The Edo police command has arrested a dismissed police inspector, John Terso over alleged impersonation and fraud. The officer who was sacked from the police force in 2019, is accused of parading himself as an Assistant Superintendent of Police and a tracker with IRT department. Terso is also accused of defrauding one Saliu Gideon Olauntoba of N180,000 and…
Another Improvised Explosives Device (IED) was discovered in Shanono area of Rigasa community in Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna state on Friday April 1. The bomb was discovered barely 24 hours after an IED concealed in a bucket was found in the community and deactivated by the state anti-bomb squad with no casualty was recorded. A resident, Tijjani…
The Gombe State Police Command paraded the suspects yesterday, March 31, and revealed that they were arrested on Wednesday, March 30. The suspects, Yale Saleh (27), Baba Muhammadu (24) and Aminu Salisu (22), all of Dinawa village in Kwami Local Government Area, were paraded at the command’s headquarters over criminal conspiracy and unlawful possession of…
Former military president, Ibrahim Babangida has spoken about the 2023 presidential election. According to him, he will be supporting the consensus presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2023 general elections. He made this known during a visit by the three presidential aspirants of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Minna. He commended…
Nigerian cleric, Pastor Sunday Adelaja, who is the founder of the largest evangelical church in Europe, the Embassy of the Blessed Kingdom of God for All Nations, has said he lost property worth over $4m to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. The clergyman also said in his bid to avoid being caught up…
Gunmen on Friday morning attacked the Mbieri Divisional headquarters situated in the Mbaitoli Local Government Area of Imo State. This is the fifth Divisional Police headquarters gunmen had burnt since they renewed their hostilities in the state in the past one month. Gunmen burnt Okwelle, Omuma, Isu and Umuguma Divisional Police Headquarters, killing two policemen,…
The family of 5-year-old Success Precious Abi, are seeking help in looking for her after she went missing in Abuja. According to the mum who spoke to LIB, Precious went missing on Wednesday, March 30 after she left home with her 13-year-old brother to buy something at a shop close to their house in Kpeyegi…
A train driver has died after a train derailed in Kaduna. The narrow gauge train travelling from Lagos to Kano State derailed at Farin Ruwa, near Jaji in Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State. Abdullahi Alhaji, Public Relations Officer, Northern Regional District of the Nigeria Railways Corporation, NRC, Zaria, stated that the driver of…
Sobanke Idris Sunday Adereti, a Nigerian man has been sentenced to federal prison on Thursday for federal fraud violations in the Eastern District of Texas. The 24-year-old man was sentenced to 33 months by U.S. District Judge, Jeremy D. Kernodle, after he pleaded guilty to passport fraud and attempted bank fraud.This, according to a press…
Rotimi Amaechi, the Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi, has refuted reports claiming he asked Nigerians to contribute money for the treatment of victims of the Monday, March 28, train attack. Terrorists attacked the Abuja-Kaduna train killing eight persons, injuring 21, and abducting an unspecified number of others. Earlier today, reports were rife that the Minister…