By OLA MUDOPE, Ado-Ekiti – Former Ekiti State Governor and leading aspirant in the June 18, 2022, gubernatorial election, Engr. Segun Oni, has condemned the attack on the state party secretariat, describing it as “condemnable and barbaric”. Chief Oni, condemned the attacked in a statement he personally signed and...
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A High Court in Lokoja has sentenced one Muritala Dare to death by hanging. He was convicted of stabbing his colleague to death with a broken bottle. Justice Josiah Majebi, who presided over the case at High Court 2, Lokoja, found the accused guilty after considering his involvement in...
The Jigawa State Police Command says it is hunting for a 22-year-old man, who allegedly stabbed his elder brother to death in Sabuwar Takur area of Dutse. The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), ASP Lawan Shiisu, confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Dutse on...
Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu has visited Omolege Junction, near Ute in Ose LGA where gunmen on Thursday night killed three people and razed down buildings in the community. The governor’s visit is contained in a statement made available on Sunday in Akure by Mr Richard Olatunde his Chief...
By BARBARA KALU, Abakaliki- Unknown gunmen have reportedly killed of a member of Ebubeagu Security Network (ESN) in Ebonyi State. It was gathered that the incident occurred on Saturday night in Igweledeoha, Amagu, in Ikwo Local Government Area of the state. Confirming the incident to newsmen, the state command’s...
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has declared 19 individuals wanted for operating illegal crude oil refining sites which are responsible for the black soot menace in Rivers State. The governor in a statewide broadcast also directed the Rivers State Head of Service to query one Mr. Temple Amakiri, a...
By HARUNA AHMED, Damaturu – The Yobe State Police Command have arrested a 35-year-old man, Usman Ali, for allegedly stealing over 200 cell phones and other valuables in Damaturu. A statement issued by the command’s spokesman, ASP Dungus Abdulkarim, on Saturday in Damaturu, said the suspect, a resident of...
The Ebonyi State Police Command have arrested two suspects in connection with the disappearance of the remains of one Mrs Grace Orjiokoro, an 80-year-old-woman from a mortuary in Afikpo South Local Government Area (LGA) of the state. DSP Loveth Odah, the command Public Relations Officer said this when she...
A catastrophic fire tore through a row house in Philadelphia’s Fairmount neighbourhood before sunrise on Wednesday. The fire which had killed 12 people, including eight children, in one of the nation’s deadliest residential fires in decades. The victims were yet to be identified by the authorities, but relatives and...
The Lagos State Government has cleared five students and five employees of Dowen College accused of complicity in the death of 12-year-old Sylvester Oromoni. The state cleared them as well as the school following the Legal Advice of the Director of Public Prosecution, DPP, Ms. Adetutu Oshinusi. The copy...
Gunmen suspected to be bandits have reportedly attacked and killed one person in the residence of a police officer attached to the Inspector General of Police’s Special Intelligence Response Team, ASP Aliyu Umar, in Zaria, Kaduna State. The attack which occurred on Monday night, also left a neighbour to...
Kenyan police said, on Tuesday, they arrested five suspects in connection with the killing of seven civilians in the coastal region on Monday. National Police Service Spokesperson, Bruno Shioso, said the suspects were nabbed on Tuesday over the attack at Widhu Majembeni and Bobo-Sunkia – both in Lamu. Shioso...
By HARUNA AHMED, Gusau- A notorious bandit leader, Bello Turji, has reportedly released over 50 kidnapped victims in his custody in Zamfara State. Confirming the release on Tuesday, The Co-Chairman of the state Committee on Finding Lasting Solutions to Banditry, Dr. Abdullahi Shinkafi, said the victims are about 70,...
Five people were killed and 21 were injured in a bus accident south of Moscow in the early hours of Sunday, Russian authorities said. Russia’s Federal Road Traffic Inspection agency said the accident took place at around 5:45 am local time (0245 GMT) in the Ryazan region. “As a...
The police have rescued 21 schoolchildren kidnapped on December 31 by bandits at Kucheri Village, along Gusau-Funtua Road in Zamfara State. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, SP Mohammed Shehu, confirmed the development during a press conference on Saturday. Their freedom, he stated, followed efforts by police...
By HARUNA AHMED, Gusau – Gunmen suspected to be bandits have kidnapped a wife of Dr AbdulRazaq, a lecturer with Federal College of Education (Technical) Gusau and his two daughters, Maryam AbdulRazaq and Hafsat AbdulRazaq. It was learnt that the incident occured on Friday at Mareri Community, an outskirt...
ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – Hundreds of women and youths took to the streets of Tafawa Balewa Town, in Tafawa Balewa LGA of Bauchi State, to protest over the 21st memorial anniversary of the leader and crusader of the Sayawa people, late Peter Gonto, scheduled for Friday, 31st December. The...
Former Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha has said that elements described as ‘unknown gunmen’ in Imo State may soon be revealed after the arrest of Uche Nwosu. Okorocha, a serving Senator at the National Assembly, made the comment on Tuesday while speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today. According to...