A man is facing fraud charges for allegedly selling over 600 fake COVID-19 vaccine cards that he advertised on Facebook for $75 each. Amar Shabazz, 23, from Maryland, USA, purchased the fake vaccination cards through a foreign online marketplace in June and immediately started advertising them on his social media accounts, federal prosecutors said. A month later,…
South-East Governors have raised an alarm of killings in the region being carried out by criminals hiding under the Eastern Security Network (ESN), the para-military arm of proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). Dave Umahi, Governor of Ebonyi state and chairman of the south-east governors forum, said this in a statement released after a virtual meeting with Governors…
A married man has been arrested for allegedly raping a receptionist in a toilet in the Mutab Hotel and Suites on Abeokuta Street, Ebute Metta, Lagos State. The man identified only as Fuad is said to have visited the hotel with his girlfriend but he left her in the hotel room and allegedly raped the…
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has docked the Chairman of Gwagwalada Area Council, Hon. Adamu Mustapha Danze, for allegedly receiving N10 million kickback from a contractor handling construction projects in the area council. Hon. Danze was arraigned by the Commission before Justice U. P. Kekemeke of the Federal Capital…
A young man identified as Ishaku has been killed by bandits one month to his wedding in Kaduna. According to varsity lecturer, Sama’ila Yunusa DanMairo, the deceased was among three people killed when bandits attacked Unguwar Shukau community in Ikara Local Government area of Kaduna state last week Tuesday, November 16. Ishaku and his fiancé were scheduled…
An Mpraeso Circuit Court in Ghana has sentenced a 23-year-old old barber Kwame Amponsah to 114 years in prison for allegedly sodomizing 12 Schoolboys at Atawase, a suburb of Nkawkaw in the Kwahu West Municipal Assembly. Head of Kwahu West Social Welfare Department, Victor Fayi said the incident came to light on 5th of November 2021 after officers who…
At least seven men have been arrested in western India after a 16-year-old girl claimed she was raped hundreds of times by hundreds of men in the last six months In a statement to India’s Child Welfare Committee (CWC) on November 11, the girl, who was homeless, said she was raped by 400 people…
Delta State Police Command has arrested a serial ATM snatcher and fraudster in Ozoro, Isoko North Local Government Area of the state. Spokesperson of the command, DSP Bright Edafe, in a statement on Tuesday November 9, said the suspect, Ojo Amos, 38, of Agbara- Otor, Ughelli North LGA, specializes in stealing ATM cards from unsuspecting…
A notorious drug dealer, Okoli Collins Ikenna, who is the mastermind of recent multiple attempts to export illicit drugs to London in the United Kingdom through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, and some courier companies in Lagos has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA. Director, Media &…
Gunmen stormed the staff quarters of Junior Secondary School (JSS) Yebu in Kwali Area Council of Abuja, and abducted the Vice Principal, Mohammed Nuhu. Speaking to DailyTrust, a teacher, who preferred anonymity, said the kidnappers wielding sophisticated weapons invaded the school on Saturday night, October 30. He said some of the kidnappers surrounded the quarters,…
