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Justice Agatha Okeke of the Federal High Court, Uyo has convicted and sentenced a notorious international fraudster, Scales Olatunji, to 235 years imprisonment for internet fraud and money laundering. Olatunji was arraigned on July 2, 2019 on 45-count charges bordering ...

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has seized hard drugs worth over N600 million at the Port Harcourt International Airport, Rivers State. NDLEA Commander at the Airport Command, Isaac Aloye, disclosed this on Tuesday while briefing Channels Television on ...

The Nigerian Army on Wednesday said 314 suspected members of Boko Haram and the Islamic State West Africa Province have surrendered. They were said to have surrendered to troops in Bama Local Government Area of Borno State as a result ...

  The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, has said the increasing number of inmates awaiting trial is having a toll on the custodian centres and the available resources for the service. Aregbesola, who blamed the congestion of prisons on the ...

  A 39-year-old man is in police detention after he was arrested for allegedly slapping Uganda’s Minister of State for Works and Transport, Mr Musa Ecweru during Sunday mass at St. Michael Catholic Church in Wera Sub County in Amuria ...

Tension has gripped the Ogulagha community in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State as soldiers attached to Forcados Terminal have reportedly shot dead a youth in the community, Endurance Kalaepele. Punch Metro gathered that the 27-year-old man was allegedly ...

  One Aniebet John, 31, has been arrested by the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Cross River with suspected Improvised Explosive Devices, IEDs. Commandant of NSCDC in the state, Samuel Fadeyi, parading the suspect on Tuesday at ...

The Oyo State Deputy Governor, Rauf Olaniyan, has dragged the State House of Assembly to court over the impeachment move against him by the lawmakers. The deputy governor was represented in court by his counsel, Chief Afolabi Fashanu, SAN, in ...

The Lagos Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has secured the conviction of Stella Achebe and her company, Infinite Favour Nigeria Limited. She was convicted by Justice S.S. Ogunsanya of the Lagos State High Court sitting ...

  A Malawi court has sentenced a Catholic priest to 30 years and several other people to life in prison over the gruesome 2018 murder of a man with albinism. Judge Dorothy NyaKaunda Kamanga said Thomas Muhosha had planned to ...

A Divisional Police Officer (DPO) newly posted to Birnin Gwari in Kaduna State ‎has been abducted, Daily Trust reports. The DPO was abducted along Kaduna-Birnin Gwari highway around 9am on Monday. Sources told Daily Trust that the DPO was on ...

A Civil Society Organization, Save Public Education Group, has vowed to mobilize students for a nationwide protest if the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities continues. The group lamented the near collapse of the education sector in ...

Lassa fever have claimed 158 lives in 24 states since the beginning of this year, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has said. The NCDC, in its situation report yesterday, said the cases were recorded across 99 local government areas. ...

At least six person have lost their lives, while others sustained various degrees of injuries in a fatal motor accident. The incident happened on Monday at about 11:30 a.m. along Hadejia-Kano road in Hadejia local Government Area of Jigawa State, ...

A Special Adviser to Imo State Governor, on Political matters, Batos Nwadike, has tendered his letter of resignation. In a letter of resignation addressed to Governor Hope Uzodiinma, Nwadike asked the governor to refund him the sum of N77,200,000, he ...

  Abdullahi Shinkafi, special adviser on intergovernmental affairs to the governor of Zamfara, says the state’s assembly has passed a bill prescribing death penalty for all banditry-related offences. “Today, the governor is going to sign into law death penalty for ...

At least 46 people have died and 16 others have been taken to hospital after they were discovered in the back of a lorry in San Antonio, Texas, just 150 miles from the Mexico border. “Teenagers and young adults” were ...

  Russia has placed an entry ban on the family of United States President, Joe Biden. The Foreign Ministry in Moscow said this on Tuesday. Biden’s wife, Jill and daughter, Ashley, would no longer be allowed to travel to Russia. ...

  Gunmen suspected to cultists have gone on rampage in Akwuke, Enugu South Local Government Area of Enugu State, shooting dead a pregnant woman and a vigilante member. The hoodlums were also said to have shot a secondary school girl ...

  Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, lost the move to regain freedom. Justice Binta Nyako of an Abuja Federal High Court rejected Kanu’s application seeking to grant him bail. The IPOB leader sought the ...

Former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, and his wife, Beatrice, have sued the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) and others over the controversy surrounding David Ukpo’s real age. Others mentioned in the suit are the Comptroller General (C-G), Nigeria Immigration ...

A 27-year-old mother of two, Blessing Mba, who was allegedly brutalized by CSP Ige Adekunle, Divisional Police Officer of the Adeeke Police Station, Iwo, Osun State has been reported missing. Blessing, according to sources, left her house opposite Adeeke police ...

  The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has given former President Olusegun Obasanjo, 48 hours to clarify his recent comments on regretting picking Atiku Abubakar as vice-presidential candidate. Obasanjo had said picking a running mate in 1999 was one of the ...

A lady took to her Facebook page to share a photo of the huge frog she discovered inside a bowl of ice cream she bought from a store. The lady with username, Tracy Wiemelt Holtman revealed that she bought the ...

    Two yet-to-be-identified cattle herders on Monday reportedly stabbed a man to death in protest against the killing of a cow around Agemowo, in the Badagry area of Lagos State. Punch Metro gathered that the herders were crossing the ...