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0     …as police arrest suspected ‘Yahoo Boy’ Ritual killers struck again in Oghara, Ethiope West council area of Delta state early Thursday, killing a 12-year old identified as Eguono. The brutal killing of Eguono came two days after the Rapid Response Squad of the Nigeria Mobile Police arrested a suspected internet fraudster, identified as Emmanuel in Warri with some charms and multiple email accounts, some of which belong to white people. The Nation gathered that Eguono, whose killers severed her head from body and her vital parts harvested away, was killed around Okwemeva Junction, off Scot Road, an area that had witnessed a number of ritual murders in the last few weeks. The killing, which came exactly two weeks away from another one around Scot Road and one month away from the killing of a 60-year old woman, who was killed October 30, in another part of Oghara. It should be noted that Oghara, the home country of former Delta state ...

0   The Nigeria Customs Services on Thursday said it has tightened security across Nigeria borders in order to tackle the proliferation and smuggling of firearms into the country ahead of next year’s general elections. The Comptroller – General, Hameed Ali, said the service was also watching the seaports, as most firearms and ammunition are smuggled into the country through the ports. He spoke with reporters during the conduct of promotion exercise for the Nigerian Customs Service at the Computer Based Test Centre of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, in Abuja. Ali said: “Most of the arms and ammunition a coming into the country come through the seaports. Those ones that we discovered coming through the border stations we already tightened security. Although there are some areas in the north which are porous. “We are doing the best we can and we work on information because intelligence information helps a lot. Anywhere we discover that illegal a...

MTN Group is set to lose another high-ranking executive over the next few months, according to people familiar with the matter, as Africa’s largest wireless carrier by sales fights more than $10-billion of claims in its largest market of Nigeria. Chief Innovation Officer  Herman Singh  is expected to leave imminently, and will move on to start his own tech venture, said the people, who asked not to be identified as the information hasn’t been made public. The exit will come as Chief Technology Officer  Babak Fouladi prepares to join Dutch telecommunications firm KPN in a similar role next week. ADVERTISEMENT MTN confirmed Fouladi’s departure, which was announced by Rotterdam-based KPN earlier this month. Singh declined to comment. The executives are leaving after a three-year period of considerable turmoil at MTN. A shock $5.2-billion fine in Nigeria in 2015 embroiled MTN in ten months of negotiations and prompted a management overhaul. The...

The winner of the recent governorship election in Osun State and candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Gboyega Oyetola has been inaugurated as Governor of the state Oyetola officially took over from his predecessor, Rauf Aregbesola, in Osogbo, the state capital, after he was sworn-in by the Chief Judge of the state on Tuesday. The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had declared Oyetola winner of the governorship election in state .

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and his party, are dancing on the graves of fallen soldiers. Atiku had commented on the death of soldiers to Boko Haram attacks, while his party (the PDP) alleged that the Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan-Ali, diverted funds for the military to the APC campaign. But in a statement on Tuesday, APC’s spokesman, Lanre Issa-Onilu, said the comment of the PDP is “callous and insensitive to the families and dependants” of the late soldiers. “The allegations by the PDP that military funds have been diverted to finance the 2019 election campaigns of the APC is a sad reminder of the evil and retrogressive practices the PDP was notorious for during its defunct rule. “God forbid that the APC inherits and apply such morbid practice as brazenly displayed during the immediate past PDP administration where funds allocated to fight the Boko Haram insurge...

The Benue State Government has reacted to a report that over N33bn funds belonging to local government areas in the state were stolen in three years. The state described the report as malicious, misleading and fallacious. Ahangba Ayati, Information Officer, Bureau of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, in a statement issued on Tuesday, affirmed that no funds belonging to the Local Government Councils in Benue State have been diverted by the Governor or any other government official, contrary to the claim by the said publication. Ayati said the claim was a figment of the imagination of the publisher and his paymasters in desperate attempts to smear the hard earned reputation of Governor Samuel Ortom and his administration. According to him, “The general public may wish to note that the Bureau of Local government and Chieftaincy Affairs carries out disbursements to Local Government Councils based on approvals by the Joint Account Allocation Committee ...

The Benue State Police Command has arrested a suspected cultist over the murder of one Oketa Simon, a 300level Mass Communication undergraduate of Benue State University. Simon, also a suspected cultist, was shot dead on November 6, 2018, in a farm opposite Rahama Clinic Logo II Makurdi. The Police arrested 18-year-old Samuel Ochoechi who claimd to be a musician under one penny record in makurdi, a non student in connection to the crime. The suspect during investigation, confessed to have conspired with three others namely; Bem Uper aka Movement, Viper and Chemical, all members of the Red Confraternity and killed the deceased who is said to be a member of the Black Confraternity over a missing Jean trouser. While effort was ongoing to arrest his accomplices, the said Bem Uper aka Movement, a 400level Theatre Arts undergraduate of same University, was hacked by rival cult group in retaliation. The incident occurred on Wednesday, November 7, beside Kyabi...