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LibertyTV/Radio”s On-Air-Personality, Joel�Waksi, found dead, stabbed by phone-snatchers in Mpape, Abuja

June 20, 2024June 20, 2024 Aminu Imam

A Liberty TV/Radio On-Air Personality, (OAP) Joel Waksi, was yesterday found dead, stabbed to death by suspected hoodlums in Mpape district of Abuja, with his phone stolen. The tragic news of the passing away of the OAP, whose lifeless body was found around the Mpape area in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), was received by Liberty staff via a WhatsApp message posted by a member, Arthur Brooks, who posted: “I have just heard the tragic news that On-Air Personality, (OAP) Joel Waksi has been found dead, stabbed to death in…

“Kidnappers, �one chance� criminals on rampage again in Lagos”, Commuters raise alarm

January 19, 2024January 19, 2024 Aminu Imam

Commuters have raised an alarm over the increasing rate of kidnapping and the activities of �one chance� criminals across Nigeria’s commercial capital city of Lagos. �One Chance� is the colloquial expression for a type of robbery staged by criminals using commercial vehicles with colluding passengers and bus conductors, whereby the conductor convinces unsuspecting passenger and potential victims that only one space is left on the bus. The passenger is then taken away from where they got in the vehicle, robbed, and pushed out of the vehicle without stopping. According to…

EFCC apprehends 80 illegal miners in Kwara

September 26, 2023September 26, 2023 Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

No fewer than 80 suspected illegal miners have been arrested by the Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) within the last 10 months. Michael Nzekwe, Zonal Commander, in charge of the zone, disclosed this on Tuesday in Ilorin, when he received on courtesy visit, Abdulquawiy Olododo, the Kwara Commissioner for Solid Minerals Development. Nzekwe narrated how intelligence had revealed the operation of illegal mining sites across the state and the efforts of the EFCC in checking the menace. According to him, this culminated in the…

�Highest Crime Rate Ranking:� Nigeria, 15th most violent country globally� – Report

September 20, 2023September 20, 2023 Aminu Imam

A US-based organisation that specialises in the delivery of up-to-date global population data and demographics, �The World Population Review�, has ranked Nigeria as the 15th on its list of countries with the highest crime rates in the world. The organisation, in its 2023 report, considered 133 countries while gathering its data. The report ranked Venezuela, with a crime index of 83.76, as the country with the highest crime rate in the world. The report also recognised Papua New Guinea and South Africa as the second and third on the list…

Toddler shoots mum dead while she was live on Zoom call in US

August 13, 2021August 13, 2021 Aminu Imam

A 21-year-old mother on a Zoom call was accidentally shot to death by her toddler who picked up a loaded gun. Shamaya Lynn, 21, from Florida, was taking part in the conference call on Wednesday, when the other participants heard a huge bang and the mum fell backwards. Those on the Zoom call then saw a toddler in the background who had picked a gun that had been left �unsecured� in the home, said Altamonte Springs Police. When Lynn failed to get back onto the call, one of her colleagues…

How Man, 25, allegedly killed brother�s wife in Jigawa

August 5, 2021August 5, 2021 Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

The Police in Jigawa have arrested a 25-year-old man for allegedly killing his brother�s wife in Miga Local Government Area of the state.The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Jigawa Police Command, ASP Lawan Shiisu, confirmed the arrest in Dutse.Shiisu said the suspect was arrested after he allegedly hit the deceased with his leg in her stomach on Aug. 3, as a result of which she fell.He said the police moved in and rushed the victim to Jahun General Hospital, where the victim was confirmed dead.According to him, the suspect, who escaped,…

Police arrest 10 suspects over alleged robbery, kidnapping in Niger State

January 19, 2021 Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

The Police Command in Niger says it has arrested 10 suspects from different parts of the state over alleged armed robbery, Kidnapping and possession of Indian Hemp. The command�s Public Relations Officer (PPRO), ASP Wasiu Abiodun, disclosed this in a statement issued in Minna. Abiodun, said that police operatives attached to the Anti-Kidnapping unit of the command, during a patrol along Gwada-Shiroro on Dec. 24, 2020, arrested four kidnap suspects at about 6 p.m. He said two of the suspects were arrested with a sum of N1.5 million in their…

�I used charms to cook in my restaurant to attract customers� – Woman confesses

November 22, 2020November 22, 2020 Aminu Imam

A woman who owns a very big restaurant along Itam Market Road, in Uyo, Akwa-Ibom State, has confessed that she uses the water he buys from a mortuary to make charms in preparing the food she sells to her customers The woman, Mrs. Gloria Edet, was exposed by a mortuary attendant who claimed the woman was owing him money for three months without paying. According to the man he claims the woman usually comes to him to buy the water he usually used in bathing the dead people in his…

2 Doctors kidnapped in Kogi, NMA asks Police to act

October 9, 2020October 9, 2020 Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has appealed to security agencies to quickly intervene and rescue two of its members recently kidnapped in Kogi. The state chapter of the NMA which made the appeal in a statement issued in Lokoja on Friday, identified the victims as: Dr Ebiloma Aduku of the Zonal Hospital, Ankpa, and Dr Kelechi Mgbahurike of Christ the King Hospital Anyangba. The statement was signed by the state Chairman of the NMA, Dr Simeon Omakoji, and the state Secretary, Dr Famotele Tolorunju. According to the statement, Aduku was kidnapped at…