Barely two months after a serving Member of the Anambra State House of Assembly was beheaded in Anambra State, gunmen have beheaded a former lawmaker in the same state, PREMIUM TIMES has reported. According to the report, the victim, Nelson Achukwu, from Nnewi South Local Government Area of Anambra...
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By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – A former Secretary of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Alhaji Sani Toro, former Assistant Coach of the Nigeria Super Eagles, Garba Yila and one of their friends, Alhaji Isa Jah, who were kidnapped last Saturday, have been released by their captors. NATIONAL ACCORD had...
The Kaduna State Government (KDSG), on Sunday confirmed that bandits attacked worshippers, killing three persons and injuring two others in Kajuru Local Government Area in the state. The Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Mr Samuel Aruwan, confirmed the incident in a statement issued in Kaduna. Aruwan said,...
Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have abducted a former Secretary-General of the Nigeria Football Association (NFA), Ahmed Sani Toro. Toro was abducted on Saturday night, June 18, on Abuja-Jos road alongside a former Golden Eaglets assistant coach, Garba Iliya. It was gathered that the the victims were said to be travelling...
Gunmen on Friday in Nsukka, Enugu State, killed a policeman and set ablaze patrol vehicles in two different police check points in the area. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered that the policeman was killed in Umanu junction in Nsukka while the police patrol vehicle was set ablaze...
By OLA MUDOPE, Ibadan – The Abducted Bishop, Rt. Rev. Aderogba Adeyinka of Jebba Anglican Diocese, his wife and driver, have regained freedom from their abductors. Recalled that Aderogba, his wife and driver were kidnapped on Sunday at about 9.00 p.m., after their vehicle broke down at an isolated...
Gunmen have reportedly invaded the Celestial Church of Christ, SBJ Oshofa Parish, Wasimi, Ewekoro Local Government Area of Ogun and abducted two worshippers. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered that the victims are; Oluwaseun Ajose, Assistant Shepherd of the parish, and Dagunro Ayobami, a Sunday school teacher. The...
Gunmen have abducted Rev. Fr. James Kantoma, the Parish priest of St. Anthony Catholic Church, Angware, Jos East Local Government Area of Plateau. DSP Alabo Alfred, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state, confirmed the abduction to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Jos....
The Imo Police command has clarified that Prof. Adiele Jachimike, a staff member of Boss FM radio, was arrested by policemen from Owerri Area Command, not abducted by gunmen as being claimed. The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) CSP Mike Abattam disclosed this in a statement on Sunday. The...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – A leading Advocate of Good Governance and anti-corruption Civil Society Organisation – HEDA Resource Center, has condemned the vicious massacre of scores of worshippers at the St. Francis Catholic Church, Owo in Ondo state by yet- to-be identified gunmen The group described the act...
Gunmen suspected to be Kidnapper have abducted Mr Uchenna Nwube, Ebonyi Government House Cameraman, along Okigwe-Aba-Enugu Expressway. Nwube, who was allowed access to his phone by the kidnappers, told journalists that he was kidnapped on Wednesday at about 7 p.m. “I was kidnapped today, June 8 while returning to...
The Anambra State Police operatives have arrested a 70-year-old native doctor linked with the unknown gunmen that behead a lawmaker in Anambra State, Okechukwu Okoye. It was gathered that the native doctor was exposed by one of the gunmen that were arrested last week. The security operatives, upon receiving...
Gunmen have reportedly kidnapped The Prelate of the Methodist Church Nigeria, His Eminence, Samuel Kanu Uche, along Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway, in Umunneochi Local Government Area of Abia. It was learnt that the Prelate was kidnapped on Sunday alongside Rt. Rev. Dennis Mark, the Methodist Bishop of Owerri and the...
Gunmen on Sunday, killed Mr Zakari Kigbu, a former Federal Commissioner of National Population Commission (NPC) at his residence in Azuba community near Lafia, Nasarawa State capital. ACP Ramhan Nansel, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Nasarawa State Command, confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – A frontline aspirant for Southern Borno Senatorial District on the platform of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC), Alhaji Idris Durkwa has escaped death when some unknown gunmen ambushed his convoy with his teaming supporters and opened firewhich led to the death of two...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – Gunmen suspected to terrorists on Wednesday midnight broke into the Rectory of St Patrick Catholic Church, Gidan Maikambo, Kafur Local Government Area of Katsina State and kidnapped 2 of the Reverend Fathers as well as 2 other boys from the house. The terrorists are...
An 18-year-old gunman has killed 14 children and a teacher at an elementary school in Texas on Tuesday, according to the state’s governor, in the nation’s deadliest school shooting in years. The attack in Uvalde, Texas — a small community about an hour from the Mexican border — is...
By BARBARA KALU, Awka – Anambra State Governor, Chukwuma Soludo has described the May 20 killing of a woman and her four children by yet to be identified assailants as “barbaric and unacceptable”. Soludo, in a Statement signed by Mr Christian Aburime, his Chief Press Secretary on Tuesday vowed...
The abducted Chairman of Keffi Local Government Area (LGA) in Nasarawa State, Muhammad Shehu-Baba and his aide Dr. Tanimu Mohammed, have regained freedom from their abductors. ASP Ramhan Nansel, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state, confirmed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday...
Anambra State Governor, Chukwuma Soludo has condemned the killing and beheading of Mr Okechukwu Okoye, a member of the state House of Assembly and Director of his campaign organisation, Mr Cyril Chiegboka. The heads without (trunks) of Okoye and Chiegboka were discovered around Chisco park junction in Amichi, Nnewi...