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ASABA-DELTA – A High Court in Asaba Delta State, has found guilty and sentenced to death two girls who connived together with their friends to kill their parents. It was reported that the two teenage girls, five year ago got hired killers to kill their wealthy parents for the inheritance …

ABUJA -The Nigeria Police Force has arrested DCP Abba Kyari and four other police officers for their involvement in an alleged case of criminal conspiracy, discreditable, unethical, and unprofessional conduct, official corruption and tampering with exhibits in a case of illicit drug trafficking involving a perpetual transnational drug cartel. According …

ABEOKUTA – Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, has condemned the murder of Oba Ayinde Odetola, the traditional ruler of Agodo Town in Ewekoro local government area of the state. According to a release e-signed and made available to StarTrend Int’l & online – www.startrendinternational.com by Kunle Somorin, Chief Press Secretary the …

For the record: ILARO-YEWA – In their characteristic manner of shooting indiscriminately in a bid to arrest smugglers, officers of the Nigeria Customs Service, mounting roadblock opposite the Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro in Ogun state, and led by a man allegedly identified as Jude, on Thursday, January 13, 2022, opened fire …

SAPELE-DELTA – Nwokorie Nnamdi Godson, a Prudential Zenith Life Insurance Plc staff, has been reportedly committed suicide in Sapele, Delta State. It was scooped that Nnamdi’s lifeless body was found dangling from the scaffold of the water tank where he allegedly hanged himself at the Ugbeyiyi area of Sapele. According …

AKURE – Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu (SAN), the Ondo State Governor, on Sunday, January 9, 2022, visited Omolege Junction near Ute in Ose Local Government Area of the state, where gunmen suspected to be Fulani Herdsmen killed three people and razed down buildings in the community overnight. According to a release …

LAGOS – In a protest against the Lagos State government decision to absolved the five students and five staff of Dowen College of any complicity in the death of Sylvester Oromoni, some Ijaw youths on Thursday, January 6, 2022 stormed the College to offered prayers of vengeance in front of …

AKURE – Ondo State Governor, Arakunrin Rotimi Akeredolu, SAN, has urged security operatives to fish out the killers of Owo High Chief Elewere Tunde Ilori. Akeredolu said this when he went to the palace Olowo of Owo, Oba Ajibade Ogunoye, to commiserate with him over the killing of Chief Ilori …

OTA OGUN STATE  –  It was like a dream recently as a strange man tactically beats the water-tight security network, ascended the pulpit at Living Faith Church, Canaanland, Ota, Ogun and attacked Bishop David Oyedepo. The incident occurred two Sundays before the Shiloh programme organised by the church last week. …

ABEOKUTA – A notorious member of the dreaded Eiye confraternity, Esuruoso Tunde, was on the early hours of Monday, November 29, 2021 arrested by men of Ogun state police command while attacking lodgers at LADIS Hotel, situated at Ebenezer Junction, Obantoko area of Abeokuta.  According to a release e-signed and …