NIGERIAN STUDENT JAILED IN UK FOR RAPING TEENAGER
Chiemka Okoronta, a Nigerian postgraduate student in the United Kingdom, has been sentenced to ten years in prison for the assault of a 17-year-old girl...
EDO POLICE ARREST TWO OVER ILLEGAL FIREARMS IN BUSH-COMBING OPERATION
By Aishat Momoh. O. The Edo State Police Command has apprehended two individuals for the illegal possession of firearms during a coordinated bush-combing operation intended...
THAI POLICE ARREST THREE WOMEN LINKED TO NIGERIAN-OPERATED ROMANCE SCAM WORTH OVER SIX BILLION BAHT
Agency Report Thai police have arrested three women suspected of being part of a romance scam network allegedly run by a group of Nigerians, which...
EFCC WITNESS DETAILS HOW CHINESE NATIONAL ALLEGEDLY DEFRAUDED EMPLOYER OF OVER N700 MILLION
By Aishat Momoh. O. A prosecution witness and operative of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Bukar Mustapha Kirri, on Monday narrated before Justice...
CHAD SHUTS BORDER OVER PROPOSED US ATTACK ON NIGERIA
HOTJIST NEWS The Administration of Chad has declared the prompt shutdown of its frontier with Nigeria, citing security apprehensions in light of claims regarding purported U. S. military strategies related to Christian homicides and genocide in the West African region. Military sources in N’djamena,...
POLICE DECLARE SOWORE WANTED OVER ALLEGED PLANNED PROTEST IN LAGOS
HOTJIST NEWS The Police authority in Lagos State has issued a warrant for activist Mr. Omoyele Sowore, accused of allegedly orchestrating public unrest and impeding significant thoroughfares within the state. The Commissioner of Police, Mr. Olohundare Jimoh, revealed this information to reporters on Monday at...
NSA, SECURITY CHIEFS TO BRIEF MEDIA ON TRUMP’S GENOCIDE CLAIMS
HOTJIST NEWS The Office of the National Security Adviser and the country’s security officials are scheduled to update the press on Monday afternoon in reaction to U. S. President Donald Trump’s recent statements alleging genocide against Christians within the nation. Lanre Issa-Onilu, Director-General of...
UK POLICE CHARGE MAN WITH 10 COUNTS OF ATTEMPTED MURDER IN TRAIN ATTACK
A man has been charged with 10 counts of attempted murder following a mass stabbing on a London-bound train, British Transport Police said on Monday....
JUST IN : TURMOIL IN PDP AS FACTION INVADES SECRETARIAT DURING LEADERSHIP TRANSITION
BY JENN NOMAMIUKOR New strain has engulfed the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) following an effort on Monday to remove the National Chairman, Umar Iliya Damagum, and substitute him with Abdulrahman Mohammed. The event, which occurred at the organization’s...
PRESIDENCY DEBUNKS REPORTS OF TINUBU’S VISIT TO US
BY JENN NOMAMIUKOR The Senior Special Assistant to President Bola Tinubu on Media and Publicity, Temitope Ajayi, has repudiated a report asserting that the President intends to travel to the United States on...