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Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission says a federal high court has ordered the final seizure of properties owned by former petroleum resources minister Diezani Alison-Madueke. This is the latest court ruling related to corruption allegations against her – charges she denies. Ms Alison-Madueke served as Nigeria’s petroleum minister between …

Eighteen people, including two policemen, were killed in a violence clash between nomadic herdsmen and farmers in Nigeria’s Benue state. The violence broke out as herders stormed the farming village of Gbeji in Ukum district, firing indiscriminately, said Paul Hemba, security adviser to the Benue state governor. Mr Hemba said …

The Ministry of Women and Social Welfare in Nigeria’s Anambra State announced the arrest of a middle-aged man separated from his wife, for abusing sexually two of his daughters. The children are aged three and five. They were rescued and first taken to Ntasi Centre, Enugwu-Ukwu, for medical examination and …

Lagos State Police Command announced the arrest of a 22-year-old primary school teacher and her boyfriend for brutalizing her two-year-old daughter and burning her buttocks. The suspect, teaches in a local school at Bariga, owned by her boyfriend’s mum. An Instagram platform, Instablog9ja, while speaking to a resident, said the …

At least 15 people have died in a boat accident in Shagari Local Government Area in Nigeria’s Sokoto State as the boat they were in was en route to Maulaudi. The local government’s Chairman, Aliyu Shagari, said the incident happened on Tuesday evening and confirmed the death of 15 people. …

A 37-year-old sales representative has been charged in a magistrate’s court with allegedly stealing four Bibles from a supermarket in Nigeria. The prosecutor, Inspector Felicia Okwori said the defendant was at the supermarket in December and stole two bibles, an operation that was captured on CCTV. “The defendant came again …

A fight between Nigerian and Indian students at GD Goenka University in the capital, New Delhi, sparked by a football match last weekend has caused panic in Nigeria. The incident forced more than 60 Nigerians to flee and take refuge at the country’s embassy. The chairwoman of the Nigerians in …

A parish priest in charge of St. Joseph Parish has been abducted in Nigeria’s Anambra state since October 12, the Catholic Archdiocese of Onitsha said in a statement. He was said to have been abducted by gunmen while returning after celebrating a Funeral Vigil Mass at Umunnachi in the Njikoka …

Nigeria’s Security and Civil Defence Corps arrested five men in Sokoto State after discovering that they consistently sodomized a seven year old boy. The suspects include the young boy’s uncle and other four men. They sodomized the boy until his vital area was damaged, local media reported. The boy said …

Female motorist has caused accident in Agege area, Lagos State, Nigeria after hitting a tricycle carrying a pregnant woman, an elderly lady and a girl, local media reported. Reports said those carried by the tricycle unfortunately lost their lives. An eyewitness said, “A woman was driving a private car at …