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A mother has been found guilty of the manslaughter of her four young sons in a f!re after she left them home alone and went shopping. The mother identified as Deveca Rose had left her two sets of twins in the locked terraced house when the fatal blaze broke out on the evening of December 16, 2021. The 30-year-old defendant, …

Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, (NSCDC) Kano State Command has arrested two notorious criminals involved in armed robbery, phone snatching, drug dealing and other crimes.    The spokesperson of the corps in the state, SC Ibrahim Idris Abdullahi, who made this known in a statement on Thursday, October 3, 2024, said the suspects were arrested by a patrol team …

The list of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ accomplices includes prominent executives and bankers, according to a lawyer representing alleged victims of the music mogul. Multiple lawsuits by 120 accusers will mention ‘household names’ as well as companies and individuals who were aware of and profited from Diddy’s alleged crimes, attorney Tony Buzbee said in a recent press conference. The legal filings seek to …

A 34-year-old man identified as John Pere sustained severe injuries when the electricity supply was restored to a 33KV cable belonging to the Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC) he was vandalising, in Delta State.   The incident reportedly occurred in the wee hours of Thursday, October 3, at the road leading to the 3 Battalion Nigerian Army, Effurun Barracks, off …

An Ikeja High Court on Thursday sentenced a motorcyclist, Monday Olukunle (alias Seaman) to seven years imprisonment for abducting a 16-year-old girl.   Olukunle allegedly abducted the girl in an uncompleted building with others still at large on Sept. 30, 2022, on Ralitu Daramola Street, Abogunleko, Ikotun in Lagos, according to the prosecution counsel.    The prosecution called three witnesses …

The Lagos Environmental Sanitation Corps (LAGESC) popularly known as KAI on Wednesday, October 3, secured the conviction of 12 Commercial S$x Workers (CSW) to eight months imprisonment for offences bordering on prostitution, breach of peace during a dislodgement operation led by the Corps Marshal of the Agency.   The Corps Marshal, Major Olaniyi Olatunbosun Cole (rtd) made this disclosure at …

President Bola Tinubu has submitted four tax reform bills to the National Assembly for consideration.   In a letter read during their respective plenary sessions by Senate President Godswill Akpabio and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas, on Thursday, October 3, the President explained that the bills were crafted to align with his administration’s goals.   The proposed …

Unknown assailants have beheaded a couple, Mr. Jacob Udo, and Mrs. Comfort Udo, in Bende Local Government Area of Abia State.    The couple, both traders, were brutally m8rdered in their home in Etiti Ulo, Bende, on Tuesday night, October 1, 2024.    The spokesperson of the State Police Command, ASP Maureen Chinaka, confirmed the incident in a statement titled …

Unknown assailants have beheaded a couple, Mr. Jacob Udo, and Mrs. Comfort Udo, in Bende Local Government Area of Abia State.    The couple, both traders, were brutally m8rdered in their home in Etiti Ulo, Bende, on Tuesday night, October 1, 2024.    The spokesperson of the State Police Command, ASP Maureen Chinaka, confirmed the incident in a statement titled …

Operatives of the Edo State Police Command have arrested a member of Odu’a Peoples Congress (OPC), Christian Okagbare (31) over attempted m8rder of one Osaigbovo Charles and Iyare Stanley in Edo State.   The suspect was alleged to have committed the offence at the Iyanomo community in Ikpoba Okha Local Government Area of the state..   The state Commissioner of …