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  Police in India are searching for a teacher accused of beating a Dalit student to death over a spelling mistake, officers said amid violent protests triggered by the incident. Nikhil Dohre was struck with a rod and kicked until ...

  Three suspects conveying 150 bottles of ‘skuchies’ have been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command. ‘Skuchies’ is a cocktail of drugs, including cannabis sativa, tramadol tablets, codeine, swifnol, among others. The trio – Francis Friday, Kemi Adeyemo, and ...

A United States district court has sentenced Abidemi Rufai, a suspended aide of Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State, to five years’ imprisonment for fraud. The District Court in Western Tacoma in Washington jailed Mr Rufai on Monday for wire ...

  The Nigeria Police Force has declared an Indian national Ayan Asit Chakraborty wanted. A Gazette Bulletin with Ref No AR: 3000/ZN.2/MTU/TMI Vol. 2/141 announced that the Magistrates’ Court had issued a warrant of arrest in Lagos. The suspect is ...

  A family in Kamacuku village, Tharaka Nithi County, Kenya is in mourning after a woman allegedly killed her husband before hanging herself. Moses Kirimi’s body was found in a pool of blood in the parking lot of his home on ...

An Oyo State High Court sitting in Ibadan has convicted and sentenced 66 internet fraudsters to various jail terms. The jail terms range from two weeks, four months, and six months of community service to ten months imprisonment. The convicts ...

  President Vladimir Putin on Monday granted Russian citizenship to former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, nine years after he exposed the scale of secret surveillance operations by the National Security Agency (NSA). Snowden, 39, fled the United States and ...

  Political economist Pat Utomi has dared Bola Tinubu to go for a medical checkup and make the result public, claiming the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate is unfit. He threw the challenge on Monday while fielding questions on ...

There was heavy presence of security operatives at the Osun State High Court on Monday morning as the governorship election tribunal commenced sitting. Governor Gboyega Oyetola is challenging the result of the July 16 guber election as announced by the ...

Special forces of Civilian Joint Task Force vigilante group in Katsina have beheaded a notorious bandit leader popularly known as ‘Solar’. The notorious bandit leader, who had been terrorising Batsari town in Katsina, was killed on Friday. In a gory ...

  Blackout is being experienced in some parts of the country as the national grid has collapsed again. The national grid is collapsing for the seventh time in 2022. Announcing the development, Monday, the Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company, in a ...

Military veterans under the aegis of the Retired Members of Nigerian Armed Forces and the Coalition of Concerned Military Veterans, staged the third phase of their protests over the non-payment of their Security Debarment Allowance, among others, at the Ministry ...

  The Federal Government, through the National Universities Commission, Monday afternoon, withdrew its circular which ordered vice-chancellors, pro-chancellors and governing councils to re-open federal universities. It was reported earlier that a circular tagged NUC/ES/138/Vol.64/135 was addressed to all vice-chancellors; pro-chancellors ...

A suspected kidnap kingpin, John Ewa, arrested in Abuja and responsible for high-profile kidnappings in Bayelsa State is currently being paraded alongside three members of his gang by the Bayelsa State Police Command at the Police Officers Mess, Yenagoa Bayelsa ...

The leader of the pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, has clarified his position on the group’s support for the Labour Party’s candidate in the 2023 general election, Peter Obi, stating why the group will not support the All ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission has set January 2023 as its proposed date for publication of voter register, ahead of the 2023 general election. The Commission disclosed this, Monday, at the two-day Capacity Building Workshop for INEC Press Corps on ...

Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday struck out the fresh charges against Olisa Metuh by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over alleged N400 million money laundering. Justice Nwite struck it out after ...

  Two women and a man around the Niger Motel in the Jepap area of Suleja town, Niger State, have been kidnapped by suspected kidnappers. Hoodlums had kidnapped four persons, including a female pastor, in the area with an undisclosed ...

  A resident of Iree, Osun State, Muritala Afolabi, on Friday, sustained serious injuries after setting himself ablaze. Muritala was, however, rescued by some people who heard his cry as fire burnt his body. He was rushed to a private ...

  The President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, Dr Daniel Okoh, on Sunday, urged the Federal Government and the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities to end the seven-month strike. Okoh made the appeal in his address ...

  Police in Ogun have arrested an 84-year-old man, Stephen Jack for having unlawful carnal knowledge of an eight-year-old girl. Police spokesman in the state, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, stated in Abeokuta on Saturday that the suspect resides at Okun Owa ...

  Gunmen suspected to be assassins have shot dead a businessman identified as Mr Ifeanyi in Sabongari area of Kano state.   According to Daily Nigerian, the incident occured around 8:45pm on Saturday, September 24, 2022, at Azubros Plaza, off ...

  Operatives of the Federal Capital Territory Police Command, have arrested three members of a notorious armed robbery gang that specialise in home invasions, property and vehicle theft.   Spokesperson of the command, Josephine Ade, who disclosed this in a statement ...

  A 75-year-old grandpa, Usman Bokina Bajama (alias Clemen) and 22 other suspects were arrested in operations across seven states by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA.   Spokesperson of the agency, Femi Babafemi, who disclosed this ...

  A Nigerian identified as Okowa Collins Chigozie, has been in custody in India for nine years without trial.   A Denmark-based Nigerian man, Ezike Samuel Buchi, who disclosed this via Twitter on Thursday, September 22, said Chigozie was arrested in April ...