Benue APC delegation to rally involved in accident
By Peter Duru, Makurdi Several members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) from Benue State sustained serious injuries on Saturday morning when a bus conveying them to the party’s rally in Lafia, Nasarawa State, was involved in a head-on collision with another vehicle. It was gathered that the accident occurred in Lafia, a few kilometres […]
Man buys car in Lagos with fake bank alert, escapes to Akwa Ibom
By Chioma Onuegbu – Uyo The Akwa Ibom State police command said it has arrested a suspected fraudster identified as Emeka Akuma for manipulating fake bank alert to a car dealer in Lagos and escaped with the car to the state. The Police Public Relations Officer, Mr Odiko MacDon, who disclosed this in a statement […]
Community leader in court over land fraud in Osun
By Shina Abubakar – Osogbo An octogenarian community leader in Osun State, Bakare Adeyemi, was on Wednesday docked before a Magistrates’ Court sitting in Osogbo over alleged land fraud. Police prosecutor, Abiodun Fagboyinbo, disclosed that the defendant fraudulently obtained the sum of N350,000 from one Kazeem Muhammed with intent to sell him a plot of […]
Police arrest two suspects over fake bank alert in Akwa Ibom
The Police Command in Akwa Ibom says it has two suspected fraudsters who allegedly swindled their victims of various sums in the state. The command’s Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP Odiko MacDon, disclosed this in a statement issued to newsmen in Uyo on Wednesday. MacDon said that the suspects allegedly swindled their victims with […]
Court orders Adamawa ‘witches’ to heal three-year-old girl
A magistrate court in Adamawa has ordered seven people to restore the health of a three-year-old girl whom they reportedly admitted to bewitching with a strange illness. The defendants include 60-year- old Halima Jonta of Dumne town, in Song local government area of the state, and five other children between the ages of four and […]
Hausas are civil, well behaved; Fulanis are Nigeria’s problem ― Nnamdi Kanu
By Chimaobi Nwaiwu – Nnewi The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has said that Igbos does not have anything against the Hausas in Nigeria because they (Hausas) have displayed civility in dealings with the Igbos. He also said that it is the Fulani’s that have been giving the Igbos […]
