A 59-year-old suspected kidnapper, Ayo Samuel, has confessed that a church member of a Deeper Life Pastor, one Dayo, organised his pastor’s abduction in Akure, the Ondo State capital.

An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court on Friday remanded a fisherman, Gerald Hnonfo, for allegedly stealing a speed boat engine valued N520,000. The Magistrate, Mrs S.K Matepo, who did not take the Hnonfo’s plea, ordered that he should be remanded in Kirikri Correctional Centre. Matepo directed the police to send the case file to the state Director […]

By Ibrahim Hassan Wuyo The Kaduna State Government has lifted the suspension of telecom services imposed on some parts of the state. Samuel Aruwan, Commissioner, Ministry of Internal Security and Home Affairs, made the announcement on Friday in Kaduna.  “I am here to inform you that the Kaduna State Government has contacted the relevant federal […]

By Chioma Onuegbu Operatives of the Anti-Human Trafficking Unit of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, Akwa Ibom state command have arrested one Elisha Effiong for allegedly conspiring with his wife to sell their two daughters aged 6 and 4 respectively for the sum of N700,000. Effiong, who lives in Cameroon with his […]

Police in Niger State say they have rescued eight persons kidnapped at Sarkin Pawa Forest of Munya Local Government Area of the state. Police spokesman, DSP Wasiu Abiodun, said in a statement issued in Minna on Thursday that the rescued victims were kidnapped on Sunday in the local government area on the Kaduna-Abuja Highway. Abiodun said […]