A retired Deputy Inspector General of Police, Parry Osayande is not happy with the Nigerian police. This comes after Osayande faulted the approval of hijab for female police officers by the Inspector General of Police, Usman Baba. The new dress code also allows female officers to wear stud earrings under their berets or peak caps…
The government of Russia has offered a defence for the attack on a children’s hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, which killed three people including a child and injured 17 others. Russian foreign minister, Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov, alleged that Mariupol hospital was a base for Ukraine nationalists, the Agence France Presse, AFP reports. At least three people…
A Nigerian lady identified as @TheRealCeoAmber on Twitter took to the platform to share a chat with her pastor who asked for betting codes. The woman regularly shares betting codes with football fans on social media. She expressed her joy and hope of winning big this weekend since her pastor asked her for the codes…
Police in Oyo State has arrested two teenage brothers, Waliu Abd Razaq and Iliaz Abdul Razaq alongside their father, AbdulRasaq Padun, for the abduction and murder of an 8-year-old boy, Raheem Bamimore. The boy who was declared missing last Friday afternoon, March 4, 2022, in Saki town, was found dead in an uncompleted building along Ogbooro road, in Al-Barka…
Musiliu Akinsanya, aka MC Oluomo, has been suspended indefinitely as the Lagos chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW). MC Oluomo is accused of insubordination and misconduct bordering on inciting members of the union against the national body. The decision was taken after a query was sent to MC Oluomo over alleged meddlesomeness…
Serious scarcity and high cost of aviation fuel have forced domestic carriers have to begin flight delays and cancellation. b Aviation experts have said the development will lead to further flight disruptions because nobody knows when the scarcity will abate. An oil marketer, who spoke in confidence with The Nation correspondent, noted that the recent…
The Inter-Party Advisory Council in Lagos State has urged Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to install Closed-Circuit Television cameras in strategic places to improve security in the state. The IPAC Chairman, Olusegun Mobolaji, made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday. Mobolaji spoke against the backdrop of the murder of Miss…
No less than three people, including a young girl, have been killed in an attack on a children’s hospital in Mariupol in southern Ukraine. This was revealed by local officials on Thursday, according to Agence France Presse, AFP. “Three people were killed, including a female child, in yesterday’s attack on a children’s and maternity hospital…
Gunmen have killed at least five people in Tse-Ahentse village in Ndzorov council ward of Guma Local Government Area in Benue State. Villagers told our correspondent in Makurdi that several others sustained gun wounds following the attack which took place on Tuesday. The villagers said they were sleeping at night when the attackers whom they…
At least one person has been confirmed dead and six others, including a nine-month-old baby, sustained injuries following a clash between operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency and hoodlums in the ATC area of Jalingo, the Taraba State capital. The spokesman for the Taraba State Police Command, ASP Usman Abdullahi, who confirmed the…