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25 suspected child predators were busted during a three-day sting in Harris County, Texas. Investigators say they used the Internet and social media to solicit minors. They were communicating with officers who posed as underage kids between 11 and 15 ...

Today, Justice Ishaku Kunda, of a High Court sitting in Bukuru, Plateau, committed, Shehu Dikko, Chairman, League Management Company (LMC) and Salish Abubakar, its Chief Operations Officer, to 14 days imprisonment for contempt, disobeying the orders of the court. Kunda, ...

According to Hyderabad City Police, on 10-09-2016 served the Prevention of Dangerous Activities of Boot-Leggers, Dacoits, Drug-Offenders, Goondas, Immoral Traffic Offenders and Land-Grabbers Act 1986 orders, issued by Commissioner of Police, Hyderabad City against (04) drug offenders (Citizen of Nigeria) who arrested ...

President Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, today attended an extra-ordinary retreat for Ministers and heads of government agencies directed at seeking means of pulling the economy out of its current recession. The meeting took place at the Banquet hall ...

Ogobuchi Ogbonna, 25, was yesterday, remanded in prison custody for causing the death of Wisdom Ogbonna Amagu , 3, in Abakaliki, Eboni State, on September, 9, 2016. He allegedly tied a stone to Wisdom’s waist and threw him into a ...

Based on the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), this motor accident happened at Alapere bus-stop, Ketu and it was due to drunk driving. Victims were attended to at the scene and vehicles towed away. See more photos after the page ...

Abiodun Israel Banjo, 45, a Nigerian living in Pretoria, South Africa, has been arrested with parcels of methamphetamine at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos, by officials of NDLEA, during the outward screening of passengers on a South African Airline ...

Binuyo Basari Iyabo, 55, was on her way to Medina for the 2016 annual hajj ritual in Saudi Arabia, when she was arrested, the other day, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. She has excreted the final wraps of ...

The man, named Dan Na’Ala, was said to be a dreaded gang leader who terrorized Makera, Kakuri, Kaduna State. The wanted murderer, rapist, kidnapper, who was also accused of killing a top civilian JTF member in Kakuri, was nabbed at ...