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  O peratives of the Nigeria Police Force have rescued Mrs. Olaide Busayo Adegoke John-Paul, the younger sister of former Minister of Power and All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship aspirant in Oyo State, Chief Adebayo Adelabu, alongside her 12-year-old twin sons, Peter and Paul, following a late-night operation that led to a gun battle with suspected kidnappers. According to security sources, the victims were rescued alive at about 7:30pm on Saturday, June 6, 2026, three days after they were abducted while travelling to school in Ibadan. It was gathered that two suspected kidnappers were killed during an exchange of gunfire with police operatives, while two firearms were recovered from the gang. The successful rescue reportedly followed sustained intelligence gathering, tracking of the kidnappers' movements and coordinated tactical operations by security personnel. Police sources disclosed that mounting pressure from operatives forced the kidnappers into a confrontation, ul...

Iran’s World Cup squad has been notified they must enter and leave the U.S. soil on the same day of their matches played in the United States, the country’s ambassador to Mexico said on Saturday, June 6, 2026. Due to the ongoing US-Israeli conflict with Tehran, Iran’s team is now based in Mexico, instead of their intended site in Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A. “We can enter in the morning and we must leave the same day,” Iran’s envoy Abolfazl Pasandideh told reporters, explaining the visa restrictions. The Iranian squad has three group matches in the United States, in Los Angeles and Seattle.

  Nigerian TikTok creator, Amadou Elizabeth Aminata, popularly known as Jarvis, has explained why her boyfriend and fellow content creator, Habeeb Hamzat, popularly known as Peller, chose to propose to her in Accra, Ghana, rather than in Nigeria. Speaking during a recent livestream, Jarvis revealed that the decision to travel to Ghana for the romantic beach proposal was made due to safety concerns and a desire to avoid public disruptions. She noted that hosting an event at home could have attracted individuals with bad intentions or local area boys, commonly called Agberos, who might have disrupted the occasion to demand money. “Peller didn’t engage me in Nigeria because there are a lot of people in Nigeria with bad intentions to spoil everything for us, or even Agberos who will come and ask us to pay them money. So, we just had to think outside the box for somewhere peaceful and calm.” The beach side engagement, held at the La Palm Royal Beach Hotel in Accra, has generated signifi...

  A  Lagos court has sentenced Chukwuemeka Udezuka to 12 years in prison for stealing a total of ₦64,060,000 from four victims who had engaged him to help convert naira to the U.S. dollars at the official Central Bank of Nigeria exchange rate. Justice Rahman Oshodi of the Special Offences Court in Ikeja delivered the judgment on Friday, June 5, 2026, after finding Udezuka and his company, Mezu Connection Investment Limited, guilty on all four counts of stealing filed by the EFCC's Lagos Zonal Directorate 1. According to the prosecution, the defendant collected funds from the victims in 2022 under the pretense of facilitating foreign exchange transactions at the official CBN rate, before disappearing and cutting off all contact, leaving the victims with no means of recovering their money. Among the specific counts, Udezuka was found to have dishonestly converted ₦28,000,000 belonging to one Chizoba Benson Chiegwu and ₦17,360,000 belonging to Hojoli Augustine Okechukwu, among ot...

  Worried by the continued forceful detention of the schoolchildren and their teachers abducted from Ahoro-Esinele in Orire Local Government Area of Oyo State, scores of female traditional worshippers from across Egbaland, on Friday, staged spiritual procession around major streets of Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital in a bid to secure the release of the victims. Clad in their traditional white worship atire with paraphernalia of worship, the half-naked traditionalists visited sacred sites of traditional worship in Abeokuta metropolis where they invoked spirits of the deities for a spiritual intervention in the efforts towards safe release of the victims within the next seven days. The procession was led by Yeye Olokun Agbaye and Olori of Ilawo Kingdom, Her Royal Majesty, Omolara Fashola-MacGregor, who described the initiative as a sacred appeal and appeacements to the deities and revered ancestral spirits to ward off evils away from Yorubaland in general. Among the sites visited w...

  Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, has ordered the restriction of motorcycle operation between 10:30 PM and 5:30 AM to curb insecurity in the state. The  governor issued an Executive Order on the restriction, on Friday, stating that the state government would not relent until the kidnapped teachers and school children return home safely.  According to him, every day the victims remain in captivity is a painful day for their families and the entire state. He  assured Oyo residents that efforts were ongoing around the clock, stressing that the safe return of those abducted remains a tough conversation for his administration.  Makinde added that the victims have not been forgotten and they have not been abandoned. “ We may not be able to disclose every step being taken because of the sensitive nature of the operations involved, but I ask our people not to mistake our silence for inaction. A great deal of work is being done behind the scenes,” he stated.