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Akwa Ibom State High Court, sitting in Uyo, the state capital, has sentenced a 21-year-old Uduak Akpan to death by hanging for the murder of Akwa Ibom job seeker, Iniubong Umoren. The court also found the accused guilty of rape and accordingly sentenced him to life imprisonment for having carnal knowledge of the deceased whom he lured to his father’s …

Edo State Government has commenced the recruitment of professionals into the civil service in line with the government’s plans to strengthen the civil service and reposition it for effective service delivery. Chairman, Edo State Civil Service Commission, Princess Ekiuwa Inneh, in a statement, urged eligible persons to apply for the various vacancies into the state’s civil service, reassuring that the …

*VP receives report of National Defence College Course 30 participants Nigeria’s current security challenges and emerging threats require the country’s military and other relevant stakeholders to be several steps ahead of perpetrators while also stepping up local production of armaments. This was one of the highlights of the response of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, after receiving a presentation on …

BY MIKE OSAROGIAGBON Benin City, Nigeria – Edo State Police Command has said that it awaits autopsy results to determine the actual cause of death in the two suspicious suicides reports recorded in Benin City, last July. The alleged suicide cases included that of Mr. Efene Eric Oyakhilomen, 45 and Cynthia Agho, 27, reported to the police on July 16 …

BY MIKE OSAROGIAGBON Benin City, Nigeria – A 65-year-old mother has been hacked to death and buried in an open shallow grave at her own farm in Benin City. The victim, Felicia Atigi was said to have gone to her farm in company of two boys as she did not return home, thereafter. It was learnt that her son, one …

One of the released hostages of Kaduna-Abuja train attack, Professor Mustapha Umar Imam has said that the terrorists that abducted them on March 28 are organised and have spies all over the country. Imam, one of the five freed victims spoke in a video broadcast by Arise TV on Wednesday morning, adding that the bandits deliberated and planned the attacks …

A middle-aged-man, Sunday Samuel, has accused the Ondo State Trauma and Surgical Centre, Ondo Town, of negligence after his wife died during a surgical operation at the facility. The deceased, Fola, was reportedly diagnosed with breast cancer. The mother of four was thereafter placed on medication for about a month in the hospital ward before she was taken to the …

The Nigeria Railway Corporation has suspended the Lagos-Kano and Ajaokuta train services  due to fear of terrorist attacks. Multiple sources in the Ministry of Transportation and the NRC  confided in one of our correspondents that the train services would not resume until the security along the Lagos-Kano route and the Ajaokuta train station  was guaranteed. It was also learnt that …

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Popular TV broadcaster, Rufai Oseni, has tendered a public apology to all parties involved in his traffic infraction case with the police. Oseni and the policemen during the altercation Oseni had on Monday trended on social media after he claimed that a policeman pointed a gun at him for driving on a dedicated Bus Rapid Transit lane. The Arise TV …