Author: Naija Daily News

By Deborah Nnamdi Operatives of the “Agunechemba” security outfit, Anambra State, on Thursday, raided a notorious criminal hideout at Enugwu-Agidi in the Njikoka Local Government Area of the state.During the operation, no fewer than 14 guns of different brands were recovered by the operatives. A post on one of its social media handles said the “Agunechemba” security troops invaded the area with other security outfits like the police, Department of State Services, military, and vigilantes. The post further revealed that the items, which were recovered during the operation include two AK-47 rifles, eight pump action gụns, four locally-made pistols, three…

By Deborah Nnamdi A Gwagwalada Magistrates’ Court sitting in Abuja on Thursday sentenced two lovers, Mohammed Nazifi, 30, and Bilkisu Ibrahim, 25, to three months imprisonment each for adultery. The police charged the lovers with a one-count charge of adultery by man and woman, to which they pleaded guilty. Nazifi pleaded with the court to temper justice with mercy, saying he was a married man with little children to take care of. Ibrahim also begged the court for mercy, saying she had a 3-year-old child and an aged mother, who depended on her. Earlier, the prosecutor, Dabo Yakubu, told the…

By Deborah Nnamdi A father in Pakistan has killed his teenage daughter after she uploaded what he considered to be inappropriate videos on the social media app TikTok, police said on Thursday. The man, said to be in his 50s, recently brought his family back from the U.S. to settle in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta, local police chief Babar Baloch, said. The father, now in custody, confessed to having shot his daughter earlier this week after she refused to dress more modestly and stop uploading what the family considered to be “indecent” videos on TikTok, Baloch said. Police…

The Otor-Owhe community in Isoko North Local Government Area of Delta State was on Tuesday thrown into chaos as furious youths set a man ablaze for allegedly beheading a woman. The suspect, identified as Oghenero, reportedly killed the woman in the bush after she slapped his mother. According to a community source who witnessed the incident, the slain woman, said to be from Emevor and Orogun, had allegedly slapped Oghenero’s mother during an argument. Upon returning home, Oghenero’s mother informed him about the altercation. “Immediately, Oghenero went straight to the bush and saw the woman farming and beheaded her and…

By Deborah Nnamdi Operatives of the Rivers State Police Command have arrested two suspects, Ugochukwu Onyebuchi and Ogechi Nmezi, for their alleged involvement in child trafficking in the state. The suspects are alleged to have collaborated with members of a local vigilante group, OSPAC, to perpetrate the crime.  A statement by the State’s Police spokesperson, SP Grace Iringe-Koko, on Wednesday, said the suspects were arrested on January 24, 2025, for conspiring to defraud victims under the guise of facilitating baby adoptions. The suspects had reportedly lured one Gift Chimanu, the mother of a two-month-old baby girl, Evidence Olomachukwu Chimanu, and…

The Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), has announced the suspension of operations by Max Air following Tuesday’s night incident involving the airline’s aircraft in Kano. A Max Air B734 aircraft with registration marks 5N-MBD experienced a tire burst on landing at Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, Kano, on Tuesday, January 28, 2025, at about 2251 hours. This would be the third incident in the space of three months involving a Max Airplane. Though the 53 passengers on board were evacuated unhurt, the aircraft was temporarily shut before the runway was reopened by the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) by…

Microsoft and OpenAI are investigating claims that the Chinese AI startup DeepSeek may have stolen data from OpenAI’s technology. The issue surfaced last fall when Microsoft’s security team noticed suspicious activity, suspecting that individuals linked to DeepSeek were using OpenAI’s API to extract large amounts of data illegally. Microsoft, OpenAI’s biggest investor, promptly informed OpenAI about the suspicious behaviour, but the exact data taken and the extent of the theft remain unclear. DeepSeek, a rapidly growing Chinese AI startup, offers a cheaper alternative to U.S. tech giants like OpenAI, gained attention this week when its free AI assistant briefly surpassed…

Tensions flared at the 79th Board of Trustees (BoT) meeting of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) when supporters of Senator Samuel Anyanwu and his rival, Hon. Sunday Udo-Okoye, clashed after Udo-Okoye was forcefully removed from the event. The incident occurred when Anyanwu’s supporters, who had already taken their seats in the hall, pointed out Udo-Okoye to the Ahmed Makarfi-led BoT Secretariat, insisting that he was not a valid board member and should leave. It was gathered that Udo-Okoye, who had arrived a bit later, was sitting at the far end of the high table when he was singled out. In…

The government of the United States of America is set to deport 3,690 Nigerians considered to be residing in the country illegally. The (ICE) said it has identified 3,690 Nigerians among the 1.4 million “illegal migrants” with deportation orders. A document obtained from ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) showed that the immigrants have been on ICE’s non-detained docket with final orders of removal since 24 November 2024. The non-detained docket includes people who have been ordered to leave the US or are in the process of being deported but are not being held by ICE. According to a report…

By Deborah Nnamdi The Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Zone-2 Command, Lagos, AIG Adegoke Fayoade has confirmed the detention of a hotelier for alleged sexual assault on male students in his hotel. Fayoade confirmed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Lagos. He said that the suspect will remain in detention pending the conclusion of investigations. The AIG said the hotelier was detained after a 16-year-old secondary school student confessed to his mother that he met the suspect at his hotel located at Bucknor in the Isheri Oshun area of the state. He said that the parents…