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Burna Boy speaks amid Speed Darlington’s disappearance

08.10.2024

Famous Nigerian singer, Burna Boy, has reacted to the viral reports of rapper, Speed Darlington’s disappearance. Speed Darlington’s sudden disappearance comes days after he had questioned Burna Boy’s Grammy. Linking him with the embattled American singer, Diddy. However, reacting to the viral report in a post on his X handle, Burna Boy Burna wrote; Reacting...

Lagos police detain 32-year-old man for allegedly defiling 4-year-old girl

08.10.2024

The Police Command in Lagos State says it has detained a 32-year-old man, Wahaab Ibrahim, for allegedly defiling a four-year-old girl. The command’s spokesperson, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the arrest to NAN on Tuesday in Lagos. Hundeyin said that the incident happened on Sept. 3 in the Ibeju-Lekki area of the state. He said that...

Police arrest Lagos sex worker for allegedly stabbing client to death

07.10.2024

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a commercial sex worker, Joy Kelvin, for allegedly stabbing a client, simply identified as Okafor, 48, to death. The command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed this on Monday in Lagos. Hundeyin said that the incident happened on Monday at 5:32 am at Jakande Housing Estate, in...

Suspected bandits abduct Consultant Gynaecologist in Zamfara

07.10.2024

Suspected bandits have abducted a consultant Gynaecologist, Dr Abidemi Oyaromade. The bandits stormed Oyaromade’s residence in Mareri area of Gusau, Zamfara State metropolis in the early hours of this Monday and whisked him away. The bandits said to have been well-armed stormed their victim’s residence at about 4 a.m. and abducted him to an unknown...

Mexican Mayor murdered few days after assuming office

07.10.2024

Alejandro Arcos, the newly elected mayor of Chilpancingo, was found murdered on Sunday, just six days after assuming office. His death is part of a wave of violence gripping the region, widely attributed to drug cartel activity. The discovery of Arcos’s remains came just days after his administration’s new secretary, Francisco Tapia, was also shot...

Woman nabbed in Adamawa for allegedly torturing her stepchildren

07.10.2024

Police operatives in Adamawa State have nabbed a 37-year-old woman, Fatima Abubakar, for allegedly torturing a 2-year old girl and another little child, a boy. The children who are her husband’s kids, are under her care. Fatima, who hails from Sanda, a community in Makama B Ward of Yola South Local Government Area, was nabbed...

Police arrest Ogun wanted rapist, armed robber

07.10.2024

The police in Ogun State has arrested 33-year-old Olayemi Olawale Shedrack, a suspected rapist and armed robber in Ijagun, Odogbolu local government area of the state. The suspect was arrested in connection to the alleged armed robbery and rape of female students in the Tai University of Education, Ijagun. DAILY POST reported that in July,...

Housewife who threw her newly born baby in Lokoja gutter arrested in Kogi

07.10.2024

A housewife who threw her newborn baby boy into a gutter has been arrested by Karaworo residents in Lokoja and handed over to the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) on Sunday. For dumping her newborn baby boy in a gutter, the middle-aged woman is now in NSCDC custody in Lokoja. According to DAILY...

Nigerian Navy deactivates illegal refining sites in Rivers

07.10.2024

The Nigerian Navy said its troops of Operation DELTA SANITY have discovered and deactivated an illegal refining site with one cooking tank, one storage tank and one dug-out pit laden with an unspecified amount of stolen crude oil in Bolo general area, Rivers State. In a statement on its social media page, the Navy authority...

BBNaija S9: I’ll make N100m grand prize before year ends – Runner-up Wanni boasts

07.10.2024

Big Brother Naija Season 9 runner-up, Wanni Danbaki, has boasted that she will make the N100 million grand prize of the show before the end of the year. Wanni made the boast during her last diary session with Biggie shortly before the finale event. The disk jockey, who won a brand new car earlier last...

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I apologise for saying no heaven without tithe – Adeboye

04.10.2024

The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has apologised for saying that Christians who don’t pay tithe might not make it to heaven. Adeboye who had previously said that paying tithe was one of the prerequisites for going to heaven, apologised for the comment while addressing his congregation Thursday...

Protesters storm Rivers electoral commission, insist election must hold

04.10.2024

Angry protesters on Friday stormed the office of the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission, singing and chanting ‘Election must hold’. They defied the heavy rainfall spreading canopies, while singing and drumming, with one side of the road blocked. The protest came after the Rivers State governor stormed the RSIEC in the early hours of Friday...

Man who asked Tinubu to resign admitted in psychiatric hospital

04.10.2024

The Adamawa State Police Command has disclosed that the 30-year-old Abdullahi Mohammed who climbed a 33 kv high tension electricity pole in Mayo-Belwa last Friday has been admitted at the Yola Psychiatric hospital for mental examination. The Police Public Relations Officer of the command SP Suleiman Nguroje, told Arewa PUNCH on Friday in an exclusive...

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