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RECENTLY-arrested kidnapper Chukwudi Onuamadike popularly known as Evans has revealed to the Lagos State Police Command that he only collects ransoms for the release of his victims in US dollars.

Over the weekend, Evans was arrested by the police in his palatial mansion in the Magodo area of Lagos, bringing to an end years of pursuit. He was Nigeria's most notorious kidnapper, who masterminded the abduction of public officials, expatriates and rich businessmen and women.
 

DOZENS of Nigerians gathered in Essex yesterday for a second ever parenting conference titled Protecting our Future aimed at addressing the growing problem of youth violence and the incessant rise of the alienation of youngsters.

ACTING president Professor Yemi Osinbajo has condemned the recent Kaduna declaration in which certain Arewa youth groups called on all Igbos living in northern Nigeria to leave the region by October 1 saying it was an unacceptable threat.

NIGERIA'S Super Eagles face the prospect of missing out on a third successive African Cup of Nations after they lost a qualifier by two goals to nil for the 2019 tournament to South Africa's Bafana Bafana in Uyo.

NORTHERN Elders Forum (Nef) spokesman and former Ahmadu Bello University vice chancellor Professor Ango Abdullahi has alleged that resources from the northern half of the country were used to develop other regions of Nigeria.

NIGERIA plans to export her first consignment of certified yams to the UK and US on June 29 as part of the federal government's economic diversification programme aimed at reducing the dependence on crude oil.

ACTING president Professor Yemi Osinbajo has flagged off the government's Emergency Food Intervention programme in the northeast designed to address possible feeding shortages among the victims of the Boko Haram insurgency.

NIGERIAN businessman Ezeoma Chigozie Obioha has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in Los Angeles after being found guilty of the murder of a woman in a restaurant in 2015.

SEVEN Nigerians have been elected as members of the British Parliament following yesterday's general election that had been hurriedly called by Prime Minister Theresa May to resolve the ongoing Brexit crisis.

KADUNA State police have begin a manhunt for the signatories to a recent letter published by certain Arewa youths who demanded that all Nigerians of Igbo extraction should leave northern Nigeria by October 1.