By Abdulrazaq Adebayo The Managing Director of Water View Hotel, in Ilorin, Kwara State capital, Adeniyi Ojo, is dead. His lifeless body was found on Thursday, at about 10.00 hours, on one of the beds of the rooms in the hotel, according to police report. A statement by the spokesman of the ...

The Lagos State Police Command late Thursday night confirmed the arrest of controversial Lagos socialite, Balogun Eletu, better known as Sam Larry over an ongoing investigation into the circumstances leading to the death of late Singer, Ilerioluwa Aloba aka Mohbad. However, details have emerged ...

By Ifreke Inyang The Lagos State Police Command has confirmed that Balogun Olamilekan Eletu, aka Sam Larry, is now in custody. Sam Larry is being probed over the death of Nigerian singer, Ilerioluwa Aloba, also known as Mohbad. The command’s spokesperson, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, wrote on X: ...

A 12-year-old boy, Ibukun Solomon, has narrated how his mother, Tayelolu, killed his father, Felix, with a pestle while sleeping, after a minor argument in Ondo town, Ondo State. Vanguard gathered that the mother of three reportedly killed her 65-year-old husband, a farmer, by hitting him thrice ...

A fake drug manufacturer, operating in 13 states in the country, under the name Brother Paul Legacy Foundation, has been arrested by Ondo State Task Force against fake and counterfeit drugs. The task force arrested the fake and counterfeit drug dealer at the office of the organisation, at ...

By Nsikak Nseyen The Nigeria Customs Service, Seme Area Command, has intercepted live endangered species of African Grey Parrots, Green Parrots and a hawk with a combined value of about N6,859,832. Comptroller Timi Bomodi, Customs Area Controller, made this known on Wednesday. According to him, ...

By Racheal Ayodele Nigerian musician and owner of Marlian Record label, Naira Marley, has stated that he is making arrangements to return to Nigeria to honour police invitation following the ongoing investigation into the death of singer Mohbad. DAILY POST reports that Mohbad, the former Marlian ...

With the motive behind their action still unknown, gunmen have reportedly invaded the Okhunmwun community in Ovia North-East local government area of Edo State where they killed six people including three members of the state government-backed vigilante, Edo State Security Network (ESSN). ...

Jessica Burgess, a woman from the US state of Nebraska accused of helping her teenage daughter acquire abortion pills, was sentenced Friday to two years in prison, the New York Times reported. Burgess and her daughter were charged with working together to end Celeste Burgess’ pregnancy last year. ...

By Matthew Omonigho One Pastor Alex Itedjere has reportedly killed a young girl in Agbarha-Otor community, Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State. The remains of the victim were discovered in the pastor’s house. The cleric butchered the young girl with a machete, DAILY POST learnt. ...

Cross River State Police Command, yesterday, made a major breakthrough when it uncovered and busted an Improvised Explosive Device, IED/gun manufacturing factory at Osomba community in Akampka Local Government Area of the state. The covert operation, Vanguard learned, was led by Commander, Anti ...

By  Sunny Green Itodo The Baale of Gberigbe community in Ikorodu, Lagos State, Oba Kabiru Shotobi has revealed that he was the one that prevented James Aloba, the father of late singer, Ilerioluwa Olademeji Aloba, aka Mohbad from burying his corpse at midnight. DAILY POST recalls that ...

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has directed the state Police Command, in collaboration with the Department of State Services, DSS, to launch a major investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of music star, Ilerioluwa Oladimeji Aloba aka MohBad. Recall that concerned ...

An Ikeja Special Offences Court, Lagos, has admitted more documents in evidence against Ismaila Mustapha, the socialite better known as Mompha. Mompha alongside Ismalob Global Investment Limited, his company, are facing an eight-count charge of conspiracy to launder funds obtained through unlawful ...

Male private part thieves, weekend, extended their shameful activities, which have been rampant in Calabar, Cross River State, for three weeks running to the Nigerian Navy Barracks, Akim where they allegedly snatched the genital of a naval officer. The naval officer, whose name was not given was ...

By Joe Chukindi A man, Chinedu Ezeudu, a native of Ndi Ikpa village Ezinato community in Awka South Local Government Area of Anambra State, has been arrested for allegedly selling nude pictures and videos of a woman on social media. The man was accused of leaking the materials after attempts to ...

By Amos Tauna A 28-year-old man, Misbahu Salisu, has allegedly poisoned his day-old baby girl to death because he prefers a male child. The man, a resident of Doka Baici, Tofa Local Government Area of Kano State, was on Friday arrested by the Kano State Hisbah Board. According to a statement ...

In recent years, Nigeria’s banking industry has become plagued by a shattering wave of financial heists, leaving millions of hard-earned naira in the hands of criminals. However, these brazen acts have not only exposed the vulnerabilities of the country’s banking system but have also left ordinary ...

The Abia State Police has confirmed the death of Zachary Maduka, a Campaign Director of the Labour Party, LP, in the 2023 elections in Uturu, Isuikwuato Local Government Area of the state. Maduka, a 70-year-old native of Ezieke Akpukpa village, was beheaded by yet-to-be identified men Wednesday ...

A detective constable of the Greater Manchester Police, Stephen Hardy, Wednesday, was sentenced to 26 years for raping and sexually assaulting a teenage girl, Sky News reports. Hardy was found guilty of 20 offences, including six counts of rape, following a trial at Liverpool Crown Court. The ...

A Rivers State-based vigilance group, ONELGA OSPAC, said its men arrested three persons, including two pastors, over the death of a 24-year-old man, Lucky, in the Port Harcourt area of the state. Lucky reportedly died after an operation to remove his hunchback. An officer with the Planning and ...

Bandits on Thursday night invaded St. Rachael’s Catholic Parish in Fadan Kamantan, Zangon Kataf Local Government Area of Kaduna State, razing the parish house. In the process, however, a seminarian, Na’aman Danladi, was burnt to death. Fadan Kamantan is in Southern Kaduna. It was learnt that while ...

By Great Ozozoyin Commercial activities came to a halt in Jalingo, Taraba State, on Friday as tricycle operators staged a protest in response to the alleged killing of one of their colleagues by unidentified suspects. The protest, which commenced in the afternoon on Friday, resulted in the ...

A Pentecostal pastor, Pastor Greg Sagie, has been killed in his home by a suspected church member, who attacked him with a machete in Sapele, Delta State, yesterday. The pastor, who was in his 60s, was resting in his bedroom at the pipeline area of MTN Road, around noon., when the assailant ...

By James Abraham The Plateau state chapter of Nigerian Medical Association, on Thursday, said it is investigating a medical doctor alleged to have harvested a woman’s kidney while attending to her in his clinic in Jos, the state capital. The state NMA chairman, Dr. Bapigaan Audu, disclosed this ...

By  Gbenga Oloniniran A man, identified simply as Hamzat, has cried out after suspected soldiers allegedly invaded his block factory located at Bankole Estate, Magboro, in the Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State, and seized his Toyota RAV 4 vehicle. Hamzat who spoke with PUNCH ...

By Ishola Oludare The police in Itele Awori, Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area of Ogun State have arrested one 21-year-old Ibrahim Adamu, who disguised as a scavenger of condemned iron scraps, with some items he was believed to have stolen. According to a statement by the Ogun State police image ...

By Ishola Oludare A 20-year-old boy, simply identified as Ridwan, has confessed that he killed his biological father for money ritual in Ogun State. He was arrested on Thursday by men of the Ogun State So-Safe Corps at Oshoku village, Ijebu North Local Government Area of Ogun State. The ...

By Jim Ochetenwu A former staff of Adamawa State Universal Basic Education Board, Aminu Mahdi has been arrested for allegedly beating his wife to death. Aminu, who is 63 years old and hails from Yelwa Ward in Mubi North Local Government Area, allegedly descended on his second wife, Hadiza ...

By Ishola Oludare A 38-year-old man, Mathew Ifeanyi, has reportedly killed his old father over a N70,000 he kept in his care. The So-Safe Corps in Ogun State said it arrested the man after he hacked his father to death with a machete. The Commander of the So-Safe Corps, Soji Ganzallo, told DAILY ...

A 15-year-old herder, Adamu Ibrahim, has been arrested by the Bauchi State Police Command for allegedly cutting off the hand of a farmer. Sunday PUNCH learnt that the suspect attacked the victim during a fight over intrusion into the latter’s farmland. The police command spokesperson, SP ...

By Jim Ochetenwu A 94-year-old man has been nabbed in Adamawa State for allegedly raping a 13-year-old girl. The state police command said in a statement obtained by DAILY POST Wednesday evening that its operatives apprehended the man, Mohammed Abubakar, for committing the act in Tappare, a ...

A Nigerian, Okechukwu Iwuji, alongside two others, has been convicted and jailed for advance fee and money laundering scheme involving over $2m. An attorney from the US Attorney’s Office, Guam, Shawn Anderson, announced that 38-year-old Iwuji and the other convicts fraudulently obtained ...

By Joe Chukindi A woman identified as Amaka Okonkwo has allegedly poured hot water mixed with pepper on her tenant over her inability to pay rent. It was gathered that the tenant, Imabong William, had been given quit notice over her inability to pay a new rent imposed on tenants in the building, ...

A British nurse was found guilty Friday of murdering seven newborn babies and trying to kill six others at the hospital neonatal unit where she worked, becoming the UK’s most prolific child killer. Lucy Letby, 33, had been on trial since October last year, accused of either injecting her sick or ...

A jury in New Zealand found a South African woman guilty on Wednesday of murdering her three young daughters, saying she faced a life sentence for each killing. Lauren Anne Dickason killed her two-year-old twins and their six-year-old sister in September 2021 at their home in Timaru, a city on ...

The 47-year-old footballer, Bankole Oginni, arrested for killing his ex-lover, Bosede Adejoro, in Akure, the Ondo state capital has denied being a ritualist. Bankole, told newsmen when paraded alongside some suspected criminals that she slumped a few minutes after offering her soft drinks. Oginni ...

A 26-year-old man, Franklin Akinyosuyi, who was arrested with a human skull in his apartment in Ondo town, Ondo State has confessed that he used the skull to bathe for one month. The photographer and boutique owner said a herbalist directed him to be bathing with the skull at 1am every Thursday to ...

A grandfather identified as Monday Chukwuka has been arrested by the Oyo State Police Command for allegedly selling his one-day-old grandchild for N700,000. The Command, in a statement signed by the State Public Relations Officer, Adewale Osifeso, made available to The Punch on Saturday, said ...

By Ishola Oludare A man identified as Taye Agbaje has reportedly killed his younger brother’s two children inside a bush in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital. DAILY POST gathered that the man, on Saturday, August 5, went to his sibling’s house at Kemta Abata in Abeokuta, took away the two girls on ...

By Fadehan Oyeyemi A Chief Magistrate Court in the Federal Capital Territory FCT, Abuja has ruled that the Presiding Pastor of the House On The Rock Church, Uche Aigbe has a criminal case to answer in the unlawful possession of prohibited firearms found in his possession. The no-case submission ...

By Lilian Ukagwu Unknown persons have allegedly carted away communication signals at the Abuja-Kaduna railway corridor, The PUNCH gathered. A top official within the Nigerian Railway Corporation disclosed this to our correspondent in Abuja. According to the official, who requested to remain ...

Canadian rapper Tory Lanez, convicted of shooting US artist Megan Thee Stallion in the feet during a drunken argument after a Hollywood party, was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years in prison. A Los Angeles judge handed down the sentence after hearing how Lanez had ordered the hip-hop star to “Dance, ...

By Abdul Babajide A football coach, Bankole Oginni, has been apprehended by officers of the Ondo State Police Command for allegedly killing his 45-year-old ex-lover. Oginni, 45, was said to have committed the heinous crime at his residence in Oke-Aro, Akure, the state capital. According to ...

By Francis Ugwu A female soldier has killed a senior colleague at a checkpoint in Yola, Adamawa State, in Northeast Nigeria. The soldier, according to the Daily Trust, was enforcing the curfew imposed by the Adamawa State government. DAILY POST recalls that Gov Ahmadu Fintiri, the Adamawa State ...

A 74-year-old former teacher faces 600 hundred years in prison after she repeatedly sexually abused a teenage boy at a private school in Wisconsin. Anne N. Nelson-Koch was convicted on 25 counts linked to the attacks which took place in the 2016-2017 school year. Dailymail reports that She ...

By Ochogwu Sunday The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a 29-year-old Bolt driver, Jeremiah Adeniran, for allegedly robbing some of his passengers. Adeniran, during an interview with journalists on Friday in Ikeja, confessed to the crime, stating that the hike in fuel prices led him to ...

A Nigerian businesswoman, Ese Cynthia Daniel, has been declared wanted by the International Police over an alleged N750 million fraud. In an INTERPOL bulletin numbered CR: 3000X/ICPO/ADM/LD/VCP/Vol. 4/93, the declaration followed a warrant of arrest issued by a Magistrates Court in Lagos State ...

By Khaleel Muhammad Jigawa State Police Command has arrested five suspected rapists, including one HIV patient who allegedly raped a 14-year-old girl in Jigawa State. Police spokesman DSP Lawan Shiisu Adam confirmed the arrest in a statement issued to DAILY POST. He said the suspects were ...

An ex-banker, Uchenna Emmanuel, has explained how he used a bank customer’s ATM card to withdraw cash five times – in error. The suspect was paraded by Ondo State Police Command in Akure, the state capital. Meanwhile, the Police Command also paraded an okadaman who, in connivance with others, ...