The Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, has cleared Oladokun Ayomide, a final-year student of the school, over the allegation of poisoning his girlfriend and another lady. Newsmen had earlier reported that the Ogun State Police Command arrested Ayomide for allegedly poisoning Ugbokwe Mmasichukwu and another lady, Odumosu Semilore. The police said the suspect administered a…
A 20-year-old wife, Amina Hassan, of Mubi North LGA, Adamawa State, has set her husband’s house ablaze for refusing to divorce her. Amina Hassan, from Shuware community in Mubi North, who married Muhammed Auwal about five weeks ago, revealed that there was a pre-wedding arrangement that the man would divorce her shortly after their marriage…
A woman identified as Sughshater Ushahemba from Mbadyur council ward in Logo Local Government Area of Benue State has been accused of poisoning her 11-month-old baby. It was gathered from the community that the woman allegedly fed the baby with a substance believed to be a chemical in the early hours of Saturday. Another source…
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has arrested six suspected vote buyers in Imo State. On Saturday, residents of Imo, Bayelsa and Kogi trooped out to elect a new governor who will pilot the affairs of the state for the next four years. The ICPC, in line with its sister agency,…
Justice Nathaniel Ayo-Emmanuel of Federal High Court sitting in Osogbo, Osun State, sentenced five men tried for cyber-stalking and defrauding former Speaker of Osun State House of Assembly, Timothy Owoeye, of a sum of N38 million. In 2018, a 13-second nude video of the then-member representing Ilesa East State Constituency in Osun House of Assembly,…
Armed bandits late Sunday killed no fewer than 20 people and abducted many when they attacked some Muslim faithful celebrating Maulud in Kusa, a community in Musawa Local Government Area of Katsina State. According to the source, the assailants, in their numbers, targeted the unsuspecting residents around 11:05 p.m., plunging the village into chaos and…
Operatives of the National Drug Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have recovered Fourteen Million, Four Hundred and Eighty-One Thousand, Five Hundred and Nineteen (14, 481, 519) pills of Tramadol and bottles of codeine syrup worth over Thirteen Billion Naira (N13,000,000,000) in street value in three major busts of drug cartels operating in Amuwo Odofin, Idumota and the…
Osun State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of four suspects for stealing iron rods at the site of an on-going prison project in Ilesa, Osun State. Speaking with newsmen, the command’s Public Relations Officer, Mrs Yemisi Opalola said investigation is on-going into the allegations. Speaking on the incident, the Osun Commander of the Nigeria…
The Public Relations Officer of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Abiodun Olarewaju, has revealed that 58 out of the 69 students of the institution earlier arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have been released. Olarewaju, who also revealed that the remaining 11 had cases to answer with the anti-graft agency,…
The Federal High Court in Abuja has given former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, till January 25 to appear in court to explain the circumstances surrounding the $53m judgment debt arising from the Paris Club refund. Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a short ruling on Wednesday, gave Emefiele another opportunity to appear…