No fewer than twenty kidnap victims, including eleven women and an unspecified number of children, have been rescued from bandits at different locations in Katsina State. At Fankama and Sabon Layi area of Faskari Local Government Area of the State, eight abducted persons were rescued following intelligence reports that bandits dressed in military camouflage uniforms…
The leader of Yoruba ethnic group, Professor Banji Akintoye has said that Yoruba ethnic group is in dire need of its own country out of the present Nigeria. Akintoye said that over 55 million people of Yoruba extraction, will get their freedom without breaking the law of the country or shedding blood. The renowned historian…
Commercial sex workers in Onitsha, Anambra State, under the aegis of Self-Made Women of Substance, have vowed to embark on indefinite strike over recent hike in the pump price of petrol and increase in electricity tariff. One of their leaders, identified as Uto Nwanyi, who claimed to be the patron, lamented that the effect of…
A 23-year-old Pakistani man, Sohaib Ahmed, who got married six months ago, has bought a one-acre plot of land on the moon as a wedding gift for his wife, Madiha. Ahmed, a resident of Rawalpindi, bought the lunar land in the region called ‘Sea of Vapour’. The land was bought for $45 from the International…
A Special Offences Court in Ikeja, Lagos on Wednesday, sentenced a dismissed police sergeant, Ologunowa Ojo, to seven years imprisonment for accidentally shooting a 45-year-old man, Taiye Akande to death with his Ak47 gun. The prosecution led by O. A Bajulaiye-Bishi, while presenting the case told the court that Ojo who was attached to the…
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has been slammed by a federal high court judge for acting against the constitution. A Federal High Court in Abuja has reprimanded President Muhammadu Buhari for acting against the constitution by forwarding the names of 11 lawyers nominated for appointment as judges of the High Court of The Federal Capital Territory…
Floods have killed three persons, taken over a local government secretariat, and displaced corps members in Miga Local Government Area of Jigawa State. Council Chairman Alhaji Muhammed Abubakar Agufa said hundreds of residents lost their homes while hundreds of farmlands in the area were destroyed. He lamented that the incident has become a yearly occurrence,…
Gunmen on Monday invade Kana town in Nasarawa Local Government Area of Nasarawa State, killing one person identified as Emmanuel and abducting 10 others including a pregnant woman. Chairman of Nasarawa Local Government, Mohammed Sani Ottos, who confirmed the incident on Tuesday, September 22, said the gunmen came from the Kana hill and went back…
A combined team of policemen and members of vigilante groups have arrested three suspected bandits in their hideout in a forest at the Igbeti-Kishi area of Oyo State. This is contained in a statement issued on Tuesday in Ibadan by the Police Public Relations Officer in the state (PPRO), SP Olugbenga Fadeyi. Fadeyi said the…
The Lagos Neighbourhood Safety Corps (LNSC), Ejigbo LCDA, Lagos State has warned the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) to fish out the commercial driver who killed one of its officers at Iyana Ejigbo bus stop yesterday. An officer, Nsude Chika attached to Iyana Ejigbo was reportedly knocked down by a commercial vehicle (LT)…