..as Boko haram demands ransom Two of the girls kidnapped from a school in Northern Nigeria have died from snake bites, elombah.com has learnt. The latest information emerged even as scores of the girls and young women are being forced to marry their Islamic extremist abductors. At the same time, the Boko Haram terrorist network is negotiating over the students’ fate and ... Read More »
The Special Fraud Unit of the Nigeria Police Force, Ikoyi, Lagos, has arrested a 29-year-old man, Henry Ogu, for allegedly defrauding an American citizen (name withheld) of N52.5m ($350000). His accomplice, 42-year-old Yunusa Okonkwo, was also arrested in connection with the fraud. A statement by the SFU Police Public Relations Officer DSP Ngozi Isintume-Agu, said the unit had received a ... Read More »
The family of the late Dr Ayo Daramola, a governorship aspirant who was killed in Ijan-Ekiti in 2006, has expressed disappointment over the visit of the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ayo Fayose, to the Onijan of Ijan, Oba Samuel Oyewole. The family, in a statement by Dare Daramola, the late Daramola’s younger brother, said the ... Read More »
Five persons have been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over allegation of fraudulent transfer of a total of N5, 550,000.00(Five Million, Five Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira) from an account in Skye Bank. The suspects, Ademola Okunlola, 36; Tajudeen Oluwanisola, 41; Kolawole Adams, 52; Temitope Pedro, 27; Bayo Olowoyo, 39 and Otunba Biodun Adebanjo, 56, were ... Read More »
The Commissioner of Police in Plateau, Mr Chris Olakpe, on Wednesday advised parents and guardians to adopt strategies to protect their daughters against rape. Olakpe told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Jos that the number of rape cases in the state was rising and parents needed to take proactive measures to safeguard their daughters. “The parents as the ... Read More »
Mr. Ayo Fayose, the PDP candidate has threatened to disown and hand over to the police, any of his supporters that runs foul of good behaviour during the campaign. Speaking at Ipoti, Iloro and Ijunrin Ekiti in Ijero Local Government, Fayose warned miscreants and party thugs within the party to stop their acts or else be thrown out. The gubernatorial ... Read More »
Early Saturday morning around 5am,a strange occurrence took place in Genesis hotel ogba as a girl in her early 20’s came out of the hotel and started vomiting blood and in a matter of minutes she gave up the ghost without mentioning the name of the person who brought her to the hotel. The residents of the street in Abo ... Read More »
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan will on Wednesday perform the ground breaking ceremony for the N960 billion housing scheme that would be made affordable for Nigerian workers to reduce homelessness some of them face after a meritorious service to their father land. President of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Abdulwahed Omar and the Managing Director of Kriston Lally EPC, Alhaji Mustapha Madawaki ... Read More »
A major loss seems set to befallen the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as former Governor Segun Oni is set to join the All Progressives Congress (APC). An aide of the former governor, Chief Taiwo Olatubosin, who disclosed this to reporters in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital in a telephone interaction at the weekend, said Oni’s decision to join APC was based ... Read More »
A resident of Bale village in the neighborhood of Sambisa Forest told us that there was increased deployment of troops in the area some days ago and heavy gunshots were heard coming from inside the forest. Confirming the development to us yesterday on phone, director of defence information Major General Chris Olukolade said, “Yes, you got your gist right; we ... Read More »
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