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Following the killing of Mrs. Funke Olakunrin, daughter of Afenifere Chairman, Pa Reuben Fasoranti, by persons suspected to be herdsmen in Ondo State, yesterday, a youth group, Yoruba Youth Socio-cultural Association (YYSA), while expressing shock .... Read more via The Guardian Nigeria News...

Some police officers deployed to curb kidnapping along the now dreaded Ife-Ibadan hightway, South-west Nigeria, were on Monday caught extorting motorists. The policemen stationed at the outskirt of Ibadan, Ikire, Gbongan and Ile-Ife demanded bribe from the driver of the vehicle conveying this...

Operatives of EFCC, Port Harcourt’s Zonal Office, have arrested seventeen suspected internet fraudsters at their hotel hideout in Warri, Delta State. They were arrested on Wednesday in a sting operation... Read more via Instablog9ja – https://ift.tt/2JrH779 Get More Nigeria Metro News

21-year old man, Nura Suleiman, has been sentenced to 15 months in prison by a Grade I Area Court Karu, Abuja for stealing five Abuja Electricity Distribution Company prepaid metres from residents. During his trial on Wednesday, July 10, 2019, the convict, who reportedly pleaded guilty to...

Two months after some suspected herdsmen kidnapped Prof. Olayinka Adegbehingbe, an orthopedic surgeon at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, the Osun State Police Command arrested the suspects. The police announced the arrest of … Read more via Pulse Nigeria – Nigeria –...

Ado-Ekiti— A high court sitting in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, has ordered the detention of a middle-aged man, Basiru Adeyanju, in prison custody for allegedly raping his 17-year-old daughter..... Read more via Vanguard News – https://ift.tt/2YJONXF Get More Nigeria Metro News

The Imo State police has arrested one Chukwuemeka Eze for allegedly murdering a 27-year-old female, Lillian Ngbawa, who was a week away from concluding her NYSC program. The suspect allegedly murdered his victim after raping her and dumped her in a forest where she was recovered in Mgbidi, Imo...

A 19-year old girl has alleged that her stepfather has been sleeping with her for five years in Lagos.... Read more via P.M. News – https://ift.tt/2NElch1 Get More Nigeria Metro News

Depressed #ABU student rescued after insensitive friends who urged her on..... Read more via Instablog9ja – https://ift.tt/2xBZEqu Get More Nigeria Metro News

A girl identified as Marariya Sulaiman has been arrested for stabbing her brother, Mallam Sani Sulaiman, to death, yesterday, at their Badawa residence in Kano State. Trouble allegedly started when Sani told her not to erect a DJ stand in front of their house ahead of their younger sister’s …...

An Uber driver, Ademola Quadri, has been arrested for raising a false car-snatching alarm to cover up his crime in Lagos. . Quadri had made a complain at the Igando Police Station, that three armed men snatched a Toyata Corrolla Saloon car leased to him by Pinehill Leasing Ltd. … Read more...

A 68-year-old-man, Yisah Showunmia, has been arrested for allegedly raping his 15-year-old daughter and two of her friends in Lagos. On June 27, 2019, the 15-year-old victim reported a case of defilement at Imota police Station, against her father.... Read more via Instablog9ja –...

Two Chinese nationals working with a glass and aluminum company in Benin-city, Edo State capital, have been reportedly kidnapped by gunmen. It was also gathered that a policeman attached to them was killed during the kidnap operation.... Read more via Thisdaylive – https://ift.tt/2RT1o8h...

A little girl was beaten up mercilessly by the woman she lives with after she cried out when the woman’s brother tried to rape her. Facebook user, Agatha Ayerite, who shared the story online, wrote... Read more via Tori News – https://ift.tt/2RR4jhN Get More Nigeria Metro News

An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, on Wednesday ruled that a school supervisor, Adegboyega Adenekan, accused of defiling a two-year-old pupil, should remain in Kirikiri Prison. Justice Sybil Nwaka refused bail application by Adenekan, a Supervisor of Chrisland School in...

The governing council of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Anambra, has sacked Dr Peter Ekemezie, a senior lecturer at the Department of Pure and Industrial Chemistry, over certificate forgery. According to a report by Daily Trust, the senior lecturer was sacked for the gross misconduct of...

The police in Lagos have arrested three suspects for allegedly producing fake drinks in Lagos. Bala Elkana, the police spokesperson, said in a statement Sunday that the suspects, who were arrested on June 20, specialised in the production of fave versions of such drinks as Hennessy Vsop, …...

Detectives from the United Kingdom have arrived in Nigeria for what appeared a final lap of investigation ahead of preparation for the trial of a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke. The detectives, who met with the operatives of … Read more via Sahara...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has accused former Senate President Bukola Saraki of diverting N12 billion from the treasury of the Kwara State Government illegally while he was governor of the state between 2003 and 2011. The commission said the money was withdrawn in...

Popular yahoo kingpin, Akpojivi Onoriode, was, on Thursday, sentenced by Justice Simon Amobeda of the Federal High Court sitting in Calabar, Cross River State, after #EFCC arraigned him on a one-count charge bordering on cybercrime. The 29-year-old graduate of Delta State University, Abraka...