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The abducted passengers of the Niger State Transport Authority bus, who regained freedom from bandits on Sunday, have narrated their ordeals. The travelers told journalists that the bandits’ ammunition was “out of this world”, adding that they had never seen such sophisticated weapons in their lives. They stated these in separate interviews with journalists […]
The Chief Press Secretary to Governor Okezie Ikpeazu, Onyebuchi Ememanka, has berated Senator Smart Adeyemi over his comment that drunkards govern Abia. Ememanka advised the Senator to quickly “seek psychiatric help before his case becomes unmanageable.” He said this in a statement, in Umuahia, on Tuesday. “Our view is that the Senator is either […]
THE President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Sunday regretted that Nigerians had shed enough blood over issues that could have been peacefully resolved. According to a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, the President spoke while reacting to the violence in Gombe State arising from the Billiri […]
Suspected herdsmen have killed seven farmers in some communities in Edo State. The gruesome attack was said to have been carried out on Wednesday at Ugboke, Oshodi, Okokodo, Ariyan, and Yoruba camp situated in Ovia North-East Local Government Area of the state. The police spokesperson in the state, Chidi Nwabuzor, who confirmed the incident, […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Abubakar Audi as the Commandant-General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC). The President also nominated Haliru Nababa as the new head of the Nigeria Correctional Service. The announcement was made by Mohammed Manga, a spokesperson for the interior minister, Rauf Aregbesola. The statement reads as thus: […]
A former Head of State, Abdulsalami Abubakar, has warned that Nigeria could disintegrate if the violence and other security challenges currently witnessed in many parts of the country are not curtailed. Mr Abubakar spoke to journalists on Wednesday at his home in Minna, the Niger State capital. His admonition is coming a few days […]
AGONY and sorrow enveloped Yewa axis of Ogun State as no fewer than 13 people were killed by hoodlums suspected to be Fulani herdsmen in different communities across Yewaland in the last one week. The gory incident started in Oha, Imeko-Afon Local Government Area of Ogun State, as one Dele Olowoniyi was hacked to […]
The Federal High Court in Lagos has granted an interim mareva injunction directing commercial banks to block Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Ltd accounts. A mareva injunction is a court order freezing a party’s assets, until the determination of a case they are involved in, to stop them from taking it abroad. The […]
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted two suspected fake uniformed military officers in a new VIP edition of Toyota Hilux Jeep loaded with 394 compressed parcels of illicit drugs concealed in different parts of the vehicle. The suspected fake military officers, Mohammed Nura and Abubakar Dahiru, were intercepted by operatives of […]
Suspected bandits have abducted some students of the Government Science School, Kagara in Niger State. The bandits were dressed in military uniforms when they attacked the boarding school Tuesday night, reported PRNigeria, a news agency with close ties to Nigerian security agencies. The bandits overpowered the security guard before whisking away the students. The […]
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