Gboyega Awoyinka, a 42-year old man, has been arrested by security operatives. He has been remanded in a Correctional Centre for allegedly r*ping a mentally challenged woman, Rhoda Adeboye, in a cocoa farm. Awoyinka reportedly committed the offence at Kajola —Ojurin in Ore, Odigbo local government area of Ondo State. He pleaded not guilty to…
Security personnel have detained and handed over to the police two masqueraders who are accused of murdering a man from the Umuopu community in Enugu Ezike, Igbo Eze North Local Government Area of Enugu State. On Wednesday, August 31, 2022, the suspects, who are allegedly from Ette, a border town between Enugu and Kogi states,…
Microblogging platform, Twitter, on Thursday, September 1, disclosed that it has begun actively testing an edit button, after months of publicly discussing such a tweak. The trial of “Edit Tweet” will begin with internal employees, then be expanded out to the platform’s “Twitter Blue” subscription population, the company said. The company said on its blog:…
Matthew Quaicoo, an Italy-based Ghanaian man, has made a startling claim about Nigerians. He said that the issuance of Ghanaian passports to Nigerians will make his countrymen lose their reputation in oversea countries. Quaicoo who is reported to be an evangelist in Italy, then, asked Ghana’s foreign affairs to stop issuing the country’s passports to…
Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue state has replied the Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu. Shehu had in a recent comment lashed out at the governor for faulting approaches to ongoing war against insecurity in the country. Vanguard reported that in response to Gov Ortom’s revelation that…
Men of the Jigawa state police have arrested a 37-year-old man identified as Munkaila Adamu for killing his parents in Gagarawa Local Government Area of the State. Spokesperson of the State Police Command, DSP Lawan Shiisu Adam, who confirmed the development in a statement said the incident happened on Thursday, September 1,2022, at Unguwar Malamai…
The Kogi State Government has shut down over five brothels and shanties in Lokoja and other parts of the state. The Director General of Land and Urban Development, Nazil Ochu, who led the operation which began on Tuesday, August 30, advised operators of the illegal businesses in the state to switch to other legitimate businesses…
Two soldiers were reportedly killed while four others sustained injuries when terrorists ambushed troops from the 32 Battalion of the Nigerian Army in Shimfida community, Jibia Local Government Area of Katsina State. The military personnel was ambushed by the terrorists along Shimfida-Gurbi road at about 10 am on Wednesday, August 31. The soldiers were escorting…
Not fewer than 49 Boko Haram insurgents were reportedly killed when a Super Tukano warplane bombed three terrorist hideouts in Sambisa forest in Borno State during multiple raids. It was gathered that the air bombardment was conducted by the Air Task Force, Operation Hadin Kai, on August 30 and 31, at the terrorists’ camps of…
GIOTV reports that kerosene price has continued to rise around Nigeria. The average price of National Household Kerosene, NHK, increased Month-on-Month, MoM, by 3.68 per cent to N789.75 in July 2022, from N761.69 in June 2022, according to the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS report released yesterday. The report titled, ‘Transport Fare Watch’ for July…