Alfa Ekele, a Florida Institute of Technology student, who is a Nigerian national has died. He was identified as the person killed earlier this month at the Orlando Executive Airport after wind gusts of 60 mph flipped a twin-engine plane he was in. According to an official of the airport, the deadly incident was caused…
Twenty-three victims of the AK9 train attack are still in captivity 186 days after their abduction. More than 60 passengers were abducted when terrorists attacked the train conveying them from Abuja to Kaduna. Most of the freed passengers paid N100 million ransom allegedly facilitated by Kaduna-based Publisher, Tukur Mamu. Mamu was arrested last week by…
The federal government has been given ideas on how to end the lingering strike. A former presidential aspirant of the African Democratic Congress, Kingsley Moghalu said that Nigeria needs to invest a lot more in the educational system amid the ongoing academic strike if things must change. Recall that the Academic Staff Union of Universities…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday visited the east Ukraine city of Izyum, the military said, one of the largest cities recently recaptured from Russia by Kyiv’s army in a lightning counter-offensive. The military in a statement on social media on September 14 said that Zelensky and military officials “took part” in a ceremony raising…
Residents of Nguroje town in Sardauna local government area of Taraba state witnessed a Europe-like environment when ice poured from the sky recently. The ice rain lasted for over 40 minutes. Residents of the community say this would be the first time such happened in the area. The excited community members took out buckets and other…
A Twitter user has shared the story of how his neighbor was recently arrested after the lady he brought home passed out while they were having sex. The Twitter user @josh_uglyasf stated that the man boasts about changing women a lot, and all advice given to him to stop having sex with multiple partners fell…
A 29-year-old woman was on Monday, September, 12, arraigned at the Milimani Law Courts, for allegedly stabbing her friend at a club in Nairobi, Kenya. In a charge sheet, Sheila Achieng is accused of having committed the act at the Eureka Club located along Tom Mboya street on Thursday, September 8, 2022. She allegedly stabbed…
The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola has ordered the Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Service Board to hold the subsequent promotion examinations of its officers. The order was disclosed in a statement signed by the Deputy Director of Press, Ministry of Interior, Afonja Ajibola, on Tuesday, following an inspection visit by the Minister to…
Since floodwaters destroyed more than 200 homes in Makurdi, many inhabitants of Benue State are today facing a difficult situation. Dr. Emmanuel Shior, the executive secretary of the Benue State Emergency Management Agency, disclosed this information on Wednesday in Makurdi at the monthly delivery of aid to internally displaced people. He listed affected parts of…
Some suspected armed robbers, have caused serious commotion in a Kwara community. The robbers, om Monday night, invaded priest house of Saint Barnabas Cathedral, Anglican Communion at Sabo Oke in Ilorin, Kwara State and carted away items worth millions of naira. GIOTV gathered that the robbery incident, which occurred about 2:30 a.m., was carried out…