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                                     The Jigawa Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense has confirmed the arrest of 19 persons, including a retired police inspector for allegedly molesting a 13-year-old child. The corps’ spokesman in the state, SC Adamu Shehu said the said the suspects were arrested on Thursday at about 4 p.m., in Kiyawa village, in Kiyawa local government area of the state. He explained that the arrest followed a complaint received by men of the command from the victim’s brother-in-law.  “A complaint was lodged by the brother-in-law of a 13-year-old girl at our Divisional office in Kiyawa LGA, on Thursday at about 4 p.m., that his sister in-law, who is an orphan and living with her mother, was being molested. Our officers immediately swung into action and started investigating the matter, and in the process were able to arrest 19 people aged between 25 and 60, including a retired police inspector,” he said. “The young girl, who is a

                   The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has rescued crash victims involved in a lone accident on the Lagos /Ibadan Expressway and returned over N2million recovered from the  scene to the mother of the owner. Clement Oladele, the FRSC Sector Commander in Ogun, disclosed to NAN in Abeokuta today that the accident happened around 10:15am and it involved 11 people, comprising of three men, six female adult and two female children. The sector commander noted that though, there were no deaths recorded, nine of the passengers who included three male  and six female adults sustained serious injuries. “The lone crash involved a Yellow Toyota LiteAce bus with registration number WWD 558 XA travelling from Ibadan to Lagos. The suspected cause of the crash was tyre burst by the speeding bus,  which lost control. The injured victims were taken to Ifeoluwa Hospital,  Ogunmakin for medical treatment and the road obstruction cleared, “he said. The FRSC boss sa

                     The Registrar of the National Examinations Council(NECO), Professor Charles Uwakwe has been sacked. Along with the Registrar, two Deputy Directors were also disengaged for reasons connected to corruption. No official reason have been given for the disengagement of the Register and The Nation gathered that the disengagement have not been made known to most of the staff of the Council. Sources in the Council said that the sack may have come about because of the award of a N25 billion contract which was without the knowledge of either the Federal ministry of education or the governing board of the council. While another source disclosed that the Registrar had recruited some staff without the knowledge of the appropriate authorities. Other sources argued that the Registrar was only given indefinite suspension on reasons which would soon be resolved. The Nation however gathered that the most Senior Director, Alhaji Abubakar Gana has been directed to tak

                            A Nigerian female migrant, identified as Vitoria, who was among the over 100 migrants rescued last week by Medecin Sans Frontieres and SOS Méditerranee chartered Aquarius ship, has spoken on why she decided to risk the perilous crossing from Libya into Italy. “I was not afraid of the water, because God created the water. I’m not afraid of death. We all die one day. I’m more afraid if the Libyan police were to catch me again, because they are so wicked,” the 21 year-old Nigerian told newsmen after she was rescued. She was in the the group of migrants  to arrive at Sicilian city Catania on Thursday, which included six women, 32 teenagers and six children. It could not be ascertained the number of other Nigerians in the group. She told the AFP that she had been in Libya for just over a year before setting off last weekend. She said that she had spent nearly six months in dreadful conditions in a Libyan prison after a failed first cross

                               The military operation tagged: “Operation Idan Raini” killed three bandits in Zamfara State on Friday, according to Assistant Director, Army Public Relations, Clement Abiade. Mr Abiade, a major, said in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Gusau, the state capital that “the army troops encountered the bandits in the notorious Dansadau bush on Friday”. He said many of the bandits had been overpowered by the soldiers and therefore escaped with gunshot wounds. He said three motorcycles were recovered from the fleeing hoodlums, and that the troops had continued with their manhunt for them. The army spokesman also disclosed that the troops supported by local vigilance groups had arrested a notorious cattle rustler, Usman Ikkuwa, at Teke village in Maru Local Government Area of the state. He said Ikkuwa was part of Buba Banme’s gang who had terrorised many communities in the state and rustled many cows especiall

                                   A man was tased and arrested after he broke into Rihanna's house on Wednesday. After his arrest, the man told cops he was only there to have sex with her, not to steal or harm her. Eduardo Leon, 26, disabled Rihanna's alarm system and entered into her house, where he stayed at least an entire day. He spent Wednesday night at Rihanna's house before he was arrested on Thursday morning after Rihanna's assistant found him inside her L.A. area house. Rihanna apparently wasn't in Los Angeles when the intruder broke in. The police say Eduardo made himself at home and even charged his phone and unpacked his bag as he waited for her return. When asked his reason for breaking into Riri's home, he told cops he was there to have sex with the singer, adding his plan was not to use force to make it happen. Eduardo reportedly broke into another home on May 4 thinking it was Rihanna's. He's been booked for

A man says his dog inadvertently shot him while they were playing at his home on Wednesday. 51-year-old Richard Remme, of Fort Dodge in Iowa, told police he was playing with his dog, Balew, on the couch and threw the dog off his lap. The dog quickly bounded back up and it is believed that he must have disabled the safety on the gun in Richard's belly band and stepped on the trigger. The gun fired, striking one of Richard's legs. "It has a trigger safety as well as a thumb safety, and he managed to hit both of them, and it discharged and went into my leg, did no major damage to anything," Richard said. Richard immediately called for an ambulance and he was treated at a hospital and released later that day. Richard told The Messenger newspaper that Balew lay down beside him and cried after shooting him. He said: "The dog’s a big wuss. The poor dog laid down beside me and cried, because he thought he was in trouble for doing something wrong.

                               Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested three fake crude oil sellers for allegedly defrauding a Ghanaian a sum of N20millon( Twenty Million Naira only). The suspects: Otuma Firstborn, Stephen Okonkwo and Aniekan Udoh, were arrested in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.  Troubles came for them when a petitioner, Solomon Lamptey, a Ghanaian, accused them of presenting themselves as genuine crude oil sellers from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC. Lamptey allegedly came to Nigeria in November 2017 seeking authentic suppliers of crude oil. In his quest, he met Firstborn who demanded and collected an initial sum of $1,800 and an additional sum of N500,000.00 for "Notice of Readiness for two vessels": MT Skamandras and MtT Toledo Spirit. The vessels were to deliver the crude oil to Lamptey in Ghana. Aside the initial money, Lamptey allegedly made a further payment of $56,000.00( N2

A 15-year- old girl allegedly stabbed a 14-year-old Boy on the face in Bayelsa State. It was gathered that the incident happened in Anyama-Ijaw community in Southern-Ijaw Local Government Area of the state. According to reports, the girl, said to be a younger sister of a bread seller, stabbed the boy during an altercation. The matter has been reported to police station for investigation. A Facebook user posted the photos and wrote: "It WAS REPORTED THAT,A BREAD VENDOR YOUNGER SISTER HAS  STRABED A 14 YEARS OLD BOY IN ANYAMA-IJAW COMMUNITY, IN SOUTHERN-IJAW LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF BAYELSA STATE, DUE TO SOME MISUNDERSTANDING THAT LED TO THIS UNPLEASANT ATTITUDE. MEANWHILE THE MATTER HAS BEEN REPORTED TO A NEAR BY POLICE STATION FOR PROPER INVESTIGATION. .. Elaye Igbian Warifagha Yagila, The Tarakiri Boy Reporting"

An Abuja-based businessman was beaten to death by unknown assailants in Enugu. The deceased, Chinedu Nzegwu popularly known as Obroshoo by friends, was attacked by the assailants few days before his return to Abuja. They reportedly hit him with a stick on the head leaving him for dead. Late Nzegwu, a Pure and Industrial Chemistry graduate of the University of Port Harcourt,  is a former student of Dennis Memorial Grammar School DMGS, Onitsha, Anambra State. His friends and family members have taken to Facebook to mourn his tragic death. One of them Nwachi Viktor, wrote: "Murdered in cold blood in Enugu by fellow ndi igbo. Another young and hardworking man from Onitsha.He was my junior in Dennis Memorial Grammar school Onitsha. Trying to understand why they had to beat him to death,he was never a thief and came from a good home. Rest in peace Chinedu Nzegwu. No one is safe in Nigeria!"

The PGC and PR Unite of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) Osun state Command on Friday, went on "Operation Flush out illegal Private Guards" in the state. Many private guards were arrested and sensitisation was made in some private institutions visited.

                            South Africa’s elite police unit has taken over the investigation of a mosque attack near Durban which killed one person because “extremism” is suspected as a possible motive, an official said on Friday. Africa’s most industrialised country is racked by violent crime and social strife rooted in poverty and glaring income disparities but is seldom associated with the Islamist militancy seen in other parts of the continent. No suspects have been arrested yet over Thursday’s attack by three men armed with guns and knives in which two worshippers were also injured. Witnesses said the suspects, who set the mosque alight, were Egyptian. “Upon assessing the crime scene it was found that there was an element of extremism to it,” said Simphiwe Mhlongo, a spokesman for the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation, known popularly as the “Hawks.” The victim who died had his throat cut. Local media reported on Friday that the victim was the mos

                      Four children and three adults were found with gunshot wounds at a home in Osmington, near the town of Margaret River in Australia's southwest. Katrina Miles Cockman and her four autistic kids aged 8 to 13 are among seven found dead at a remote farmhouse in Australia this morning. Two other adults were found dead outside the building, but they are yet to be identified. Police found the bodies with gunshot wounds at the property owned by Katrina's parents, Cynda Miles and Peter Miles, in Osmington. Katrina lived on the property and home-schooled her kids on the farm The killing comes a month after Katrina took to Facebook to write: "My ex does not stop stalking me." Police are treating the incident as a murder-suicide and investigators were not looking for a suspect. Western Australia state Police Commissioner Chris Dawson described the incident as a "significant tragedy". He said two firearms were found at th

                        A prosecution witness, Chidi Chukwuka, Deputy Director, Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation, NDIC, on Thursday, May 10, 2018, told Justice Muhammed Idris of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos how a  former governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu, moved funds from Nigeria to his foreign account. Kalu is being prosecuted alongside his company, Slok Nigeria Limited and his former Commissioner for Finance, Jones James Udeogu, for money laundering to the tune of over N3.2bn. Under cross-examination by the defence counsel, Awa Kalu, SAN, Chukwuka told the court that exhibit G, which was the petition written by the Abia Forum and signed by Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, a former Abia State deputy governor, formed part of the charges against Kalu and two others. When asked if the EFCC invited Kalu in respect of the Abia Forum’s petition, the witness said “no because he was covered by immunity as the executive governor of Abia State.

                 The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Lagos Zonal office, on Thursday, May 10, 2018, arraigned one Chinonso Samuel Ofoegbu before Justice Babs Kuewumi sitting at the Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos on a one-count charge bordering on failure to declare the sums of $52,201,000(Fifty-two Thousand US Dollars) and £320(Three Hundred and Twenty Pounds) found on him by officers of the Nigerian Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA. The suspect, who was apprehended at the Seme Border in the Badagry Local Government Area of Lagos State, was subsequently handed over to the EFCC for further investigation and prosecution. The defendant pleaded not guilty to the charge preferred against him. In view of his plea, the prosecution counsel, M.S. Usman, asked for a trial date and prayed that the defendant be remanded in prison custody. However, counsel to the defendant, G.U.Okon, prayed the court to grant the defendant bail in “the most liberal terms.” Con

             Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has appealed to Nigerians to support President Buhari’s fight against corruption. He made the appeal at the dinner organised for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) detective superintendent course (7) 2017/2018 at the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA), Kaduna. The police chief said the success of the antigraft agency couldn't have been possible without the support of President Buhari. “Without the support and prompting of Mr President, the achievement made by the commission would not have been possible. Mr president has zero tolerance for corruption and I urge all Nigerians to support him to carry the fight to its logical conclusion” he said

                         An Australian grandmother, who said she's lost AUD $480,000 (£264,768 / USD $359,088) to three different online scammers is now warning others about the dangers of looking for love online. Speaking on Info-tainment show: A Current Affair show, Suzie, who chose not to reveal her surname, said she was 'brainwashed' in her pursuit of finding her one true love. The first man she met online claimed to be a British guy called David Fisher. After beginning an online romance, Suzie eventually handed over AUD $80,000 (£44,141 / USD $59,848) she had inherited from her dad - but once 'David' had the cash he disappeared. Suzie then got chatting to a man calling him Johnson Williams - he told her he was an American soldier, fighting the Taliban. Before long, he also started asking for cash. "I went along with it because I thought, 'Wow, I've actually got somebody in my life now, and I'm committed to this man'

                          CCTV from outside a housing estate in Chantaburi, Thailand's east showed the moment when an African man was shot at by the driver of a car on Friday morning. As Dabu, 42, a gem trader was returning to his rented house when a White Yaris made a move towards him. The car window was lowered and Sanoo a gun was fired at the victim. He was hit twice, in the right ribs and on the upper left arm. But the bullets only left a graze and a little blood. The car sped off in the direction of Chantaburi city. The attack happened outside the Silapornville Phase 1 estate on Yanwirot Road in Muang district at about 6 am. No shell casings were found at the scene and it is not known what gun was used. Dabu said that after a visit to hospital he intends to report the matter to police. He said he had no idea why he might be targeted in this way as he had no problems with anyone.

A furious wife gave her husband and his mistress the embarrassment of their lives after she caught them at the airport jetting off on a romantic holiday. In a video captured by another passenger, the jilted wife can be seen confronting her husband who was wearing his gold wedding ring and his mistress at José María Córdova International Airport in Colombia . The furious wife insulted the pair and went as far as grabbing her love rival by the hair at the airport check-in queue, before her husband tries to fend her off. 'On Saturday you were going to take me out with the little one and today you're taking her,' she can be heard saying in Spanish.'Get rid of her or I'll cause a scandal right now. I'm not going to let go. Hit me if you want so they throw you in jail.' She went on to slam her husband's mistress, calling her a 'prostitute' before turning to her partner and called him 'fake and a liar'. The clip ends

                                  A father has been jailed for nine years for raping his daughter, leading her to commit suicide. He was convicted thanks to an evidence the teenager gave to police before taking her life. James Elder held down and abused Jamie-Leigh Craig at his flat in Glasgow's Parkhead in September 2016 and she was found dead three months later at her home in the city's Southside. Shortly after the rape, the 19-year-old spoke to police. She also tearfully told her mother what happened before she took her life. Her statement to police naming Elder as the attacker was read out at the High Court in Glasgow. It led to the 43-year-old being convicted of the horrific sex attack after a trial last month. The rape happened when Jamie walked out of the family home following a row. She ended up at her father's flat. When she didn't return home, she was reported missing. She eventually returned with two police officers but was not hersel

                   In a major breakthrough, the Nigeria Police Force have arrested 56 vicious bandits and Criminal militias responsible for several killings of innocent people, kidnappings, armed robberies, car snatching, cattle rustling and dealing in unlawful possessions of prohibited firearms in Birnin Gwari area of Kaduna state to other villages and towns in Zamfara State. Parading the suspects before newsmen on Thursday, May 10, at the Divisional Headquarters, Katari, the spokesman, Jimoh Moshood, listed them in five groups. See full statement below: SUSPECTS 1st Gang: i. Mohammed Rabiu  (Gang Leader) -29Yrs ii. Ardo Aliyu (Principal Suspect) - 45Yrs       iii. Four (4) members of the gang were killed by the Police Joint Team in a shootout before the gang leader was arrested. 2nd Gang: i. Abdullahi Abubakar  -35Yrs    - Gang Leader ii.Halidu Musa  -34Yrs   - Principal suspect iii. Mohammed Ruwa  -30Yrs      - Principal suspect iv. Mohammed Sa

                     A Florida police officer, Deputy Jeremie Nix has been hailed as a hero after he helped save the life of a 3 months old boy. Deputy Nix was on his way home after his shift when a woman flagged him down and told him her baby was unresponsive. For several minutes, he performed "several life-saving measures on the child" but didn't see any improvement "I'm not waiting on medics ... I'm headed to the emergency room with the baby," he told a dispatcher Wednesday. He then rushed the baby to the emergency room in his car where the doctors promptly saved his life. Speaking to CNN, the boy's mom, Nechole Crowell said "I just kind of panicked and started crying and I was just like tell me that he is breathing" Narrating what happened, the deputy said; "I remember praying, thanking God for putting me in the right place, at the right time for the right reason," Nix told reporters Thursday. "This was t

A suspect is in custody after authorities responded to multiple reports of a man with a gun shooting in a high school in Southern California today. Authorities were called to Highland High School in Palmdale at about 7:05 a.m. this morning, according to Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputy Charles Moore. There had been reports of shots being fired in the school. The suspect, a male, was apprehended near a Vons grocery store in Palmdale, the Los Angeles County fire official said. Details about whether anyone was injured weren't immediately available. Ricky Munoz, 23, says he dropped his two younger brothers and a friend off at the high school around that time. "About a minute later, I get a call from them saying there were gunshots" and they asked to be picked up, Munoz said. One of the brothers, 16, told Munoz he heard one gunshot, and that students were running. Nadine Luke told CNN her 18-year-old daughter called her, screaming, afte

Gunmen this morning stormed the Rivers state judiciary complex, killing two private security officers and destroying properties worth millions of Naira. The cause of the attack is yet unknown but it is beieved it is connected with the APC ward congress in the state. See more photos from the attack below..