgian Cup is grabbing all the headlines and attention as the 102nd edition of the competition gets underway in Kaduna. The competition, scheduled to hold 23rd – 30th October 2021 at the Kaduna Polo Club, will feature High Goal teams drawn from across the country who are already on the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest running sponsorship in sports and Kaduna El-Amin as the defending Champion. Expectedly, this year’s edition of…

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NLC, residents block Lagos – Abeokuta Expressway in protest against bad roads

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Members of the Nigerian Labour Congress in Ogun State yesterday blocked the Sango-Ota section of the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway, after the expiration of 21 days ultimatum given to the government. This is coming after the NLC had given the Ogun State government and the Federal government a 21-day ultimatum for them to fix the deplorable road. The NLC had on October 6 stormed the Sango portion of the Lagos-Abeokuta highway with a threat to shut down the state if nothing was done within 21 days. The NLC, after the expiration of…

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Eight residents preparing for burial, kidnapped in Ekiti, N50m demanded

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No fewer than eight residents were on Tuesday night kidnapped in the Ikole Local Government Area of Ekiti State. The abductors were said to have contacted the family of the victims on Wednesday morning, according to sources, and demanded N50 million ransom. A source said on Wednesday that the gunmen, at about 9.30pm, invaded a house where the houseowner was preparing for the burial of his mother, shot sporadically into the air and made away with eight persons. “The men numbering seven came around 9.30pm with guns and surrounded the…

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Air Force officials on BRT lane allegedly kills Lagos artist

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Personnel of the Nigerian Air Force has been accused of murdering an artist, Ifeanyi Kalu, while driving on the Bus Rapid Transit lane in Lagos State. It was gathered that Ifeanyi was on his way to work in the Ilupeju area of the state when the incident happened. His remains were said to have been deposited in a mortuary at the Nigerian Air Force base in Lagos. Describing Ifeanyi’s death as a big loss to his family, an actor, Segun Adefila, said he was killed two months after his mother’s…

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My ex-wife employed 12 nannies denied my kids breast milk to preserve her ‘shape’ -Fani-Kayode

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Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, former Minister of Aviation, has asked the Federal High Court in Abuja to dismiss the N800million suit that was instituted against him by his estranged wife, Ms. Precious Chikwendu. The erstwhile Minister, in a counter-affidavit he filed through his team of lawyers, told the court that his ex-wife who is a former beauty queen, deprived his children breast milk on the account of the need to preserve her shape, “coupled with a contrived medical condition which she claimed would not permit her to breastfeed them”. In a…

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PFN to Buhari: Arrest Gumi as bandits’ leader

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Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), South West Zone, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to arrest Sheikh Ahmad Gumi over his utterances, especially for saying that the Federal Government should not declare the bandits as terrorists. PFN said he should be the number one suspect, especially with his romance with the bandits. The Christian body disclosed this yesterday in Lagos after a conference attended by its chapters from the six South West states. Speaking through its leader, Archbishop John Osa-Oni, PFN said Gumi’s utterances were questionable and as such the…

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16 worshippers killed in Nigeria mosque attack

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16 worshippers we’re reportedly killed by gunmen at a mosque in central Nigeria, on Monday, in the latest violence in the region. Scores of gunmen on motorcycles stormed Maza-Kuka village in Mashegu district of Niger state on Monday and opened fire during morning prayers, said Ahmed Ibrahim Matane, the secretary to the government. “The bandits shot dead 16 people inside the mosque while they were praying,” Matane said. Three worshippers were injured in the attack, one of them critically, he added. Matane said one other person was killed in nearby…

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Cyber-stalking: Man arrested for sending ‘offensive’ message to gov’s aide on birthday

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The Katsina State Police Command has arrested a 39-year-old man, Ahmed Abdulmumini, has been arrested for cyber-stalking. According to the police, Abdulmumini’s arrest followed a complaint by Governor Aminu Masari’s Special Adviser on Domestic Affairs, Alhaji Ibrahim Umar. Umar allegedly told the police that the suspect made derogatory remarks about him via email. He claimed that he saw the offensive message while going through various goodwill messages sent to him by people on his 55th birthday on October 25, 2021. The state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Gambo Isah, who…

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