Click here to see metrics on why you should advertise on Freelanews.com A 20-year-old man, Rabiu Adamu, has been arrested for kidnapping and strangling 12-year-old Christopher Bala in Magaman Gumau Toro Local Government Area (LGA) of Bauchi State after collecting N200,000 ransom from the father. Christopher who was abducted by …
Read More »Delta bloodbath: Monarch, varsity lecturer among wanted suspects
Click here to see metrics on why you should advertise on Freelanews.com The newly-installed Ovie of Ewu-Urhobo Kingdom in Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State, Clement Ikolo, Urhukpe 1, is among the eight persons declared wanted by the Defence Headquarters over the March 14 killings of 17 officers …
Read More »Military kills 212 terrorists as court frees 313 B’Haram suspects
Click here to see metrics on why you should advertise on Freelanews.com The Federal High Court in Borno has ordered the release of no fewer than 313 suspected terrorists arrested by the military. The court ordered their release for lack of evidence to nail them. This was as the Defence …
Read More »Assassination allegation: Sanwo-Olu’s CoS drops litigation threat against Gani Adams
Click here to see metrics on why you should advertise on Freelanews.com The Chief of Staff to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State, Mr Tayo Ayinde, has dropped a litigation threat against the Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Adams. Ayinde’s lawyer, Adeyinka Olumide-Fusika (SAN), in a letter dated Wednesday, …
Read More »Heavy gun battle in Benue, two notorious bandits shot dead
Click here to see metrics on why you should advertise on Freelanews.com The Police Command in Benue has neutralised two notorious bandits in Katsina-Ala Local Government Area (LGA) of the State and recovered arms. This is contained in a statement issued on Wednesday in Makurdi, by the State’s Police Public …
Read More »Court sentences Chinese to death for killing Nigerian girlfriend
Click here to see metrics on why you should advertise on Freelanews.com The Kano State High Court has sentenced a Chinese national, Frank Geng-Quangrong, to death by hanging for the murder of his girlfriend, Ummukalthuum Buhari. Recall that Quangrong allegedly killed his erstwhile girlfriend, Buhari, following a misunderstanding. Freelanews reported …
Read More »NSCDC uncovers massive illegal refineries with 26 reservoirs
Click here to see metrics on why you should advertise on Freelanews.com The Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps Commandant General’s Special Intelligence Squad has uncovered a massive illegal oil refining site in a forest in the Odagwa community of the Etche Local Government Area of Rivers State. According to …
Read More »Soldiers rescue 16 abducted Sokoto children, woman
Click here to see metrics on why you should advertise on Freelanews.com The Defence Headquarters said troops of Operation Hadrin Daji have rescued 16 Almajiris and a woman abducted in Gada Local Government Aera of Sokoto State. Freelanews reports that some terrorists had invaded the LGA on March 9, 2024, …
Read More »Ogun police kill five suspected kidnappers, rescue victim
Click here to see metrics on why you should advertise on Freelanews.com Men of the Ogun State Police Command engaged in a gun duel with about eight gunmen allegedly responsible for the kidnapping of Tunde Osifowokan, the farm manager of Flourishing Poultry Farm in Idowa, Odogbolu Local Government Area, killing …
Read More »Ekiti man to die by hanging for killing wife’s lover
Click here to see metrics on why you should advertise on Freelanews.com An Ekiti State High Court, Ado Ekiti Division, has sentenced a 28-year-old man, Ayodeji Alomoge, to death by hanging for killing a man having affairs with his wife. Alomoge, who was tried on a count charge bordering on …
Read More »Man rapes minor for three months, bags 20-year jail term
Click here to see metrics on why you should advertise on Freelanews.com A Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja on Wednesday convicted and sentenced a man, Dennis Okubiat, to 20 years imprisonment for raping a 12-year-old girl for three months, which caused urinary incontinence. Justice Ismail Ijelu held that …
Read More »Lagos govt reacts as miscreants take over pedestrian bridge in Yaba, illegally levy loads (Video)
Click here to see metrics on why you should advertise on Freelanews.com The commissioner of Environment and Water Resources in Lagos State, Mr. Tokunbo Wahab, has issued a statement in response to the concerning viral video depicting miscreants collecting money from pedestrians on a pedestrian bridge in Yaba. Also read: …
Read More »25,679 sentenced to non-custodial services in five years – FCT NCoS
Click here to see metrics on why you should advertise on Freelanews.com A total of 25,679 inmates were sentenced to non-custodial services in the Federal Capital Territory in five years, the Nigerian Correctional Service revealed on Tuesday. The introduction of the non-custodial component into the operations of the NCoS was …
Read More »Rivers police arrest suspected cultist for killing two
Click here to see metrics on why you should advertise on Freelanews.com The Rivers State Police Command said its men have arrested a notorious cultist allegedly involved in a series of killings and armed robbery within the Diobu axis of Port Harcourt and other parts of the state. The police …
Read More »NDLEA nabs hairdresser, dispatch rider selling drug-laced chin-chin
Click here to see metrics on why you should advertise on Freelanews.com Officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have arrested a 20-year-old hair stylist, Josephine Odunu, and a 30-year-old dispatch rider, Edesemi Ikporo, for selling and distributing illicit drug-laced chin-chin to school students and at social parties in …
Read More »Chinese man accused of murder attempt in Ogun flees
Click here to see metrics on why you should advertise on Freelanews.com A Chinese national, identified simply as Yespon, is currently on the run after allegedly using an electric shocker on one of his father’s employees, known as Kelvin Godwin, at a timber factory in Ijebu-Ode. Freelanews learnt that the …
Read More »Suspected cultists kill man in Rivers
Click here to see metrics on why you should advertise on Freelanews.com A yet-to-be-identified man was on Thursday night shot dead by gunmen suspected to be cultists along the Nanka/Lumumba Diobu axis between Mile 2 and Mile 3 in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. It was gathered that about three gunmen …
Read More »Police arrest woman who ‘kidnapped’ self, 52 others
Click here to see metrics on why you should advertise on Freelanews.com Police in Akwa Ibom rescued four kidnap victims in the last one month. One of them is a woman who faked her own abduction. They also arrested 52 suspects for various crimes. Commissioner of Police in the state, …
Read More »Many injured, 18 arrested as youths attack Ogun monarch
Click here to see metrics on why you should advertise on Freelanews.com An undisclosed number of persons were reportedly injured during a clash that started on Sunday when some youths in the Agosasa community of the Ipokia Local Government Area of Ogun State attacked the monarch of the community, Azeez …
Read More »Baker’s throat slit in Lagos apartment, heart allegedly missing
Click here to see metrics on why you should advertise on Freelanews.com A baker, Tina Ileogben, has been killed and her heart reportedly ripped out of her chest and stolen at her residence on Olowo Street, in the Alhaja Shifiwa area of Dopemu, Agege, Lagos State. Freelanews gathered that the …
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