Men of the Imo State Police Command have rescued 19 Ad-Hoc staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, who were kidnapped in the State in the early hours of Saturday.
INEC spokesperson in the State, Chinenye Chijioke-Osuji, confirmed the development.
She said they were rescued after a distress call, and information about the incident was disclosed to the security operatives, who swung into action immediately.
At least three persons suspected to be political thugs have been killed in Gboko Local Government Area of Benue State.
DAILY POST gathered that the thugs invaded the polling units 026 and 004, Gboko South while electoral processes were ongoing and attempted to snatch ballot boxes and the Bimodal Voters Accreditation System, BVAS.
An eye-witness, Moses Agure-Dam who confirmed the development to DAILY POST, said the thugs were gunned down by military officers.
Chioma Chukwuka’s polling unit has been disrupted by thugs again, and this time, she said they prevented them from bringing out their phones to film.
The actress said the thugs had knives, bottles, and gun, and refused to let people bring out their phones, not even to make calls.
A photo has surfaced online of an electorate heading to the polling unit with a pitbull for the governorship and House of Assembly election despite a police ban on the use of dogs and other pets at polling units.
An American movie actor in the popular movie series ‘The Wire’, Lance Reddick has died at the age of 60, BBC reports.
The deceased was also known for starring as Charon in the John Wick action-thriller movie franchise as well as in the Resident Evil Netflix series and the science fiction-action movie Godzilla vs. Kong.
Reddick’s publicist, Mia Hansen told newsmen that the actor died suddenly of natural causes on Friday in his Los Angeles home at about 09:30 local time (16:30 GMT).
The Nigeria Police Force has reacted to the threats issued by the Lagos State Parks Management Committee Chairman, Musiliu Akinsanya, popularly known as MC Oluomo, against Igbos in the state ahead of the governorship election.
President Muhammadu Buhari has cast his vote at Polling Unit 003, Sarkin Yara A in Daura, Katsina State, calling the electorate to vote for their preferred candidates even if politicians tried to offer them money.
The president, who briefly spoke to newsmen both in English and Hausa languages after casting his vote on Saturday, said his administration had been preaching against vote-buying and monetisation of politics, calling on politicians to desist from such acts.
The All Progressives Congress, APC, Presidential Campaign Council has accused Peter Obi, the Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, of making inflammatory comments.
The ruling party in a statement on Friday knocked the former Anambra governor for repeatedly condemning the victory of Presidential-elect, Bola Tinubu.
The Governorship and State Houses of Assembly Elections hold across the country today, Saturday, March 18, 2023.
The Governorship election will take place in 28 States across the nation with just a few incumbent Governors seeking re-election while most of the States will be electing new chief Executive Officers.
The Lagos State Police Command has said a 53-year-old woman, who was found with laminated electoral materials, is in detention.
The police spokesperson, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed this to City Round on Friday.
Operatives of the Western Nigeria Security Network, popularly referred to as Amotekun Corps, have arrested one Daniel Chigozie for allegedly selling his son to three different buyers in Ogun State.
The Commandant of the Corps in the state, David Akinremi, disclosed that the Corps got intelligence that Chigozie, a 30-year-old, had sold his nine-month-old son, Daniel Chinonye Darlington, to three different buyers at different locations in Sango, Meiran and Apapa area of Lagos.
City Round gathered that the suspect specialised in defrauding Nigerians desperate to migrate to Canada either to work or continue their education through fake visas and job offers.
An Ondo Magistrate’s Court has remanded a 46-year-old man, Ebenezer Adefehinti, for allegedly defrauding three people under the pretext of securing jobs for their children.
The defendant was said to have claimed to be an official of the Department of State Services.
He was arrested by in June 2022 at Ayegun Oka Akoko in the Akoko South-West Local Government Area of the state.
He was arraigned on five counts.
Nollywood actor Yomi Fabiyi has revisited
his s8x-for-role drama with colleague, Mo Bimpe, claiming that many men
in the industry had se8ual relationship with her while referencing
Toyin Abraham in his exposé.
In a recent interview, Yomi Fabiyi recounted how he helped Mo Bimpe rise to stardom by starring her in his movie when nobody knew her.
The deceased as gathered by Vanguard was attacked and killed in his house at Ile Tuntun area, Ibadan the Capital city of the state in the presence of his wife and kids.
The deceased and two others that are yet to be identified were confirmed dead upon arrival at the Adeooyo state hospital, Ring Road Ibadan.
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The governorship candidate of All Progressives Congress in Oyo State, Teslim Folarin, on Tuesday, came hard on a former deputy governor of the state and current deputy national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (South), Taofeek Arapaja, over his remarks on a live radio station in Ibadan.
President Joe Biden mourned Tuesday with Asian American survivors of a mass shooting in a Los Angeles suburb and wielded his limited powers to tighten firearms controls while pressuring Congress to “do something big.”
A sombre president addressed the immigrant community in Monterey Park, praising their resilience and recalling the characteristics of each of the 11 people slaughtered in January during Lunar New Year celebrations.
Two schoolgirls have stabbed a 12-year-old girl to death in Germany, following the girl’s disappearance on Saturday, according to the police.
According to The Straits Times, the victim, identified as Luise, was declared missing on Saturday after leaving a friend’s residence near the town of Freudenberg in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
In shocking news to everyone, her body was found the following day in a wooded area not far from her home
The child died as a result of numerous knife wounds and the resulting loss of blood,” Koblenz prosecutor Mario Mannweiler told reporters, adding that there was “no indication of a sexual offence”.
The two Luise’s killers ages 12 and 13 have confessed to the murder, added Mr Florian Locker, head of Koblenz police’s homicide department.
The Pretoria Magistrate’s Court has sentenced a Nigerian national,
Onyeghani Ekene Dumkele to life imprisonment for the murder of a
multi-talented up-and-coming South African artiste, Shaun Douglas
Chabalala.
According to MSN, the 37-year-old Dumkele also bagged an additional 15 years imprisonment for aggravated robbery, including a 12-month suspended sentence on the condition that he be extradited to Nigeria after completing his concurrent sentence for murder and aggravated robbery.
The LP candidate, popularly known as GRV, said this in an exclusive interview with Politics Hub, a Vanguard online TV’s show on Tuesday.
A Nigerian lady living in France has said that she is in dire need of a life partner and ready to pay whoever is willing to be the partner.
In a viral video online, the woman seen on her knees saying age is no longer on her side. Also mixed reactions trailed her video as netizens shared their thoughts on her desperate appeal.
According to her, she has a house in Lagos, two hostels in Awada and an African shop in France where she is.
A presenter with Ibadan-based private radio station, Fresh FM Nigeria, popularly known as Baba Bintin, has died after he slumped on his way to the radio station for his programme on Saturday.
Baba Bintin’s death was announced during a radio programme by the station on Saturday.
“I’m finding it very difficult to believe this story that is breaking here,” popular presenter, Mayor Isaac Brown, said on the radio station.
The Katsina State Police Command has arrested two suspected trans-border car thieves, Ahmed Ahmed and Abubakar Adamu.A medical doctor, Mrs Sekinat
Oredoyin, on Wednesday narrated to a Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja how a prophet, Olushola Akinsipe, allegedly defiled a 13-year-old visually impaired girl under the pretext of performing witchcraft deliverance for the victim.
Oredoyin, a public health physician at Yaba Local Council Development Area, was led in evidence by the state prosecutor, Mr Michael Adewoye.
The witness told the court that the survivor presented herself for a medical examination alongside her father on December 12, 2020.
According to her, the survivor narrated how the defendant, the pastor of Power of the Home Deliverance Ministry, allegedly had forceful penetration with her on five occasions.
She told Justice Hakeem Oshodi that the survivor and her father were referred from Owutu Police Station.
“The survivor is a visually impaired child and her father took her to the defendant for deliverance.
“She said the defendant gave her an unknown substance to drink after that, she could not remember anything but she was able to narrate to her father after he discovered a brownish discharge under her pants and interrogated her,” she said.
The witness further told the court that the survivor had hyper-pigmentation around her face and some marks on her waist which the survivor told her were injuries sustained during deliverance.
She added, “The survivor said the defendant beat her with banana leaves during deliverance and also scrubbed her back with salt. The medical examination findings were in keeping with forceful vagina penetration.
“The blood samples showed pregnancy test was negative but because of the sour on her body, I directed her to Domestic Sexual Violence Agency for counselling.
“At that time, she was depressed as she believed that she was the one that killed her mother and she was made to believe that her father was not progressing because of her.”
The prophet is facing a three-count of defilement, indecent treatment of a child and trial by ordeal.
According to the prosecution, the offences committed contravened Sections 128(b), 135, and 137 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State, 2015.
Justice Oshodi adjourned the case till April 17 for the continuation of trial.
An Ikeja Magistrate’s Court sitting in Ogba, Lagos State, on Wednesday, remanded a teenager, Tosin Oloyede, for allegedly raping a five-year-old girl during the presidential and National Assembly elections in the state.
First respondents and Lagos State authorities are currently working on rescuing victims of an accident involving a Lagos State Government staff bus with registration no 04A- 48LA and a moving train at PWD, Ikeja area of the state.
