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BREAKING: Abducted OOU Students Regain Freedom

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Report from the Ogun State Police Command in Abeokuta says the command had secured the release of the abducted Olabisi Onabanjo University Students, Precious Adeyemo and Abiola Oyefule. The two students had been kidnapped over the weekend at their institutions Ayetoro campus by gunmen. Continue Reading

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Covenant University Lecturer Arrested For Rape

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A lecturer in the Department of Business management at the Covenant University Ota, Dr. Stephen Ukenna has been arrested by men of Ogun State police command for allegedly having unlawful carnal knowledge of a 17 year old student of the school. The 41 year old lecturer was arrested after the parents of the victim reported […]Continue Reading

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BREAKING: Gunmen Storm Ibadan Quarry Site, Abduct RCC, Polaris Bank Staff

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Some gunmen have stormed a quarry site in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital and kidnapped two people. DAILY POST gathered on Tuesday that the gunmen stormed the quarry site located along Ijebu-Ode / Ibadan Road and kidnapped the victims on Monday. Our correspondent gathered from a source that one Mr. Popoola Isaac, a staff of […]Continue Reading

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Baby Factory: Police Rescue Four Pregnant Girls In Anambra

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Four pregnant young girls have been rescued from a baby factory in Nnewi, by the Police Command in Anambra state. A statement by the Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Haruna Muhammed, reveals that the four young girls who hail from Ebonyi state were all residing at a brothel in Nnewi. The arrest followed an incident […]Continue Reading

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Osun Govt. Confirms Arrest Of Wasinmi Murder Suspect

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The Osun State Government has confirmed the arrest of one suspect in connection with the gruesome killing of the six relatives in Wasinmi, Irewolede Local Government.  The Chairman, Committee on Peaceful Co-Existence Between Fulani/Bororo and Crop Farmers in Osun State, Mr. Oguntola Toogun gave the information in an interview with newsmen.  Mr. Toogun who led Continue Reading

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Wakili: Bring your proofs, Police Urges Ibarapa Residents

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The Oyo State Police command wants anyone that has complaint against the Ibarapa – based suspected kidnapper, Iskilu Wakili to formally lodge the complaint at Police Headquarters, Eleyele, Ibadan. A statement signed by the Oyo State Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Mr Olugbenga Fadeyi, noted that such complaint must be accompanied with relevant proofs. The […]Continue Reading

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OOU Students Kidnapped: Abductors Demand 50 Million Naira Ransom

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Two female students of Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ayetoro campus in Yewa-North Local Government Area of Ogun State were, on Sunday night, reportedly kidnapped . The victims, identified as Adeyemo Precious and Oyefule Abiola, are students at the departments of Forestry and Wildlife Management and Agricultural Economics respectively. They were reported to have been Continue Reading

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Unknown Gunmen Kill Six at Wasimi, Osun

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Six people have been reportedly killed by unknown gunmen during an attack on Wasinmi village in Ayedire Local Government Area of Osun State.Radio Nigeria gathered that the gunmen invaded the village in the early hours of Sunday and started shooting indiscriminately on the villagers. In an interview, Spokesperson of Osun State Police Command, Mrs Yemisi Opalola […]Continue Reading

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Gunmen Storm another School in Kaduna

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Kaduna State government says security agencies have foiled an attempt by armed bandits who stormed the Government Science Secondary School Ikara, Ikara Local Government Area of the state, to kidnap students on Saturday night. The State Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affair, Mr Samuel Aruwan disclosed this at a news briefing on security situation in […]Continue Reading

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Woman Allegedly Douses Husband with Hot Water, Kills Baby

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A 43 year old housewife, Bisola Awodele has been arrested by men of Nigeria Police, Ogun State Command for allegedly pouring hot water on her husband over drunkenness. The suspect was apprehended after the husband, Peter Phillips had reported the incident at Sango Ota Area Command, that his wife who accused him of being drunk, […]Continue Reading

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President Buhari Goes Tough on School Abductions

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President Muhammadu Buhari has issued a stern warning to terrorists and bandits targeting schools, saying the country will not allow the destruction of the school system. In a statement on Saturday, he commended Kaduna State government and early response of the military, which led to the rescue of 180 students, including 8 staff of the […]Continue Reading

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FG Appeals for Release of Abducted School Girls

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Minister of Women Affairs Dame Pauline Tallen, has condemned in strong terms, the adoption of some school girls of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka, in the Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna state, during the early hours of Friday March 12, 2021. In a statement, the Minister said the adoption of school children […]Continue Reading

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Rail Workers Allegedly Caught Vandalizing Cables in Ogun

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Operatives of Nigeria Police, Ogun State Command, have apprehended three workers of the Nigerian Railway Corporation, NRC, for vandalizing the railway cables in Kajola area of Ifo Local Government.  The suspects Frank Obi, Eze Ogbonna and James Ejor were arrested after a supervisor working on the railway construction in Kajola reported that that five persons had […]Continue Reading

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Woman Allegedly Hits Victim with Car, Drops Corpse at Dump Site

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She rushed out of her car, after bringing it to an abrupt halt, to behold the horrifying sight of a woman lying on the walkway, motionless. She was alleged to have hit the victim with her car. There was a commotion as commuters and passers-by rushed to where the victim laid on the floor. Everyone […]Continue Reading

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Ambassador Adejare Bello Allegedly Assaults Journalist

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The Nigerian ambassador to Mexico, Adejare Bello, on Friday, publicly assaulted a journalist in Osun State. Mr Adejare, a former Speaker of the state assembly allegedly unleashed attack on Adeniyi Akinromade, a journalist working with Osun State Broadcasting Corporation while rendering a social service in a gridlock. It was gathered that there was gridlock at […]Continue Reading

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Osun Court Remands Fake Lawyer

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A 41-year-old polytechnic dropout, Adebowale Babatunde, has been remanded in Ilesha Correctional Center for allegedly presenting himself as a lawyer before an Osun State Magistrate Court 6 Osogbo.  Babatunde was arraigned on two-count charge of false pretence and unlawfully possession of Call-to-the-Bar certificate.  The Police Prosecutor, Inspector Elisha Olusegun, Continue Reading

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Customs Partners Sister Agencies on Drug Trafficking

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The Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, says it will continue to collaborate with other security agencies to rid the country of illicit drugs and harmful substances. The Customs Area Controller, Ogun one command, Mr Peter Kolo stated this at Idi Iroko while handing over some dangerous substances confiscated by the command to the National Drugs Law […]Continue Reading

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Students Abducted in Raid near Nigeria Army Base

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Gunmen have abducted an unknown number of students from a college in the north-western Nigerian state of Kaduna. The attackers stormed the institution overnight, opened fire and kidnapped the students – mostly female. It is not yet clear who carried out the attack on Federal College of Forestry Mechanization, which is located near a military […]Continue Reading

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Students, Teacher Kidnapped at National Institute of Construction Technology in Edo State

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Some suspected hardened gunmen have kidnapped three persons at the National Institute of Construction Technology in Uromi, Edo State. Among those kidnapped are two students of the institution and staff identified as Miss Uzo of the Environmental Studies department. The heavy gunmen who stormed the institution in a commando-style around 3 pm on Wednesday had […]Continue Reading

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Armed Robbers Raid Bank at Okuku, Osun

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Residents of Okuku town in Odo-Otin Local Government Area, Osun State were today thrown into panic as an unknown number of armed robbers invaded a new generation bank in the community. Radio Nigeria gathered that the armed robbers stormed the bank around noon shooting sporadically into the air to create fear and scare residents away. When […]Continue Reading

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Herdsmen Have Landmarked The Bush To Keep Their Tracks: Victim Tells Radio Nigeria

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Victor Eden, a seventeen years old student, his mother and a sister were traveling to Ajah from Ibadan on Thursday with the hope of visiting a relative. The journey however went weird at exactly five minutes past eight, when some gunmen allegedly attacked the commercial Siena bus conveying them. He shares his experience “At Alomaja, […]Continue Reading

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Embattled Iskilu Wakili Back in Police Custody, Says He Did no Wrong

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Embattled Fulani warlord, Iskilu Wakili has left the hospital for headquarters of the Oyo State Police Command in Eleyele, Ibadan. Wakili was said to have been taken to the hospital on the directive of Commissioner of Police, Ngozi Onadeko, after he was handed over to the police by men of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) […]Continue Reading

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Police Arraign Five Over Nude Video

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The Police in Osun state have dragged five men before an Ile-Ife Magistrates’ Court for allegedly posting the nude video of a woman on social media. The defendants are: Jimoh Oloja, 52; Olawale Omowunmi, 40; Orosola Bolanle, 26; Olubunmi Adedayo, 39 and Isiah Olaniyi, 22. The Prosecutor, ASP Joseph Adebayo, told the court on Monday […]Continue Reading

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Police Arrest 3 Suspected Arsonists In Ibarapa

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The Oyo State Police Command would like to inform the general public that at about 0900 hrs of the 7th of March 2021, information was received that a group of persons, (later found out to be members of the Odua Peoples Congress-OPC), had invaded Kajola community in Ibarapa axis of the State. The invasion was […]Continue Reading

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OPC Apprehends Herdsmen For Allegedly Terrorising Farmers In Ibarapa

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An herdsman alleged to have been terrorizing farmers at Ibarapa area of Oyo State, Iskilu Wakilu has been arrested by some Members of the Oodua People’s Congress, OPC. According to a community leader and secretary to the Farmers Association, Ibarapa Chapter, Mr Taiwo Adeagbo, Wakilu was arrested along with four of his children at Kajola […]Continue Reading