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Punch Newspapers Sections Chidiebube Okeoma, Owerri The police in Imo State have arrested four men who allegedly robbed a Catholic priest, Rev. Fr. Wence Isidiem, and members of his church. A spokesperson for the police in the state, Orlando Ikeokwu, identified the suspects as Justice Anukam, 18; Chidiebube Emezi, 21; Sandy Chisom, 24; and Chidiuto Onwusiribe, 21. Ikeokwu said aside from robbing the parish priest, the suspects also robbed some of the members, including Ogechi Igwe, Chibuzor Anu...

Punch Newspapers Sections Sunday Aborisade, Abuja THE Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, said on Thursday that drug barons were behind the lingering insecurity in the country. He said they were providing funding for insurgent groups such as Boko Haram, bandits and kidnappers with which they procure arms and ammunition to undertake their criminal activities. Lawan disclosed this when the Chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Brigadier General Buba Marwa (retd.), visited him on Thursd...

EFCC re-looted 222 assets recovered from Maina, others ― Witness Friday Olokor, Abuja A witness, Ngozika Ihuoma, on Thursday, told a Federal High Court in Abuja, that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, under its former acting Chairman, Ibrahim Magu, mismanaged 222 assets worth N1.63tn. The money was recovered by the defunct Pension Reform Taskforce Team. Ihuoma appeared as the first defence witness in the ongoing trial of the erstwhile Chairman of the disbanded PRTT, Abdulrasheed M...

Matthew Ochei, Asaba The Delta State Police Command has said men of the command killed two suspected armed robbers in Asaba, the state capital. T...

Adelani Adepegba, AbujaAN unidentified policeman and a pregnant woman were shot on Wednesday when gunmen suspected to be kidnappers abducted t...

Punch Newspapers Sections Olufemi Olaniyi, Ibadan The Central Council of Ibadan Indigenes has warned against changing the order of ascension to the throne of Olubadan. The President-General of CCII, Yemi Soladoye, hinted that there were some landmines already planted in the Olubadan Chieftaincy Law which might change the established order of emergence of new Olubadan. Soladoye spoke on Thursday at Ibadan House during the fifth coronation anniversary of the Olubadan of Ibadan, Oba Saliu Adetunji...

Punch Newspapers Sections Leke Baiyewu, Abuja THE Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board plans to build a new headquarters in the Central Area of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, for the sum of N6bn. This was made known in Abuja on Thursday at an investigative hearing by the House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts. The hearing was on audit queries issued by the Office of the Auditor General of the Federation against ministries, departments and agencies of the Federal Govern...

Punch Newspapers Sections Godwin Isenyo, Kaduna RENOWNED northern Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, said if government could pardon coup plotters that committed treasonable felony, there was nothing wrong extending the same gesture to bandits. The Islamic cleric, while responding to the Christian Association of Nigeria in Kaduna on Thursday, said there was need to forgive bandits for the country to have peace. Gumi added that he never betrayed soldiers of Christian faith before the bandits wh...

Oluwatosin Omojuyigbe A dismissed officer of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, Shakiru Agbaje, has been arrested by the agency for imp...

John Charles, Makurdi The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Thursday asked that the circumstances surrounding the killing of C...