By HARUNA AHMED, Yola – The Adamawa State Police Command have confirmed the arrest of two suspects in connection with 1,000 sachets of Tramadol concealed in a Television and Sound speakers in Yola. The state police spokesman, ASP Sulaiman Nguroje, who confirmed the development to newsmen on Thursday in...
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Angry youths at Chukuku Community, on Thursday, barricaded the Kuje-Gwagwalada road during a protest over incessant kidnappings by bandits in the community. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports the angry youths barricaded the road with inscriptions on placards “Government should provide security to Chukuku Community”. The youths set...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Following the Federal High Court judgement in Abuja, which sacked 20 lawmakers from Cross River State who defected from PDP to APC, the Cross River State House Of Assembly has been sealed, early this morning and taken over by combined security forces. NATIONAL ACCORD...
There was drama at Bwera Parish headquarters in Kyeizooba Sub-county, Igara East Constituency in Bushenyi District (of Uganda) after residents reportedly nabbed a 59-year-old woman having sex with an 18-year-old man. Ms Kedesi Katsigaire, a resident of Nyambirizi Village, Bwera Parish in Kyeizooba Sub-county, had previously been accused of...
At least 20 persons have been killed by bandits in Ganar-Kiyawa village of Adabka District, Bukkuyum Local Government Area of Zamfara State The latest attack happened on Sunday morning at about 8:30 am when the gunmen stormed the community and started shooting sporadically, killing 20 persons including the village...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has described as “deeply distressing” the destruction in Imo State of the buildings and assets of the Police and the home of President General of the Ohanaeze Ndi Igbo, Prof. George Obiozor. In a statement by his media aide, Malam Garba...
A middle-aged woman, identified as Chinwe Okafor, has been arrested for attempting to kidnap and sell children in Umuchigbo, Iji Nike community in Enugu East LGA of state. She pretended to be insane while perpetrating the act. The woman said she hailed from Iyi-Ozubulu in Nnewi, Anambra State but...
By BARBARA KALU, Owerri – Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma has condemned the bombing of the home of President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Prof George Obiozor, by suspected political bandits. Governor Uzodimma in a statement, regretted that desperate politicians who believe in violence were yet to sheath their swords...
By AISHA NANA, Bauchi – Bauchi State Police Command has arrested an 18-year-old boy, Abdulrahman Sulaiman, for allegedly stabbing his elder brother to death. Sulaiman allegedly stabbed his brother in a fight, resulting from a heated argument at the games village area of Bauchi metropolis. The Commissioner of Police...
A serving member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Alamin Saleh Bature has been rescued from Abuja kidnappers by good Samaritans. PRNigeria gathered that the swift intervention and efforts of an Igbo Christian, identified as Godspower Chinaechrem and two Northern Muslims, helped in the rescue of the victim...
A 13-year-old boy was driving a pickup truck that collided with a van carrying a college golf team in west Texas, killing nine people, officials said Thursday. Six members of the New Mexico-based University of the Southwest golf team were killed in Tuesday night’s crash along with their coach,...
Lagos State Police Command has warned members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) against any planned protest in the state. The Commissioner of Police in Lagos, Abiodun Alabi, gave the warning on Tuesday, saying the police will not condone any form of protest by any group....
By OLA MUDOPE, Abeokuta – Some passers-by have rescued a newborn baby abandoned in a carton in Osogbo, Osun capital. The Coordinating Director, Osun State Ministry of Women, Children and Social Affairs, Mr Jide Falade, said in a statement that the baby was rescued on Feb. 25. According to...
By BARBARA KALU, Abakaliki- No fewer than four persons were killed on Tuesday’s attack on the facility of the Nigerian Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in the state. It was learnt that the security agencies killed two of the gunmen, while others escaped with injuries at the incident that...
The police have arrested 11 suspects who set ablaze a traditional ruler in Ogun State. A petition was received from one Odetola Okuribido ‘m’ on behalf of the entire Okuribido Royal Family of Agodo town, Ewekoro Local Government Area of Ogun State. According to the petition, the traditional ruler,...
A 15-year-old nanny, Chiamaka Odo, was among over 30 suspects paraded on Monday by the police in Lagos State. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Adekunle Ajisebutu, paraded Chiamaka and others at the Command Headquarters in Ikeja. He stated that the police recorded many successes across the...
A woman identified as wife of the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, DCP, Abba Kyari, on Monday, fainted at the Federal High Court in Abuja. She slumped on the ground shortly after trial Justice Emeka Nwite deferred ruling on applications that DCP Kyari and six other persons facing drug...
Heavily armed bandits have reportedly kidnapped at least 75 people in Kekun Waje district of Bungudu LGA of Zamfara State. In a raid on the community over a month ago, more than 60 people were abducted in a similar attack. Those abducted in that incident are still in captivity,...
The Lagos State commissioner of police, Abiodun Alabi, has directed all area commanders and Divisional Police Officers to beef up security and maintain visibility in their area of coverage. This is coming on the heels of the indefinite suspension of the Lagos State Chapter Chairman of the National Union...
No fewer than 20 lawyers have expressed desire to defend the suspended DCP Abba Kyari. Musa Shafiu, a legal practitioner, who disclosed this to newsmen on Wednesday, on behalf of other lawyers, said the lawyers are ready to defend Kyari in a suit filed by the National Drug Law...