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 Nollywood Director, Funke Akindele has warned fans and netizens against pirating her new movie, Everybody Loves Jenifa. This announcement comes after urging the public against canvassing at the cinema and pirating Everybody Loves Jenifa at the Exhibition Soiree which was held on November 20, 2024. Recall that her previous movie, A Tribe Called Judah was pirated shortly after its release.  …

Troops of 6 Brigade Sector 3 Operation Whirl Stroke (OPWS), have successfully thwarted a planned banditry attack within the southern part of Taraba State.     Acting Assistant Director, 6 Brigade Army Public Relations, Captain Olubodunde, who disclosed this in a statement on Thursday, December 12, 2024, said the well-coordinated operation was based on credible intelligence regarding an impending terrorist …

At least 51 street traders and miscreants were arrested during a clearance operation on Tuesday night, Dec. 10, by the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Corps.  This was disclosed in a statement on Wednesday, Dec. 11, by the state Commissioner for the Ministry of Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab.  Wahab said the clearance operation took place in Mosley Street, Alexander …

The family of Bello Bodejo, President of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, has alleged that he was arrested and detained by the Nigerian Army.    According to a statement by his brother, Suleiman Waziri, the arrest took place on Tuesday, December 10, at Bodejo’s office in Maliya, Nasarawa State, reportedly carried out by officers of the 117 Battalion.   Waziri claimed …

Operatives of Rapid Response Squad (RRS) have arrested the security guard of a telco company based in Ogba, Ikeja for stealing and selling the firm’s electricity cable worth N632,000 to a scrap metal buyer for N30,000.   The security guard, Adebayo Afeez, 37, was arrested in the company’s (name withheld) premises after the buyer of the cable, Musbau Amodu, 32, …

A Zimbabwean man, Martin Mtandi, has been arrested for cyberbullying after launching a defamatory social media campaign against his former landlord, McDonald Togara.    The conflict stemmed from a disagreement over the reimbursement of a deposit for an apartment.   The dispute began when Mtandi informed Togara on October 17 of his intention to vacate the property at Sentosa Gardens, …

Two Indiana parents are in custody after allegedly leaving their 2-year-old daughter in a closet overnight with a space heater turned all the way up.  Berne Police officers found the toddler d£ad on Nov. 27 with an internal body temperature as high as 109.4 degrees.  The parents, 21-year-old Sintia Perez and 23-year-old Jace Hirschy have been each charged with a …

Security operatives have arrested a notorious kidnapper, Terry Tinate Augustus, popularly called “Black” in Ilaje Local Government Area of Ondo State.    Augustus, an acclaimed pastor from Ajapa community in Ese Odo LGA of Ondo State, was arrested by the Amotekun Corps in collaboration with the Special Assistant to the Ondo State Governor on Pipeline Surveillance and Waterways Security, Engr. …

Saudi authorities have arrested four Nigerian nationals with 39 kilograms of cocaine Saudi Arabia.    The Nigerians were arrested by the General Directorate of Narcotics Control while distributing the drugs from their hideouts in Jeddah, the Saudi Press Agency reported on Saturday, December 7, 2024.     Authorities recently made several drug-related arrests and confiscations across the Kingdom,    Border …

Men of the Enugu state police command have arrested a dismissed soldier and seven others for allegedly engaging in armed robbery and financial fraud in the state.   The state police public relations officer, DSP Daniel Ndukwe, disclosed this in a statement on Saturday, December  7.   According to Ndukwe, the suspects are members of an interstate criminal syndicate that …