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The Anambra Police Command says it has arrested three masqueraders for allegedly disrupting a church programme on Friday night at Uke, Idemili North Local Government Area of the state The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Nkeiruka Nwode, told journalists on Saturday in Awka that the suspects attacked worshipers at the Holy Ghost Adoration Ministry, Uke. “Three masqueraders have …

No fewer than four persons were killed and eight  others wounded in a suicide bomb attack on Sunday at a mosque in Bama Local Government Area of Borno.

An Iowa woman has been charged with neglect Wednesday after a 7-month-old was found dead in her care last year, police said. Wendy D. Young, 49, of Iowa City, drank 10 to 12 beers before opening her daycare on Oct. 18, according to court records obtained by KCCI. Young ran a babysitting service at her home in eastern Iowa City where …

A plane passenger sexually assaulted one flight attendant and tried to fight another during a mid-air drunken rampage. Robertas Bajalis also groped a fellow passenger during the Ryanair flight from the Latvian capital Riga to Manchester earlier this year. Manchester Magistrates’ Court heard that the 30-year-old drank half a bottle of vodka and four pints of cider before take-off. As …

Miss Monica Osagie, the student at the centre of a sex-for-mark scandal rocking the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, has denied shunning an invitation by the panel probing her audio tapes of her conversation with disgraced Professor Richard Akindele, who demanded five rounds of sex for marks.

A shoemaker, Adekole Farajimi, accused of stealing seven pairs of shoes worth N35, 000, was yesterday arraigned before a Badagry Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State. Farajimi allegedly sold some of the shoes a customer brought to him to repair and started wearing the rest. The accused, whose address was not mentioned, was arraigned on a charge of stealing. According …

A 26-year-old woman from Idah in Kogi state, identify as Devine has been nabbed by the Makurdi Police ‘E’ division for stealing a six-week-old baby. The suspect was said to have stolen the child named Doochivir Ukeyima at No 26, Tony Odu street, Gyado Villa, Makurdi and was trying to escape when one Miss Hembadoon Tersoo, 10, alerted the mother …

Pregnant teenager’s womb was ripped open by unidentified people, who took the unborn baby away and also killed three others on Wednesday. The killings have reportedly created panic and fear in Rumuoro village in Ogbakiri clan, Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State. The victims, as gathered, include Pastor Joseph Nheme, Mr. Kingsley Owhonda, Miss Queen Ada Amah and Miss …

The Police Service Commission (PSC) has approved the promotion of the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Ibrahim Magu, to the rank of Commissioner of Police.

A 32-year-old hairdresser, Mrs Sherifat Ojelabi, on Friday, told an Igando Customary Court in Lagos that she contacted Sexual Transmitted Disease ( STD ) from her husband. She also told the court that her husband, Bolaji, used to litter their bedroom with condoms he used on his girlfriends. The petitioner further told the court that her husband, with whom she …