Wale Igbintade The International Criminal Court (ICC), yesterday, formally acknowledged receipt of a petition written by Prof. Gideon Christian to investigate election and post-election violence in Nigeria as well as alleged incitement to ethnic hate by Mr. Bayo Onanuga, the Media Director of ...

By Josephine Agbonkhese Amid the ongoing global celebration of the year 2023 International Women’s Month, a rights group, Women Advocates Research & Documentation Centre, WARDC, has demanded justice over the alleged abduction of a 6-hour-old-baby christened Baby Joseph. The group also ...

South Korea has said it would seek the extradition of fugitive crypto entrepreneur, Do Kwon, following the Terraform founder’s arrest in Montenegro and immediate slamming of fraud charges by United States. Prosecutors made this known to AFP on Friday. Kwon, whose full name is Kwon Do-hyung, has ...

Armed robbers invaded the residence of Ayo Ajewole, a comedian professionally known as Woli Agba, on Wednesday night. Confirming the attack on Thursday via his Instagram page, Woli Agba thanked God for keeping him and his family safe. Urging his followers to thank God for his life, he noted ...

Nigerian senator Ike Ekweremadu and his wife Beatrice have been convicted of organ trafficking in the United Kingdom. Ekweremadu, a former Nigerian deputy Senate president with his wife, and their doctor Obinna Obeta was found culpable of violating the Modern Slavery Act. The court found the ...

Suspected political thugs have set ablaze a state High Court in Owutu Edda community in Ebonyi State. The development came barely 24 hours after the conclusion of the Governorship and House of Assembly elections in the state. The Registrar of the court, Mrs Oluchi Uduma, who spoke to newsmen, ...

A 75-year-old grandmother, identified as Iforiti Oloro, has allegedly set her son, daughter-inlaw and two grandchildren ablaze in the Aponmu area of Ondo State capital Akure. The grandmother who lives in the same compound as her son reportedly woke up at midnight while the family slept and set ...

The United Kingdom authorities have arrested a Nigerian national trying to smuggle more than 83,000 cigarettes into Newcastle International Airport. According to Daily Mail, Samuel Onyemenam was intercepted in the UK carrying his luggage as on flight from Nigeria via Germany. Officers from ...

Suspected thugs have burnt down the house of the former President-General of the Urhobo Progress Union, Chief Joe Omene in Mosogar, Ethiope-West Local Government Area of Delta State. Chief Joe Omene is a supporter of the All Progressives Congress, APC in Delta State. It was not clear if any ...

A total of 21 suspected internet fraudsters have been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. The suspects, arrested on Tuesday, include Joseph Boniface, Emmaneul Okwara, Elijah Iwebie, Moses Hassan, Abdulrahman Lawal, Azu Chidubem Eugene, Abdullahi Adebola and Elijah ...

The Bauchi State Police Command has declared a House of Representatives member, Yakubu Abdullahi Shehu wanted for alleged murder. The security agency also placed a bounty of N1 million on the lawmaker representing Bauchi federal constituency. Shehu was elected on the platform of the Peoples ...

A single mother, Ifeoma Ossai, is currently in police net for allegedly killing her landlord, Surulere Oladele, in Ogun State. Ossai was arrested by the police on Saturday following a report lodged at the Sango Ota divisional headquarters by one Olaleye Taiwo. The complainant had reported to ...

By  Deborah Tolu-Kolawole Following high-end investigations, the Texas Board of Nursing, United States, has announced that it has charged no fewer than 75 nurses to court over issues bordering around falsification of certificates. On the list posted on the website of the board, 43 of the ...

By  Ademola Adegbite Armed robbery suspects on Saturday invaded the Eleshin area, Olomo community in Apete, Ido Local Government Area of Oyo State and operated freely. The suspects, said to have stormed the area at about 1 am, were said to be armed with a Point of Sale machine which they ...

Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in Uyo has granted bail to a 22-year-old woman awaiting trial, who was delivered of a baby girl in Uyo Medium Custodial Centre. The nursing mother and her younger brother were awaiting trial for allegedly receiving a stolen phone worth N20,000. The siblings ...

By  Segun Adewole A former Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, has told a court in London that he was advised by his doctor against seeking a kidney donor from among his family members. Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice, are currently facing charges in the United Kingdom after ...

By  Peter Dada The Ondo State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, on Thursday, arraigned a man, Samuel Oni, before a Magistrate’s Court sitting in Akure, for allegedly defrauding a sex worker, Blessing Olaitan, of N120,000. During the proceeding, Olaitan told the court ...

By Evelyn Usman, LAGOS Personnel of the 9 Brigade of the Nigerian Army, yesterday, recovered 1,671 Permanent Voters Cards, PVCs, in an apartment in the Olodi-Apapa area of Lagos State. Three persons were subsequently arrested in the apartment, while the prime suspect was said to be on the ...

Embattled former deputy Senate president, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, accused of plotting to exploit a man for his kidney, told a London court that he thought he was being ‘scammed’ by doctors. Ekweremadu, 60, is accused of conspiring to facilitate the travel of a man to Britain to use him as an ...

Gunmen have killed Reverend Musa Hyok and two of his male children in the Ganawuri community of Riyom Local Government Area of Plateau State. Plateau Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Alfred Alabo, confirmed the sad incident to journalists on Monday in Jos. Alabo said the clergyman ...

A domestic help, whose name was given as Onyebuchi Ezeh has harvested the genitals of a 72-year-old woman, including other parts of her body for purposes of money ritual. Ezeh, who was later caught, had confessed that he and some of his friends did it on the instruction of a native doctor, who ...

PSG’S Hakimi has been charged for rape. Hakimi, 24, was questioned by prosecutors Thursday in connection with accusations from a 24-year-old woman, and subsequently charged. The Madrid-born player, who was a key part of Morocco’s historic run to the semi-finals of the World Cup in Qatar last ...

A mobile police sergeant on Thursday morning killed his suspected woman friend and later shot himself dead in school premises in Ilorin, the Kwara state capital. The incident, which happened early in the morning near the gate of a private school located at Agba Dam Housing Estate, Gaa Akanbi, ...

A chief magistrate court presided over by Ibrahim Mansur, has remanded the House of Representatives Majority Leader, Alhassan Ado Doguwa on a five-count charge that included culpable homicide. The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Kano State Police Command docked Doguwa, alleged to ...

Igwe was reportedly arrested by the personnel of the Nigeria Police Force along Aba Road in Port Harcourt, South-South Nigeria. Nigeria's anti-corruption agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has intercepted N32.4 million in Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria. ...

By Kingsley Omonobi Abuja—The Defence Headquarters said yesterday that troops of Operation Whirl Punch, have arrested three terrorists at Damba community in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State. According to the military high command, one of the arrested terrorists confessed to being ...

The Western Nigeria Security Network code-named Amotekun Ekiti State has arrested a 50-year-old man, Celestine Nwoha, with fake naira notes. Addressing newsmen in Ado Ekiti, the commander of the corps, Retired Brigadier Joe Komolafe, said the suspect was arrested in Omuo Ekiti, Ekiti East Local ...

Less than four days to the February general election, some yet-to-be-identified gunmen have attacked and blown off the administrative offices of the Okehi Local Government Area of Kogi State. DAILY POST gathered that the incident occurred on Monday night when the assailants invaded the area with ...

A fraudster, Omoghan Igbinosa, has bagged two years imprisonment for impersonating Nollywood actor Ninalowo Bolanle. This was disclosed via the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s Twitter handle on Monday. Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court sitting in Warri, Delta State, gave the ...

By Biodun Busari  No fewer than 18 nurses from Nigeria residents in Texas, the United States have been charged to court for obtaining educational credentials through fraudulent means. The Texas Board of Nursing has filed formal charges against 23 nurses practicing in the US over certificates ...

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, says its operatives raided the Mushin area of Lagos State and arrested a prophet, David Yekini and 76 others with substances suspected to be hard drugs. The Deputy Commander, Operations and Training, NDLEA Lagos State Command, Mr Adetula Oluwarotimi ...

A man identified as Chayi on Tuesday beheaded his estranged wife and chopped off daughter’s hand in Kampala community, Jos North Local Government Area of Plateau State. The man reportedly killed his estranged wife using an axe to cut her head, as well as his six-year-old daughter’s hand when the ...

By  Onozure Dania An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic and Violence Court on Tuesday convicted and sentenced a 51-year-old pastor, Nduka Anyanwu, to life imprisonment for defiling and impregnating two teenage sisters. Justice Abiola Soladoye handed down the sentence after finding Anyanwu ...

By  Abiodun Sanusi Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have arrested the founder and General Overseer of Seraphic and Sabbath Assembly, Lagos, Nnodu Azuka; a student of Emmanuel College of Theology, Samanta, Ibadan, Udezuka Udoka, and their freight agent, Oyoyo Obasi, over an ...

Suspected hoodlums over the weekend invaded and vandalised a Cherubim and Seraphim church in Ondo State. Properties of Motailatu Church of God, Oke-Idahun Parish located along Imafon Road in Akure North Local Government were set on fire by unidentified persons. Reverend David Akinadewo, the ...

The police in Ogun State have paraded the suspected killers of former Central Bank of Nigeria staff, Kehinde Fatinoye, his wife, Bukola Fatinoye and their only son, Oreoluwa Fatinoye. The suspects were paraded on Friday at the Ogun State Police Headquarters, Eleweran, Abeokuta, the Ogun State ...

The Kogi State High Court in Lokoja has ordered the arrest and remand of the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Abdulrasheed Bawa, in prison. Justice Rukayat Ayoola ruled that Bawa should be picked up and remanded in Kuje prison for disobeying a court order. ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, arrested a senior bank official in Abuja. The staff is the Operations Manager of “a leading commercial bank” in the Central Area, according to EFCC spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren. The manager refused to load the Automated Teller ...

Hoodlums, on Friday, vandalised a police station in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. DAILY POST reports that a Wema Bank branch opposite the police station was also vandalised. The police station, located at Agodi Gate area, was vandalised during a protest in Ibadan. Our correspondent ...

A 46-year old man, Azeez Hassan, has reportedly set his wife, Olayinka Hassan, on fire for failing to cook for him. The husband was arrested by the police in Ogun State, following a report lodged at the Ibogun divisional police headquarters by the wife’s father. The father had told the police ...

Gunmen on Thursday afternoon killed a customary court judge, Nnaemeka Ugboma, in Imo State. Until his death, Ugboma presided over an Imo magistrate court in Ejemekwurun, Oguta Local Government Area of the the state. Our correspondent gathered that the killer who came on motorcycles, invaded the ...

Black society and drugs The illegal use of drugs has been a problem in the black community for many years. Drugs such as crack cocaine and heroin have wreaked havoc on black neighborhoods, causing high rates of crime and violence. Drug addiction has also led to joblessness and poverty, as well as ...

ICPC Arrests Woman Offering New Naira Notes for Sale ICPC as of yesterday, 1st of February 2023, arrested a woman, Omoseyin Oluwadarasimi Esther, with the Twitter handle of Lala, offering new naira notes for sale on social media. The arrest was as a result of intelligence received which led the ...

Gunmen early Wednesday morning attacked the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in Ojoto, Idemili South Local Government Area of Anambra State. A source said the hoodlums burnt the commission’s headquarters using Improvised Explosive Devices, IEDs. The gunmen also ...

By  Ademola Adegbite The Oyo State Police Command has paraded nine suspects arrested for crimes ranging from kidnapping and armed robbery to rape and illegal possession of firearms. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Adewale Osifeso, who paraded the suspects before newsmen at the ...

By Soni Daniel, Emma Ujah and Elizabeth Adegbesan, ABUJA The Department of State Services, DSS, has arrested some members of an organised syndicate selling the new naira notes in parts of the country. Although the DSS did not disclose the names and locations of the suspects, the agency said ...

A youth in Adamawa State has admitted to stabbing a man because the man flashed a torchlight on his mother. The youth, Garga Joggi is now in the custody of the Adamawa State Police Command for stabbing one Umaru Sanda, leading to his death. The 20-year-old Garga Joggi, who is of Waltadi ...

Canadian Police have arrested one Nigerian and declared the other wanted for having fraudulently issued and sold 250 airline tickets to unsuspecting customers, valued at $500,000. According to Canadian Police, between June and December of 2021, the suspects claimed they were working for travel ...

A popular High Life musician in Ebonyi State, Kelvin Ibinabo was allegedly brutalized by an Aide to Governor David Umahi in the State, IGBERETV reports. Speaking to journalists, Ibinabo said that the aide, known as Machiavelli Uzo, who is the Coordinator of Ohaozara Development Centre in ...

Some policemen attached to the Special Anti-Cult Unit of the Anambra State Police Command have been accused of breaking into a private hostel housing students of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, in a bid to arrest suspected fraudsters in Ifite, in the Awka South Local Government Area of the ...