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The Yobe State Police Command has foiled a kidnap attempt and arrested four suspected members of a criminal syndicate allegedly involved in fraud, impersonation and abduction in the state. The command’s spokesperson, Dungus Abdulkarim, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday, noting that the operation led to the rescue of a 35-year-old victim and the recovery of a Toyota Prado SUV used for the crime. According to him, operatives of the Potiskum Divisional Police Headquarters acted on credible intelligence on Monday at about 10:30 p.m., when they intercepted a suspicious Toyota Prado SUV exhibiting unusual movement within Potiskum metropolis. “The…

By Ozioruva Aliu BENIN CITY – Three persons suspected to be cultists who were allegedly linked to last Friday’s cult-related killings in Benin City have been arrested in a joint raid by the Edo State Special Security Squad, ESSC, and operatives of the state Police Command. The suspects were arrested at Amagba and Obagie communities were fetish items, arms and ammunition were recovered from their homes. The three suspects are Osazee Omoruyi, Innocent Okunozee, the Okiaghale (Youth Leader) of Obagie community, who both confessed to being cultists but denied involvement in the killings and Anito Osaho,n who denied belonging to…

The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr Olayemi Cardoso, has said the bank will strengthen cooperation with continental partners following Nigeria’s approval as a permanent member of the Board of the African Monetary Institute. In a statement by the apex bank on Monday, it was disclosed that the decision was taken at the 39th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union in February 2026, after earlier adoption by the AU Executive Council at its 48th Ordinary Session. The AMI, established under the AU’s financial institutions framework, serves as a precursor to the African Central Bank, which…

El-Rufai has been detained by EFCC over alleged N432bn fraud and is currently facing cybercrime charges for ‘bugging’ NSA Ribadu’s phone. NewsOnline Nigeria reports that Former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, was detained on Monday night at the headquarters of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in Abuja following hours of interrogation over an alleged N432 billion corruption probe. El-Rufai, a chieftain of the African Democratic Congress, arrived at the EFCC’s Jabi office around 10am in response to an invitation. However, multiple sources within the anti-graft agency confirmed that he remained in custody late into the night. A senior EFCC…

Newly released US Justice Department documents have raised fresh questions about whether Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly known as Prince Andrew, shared sensitive information with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein while serving as a UK trade envoy, media reports said Monday. Emails from 2010 show correspondence between Andrew and his aide David Stern, which were later forwarded to Epstein, according to ABC News. The exchanges align with Andrew’s tenure as the UK’s special representative for trade and investment from 2001 to 2011. In one July 2010 email, Andrew appeared to discuss restructuring details concerning the Royal Bank of Scotland, which…

The United States and Iran began indirect talks in Geneva on Tuesday over their long-running nuclear dispute, with a senior Iranian official asserting that negotiations hinge on Washington avoiding unrealistic demands as the U.S. masses a battle force in the region. U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner will take part in the negotiations, which are being mediated by Oman, a source briefed on the matter told Reuters, alongside Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi. U.S. President Donald Trump said that he would be involved “indirectly” in the Geneva talks and that he believed Tehran wanted to make a deal. “I don’t think…

Charismatic U.S. civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, an eloquent Baptist minister raised in the segregated South who became a close associate of Martin Luther King Jr and twice ran for the Democratic presidential nomination, has died at age 84, his family said in a statement on Tuesday. “Our father was a servant leader – not only to our family, but to the oppressed, the voiceless, and the overlooked around the world,” the Jackson family said. Jackson, an inspirational orator and long-time Chicagoan, was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2017. The media-savvy Jackson advocated for the rights of Black Americans and…

Tom Pritzker, the billionaire heir to the Hyatt hotel chain whose name appeared multiple times in newly released documents related to Jeffrey Epstein, has stepped down as chairman of Hyatt Hotels Corporation, the company said. According to The New York Times on Monday, Pritzker is the latest prominent figure to step down following renewed scrutiny over ties to Epstein, the financier who was charged with operating a sex trafficking ring involving underage girls and was found dead in jail in 2019 while awaiting trial. In a letter to Hyatt’s board, Pritzker said he was stepping down effective immediately. “Good stewardship…

The UN said on Monday that Israel denied or impeded nearly half of coordinated humanitarian aid movements inside the Gaza Strip despite a ceasefire deal, with only just over half fully facilitated over a six-day period. Citing the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric warned during a news conference that humanitarian operations “continue to face significant impediments.” “Shipments from Jordan are restricted to a route that requires multiple offloading and reloading points,” he said, adding that “shipments from Egypt, via Kerem Shalom/Karem Abu Salem, face high return rates: despite a recent improvement, between Feb. 4 and 10, less than…