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Tuesday, 05 July 2022 06:19

Ballot boxes, other election materials destroyed as hoodlums set fire to Enugu INEC office

A total of 748 ballot boxes have been burnt by arsonists who attacked the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Igboeze North LGA in Enugu State. National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee of INEC, Festus Okoye, revealed this yesterday in Abuja. According to Okoye, the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Enugu State, Emeka Ononamadu, informed the INEC headquarters that during the attack, 748 ballot boxes, 240 voting cubicles, office furniture and other equipment were destroyed despite effort of the Enugu State Fire Service deployed from Nsukka, noting that the incident had been reported to…

Tuesday, 05 July 2022 06:18

Vandals crippling power distribution, IBEDC cries out

Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC) has raised an alarm over the spate of vandalism within its network, saying the activities of vandals are beginning to cripple power distribution to its customers. A statement signed by the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the distribution company, John Ayodele, said unknown civilians and armed men in police and civil defense uniforms on June 29, carted away IBEDC 33kV underground cables at Mokola Round-about in Ibadan, Oyo State. He said, “The stolen cables fed Agodi Injection Substation, where Government House, the State Secretariat, Agodi and majority of Bodija area and thousands of other urban…

Sunday, 03 July 2022 07:06

Nigeria lost $1bn in Q1 revenue to crude oil theft

Nigeria lost $1 billion in revenue during the first quarter of this year due to crude oil theft, the petroleum regulator said on Friday, warning the practise was a threat to the economy of Africa's top producer. Nigeria loses millions of barrels of crude oil a year because of theft and vandalism including tapping of crude from a maze of pipelines owned by oil majors, underscoring how poor security causes vast financial losses for the country. Gbenga Komolafe, head of the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission, said of the 141 million barrels of oil produced in the first quarter of…

Sunday, 03 July 2022 07:04

Sharia Court sentences 3 Bauchi men to death by stoning for homosexuality

An Islamic sharia court in Bauchi state has sentenced three men to death by stoning after convicting them on charges of engaging in homosexuality, leader of the religious police that arrested them said on Friday. Northern Nigeria is predominantly Muslim and the states in the region use sharia courts to punish residents for crimes ranging from adultery to blasphemy. Adam Dan Kafi, head of the Hisbah religious police in the Ningi local government area of Bauchi said the three men were arrested on June 14 and charged in a sharia court. The men, including a 70-year-old, all confessed to the…

Sunday, 03 July 2022 07:02

50 kidnapped kids rescued from basement of Ondo church

Scores of children were allegedly found in an underground apartment of a church in the Valentino Area of Ondo town, Ondo State, on Friday. It was gathered that the children were allegedly kidnapped and kept in the underground apartment of the church. A source said victims were over 50 while the police had rescued them and arrested the pastor and some members of the church. In a viral video, the children were seen in a patrol vehicle of the police who took them to the police station. In the one minute, 40 seconds video, a voice was heard saying, “They…

Saturday, 02 July 2022 07:00

Court jails serving senator for money laundering

Peter Nwaoboshi, senator representing Delta North district, has been sentenced to seven years imprisonment for money laundering. The senator was convicted by the Lagos division of the appeal court on Friday. Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had arraigned Nwaoboshi and his two firms – Golden Touch Construction Project Ltd and Suiming Electrical Ltd — in 2018 before Mohammed Idris, a judge who was later elevated to the court of appeal. They were then re-arraigned before Chukwujekwu Aneke on October 5, 2018. In the two-count charge marked FHC/L/117C/18, EFCC alleged that the defendants laundered N322 million between May and June…

Friday, 01 July 2022 06:51

Ekweremadu: Prosecutor insists ‘kidney donor’ is 15 as former deputy senate president again appears in UK court

Ike Ekweremadu, former deputy senate president, on Thursday appeared before the Uxbridge Magistrate Court, UK, for his trial on alleged organ harvesting. Last week, the London Metropolitan Police arrested and charged Ekweremadu and his wife for allegedly bringing a child to the UK for organ harvesting. The UK police had said the alleged donor, later identified as Ukpo Nwamini David, was 15 years old, but his passport data page showed he was born on October 12, 2000. According to Channels Television, during the proceedings on Thursday, Ekweremadu was in the dock where he confirmed his name and date of birth.…

Friday, 01 July 2022 06:49

Terrorists kill 10 policemen, 3 soldiers, abduct foreign nationals, others in Niger, Enugu

It was another day of massacre in Niger State on Wednesday night as gunmen invaded a mining site in Ajata Aboki, in Erena district of Shiroro Local Government Area of the State, killing three soldiers, seven mobile policemen and 15 civilians working at the site. The gunmen, who invaded the mining site in large numbers, succeeded in abducting an unspecified number of Chinese nationals who, the locals said, were the target of the gunmen. The mining site, according to a reliable source close to the community, is owned by a powerful figure in the state, and the area has remained…

Friday, 01 July 2022 06:48

Bandits levy N400m taxes on Kaduna communities to allow access to farm

A community leader from the Birnin Gwari Emirate Council in Birnin Gwari Local Government Area of Kaduna State, Zubairu Abdulra’uf, has lamented how members of the communities paid N400 million to bandits to enable them to go to their farms. This is just as he said the people of the emirate had resorted to defending themselves against terrorists that had over the years taken over the area. He told journalists in Kaduna on Thursday that the constant attacks on communities had paralysed economic activities in their rural areas and made travelling in the area impossible. On payment to bandits, Abdulra’uf…

Saturday, 25 June 2022 06:45

More details emerge on the age of the kidney donor in the Ekweremadu UK case

There is a new twist in the alleged child organ harvesting case involving Ike Ekweremadu, former deputy senate president. On Thursday the London Metropolitan Police charged Ekweremadu and Beatrice, his wife, to court over the allegation of bringing a child to the UK for organ harvesting. The investigation was launched after detectives were alerted to potential offences under modern slavery legislation in May 2022. The UK authorities said the “child” had “been safeguarded”, while the police added that its operatives “are working closely with partners on continued support”. As widely reported, Ekweremadu had written to the UK High Commission to…

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Saturday, 25 June 2022 06:42

Two policemen, university lecturer, two others gunned down in Benue terrorist attacks

At least five persons, including two policemen, were feared killed by armed bandits in two communities of Guma and Ukum Local Government Areas of Benue State on Thursday night. It was gathered from local sources that some gunmen suspected to be herdsmen attacked Yelwata community of Guma LGA, killed two policemen and took away their guns on Thursday night. Meanwhile, on the same night, three other persons, including a lecturer with the Federal University, Wukari were said to have been gunned down by armed bandits at Jootar, Mbaterem, in Mbayenge Council Ward, the Ukum Local Government Area of the state.…

Saturday, 25 June 2022 06:41

Police officer killed as gunmen bomb station in Kogi

Gunmen early Friday bombed a Police Area Command office at Eika-Ohizenyi in Okehi Local Government Area of Kogi State, killing one Inspector Jibril on duty. A resident of the area, Momoh Abubakar, disclosed that the attackers invaded the station around 12:15am with explosives and other weapons. He stated that the first bomb they threw into the station made a heavy sound that woke up many residents, adding the explosives brought down part of the police station. Abubakar added that the attackers had a field day as they operated for more than two hours without any interference from security agents or…

Saturday, 25 June 2022 06:40

Bandits abduct 22 farmers, set fire to tractors In Abuja community

Bandits have abducted 22 farmers and burnt tractors during a coordinated attack on farmers at Rafin-Daji community, Gurdi ward of Abaji Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). Rafin-Daji shares boundary with Zago community in Niger State through River Gurara. A farmer who narrowly escaped the attack, Saidu Yakubu, said the incident happened around 2pm on Thursday when the bandits in their large numbers, wielding AK-47 rifles, attacked farmers that were cultivating in the community. He said the bandits, who went on rampage shooting sporadically into the air before whisking away the farmers, burnt down two tractors that were…

Friday, 24 June 2022 06:29

Organ harvesting charge against the Ekweremadus in UK: This is what we know so far

Former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice, charged with alleged conspiracy to harvest the organs of a child in the United Kingdom, face life imprisonment if found guilty and convicted to maximum sentence under the UK’s Modern Slavery Act 2015 (MSA 2015). The couple, who were arrested following an investigation by the London Metropolitan Police’s Specialist Crime team, were arraigned before Uxbridge Magistrates’ Court. The court denied them bail, but ordered that they be remanded till July 7. The police had said the investigation was launched after detectives were alerted to potential offences under modern slavery legislation…

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