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According to a report, the accused woman pled guilty to 28 offences, including culpable homicide, causing serious bodily harm by hunger, causing bodily damage by a heated substance, and wrongful restraint. According to a media report today, a 41-year-old Indian-origin Singaporean lady was sentenced to 30 years in prison for killing her domestic assistant after…
Officers of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested two suspected robbers, who were escaping with a vehicle stolen in Lagos State. DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi ,The Police Public Relations Officer in Ogun State, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday. Oyeyemi said the suspects, Raymond Chukwudi and Ekene Okoro, were arrested by men of the…
The President Of The Federal Republic Of Nigeria ,President Muhammadu Buhari has warned that those plotting to destroy his government administration will soon receive the shock of their lives as he will do everything possible to ensure they fail. According to tweet posts from President on his official Twitter handle, He gave this warning while…
Tajudeen Adeleke, An Assistant Superintendent of Police, and an Inspector, Babatunde Olayiwola, have been injured during a clash between some cultists and men of the Ogun State Police Command.Four of the cultists, suspected to be notorious land grabbers, were arrested after unleashing violence on the people of Babaode-Onibuku community in the Ado-Odo-Ota Local Government Area…
About Nine suspected cultists were arrested in Ajegunle area of Ibogun, Ogun State during cult fight. The spokesperson of the Ogun State Police Command, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi in a press statement said the clash was between members of the Eiye and Alora confraternities. According to the DPO, CSP Samuel Oladele, while the fight was going…
Alkali Usman, The acting Inspector-General of Police (IGP), has said that the disbandment of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) created a vacuum which is challenging efforts by the Police to tackle insecurity in the country. He stated this on Thursday at a presidential briefing organized by the Presidential Communications Team at the statehouse in Abuja.…
Federal prosecutors in the western Washington district have appealed the release of Abidemi Rufai, a senior special assistant to Gov Dapo Abiodun accused of fraud by the Washington Department of Labor Security for unemployment fraud last year – and now a western district judge has until June 4 to review the appeal to decide. Last…
The protesters halted movement of traffic on the highway while burning tyres to create a scene. The community is protesting the abduction of some residents by gunmen. They said about 30 persons from the community are currently in kidnappers’ den, and that their abductors are demanding a huge ransom. The protesters said they embarked on…
Granting Rufai bail is dangerous If he does escape to Nigeria, extradition will be extraordinarily difficult or impossible because of his ties to the Nigerian government The U.S Department of Justice (DoJ) has written a letter to the United States Magistrate Judge in the Eastern District of New York, Ramon Reyes, on why it is…
A police intelligence report shared with TheCable quoted top commanders of the Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP), a breakaway faction of Boko Haram, as saying Shekau blew himself up on Wednesday following a confrontation. The Boko Haram leader was said to have killed himself with a bomb “when he observed that the ISWAP…
