Laie.Tv

A member of Bishop David Oyedepo’s Living Faith Church has gifted his pastor the latest Land Cruiser Prado worth N55 million. Pastor Chris Abraham was gifted the car as a farewell gift after he was recently transferred from Abuja to another state in Nigeria. According to Church Gist, the Land Cruiser was given to him by a member popularly known as Major Mega. 

The United States Ambassador to Nigeria, Mary Leonard, says her country is ready to partner Nigeria to identify the sponsors of Boko Haram and extremism in the country. She disclosed this on Monday, August 30, during a meeting with journalists in Abuja. The envoy was asked if the US was ready to help Nigeria identify sponsors of terrorism in Nigeria. She, however, said talks were ongoing on the matter. According to her, “That is something we are very eager to partner Nigeria on. I have had at least three conversations in the last two months on this subject. I won’t like to go into details. I hear people making the analogy with Afghanistan a lot, it does not match up. When you listen to what President Biden said on how troops went to Afghanistan in the first place, it was because they were in a horrible tragedy, over 3,000 Americans were killed. That is a different construct. The sovereign nations who have had strong bilateral relations. I don’t actually think the two match ...

A narcotrafficker, Ibeh Kenneth Ejike, has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja for ingesting 87 wraps of coc*ine. The 41-year-old suspect who was arrested on Wednesday, August 25, 2021, upon his arrival on board an Ethiopian Airline flight 911 from Kigali via Addis Ababa was taken in for secondary check during which he tested positive to ingestion of illicit substance.  According to NDLEA’s spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, while under observation, he excreted 87 pellets of cocaine weighing 1.884 kilograms. Ibeh who imports cloths for sale hails from Owerrizikeala village in Orumba LGA of Anambra State. 

The Edo State Police Command have arrested a 21-year-old nanny, Precious Mmaduike, who allegedly kidnapped her boss’ children in Lagos and took them to Benin City, Edo State. The suspect was arrested alongside two others on Thursday, August 26, 2021, three days after she abducted the kids from their residence in Surulere area of Lagos. The other suspects are identified as Jane Osas, 35, and 45-year-old John Obasu.  The command’s spokesperson, Kontongs Bello, in a statement said, “The abduction was planned and executed by their housemaid. Precious Mmaduike, used her familiarity with the children as househelp and abducted them from Lagos to Benin City, Edo state. The father of the children said they were given N500 by his wife to buy biscuits outside the compound in the company of the nanny, but failed to return. He said the phone of the nanny was later switched off and efforts to find the children proved abortive. The father reported the situation to the Aguda police sta...

A father of five, Zakaria Waye, who allegedly broke his wife's lower jaw and d*maged her left eye during a quarrel has been arraigned in Chief Magistrate Court 4 in Yola, Adamawa State. It was gathered that the accused, who hails from Girei town in Girei LGA of the state, a*saulted his wife, Ruth Zakaria, on Wednesday, August 25.   The victim, Ruth, could not talk when she was brought to court on Thursday, August 26, as she had undergone surgery to stitch and wire her broken jaw.   Zakaria, who is accused of constantly b*ating his wife, sometimes in the presence of their children, pleaded not guilty to the charges of causing a grievious hurt among other offences.  He told the court that his wife should be blamed for the trouble in the family, alleging that she held his private part hence he had to b*at her.   The court presided by Magistrate Abdulrazak Adamu, ordered that the accused be remanded at Yola Correctional Centre and adjourned the matt...

The Committee on Prison Reforms and Decongestion has freed Rahma Hussein, a young woman accused of k*lling her husband to protest her forced marriage. In 2014, Hussein, then 16, was arrested and charged to a High Court in Kano State for st*bbing her husband to d*ath, barely 24 hours after their wedding. In 2018, Justice R. A. Sadik ordered her “detained at the pleasure of the governor of the state” because she was forcefully married and committed the offence at the age of 16. . The spokesperson, Kano correctional centre, Musbahu Kofar-Nasarawa, in a statement on Saturday, August 28, said Ms Hussein’s release on Friday was “based on the recommendation from the officials of the correctional centre who attested to her sound character.” The committee also advised Governor Abdullahi Ganduje, who holds the power of prerogative of mercy on her judgement, to consider the circumstances that led her to commit the offence and grant her pardon. 

. The police in Kwara State have arrested six suspects who allegedly abducted a 300-level female student of the Kwara State University (KWASU), Malete, Isiaq Khadeejah.  Khadijat was abducted last Sunday at one of the Malete off-campuses of the institution, allegedly, by the suspects, who demanded N50million ransom for her release.  The commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Tuesday Assayomo, in a statement on Saturday, August 28, said the suspects were arrested as police rescue the victim unhurt. It was gathered that the K*dnappers were tracked through a POS they wanted to use to collect the ransom in Shao, the next town to Malete in the Moro LGA of the state. ”Six suspects involved in the act have been arrested, different categories of weapons used in the k*dnap were also recovered,” he said.