By TOM CHIAHEMEN, Abuja – Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Christopher Musa, has declared that as the Armed Forces of Nigeria and other security agencies continue to work tirelessly to improve the nation’s security, the non-kinetic efforts of the military have produced appreciable outcomes complementing its kinetic...
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At least 15 Catholic worshippers have been killed in a Burkina Faso village when gunmen attacked a community as they gathered for mass at a church in the country’s conflict-hit northern region, church officials said. Sunday’s violence in the village of Essakane was a “terrorist attack” that left 12...
On 14 February the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) confirmed that two of its soldiers had been killed in a militant attack on its base in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC’s) North Kivu region earlier that day. The attack was carried out by the M23 rebel group...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – The Zonal Coordinator, Sokoto Zone of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Professor Abubakar Sabo has decried that lecturers in Nigeria’s universities have been on same salary regime since 2009. Professor Abubakar, who made the disclosure at a press conference held in...
The policep command in Cross River on Thursday paraded a 30-year-old man who allegedly macheted his lover for failing to show up in his house on the last Valentine’s Day. The police alleged that Amber Ubung carried out the act when his lover, Blessing Onawu, 25, reneged...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC (EFCC), Abuja Zonal Command has arrested 11 suspected internet fraudsters, popularly known as yahoo boys. EFCC spokesman, Dele Oyewale, confirmed the arrest in a statement on Monday in Abuja. Mr. Oyewale said the suspected yahoo boys were...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Minister of State for Defence, Dr Bello Matawalle, has reiterated the ban on unauthorised use of camouflage uniforms in the country. Matawalle stated this in a statement issued by the Director, Information, Press and Public Relations of the ministry, Mr Henshaw Ogubike He...
The International Criminal Police Organisation (INTERPOL) has arrested a Director of Process and Industrial Development (P&ID) Ltd, Mr James Nolan, on Jan. 27 in Italy. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reliably gathered that Nolan, an Irish national, who jumped bail in 2022 in the ongoing 9.6 billion...
A 28 year-old man Sikuru Morufu was on Thursday arraigned before a Mapo Chief Magistrate Court in Ibadan for allegedly stealing N3,000 from a commercial sex worker. The Presiding Chief Magistrate, Mrs O.O. Latunji had admitted the defendant to bail in the sum of N100,000 with two reliable...
Justice Umaru Fadawu of the Borno State High Court, sitting in Maiduguri, on Monday, convicted and sentenced the trio of Aisha Alkali Wakil ( a.k.a Mama Boko Haram) Tahiru Saidu Daura and Prince Lawal Soyade to ten years imprisonment. The defendants were jailed upon being arraigned by the...
Some hoodlums on Monday attacked officials of NAFDAC who were on enforcement operation against substandard drugs in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the officials were attacked by the hoodlums during a raid at Area 1 motor park. The hoodlums harassed the enforcement officers...
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), on Monday, played nude videos of a female Diploma student of University of Calabar (UNICAL) in the open court in evidence against Prof. Cyril Ndifon, the institution’s suspended Dean of Faculty of Law. The development occured when the...
President Bola Tinubu on Saturday in Kaduna tasked the armed forces to continue to protect Nigeria’s territorial integrity against all threats. He also commended them for their continued dedication to duty and sacrifices made for the peace and stability of the country. Addressing the Diamond Jubilee...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – The Minister of Defence, Alhaji Mohammed Badaru, says Nigeria is committed to regional security cooperation with other members of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) countries. The Director, Information and Public Relations, Ministry of Information, Mr Henshaw Ogubike, disclosed this in a...
By TOM CHIAHEMEN, Abuja – The on-going military operations against insurgency have continued to record successes as troops of the Armed Forces of Nigeria neutralized 266 terrorists, arrested 463 violent extremists/insurgents and rescued 116 kidnapped hostages in the month of January 2024. In the same period, troops recovered...
A 21-year old man, Justice Ikeocha, on Thursday appeared before a Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, for allegedly accumulating N304,500 while lodging in a hotel and refused to pay. Ikeocha is facing a two-count charge of obtaining by false pretences and incurring debt by false pretences. He, however, pleaded not...
Mr Aliu Abubakar, father of a nine-year-old boy who was kidnapped, has told an Ikeja High Court that his son was traumatised when he returned home and could not speak. Abubakar said this at the ongoing trial of three men, Lima Auwal, Abdullah Usman and Seidu Abbas, charged...
An Enugu State High Court, on Wednesday, sentenced one Miss Chiamaka Ifezue to death by hanging for killing Miss Ijeoma Nweke, a make-up artist on Nov. 11, 2020 The court, presided over by Justice Kenneth Okpe, in a two-hour judgment, found the accused guilty of killing the deceased...
TKJ (not real name), the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC)’s star witness, on Tuesday, stated that Prof. Cyril Ndifon, the suspended Dean of Faculty of Law, University of Calabar (UNICAL), pressurised her to trade her virginity in exchange for an admission into the institution....
Justice Ibrahim Kala of a Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday reserved ruling until Feb. 6, on a bail application by a businessman, Lanre Smith, charged with 26,000 dollars fraud. Kala gave the date after hearing arguments from defence and prosecution counsel on the bail application. The...