Day: May 2, 2024

Three Fake EFCC Operatives Robbing Students Arrested

Abibat Babalola

The officers of the Nasarawa State Police Command have arrested no fewer than three fake Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) operatives in the state. The command’s spokesman, DSP Ramhan Nansel, disclosed this in a statement issued on Wednesday, May 1, 2024. Nansel revealed that the command, at about 3:45 p.m. on April 17, received a distressed call that four persons in a green-coloured Toyota Corolla car abducted a student of Federal Polytechnic, Nasarawa. He noted that the suspects robbed and abducted one ND II student at their lodge behind…

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14-Year-Old British-Nigerian Boy Killed By Sword-wielding Man In London

ADEOLA YUSUF

A teenage boy who was killed during a sword rampage in Hainault, east London has been named as Daniel Anjorin. The 14-year-old boy died in hospital after the Tuesday, April 30, 2024 attack, in which four other people, including two police officers, were injured. The victim’s mother was a teacher at Holy Family Catholic School in Waltham Forest. The suspect is now in police custody, the Met has said. The 36-year-old man, pictured with a beard and wearing a yellow hooded jumper, was arrested on suspicion of murder. Immediately after…

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JAMB: 2024 UTME Results Not Available In Paper Format, Website

Abibat Babalola

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) results are unavailable in any paper format. JAMB made this known via a statement issued by its spokesperson, Dr Fabian Benjamin, on Wednesday, May 1, 2024. The examination body announced the release of the 2024 UTME results on Monday, April 29. Benjamin, however, noted that unlike 2023, the 2024 UTME results, at the moment, cannot be checked via JAMB’s website. He stated: “JAMB, once again, wishes to state clearly that the only way to check…

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Police Who Filmed Wife Having Sex With Superior Found Guilty Of Stalking

Ganiyu Amodu

An obsessed former police officer who caught his wife having sex with a married colleague in a car park has narrowly avoided jail after being convicted of stalking. Gavin Harper, 45, found Stephanie Glynn, 40, and her lover Andrew McLullich, 42, outside the hardware store in Birkenhead, Merseyside, UK on February 16, 2021, after secretly placing a tracker on his wife’s car. He slowly crept up to the vehicle and used his mobile phone to record the lovers, who were naked from the waist down, before allegedly shouting: ‘I’ve got…

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Mother Of Four Hacked To Death By Neighbour, Son

Ganiyu Amodu

A mother of four, Mrs Nata Igbinovia, was hacked to death by her neighbour and his son while trying to intervene in a fight. The incident occurred on Saturday at Okpagha-Ewuare, a community on the outskirts of Benin City, Edo State. Patience, the deceased’s daughter, said the incident occurred when her mother intervened in a dispute between her cousin and the neighbours. Speaking to newsmen, Patience said the suspects resorted to using a knife and an axe to take her life. “As he went to bring the small dagger, the…

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86 Rooms Where Tenants Paid N250,000 A Year Found Under Lagos Bridge

Abibat Babalola

Lagos State’s Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, on Wednesday said the government discovered 86 partitioned rooms, sized 10×10 and 12×10, under the Dolphin Estate Bridge, Ikoyi, on Lagos Island. Tenants are said to be paying N250,000 per annum for the makeshift apartment under the bridge. Wahab shared this information via a post on X.com on Wednesday, along with videos. He added that the enforcement team of Lagos State’s Ministry of Environment and Water Resources had successfully removed all structures, including a container utilised for various illegal activities,…

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Banks Close 2m Accounts Over BVN, NIN, Others

Abibat Babalola

Commercial banks in Nigeria closed 2.021 million bank accounts in the first quarter of 2024, Q1’24, to clean their books of questionable accounts and comply with regulatory orders on the linkage of bank accounts to the National Identity Number, NIN. This is contained in a report by the Nigerian Interbank Settlement System, NIBSS, which also indicated that the number of inactive bank accounts grew month-on-month, MoM, by four million or 2.0 per cent to 19.7 million in March 2024 from 19.3 million in the previous month, February. A bank account…

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Sanwo-Olu Spent N1bn To Hire Helicopters In One Month – Rhodes-Vivour

Abibat Babalola

The 2023 governorship candidate of the Labour Party in Lagos State, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, has accused the State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, of spending over Nibn on helicopter service in one month. Rhodes-Vivour said Sanwo-Olu spent N1,039,875,000 on helicopter charter service in April 2022. He stated this in a post shared on his X handle on Tuesday. He added that the governor spent N512,000,000 on the same service in July and August 2023. “In April 2022 alone, the Lagos state government spent N1,039,875,000 on helicopter charter service for Mr. Governor’s regular traveling.…

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