Suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Abba Kyari and four other policemen are at the risk of spending years in prison if found guilty of charges brought against them before a Federal High Court in Abuja. According to The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) the alleged offence committed by Kyari and his fellow officers…
The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has given conditions to Russia after a peace meeting. Ukrainian delegation is seeking a ceasefire and a troop withdrawal during the peace talks with Russia. Ukrainian Presidential Advisor, Mykhailo Podolyak spoke on Monday. He said Ukraine would be ready to talk about any neighbourly relations and political settlements with…
Two people as well as 18 camels were killed in a fatal accident involving a vehicle and a flock of camels in Bauchi State. The accident occurred in Dagauda town in Dambam Local Government Area of the state along the ever-busy Azare-Potiskum expressway. An eyewitness who is a Lecturer at the College of Legal and…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, extended its ongoing strike by eight weeks as the Federal Government has failed to satisfactorily address all the issues raised in the 2020 FGN/ASUU Memorandum of Action within the four-week warning strike. President of the union, Emmanuel Osodeke, made this known in a statement made available on Monday….
The Russia-Ukraine war has claimed the life of an award-winning American journalist Brent Renaud. Renaud, 50, was shot dead Sunday near Kyiv, Regional Police Chief Andriy Nebytov confirmed. “US citizen Brent Renaud paid with his life for trying to highlight the aggressor’s ingenuity, cruelty, and ruthlessness”, Nebytov wrote. The deceased was in a vehicle with…
A man identified as David Wanyonyi Simiyu, is currently on the run after he allegedly stole two video cameras and their accessories from a church in Nairobi, Kenya. It was gathered that Simiyu had received salvation at Presbyterian Church of East Africa (PCEA) Zimmerman Parish on Sunday, March 6, 2022.The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI),…
A man identified as Yahaya Oisamaiye has been remanded in a custodial center in Edo State for allegedly defiling his 15-month-old daughter. The suspect is accused of committing the offense on February 7, 2022, between 5 am and 6 am, at Brisbourne Iyamu Street, GRA, Benin City. The charge against him read; “That you, Yahaya…
Following the invasion of Russian troops in Ukraine, 31 Nigerians have arrived the country from Romania on Monday morning. The evacuees who are the seventh batch of Nigerian evacuees from Ukraine arrived aboard a Turkish airline after being airlifted from Romania. They are however the second set of evacuees from Romania following the Russian invasion…
Okike Chinyere, a female inmate of the Nigerian Correctional Service in Lagos has emerged as the best graduating student of peace and conflict resolution department, National Open University (NOUN). A statement by the correctional service said she bagged a second-class upper degree in the programme. Also, a male inmate Alegbe Afolabi was awarded a master’s…
Some air passengers are currently stranded at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport as airline operators jostle for aviation fuel, amidst scarcity that is getting worse. Aviation fuel, otherwise called Jet-A1, is a specialised type of petroleum-based fuel used to power aircraft and normally accounts for over 30 per cent of the operation cost of an…