Manchester United fans are planning a mass walkout in the next home game against Wolves on February 1st, as reported in The Mirror. The walkout is set to happen on the 58th minute of the game. The time has been chosen to symbolize the Munich air disaster, which happened on the 6th February 1958. Anti-Glazer…
The planned recruitment of personnel and further implementation of the blueprint for the South West regional security outfit named Amotekun are now on hold. It was gathered that some states had already fine-tuned the processes of recruitment before the controversial notification by the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, declaring the outfit as illegal….
Femi Fani-Kayode, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has said Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, has sold his soul to Satan. The former minister said this on Friday while reacting to Adesina’s op-ed on the killing of Lawan Andimi, the leader of the Christian Association of…
Zachaeus Atte, a former Commissioner for Agriculture in Kogi State, has been jailed for 19 years for diverting over N19m meant for cocoa farmers in the state. Atte was convicted by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) and convicted on corruption charges by a Kogi State High Court sitting in Okene,…
No fewer than 15 new cases of the dreaded Lassa fever infection have been discovered in Bauchi State, out of which 3 have been confirmed and are presently receiving treatment at the infectious diseases isolation centre of the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital (ATBUTH), Bauchi. Giving an update on the situation in the state,…
The Chairman of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in Adamawa State, Bishop Dami Mamza, has warned that the intention of the Boko Haram terrorist group is to create a fiction between Christians and Muslims in the country. Bishop Mamza who spoke in Yola on Friday while receiving a delegation from President Muhammadu Buhari, led by…
76 people have tested positive for Lassa fever in Edo State following a test carried out on 175 suspected cases in the state. Edo State commissioner of health, Dr. Patrick Okundia gave out the figure on Friday, January 24, during a Lassa fever committee meeting headed by the State’s Deputy Governor Mr. Philip Shaibu and…
The FCT Police Command has arrested the Chief of Ushafa in Bwari Area Council, Alhaji Mohammed Baba, following the alleged killing of a police officer by a mob at his palace. The command Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Anjuguri Manzah disclosed this in a statement on Friday in Abuja. He said the secretary to the…
An Assistant Superintendent of Police, Eric Isaiah, has been killed while attempting to arrest one Moses Peter, aka Dogo, wanted for culpable homicide. The cop was reportedly killed by some persons at the Chief of Ushafa palace in the Bwari Area Council, Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, on Thursday, at about 9pm. Narrating the circumstances surrounding…
A suspected armed robber, Ehuiwe Akire, has been trapped in police net after having a field day in Festac and Apapa areas of Lagos. Akire, said to be the leader of a six-man gang, was arrested recently by operatives of the Inspector-General of Police Response Team. City Round learnt that the gang’s targets were bank customers…