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Ayra Starr reaches 2 billion Spotify streams

10.10.2024

Famous Nigerian songstress, Ayra Starr, has surpassed 2 billion streams on Spotify across all credits. Spotify data aggregating platform, Kworb announced that Ayra just surpassed over 2 billion streams as of October 10, 2024. This comes months after releasing her second album ‘The Year I Turned 21’ which has surpassed 500 million streams on Spotify....

Police rescue six sports journalists kidnapped in Anambra while travelling to Uyo

10.10.2024

Police authorities in Anambra State have revealed that six journalists traveling to Uyo in Akwa Ibom State, who were kidnapped in Anambra on Wednesday, have been rescued. The Police Public Relations Officer of the Anambra State Police Command, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, said operatives of the command were still working to rescue the seventh victim. He...

Five suspects arrested for burglary, theft in Ogun

10.10.2024

The Police in Ogun State has confirmed the arrest of five persons for alleged burglary and theft in Ijebu Ode and surrounding areas of the state. The suspects are 32-year old Emmanuel also known as Ozon, Samuel Sunday Idoko, 39, Tolulope Ilesanmi, 21, Sanusi Daniel, 29 and 20 years old Ogunkoya Victor, also known as...

Navy deactivates 124 illegal refining sites, arrests oil thieves in Niger Delta

10.10.2024

The Nigerian Navy has announced that its troops from Operation Delta Sanity have achieved significant success in the Niger Delta region, deactivating 124 illegal refining sites and arresting 55 suspected oil thieves and illegal refinery operators over the past four months. The Flag Officer Commanding Central Naval Command, Rear Admiral Samson Bura, made this known...

Court sentences scavenger to 8 strokes of cane for stealing goat

10.10.2024

A Kaduna Chief Magistrates’ Court, on Thursday, ordered that a 21-year-old scavenger, Ibrahim Usman, be given eight strokes of the cane for stealing a she-goat. The convict, who admitted committing the offence, pleaded with the court to temper justice with mercy, saying that he was misguided by his friends. While delivering judgment, the Magistrate, Ibrahim...

Four robbery suspects nabbed for terrorizing Adamawa community

10.10.2024

Four youths have been nabbed by the Police for allegedly terrorizing a community in the Adamawa State capital, Yola. The suspects are charged with making life difficult for residents of Jambutu in Yola North Local Government Area. The Adamawa State Police Command said in a press release signed by its spokesman, Suleiman Nguroje, that the...

FRSC arrests 20 motorists for violating traffic on Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway

10.10.2024

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has arrested 20 motorists for violating various traffic rules and regulations on the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway. Mr Wasiu Ogunmefun, the Ota Unit Commander, FRSC, disclosed this to NAN on Thursday in Ota, Ogun State. He said that the traffic rules enforcement exercise was part of efforts to check the excesses...

Female secondary school student stabs colleague to death in Ondo

10.10.2024

A senior secondary school student of Akoko Anglican Grammar School, Arigidi-Akoko, Akoko North West Local Government Area of Ondo State, Habib Salau, has been killed after she was stabbed to death. Habib was stabbed on Wednesday by another female student of the school, Sandra, when they engaged in a scuffle. According to sources, the incident...

Three arrested for allegedly defiling 15-year-old girl in Lagos

10.10.2024

The Lagos State Police Command says it has arrested three suspects for allegedly defiling a 15-year-old girl in the Festac area of the state. The command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the arrest of the suspects to journalists on Wednesday in Lagos. Hundeyin identified the suspects as Vincent Omar, 22; Leonard Nwodo, 30;...

Police nab medical doctor over alleged child trafficking, forgery

10.10.2024

Enugu State Police Command has arrested one Dr. Emmanuel Ugwumba, 52, of Ezimo-Agu community in Udenu Local Government Area over alleged child trafficking and forgery. The command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Daniel Ndukwe, made this known in a statement on Wednesday in Enugu. Ndukwe said that the Command’s operatives serving in the Anti-Kidnapping Tactical Squad...

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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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