Category: Metro
Just in: Kuje prison, Abuja releases Orji Uzor Kalu
Former Abia Governor, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu has been released from Kuje Custodial Centre, Abuja where he was serving a 12-year sentence for looting N [...]
24 ladies accuse Babcock student of rape
No fewer than 24 ladies have accused a real estate agent, Godknows Adolphus, of rape. The ladies, in a series of tweets said Adolphus known as Yangi o [...]
Gunmen kill nine in fresh Kaduna village attack
Some gunmen in the early hours of Wednesday invaded Tudu village in Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna State, killing no fewer than nine persons, [...]
Kogi commissioner accused of assault, rape walks free after interrogation
The police have released Abdulmumuni Danga, Kogi State Commissioner for Water Resources, who assaulted and raped a lady over a facebook post after pre [...]
I will never grant amnesty to bandits again – Masari vow
Katsina State Governor, Aminu Masari has vowed never to grant amnesty to bandits again, saying his government was betrayed on two occasions by bandits [...]
ICPC withdraws fraud charges against Dikko, ex-customs boss
A federal high court in Abuja has dismissed charges of fraud brought against Abdullahi Inde Dikko, a former comptroller-general of the Nigerian Custom [...]
Kogi Governor pressures police to release commissioner arrested for assaulting, raping lady over Facebook post
Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi and top officials of the state government are piling pressure on the Nigeria Police Force to release Mr Abdulmumuni Dang [...]
IGP orders transfer of UNIBEN undergraduate’s case to Abuja as police arrest suspect linked to case
The Inspector-General of Police, Adamu Mohammed, has ordered the immediate transfer of the rape and murder case involving UNIBEN undergraduate, Vera U [...]
Former ExxonMobil staff jailed 15 years for raping tenant’s niece
Justice Adedayo Akintoye of the Lagos State High Court in Igbosere, on Monday, sentenced a former ExxonMobil engineer, James Onuoha, to 15 years’ impr [...]
Protest rocks Benin over killing of UNIBEN undergraduate
While some some Nigerians on Monday, staged an indoor protest to demand a stop to rape and extrajudicial killings in the country, with the protesters [...]