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Twenty four suspected internet fraudsters have been arrested at different locations within Benin City. Operatives of the Benin Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, made the arrest on Monday. The Commission…
Transport authorities in London have introduced a new public bus service linking two areas of the capital with large Jewish populations, as anti-Semitic incidents hit record levels. London mayor Sadiq Khan said he had been struck by the fear felt…
The Chief Magistrate Court 2 sitting in the Adamawa State capital, Yola, has sentenced 15 gangsters known in local parlance as Shila Boys to between one and five years imprisonment for various offences. The court passed its verdict after the…
At least 20 persons have been confirmed dead in the last two weeks in Gashua, Bade local government area of Yobe State amid the collapse of houses due to heavy rainfall. While confirming the incident, the Executive Chairman of the…
Residents in Port Harcourt and its environs in Rivers State are expressing frustration over the recent hike in the price of Premium Motor Spirit, otherwise known as fuel, which has led to an increase in fares. The Nigerian National Petroleum…
The Defence Headquarters on Friday said troops during the week killed a total of 152 terrorists and arrested 109. The military high command also stated that the strongholds of two notorious terrorist leaders — the Sadiku enclave at Tsora Hill…
Unidentified gunmen, suspected to be bandits, have abducted 19 people in separate attacks in the Mani community near a factory in Rido Ward, Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State, and at Danhonu II, Millennium City, Kaduna. In the Mani…
An Ogun State-based doctor reportedly killed one person when his vehicle rammed into the Mowe Health Centre in the Mowe area of the state on Tuesday. A police source privy to the incident but not authorised to speak with the…
Some unknown gunmen on Thursday abducted a widow and an assistant Chief Nursing Officer with the Babcock University Teaching Hospital, Ilisan Remo, Mrs Elizabeth Uruakpa. Uruakpa, 66, was said to be coming from the evening church service when the gunmen…
Operatives of the Police Command in Katsina State have arrested 22 suspected thieves, vandals of public and private properties, saying it recovered various stolen items from them. The State Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Abubakar Sadiq-Aliyu, who disclosed this on…
An 81-year-old man identified as Adeleke Oke and two others have been arrested by the Nigeria Security And Civil Defence Corps, Kwara State Command, for allegedly defiling a 12-year-old girl in Offa. Arrested along with Adeleke over the alleged sexual…
The Kaduna State Police Command has arrested 11 suspected kidnappers and recovered a cache of arms and a large sum of money during operations across the state. In a statement on Thursday, the command’s spokesperson, Assistant Superintendent of Police Mansir…
No fewer than 17 pupils have been confirmed dead following a fire incident at the Hillside Endarasha Primary School, Central Kenya. DAILY POST learnt that the unfortunate incident occurred on Thursday night when the pupils were asleep. The spokesperson of…
The Imo State Police Command has warned the public against taking the law into their hands in expressing their grievances following the death of a couple by mob action in Orogwe in the Owerri West Local Government Area of the…
Tragedy struck again in Kano on Thursday following the collapse of a two-storey building in the Nomansland area of Sabon Gari, Fagge Local Government Area of the state. Two persons were said to have lost their lives, and many others…
The Anambra State Commissioner of Police, Nnaghe Itam, has ordered the detention of members of a patrol team that allegedly killed a 24-year-old man along the Onitsha-Owerri Road in the state. It was gathered that the victim, simply identified as…
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