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The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS) has dismissed reports alleging that an awaiting trial inmate, Ayomide Adeleye, who confessed to killing a Lagos State University student, was no longer in custody. This was contained in a statement issued by Deputy Controller of Corrections, Abubakar Umar on Monday, January 6, 2025 in Abuja. Adeleye aged 23, with Custody Number S-1995/24, was remanded …

One person has reportedly died and four others injured after a deadly explosion rocked the Islamiyyah school in the Kuchibiyu Community of Bwari Area Council, about 42 kilometres from the Abuja city centre on Monday January 6 at about 12 noon.   Premiumtimes reports that a security source said emergency and security personnel, including the police bomb disposal squad, have …

A final year student at the School of Health, Makarfi, in Zaria, Kaduna State, Baraka Abdulkarim, has narrated how the bandits who abducted her k!lled two children for walking slowly.   LIB reported that Baraka was abducted on December 1, 2024 while on her way home from school.    Speaking to Punch, Baraka narrated how she survived horrifying conditions in …

The Enugu State Police has reacted to claims made by a lawyer that its officers asked the distraught father of a missing University of Nigeria Nsukka undergraduate, Flourish Nkwachi Uzodimma to pay N25,000 for tracking.  A Nigerian lawyer, Barr. Ege Obetta made the claim on social media on Friday, December 27. Reacting to the allegation, the spokesperson of the state …

The Ondo State Amotekun Corps has arrested a 16-year-old student of Commercial High School, Akure, Ajana Oluwa, who r3ped his 24-year-old neighbour at knifepoint.      The Commander of the corps, Adetunji Adeleye, paraded the teenager alongside 28 other suspects arrested for various crimes ranging from attempted murder, rape and burglary.     Oluwa described the crime as unprovoked and …

A 17-year-old student of Olabisi Onabanjo University has been arrested for allegedly stealing phones and attempting to sell them.  This was disclosed in a statement by the Ago-Iwoye police division.  The boy named Sobando Semilore was nabbed on Dec. 17, 2024, allegedly with a Samsung S21 valued at ₦350,000 and an iPhone 14 Pro Max worth ₦650,000, belonging to Muktapha …

Rosemary Isaac, the sister of a Federal University Lokoja student, Covenant Omolola Isaac, who d!ed in a road accident in Kogi State has mourned her.    Omolola and a female student of Kogi State Polytechnic Lokoja, identified as Abu Taiwo Abimbola, were crushed to d3ath when a heavily loaded articulated vehicle heading towards Abuja lost control along Felele in Lokoja …

A Georgia middle school teacher was filmed throwing an 11-year-old student across the classroom and allegedly made s£xu@l remarks about the child’s mother.  DeRenne Middle School teacher BeTreylin Elder was reportedly talking crudely about the mother of a student identified as TJ.  The student then stood up from his desk and approached his teacher at the front of his classroom …

Justice Suleiman Akanbi of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin on Monday, December 09, 2024 sentenced a student, Akanbi Akorede Afeez, to two years imprisonment for internet fraud.     The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, in a statement on Tuesday, December 10, disclosed that Afeez was arraigned on a lone-count charge bordering on internet fraud.   …

Bandits have kidnapped 13 persons in two separate attacks in Funtua and Dandume Local Government Areas of Katsina State.     According to a conflict and crisis journalist, Bakatsine, the gunmen stormed Unguwar Dahiru in Funtua LGA on Monday night, December 9, 2024, injured two people and abducted ten others, including both men and women.     The attack comes …