The Abia State Police Command has paraded four suspects for an alleged illegal adoption and sale of a baby in the state. It was gathered that one of the suspects, Anurika Collins, identified one Emmanuel Okwechukwu, who had been arrested…
Kidnap gang notorious for selling children nabbed by police (Punch)
It seems to be the end of the road for a gang of notorious kidnappers that specialises in the sale of children. It was gathered that the syndicate were nabbed by the men of the Inspector General of Police’s Special…
2019: Atiku’s endorsement splits South-East (Punch)
The promise made by some Igbo leaders on Wednesday to support the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, in the forthcoming 2019 election has split the South-East. The Igbo leaders spoke in Enugu after a meeting where…
APC made a mistake by allowing Saraki to leave – Babatope (Punch)
What the APC people are doing is to create fears in the mind of the people that they want to manipulate the election and I want to warn them very seriously to shelve that plan. As a veteran of Nigerian…
Couple who can’t smile because of rare condition fall in love (Punch)
A couple, Erin Smith, 38 and Alex Barker, 45, who cannot smile because of a rare condition have fallen in love. The newly engaged couple is suffering from the rare condition called Moebius syndrome, which causes paralysis of the cranial nerves, meaning…
Octogenarian nabbed for possession of fake dollars (Punch)
An octogenarian, Abdurrahman Amadu of Tora village in Kafur Local Government Area of Katsina State, will on January 16, 2019 be arraigned before a Federal High Court in Katsina for alleged possession of counterfeit dollars. A legal advice from the…
Police arraign man for biting off neighbour’s ear (Punch)
A 35-year-old man, Shina Adekunle, has been arraigned before an Ado Ekiti Chief Magistrates’ Court for biting and chopping off part of the ear of one Emmanuel Oluwashina. The incident happened on November 11 when Adekunle was attempting to settle…
Carpenter nabbed for allegedly raping autistic girl in Ondo (Punch)
The Ondo State Police Command, on Thursday, arrested a man identified as Tunde Ogunlade for allegedly raping a 20-year-old girl (named withheld) at the Oke Aro area of Akure, the state capital. The victim is said to be suffering from…
F-SARS shot me in the leg, man tells panel (Punch)
An aluminium fabricator, Adetiba Sunday, on Thursday, narrated to a presidential panel how an officer attached to the Federal Special Anti-robbery Squad, Magbon, Abeokuta, Godwin Ogedengbe, shot him in the leg. Sunday told the panel that he was at his…
NDLEA intercepts 12 containers of Tramadol at Lagos port (Punch)
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has intercepted over 340 million tablets of Tramadol stashed in 12 containers at the Apapa Port in Lagos. The agency said the contraband, which has been on its watch list since November, 2017, was…
