Gunmen who attacked again on Sunday have kidnapped four Reverend sisters of the Catholic church. The now feared Okigwe-Enugu Road, which has turned into a refuge for kidnappers and armed robbers, is where they were taken. Many persons have recently been abducted, including the Primate of the Methodist Church of Nigeria, Catholic priests, and travelers….
Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the Lagos State governor, has admonished traditional worshipers in the state. He pledged to give a listening ear to the agitations of traditional worshipers for a public holiday every 20th of August. Speaking during the 2022 Traditional Day Annual Conference organized by the Lagos State Chapter of Association of African Traditional Religion…
The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, has discussed the scarcity of passport booklets in Nigeria. The minister claims that the “human aspect” in passport offices is a major contributing factor to the shortage of passport booklets. He, therefore, challenged the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) to beam its searchlight on erring officers bent on exploiting passport…
A mother and her two kids have been killed. They were burnt to death at a black market shop in Satelite Town, Lagos, where fuel is being sold.It was learnt that the shop belonged to the deceased children’s father who reportedly sold adulterated fuel there. Daily Trust gathered that the kids had slept in the…
President Muhammadu Buhari’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, has made a fresh revelation regarding oil thieves. He promised that the federal authorities will soon identify the key figures responsible for the nation’s oil theft. Shehu claimed that security personnel had stormed places where illegal oil bunkering thrives in an effort…
Olusegun Obasanjo, a former President of Nigeria has sent a warning to Bola Tinubu’s camp. The former president sent a warning to some supporters of Bola Tinubu, Presidential Candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Tinubu and some APC chieftains had visited Obasanjo at his residence in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital, on Wednesday. Tinubu…
The Adamawa State Police Command has nabbed a man for allegedly stoning his two children to death. The command said its operatives apprehended 25-year-old Elisha Tari on Friday, August 18, after he allegedly murdered two of his children aged between three and five years in the Himikidu community of Michika Local Government. The incident was…
Policemen attached to Operation Restore Peace have dislodged a kidnappers’ den at Galadimawa forest in Giwa Local Government Area of Kaduna State. According to the police, a fierce encounter led to the arrest of a suspected bandit and the recovery of two loaded rifles. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, DSP Mohammed Jalige,…
Makanjuola Olabisi Lanre, a Nigerian pastor, of the Revolutionary Insight Church in Ilorin, Kwara State has been jailed. He was remanded for allegedly r*ping three biological sisters. An Ilorin Magistrate Court presided by Fatimah Salihu, ordered the remand of the pastor in Mandala Correctional facility on Friday for allegedly r*ping three biological sisters. The police…
The Jigawa State Hisbah Command has burnt over 5,550 bottles of alcohol worth N3.2 million. The commander of the Hisbah command in Jigawa, Ibrahim Dahiru, claimed the alcoholic beverages were intercepted during the command’s ongoing operations after the exercise in the state’s Kazaure Local Government Area. “Within weeks we have seized alcoholic drinks totalling 5,550…