Day: October 2, 2021

Suspected cultists arrested for torturing lady over TikTok video in Edo

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Two suspected cultists have been arrested by the Edo State Police Command for allegedly torturing and humiliating a TikToker identified as ‘Queen Perri,’ following a viral video she made on social media. The state Commissioner of Police, Mr Philip Ogbadu, disclosed this after the state’s monthly security meeting at the Government House in Benin City. He said two of the boys involved in the torture of the lady had been arrested and in police custody, adding that the command had intensified search for other culprits. Contrary to the news making…

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Independence Day: Citizens comply with IPOB’s Sit–at–home order, desert cities in East

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The sit–at–home ordered by the leadership of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, was totally observed in all parts of the South East as cities in the zone were deserted. The sympathy sit-at-home was declared by IPOB for people from Southeast not to be part of Nigeria’s Independence Day celebration, saying that there was nothing to celebrate. Apart from the incident in Oboama Nguru in Aboh Mbaise, Imo State where enforcers of the sit-at-home burnt to death a commercial bus driver, people just stayed in their homes. The area witnessed…

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Aggrieved OAU students protesting colleague’s death block highways in Ile-Ife

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Students of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile- Ife, Osun State, on Friday blocked the Ede/Ife road and the Ife/Ibadan expressway to protest the death of one of their colleagues and 400-level student of the Department of Foreign Languages, Aishat Adesina. The students during the protest halted vehicular movement on the roads, leading to traffic gridlock, while many commuters looked for alternative routes to reach their destinations. The development has however led to the closure of the institution. A statement on Friday by the varsity’s spokesperson, Abiodun Olanrewaju, announced the immediate…

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