Category: Metro
US set to seize Kola Aluko’s $25m Los Angeles mansion
The money laundering and asset recovery section of the United States department of justice has begun proceedings to seize a mansion owned by Kola Aluk [...]
Four women arrested for allegedly selling newborn baby for N1.5m
Officials of National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) have arrested four women for allegedly selling a newborn baby for [...]
Man arrested for stabbing woman, attempting to cut body part for ritual in Anambra
A 41-year-old man, Ogbonna Nwankwo has been arrested by Anambra state police command for stabbing a woman, Bella Joseph, and attempting to cut off her [...]
Civil servant smuggles brother’s name into payroll, collects salaries for 11 years
Tanimu Ndanusa has been on the payroll of the Niger state government since 2009, collecting his entitlements with commitment and precision. He has eve [...]
Kano singer finally appeals death sentence for blasphemy
Yahaya Sharif-Aminu, the musician that a Shari’a court in Kano sentenced to death for blasphemy, has finally filed an appeal against the sentence. He [...]
Pastor who rapes underage girls during deliverance, arrested
Anambra State Police Command, Obosi Division, has arrested 34 years old Chukwudi Chukwumezie, the pastor of Mountain Zion Deliverance Ministry, Ugamum [...]
EFCC arrests Bitcoin promoter in Enugu for internet fraud
Linus Williams Ifejika, a popular Bitcoin promoter on social media who goes by the name, BitcoinLord, has been arrested in Enugu by the Economic and F [...]
Ex chairman, human rights commission lists 30 critics of el-Rufai facing prosecution
A former chairman of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), lawyer, writer and activist, Chidi Odinkalu, says critics of Nasir el-Rufai, governo [...]
Boko Haram killed 13 district heads, several ward heads – Monarch
The Shehu of Borno, Alhaji Garbai Elkanemi, has lamented that 13 district heads and several ward heads (Bulamas) were killed in his emirate at the pea [...]
Crashed helicopter has valid certificate of airworthiness – AIB
Contrary to rumours by an online publication that the helicopter which crashed into a residential building in the Ikeja area of Lagos has no valid cer [...]