An attack launched by Boko Haram insurgents at Mandaragraw, a community in Biu Local Government Area in the southern part of Borno Wednesday night has left 3 people dead. Eyewitnesses who confirmed the attack in the remote community which is about 30 kilometers to Biu town and over 150 kilometers to Maiduguri, the State capital told…
AC Milan striker, Zlatan Ibrahimovic has tested positive for Coronavirus ahead of his team’s Europa League qualifier against Norwegian club Bodo/Glimt. A club statement confirmed that the Swedish striker, 38, has been placed in quarantine at home away from his team-mates and club staff. It read: ‘Zlatan Ibrahimovic has tested positive for Covid-19 following a…
Suspected Fulani herdsmen on Wednesday, invaded a mining site in the Jol community in Riyom Local Government Area of Plateau State, and attacked local miners. No fewer than nine miners were critically injured in the attack. A local miner who escaped the attack said that the incident occurred at about 8:20 am when herdsmen allegedly…
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday explained that Companies and Allied Matters Act, 2020 (CAMA) will enhance transparency and corporate accountability in the fight against corruption. He spoke in a video message presented at the Open Government Partnership (OGP) 2020 Virtual Leaders’ Summit on the sidelines of the 75th Session of the United Nations General Assembly…
Unknown gunmen suspected to be bandits have kidnapped Alhaji Salisu Ali Sukuntuni, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party in Rimaye town, Kankia Local Government Area of Katsina State. According to Katsina Post, the gunmen stormed the town in the early hours of Thursday, September 24, and took him away. Sukuntuni is the PDP immediate…
Lagos State Government is set to deal decisively with members of unlawful societies and cultism with a new bill being considered by the State House of Assembly. The bill entitled; “A Bill For A Law To Provide For The Prohibition of Unlawful Societies And Cultism In Lagos State And For Other Connected Purposes,” went through…
Three Nigerians have been arrested for entering India via Bangladesh without valid documents. According to a local report, during routine checking, police stopped a vehicle coming from Tripura side on National Highway 8 along the Assam-Tripura border on Wednesday evening, September 23, They detained three Nigerians from the vehicle after they failed to produce their passports and…
A tanker of gas has exploded this afternoon, September 24, 2020 at Iju Ishaga area of Lagos state with over 50 persons reportedly injured. Reports from eyewitnesses said several houses were shaken by the explosion, which damaged vehicles parked on some streets. Director-General of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, Dr Olufemi Damilola Oke-Osanyintolu, confirmed…
The Defence Headquarters says a high profile Boko Haram Commander has surrendered to Nigerian troops during clearance operations in their enclaves in Borno saying that the operations took place between Sept. 17 and Sept. 23. The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. John Enenche, disclosed this while giving a weekly update on the operation of the…
Nigerians have reacted to the federal government’s approval of $1,959,744,723.71 contract for a rail line that would link Nigeria to the Niger Republic. Speaking after a federal executive council meeting which was presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari, Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi told State House correspondents that the money approved for the development of the proposed rail line linking Kano-Dutse-Katsina-Jibia…