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Lebanese, Wael Jerro, Advertises Nigerian Woman For Sale

Lebanese, Wael Jerro, Advertises Nigerian Woman For Sale

April 22, 2020 7:42 am
Police have launched a manhunt for a Lebanese, identified as Wael Jerro after he advertised a woman for sale on social media.

Jerro put up the passport of the victim, Busari Peace, on a Facebook group, ‘Buy and Sell in Lebanon.’

He wrote in Arabic, “Domestic worker from Nigeria for sale with new legal documents. She’s 30 years old, she’s very active and very clean. Price: $1,000.”

Read Also: General Charged With Drug Trafficking Surrenders To U.S.

The passport, which the victim acquired in May 2018, indicated that she hails from Ibadan, Oyo State.

However, Jerro, who studied at the …

Nigerians Sign Petition To Arrest IGP Adamu

Abia Killing: IGP Removes CP, Sets Up Investigative Panel

April 22, 2020 7:17 am
The Inspector General of Police, IGP, Mohammed Adamu has removed the Abia State Commissioner of Police, Okon Ene over the killing of one Ifeanyi Arunsi by the police at Ebem Ohafia area of the State.

The IGP condemned the glaring unprofessional conduct and misuse of firearms by a policeman last Friday which led to the killing and destruction of government property and operational assets of the Nigeria Police Force.

Ene has been replaced  by a new Commissioner of Police, Janet Agbede as he is redeployed to Force Headquarters, Abuja.

Adamu, has thus set-up a Special Investigation Panel headed by the …

Ethiopia - 7 Teenagers Found Dead In Church

Ethiopia: 7 Teenagers Found Dead In Church

April 20, 2020 2:47 pm
The bodies of seven teenagers were discovered in a church in Ethiopia’s eastern Oromia region, police officials said on Monday.

“The teenagers were inside a room at the St Joseph Church which housed a generator,’’ Commander Aschalew Alemu, spokesman for the East Shewa Zone police station, told the state news agency ENA.

Alemu said six male and one female under the age of 20 had been discovered at about 3 a.m (0000 GMT) on Sunday, shortly before the country was due to celebrate Easter.

Ethiopia, which has the largest Orthodox Christian population outside Europe, marked Easter on April 19.

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Out Of School, Forced To Fight - Kids Pay For Sahel War

Out Of School, Forced To Fight: Kids Pay For Sahel War

April 19, 2020 2:23 pm

Mopti, Mali – Djan Diagahate was 12 years old last year when he watched a group of gunmen storm his village in central Mali and burn it to the ground. His home and his school – everything he knew – were destroyed.

Since then, he has been living in a small tent made of tarp and twigs at a camp for displaced people in Sevare, some 100km (62 miles) from his home in Ballanguine. Instead of going to school, he spends his days sitting around the Chirifila site with his family and other children displaced by the violence that has

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Police CP To Lagosians - 'Sleep Well We’re In Charge'

Police CP To Lagosians: ‘Sleep Well We’re In Charge’

April 18, 2020 2:50 pm

Hakeem Odumosu, Lagos Police Commissioner

Lagos State Government has reassured residents of its commitment to protect lives and property, stressing that the responsibility will not be compromised.

The re-assurance came just as the State Police Command, acting on the orders of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, stepped up its surveillance, following the panic generated by threat letters purportedly written to some communities by a faceless criminal group, “One Million Boys”.

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The group allegedly threatened that it would carry out armed robbery attacks in some listed neighbourhoods.

The police described the group as …

Chinese Company Locks Up Nigerians In Ogun Factory

Chinese Company Locks Up Nigerians In Ogun Factory

April 16, 2020 5:56 am
A Chinese company in Ogun State has locked its Nigerian workers inside its premises and refused to allow them leave despite a stay-at-home and lockdown orders instituted by President Muhammadu Buhari, which affect the state.

President Muhammadu Buhari had on Monday extended the lockdown in Abuja, Lagos and Ogun States because of the continuous spread of Coronavirus in the country.

In a video of the incident making the rounds on social media, the angry workers of the unidentified Chinese company could be seen protesting their forced ‘detention’ inside the factory located at the Ibese area of Ogun State by destroying

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Anxiety In Lagos Over Daily Robbery Attacks Amid lockdown

Anxiety In Lagos Over Daily Robbery Attacks Amid lockdown

April 13, 2020 2:02 pm

Lagos State is going through one of its roughest moments in decades amid the COVID-19 lockdown.

Just four months into the year 2020, major tragic incidents have already shaken the nation’s commercial hub.

In January, an inferno caused by a ruptured Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) pipeline at Ile Epo near Abule-Egba, claimed lives and destroyed properties.

In March, a massive explosion at Abule-Ado consumed many buildings and killed more than 20 citizens including the Principal of Bethlehem High School, Henrietta Alokha, who died while rescuing students.

However, despite the lockdown, Lagos has continued to witness unpalatable incidents.

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Notorious kidnapper Shot Dead In Rivers, Guns Recovered

Notorious kidnapper Shot Dead In Rivers, Guns Recovered

April 12, 2020 6:58 am

The Rivers State Police Command has killed a suspected kidnapper, Samuel Nakpoo, who was said to be among hoodlums responsible for all criminal activities along Ogoni-Uyo axis of the East West road.

Kidnapper Samuel Nakpoo who had earlier been arrested and confessed to the crime led the officers to their camp in a forest at Ogu/ Bolo Local Government Area of Rivers State and attempted to escaped but was shot in the leg.

He was confirmed dead at the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital.

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According to the spokesman of …

Bangladesh Executes Assassin Of Country’s First Leader

Bangladesh Executes Assassin Of Country’s First Leader

April 12, 2020 6:56 am

Bangladesh has executed a military captain less than a week after he was arrested after nearly 25 years on the run over the assassination of the country’s founding leader, a minister said Sunday.

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, father of current Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, was killed along with most of his family in a military coup on August 15, 1975,

The assassination occurred , nearly four years after he led Bangladesh to independence from Pakistan.

In 1998 Abdul Majed was sentenced in absentia to death along with a dozen other army officers over the murders.

Bangladesh’s Supreme Court upheld the verdict …

Delta Vigilantes Torture 26-year-old Man To Death

Lockdown: Robbers Lay Siege On Lagos, Ogun Communities

April 11, 2020 6:04 am

Several communities in Lagos and Ogun States are now living in fear following rising cases of robbery attacks.

The affected neighbourhoods in Lagos are: Ajao Estate, Abule Egba, Iju, Agege, Alimosho, Alagbado, among others, and Ayede, Ilepa, Ijoko, Ifo, Ibogun, Itori, GudFugba, Ayepe and Agbado communities in Ifo and Ewekoro Local Government Areas of Ogun State.

It was learnt that residents of the affected communities have since formed vigilance groups to contain the rampaging robbers.

The attacks, according to sources, became prominent in the wake of the lockdown in the two states to curtail the spread of the deadly coronavirus.…

Lagos Drops Charges Against Naira Marley, Gbadamosi

Lagos Drops Charges Against Naira Marley, Gbadamosi

April 8, 2020 1:40 pm
The Lagos State Government has withdrawn charges against controversial singer, Azeez Fashola, also known as Naira Marley, and former gubernatorial candidate, Babatunde Gbadamosi violating the government’s order, which barred a public gathering of more 20 people.

Naira Marley, Gbadamosi and his wife were dragged to Lagos State Magistrates’ Court in Ogba for attending a crowded birthday party hosted by popular actress, Funke Akindele in Amen Estate at Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos.

Their acts violated the government’s social distancing directive to check the spread of coronavirus.

Speaking to the pressmen after their arraignment, one of the defence counsel, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa (SAN) said the …

Congo - Convicted Congolese Warlord Escapes. Again

Congo: Convicted Congolese Warlord Escapes. Again

April 7, 2020 1:23 pm

A week ago, President Felix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of Congo gave the order to arrest a notorious warlord responsible for atrocities in the southern region of Katanga. Two days earlier, Gédéon Kyungu had escaped from house arrest in Lubumbashi after dozens of his militiamen entered the city and other towns in the region.

Gédéon – he is known by his first name – should never have been under mere house arrest. He had escaped from prison in 2011, two years after being convicted for crimes against humanity and sentenced to death. When he surrendered in 2016, the government …

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