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Photo: Illegal arms dealers nabbed with 10,000 live cartridges in Ibadan Oyo state Police Command on Thursday paraded four illegal arms dealers, concealing 10,000 live cartridges for supply to suspected criminals. Addressing newsmen at the parade ground, Eleyele Police Headquarters, Ibadan,  the state Police Commissioner , Mr. Shina Olukolu advised residents to be security conscious in view of the current festive season, and be mindful of whom they transact business with to avoid being swindled. The arms dealers, who were arrested on July 23, 2019, at Oke-bola area of the city, included Adekunle Abimbola, Abel Kojo , Mukaila Ariyo, and Ade Adebay. While confessing that they have been on the business of ammunition/arms supply for many years without license, the suspects disagreed that armed robbers and bandits were their buyers; rather they told newsmen that hunters were their clients. However, the state Police Chief who insisted that the ammunitions were supp...
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Photos: Ambrose Alli University graduate stabbed to death by phone snatchers as he arrives Warri two days after passing out of NYSC in Calabar Alenin Joseph, an Ambrose Alli University Ekpoma graduate was stabbed to death by phone snatchers on his way home after arriving Warri from Calabar, where he underwent the mandatory one year national youth service. Joseph passed out of NYSC on July 25th in Calabar, the Cross River State capital and took to Facebook to celebrate the occassion. "Humongous thanks I must give to the inscrutable, ineffable, incomprehensible, great controller of the universe, for his divine providence through out my one year of servive...I have never been a staunch proponent of the (NYSC) scheme but I have to undertake it fue to societal demand. I earnestly pray and hope to be in a position for tomorrow reformation" his post partly reads. On Saturday, July 27, Joseph packed his bags, boarded a vehicle to his hometown Warri, Delta St...
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Meet the 16-year-old boy who got all As in WAEC and scored 330 in JAMB 16-year-old Kondu Paul Sopriye, impressed family and friends after he got 9 A1s in the 2019 West African Examinations and scored 330 marks in his JAMB exam. See photos of his outstanding results below.
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"God bless the day I replied you" woman set to wed man whose Facebook messages she ignored for 2 years A Facebook user is set to wed a man she met on Facebook and ignored for two years. Clare Chidinma began receiving Facebook inbox messages from Maxwell four years ago. But she did not reply his messages for two years.  When he wouldn't give up even after two years, Clare decided to respond to him and that was the beginning of a relationship that'll lead to the altar on Saturday, August 10. Sharing the story to Facebook, Clare wrote:  God has decided to take this journey of four-years to its permanent site. It all started on Facebook.He kept saying hi on via messenger for good two-years, I kept ignoring his messages. God bless the day I replied to you. Me: Hey young man what's your problem? Him: You are the solution to my problem. Long story short. In a few days, I'll marry the love of my life. #MaxClare19 August 10th...
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Bournemouth complete signing of Nigerian- born footballer Danjuma from Club Brugge for £13.7m Premier League club,  Bournemouth  have completed the signing of Nigerian-born footballer,  Arnaut Danjuma  from  Club Brugge for £13.7million. The 22-year-old has signed a long-term contract to become the fourth signing of the summer for the club, following the arrivals of  Lloyd Kelly, Jack Stacey , and  Philip Billing.  Danjuma told the club's official website: 'Coming to AFC Bournemouth is a really good step up for me. 'The Premier League is a great place to play your football, especially at a club like this. 'I'm excited to be here. The last 24 hours have been a bit crazy but I'm delighted to be at the club and I've only heard positive things about it. 'I think the way the team plays suits my style, I like to attack and I cannot wait to get started.' Groeneveld was born in Nigeria to a Dutch father and Nigerian mother ...
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Herbalist who raped and impregnated his daughter in Edo state bags 21 years jail term without the option of fine The herbalist was sentenced to 21 years imprisonment without the option of fine.  Earlier, the prosecution told the court that the convict, who turned his daughter to a sex slave for several years, also instructed her never to sleep with any other man. Aside from raping the 17-year-old girl repeatedly and impregnating her, he procured abortion for her and shaved the hair in her private parts.  Gift had become pregnant a second time when the matter came to public knowledge and he was arrested by the police and arraigned in court. The pregnant girl, however, died along with four others in an accident along Benin-Auchi highway, while traveling from Ososo to Benin on the way to the court.   Among the dead were Gift’s uncle, two workers of a non-governmental organisation, Brave Heart Initiative, helping Gift with the case, and the cab...
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