Unidentified robbers on Friday night attacked a police checkpoint at Eku in the Ethiope East Local Government Area of the state, shooting dead a policeman and a civilian. It was gathered that the incident occurred around 9 pm. It was further gathered that three policemen were on duty when the hoodlums invaded the checkpoint. Sources…
Manchester United executive vice-chairman, Ed Woodward, is ready to sack manager, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer if results do not improve, according to the Sunday Mirror. United have lost two of their first three Premier League fixtures so far. Solskjaer’s men went into the international break at the back of a 6-1 hammering from Tottenham last Sunday….
President Muhammadu Buhari has lost 100,000 Twitter followers in just three hours as a bestselling author, Reno Omokri, who started a hashtag, #UnfollowBuhari. At exactly 5 PM GMT, Mr. Omokri had tweeted via his verified Twitter handle as follows: Dear Nigerians, If we all mean business with this #EndSARS movement, let’s send a strong message…
111 new cases of Coronavirus were recorded in Nigeria on Saturday, October 12, as confirmed by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). A breakdown of the new cases is as follows; Plateau-32, Lagos-23, FCT-15, Osun-11, Ogun-9, Oyo-6, Imo-4, Bauchi-3, Kaduna-3, Yobe-3, Rivers-2. There are now 60,103 confirmed cases of Coronavirus in the country and 1,115 deaths…
Three suspects including a 9-month-old pregnant woman have been arrested by men of the Edo State Police Command for alleged armed robbery. Confirming their arrest to newsmen, the police command’s public relations officer, Chidi Nwabuzor, gave the names of the suspects as Jumoke Akanbieme, Osagiede Izevbokun, and Godfrey Okonide. Speaking on the operations of the…
Two Junior Secondary School students were crushed to death while five others sustained injuries in a fatal auto accident in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital. According to an eyewitness who posted the photos on Facebook, the accident happened around 2 pm on Wednesday, October 7, in the Gas Odota end of the Ilorin – Ogbomoso Expressway. The…
An unidentified man has been stabbed by hoodlums at a polling unit in Akure, the Ondo State capital where the governorship election is holding today. It was gathered that the incident occurred at Ward 4, Polling Unit 002 in the Ijomu part of the Akure South Local Government Area. Deputy Commissioner of Police, Investigation, Ondo…
One of the youths clamoring for the ban of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), an arm of the Nigeria Police Force, has been shot in Ogbomoso town in Oyo State. GIOTV gathered that irate youths on Saturday stormed major streets in the town to demand the proscription of SARS. Our correspondent learned that the victim…
Actress Didi Ekanem has expressed her fear about the #EndSARS campaign which has taken a prominent spot in the country in the last few days. The actress who revealed that she wants SARS scrapped added that her fear is they may become ”armed robbers since they were already one in uniform.” Didi wrote; EndSars and provide…
The Nigeria Immigration Service says 60 personnel have so far been sacked after they were caught receiving or giving bribes. The Comptroller General of Immigration, Muhammad Babandede, who disclosed this in an interview with BBC Hausa Service on Saturday, October 10, also said he once disguised as a cleaner to catch corrupt officials. Babandede said that…