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EFCC arrests four ‘bank hackers’ in Abuja

30.10.2024

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, says its operatives have arrested about four suspected bank hackers in Abuja. A statement issued on Tuesday by the spokesperson of the anti-graft agency, Dele Oyewale said they were nabbed for alleged conspiracy, unauthorised access to banks’ computer systems and fraudulent withdrawal of depositors’ funds. He identified the...

Wizkid or Davido: Cristiano Ronaldo picks favourite Nigerian singer

30.10.2024

Football superstar, Cristiano Ronaldo has revealed his favourite singer between Davido and Wizkid. This comes after Ronaldo in a viral video on social media vibed to Asake’s hit song “Active” featuring American rapper, Travis Scott. However, creating content on his YouTube page, he was asked to pick his favorite between Davido and Wizkid. Giving his...

84-year-old man missing in Ekiti State

30.10.2024

The Ekiti State Police Command has declared an 84-year-old man, Adeyemi Yisa Agboola of No. 26, Similoluwa Area, Ado-Ekiti, missing. According to a statement by the Public Relations Officer of the command, Abutu Sunday, the man left home to an unknown destination on October 18, 2024, at 1 pm and has never returned since then....

Abducted UNN Dean regains freedom, as police foil another kidnap attempt

30.10.2024

The kidnapped University of Nigeria, Nsukka, UNN, senior lecturer, Prof Oguejiofo Ujam has regained freedom. Ujam, kidnapped along the Ugwuogo-Opi Nsukka Road, reportedly escaped from his captors at the Ninth Mile axis of the state. This is also as the police foiled another kidnap attempt on the same road on Monday, barely 24 hours after...

Three-storey building collapses in Rivers

29.10.2024

There was pandemonium at the Iriebe Community, Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State on Tuesday morning when a three-storey building under construction collapsed. At the time of filing this report, no casualty had been reported but it was gathered that workers had resumed work on the site when the incident happened The Chairman of...

Ondo: Boy, 20, kills 65-year-old woman over N3000

29.10.2024

Operatives of the Ondo State Security Network Agency, otherwise known as Amotekun Corps, have arrested a 20-year-old boy for allegedly killing a 65-year-old woman in Owo, headquarters of the Owo Local Council Area of Ondo State. The suspect, Friday Akinmade, allegedly hit the deceased with a plank on her head after accusing her of stealing...

Human trafficking: NAPTIP rescues 4 girls in Akwa Ibom

29.10.2024

The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, NAPTIP, says it has rescued four girls trafficked from Akwa Ibom to Mali for sexual exploitation. The Uyo Zonal Commander of NAPTIP, Mr Emmanuel Awhen, revealed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Uyo. Awhen said the girls...

Wife seeks dissolution of 1-year-old marriage over lack of love

29.10.2024

A housewife, Kafilat AbdulLateef, on Tuesday asked the Area Court, Centre-Igboro, Ilorin, Kwara State, to dissolve her one-year-old marriage to Bukoye Abdullateef. The wife, of 101, Abisam Area, Offa Local Government Area of Kwara, told the court that she was no longer interested in the marriage, due to lack of love and care. She, therefore,...

Nigerian national wanted in US cybercrime case arrested in Philippines

29.10.2024

Philippine authorities have arrested Ahmed Alex, a 35-year-old Nigerian national wanted by US federal authorities for his alleged involvement in a major cybercrime operation targeting American citizens, particularly retired military personnel. The arrest took place on October 11, led by the Philippine Bureau of Immigration’s Fugitive Search Unit along Panay Avenue in Barangay Paligsahan, Quezon...

Angry youths lynch armed robber, set another ablaze in Calabar

29.10.2024

Two armed robbers who had terrorised Atim Edem Rise and Efio Okoho neighborhoods of Calabar South LGA in Cross River State were violently killed yesterday by angry youths. The names of the suspects were not immediately available at the time this report was filed. Eyewitnesses confirmed that both resided in the same neighborhoods. One eyewitness,...

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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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