The police have detained a prominent Turkish journalist, Sedef Kabas for allegedly disrespecting the nation’s President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Kabas was detained in the early hours of Saturday morning, and a court ordered her to remain in jail pending a trial. Kabas’ lawyer Ugur Poyraz said they would appeal the “unlawful” decision on Monday January…
Former Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar (rtd) has revealed that he advised President Olusegun Obasanjo to go home and take care of his health rather than delving into politics shortly after he was freed from detention. Obasanjo who was detained by the regime of late General Sani Abacha, regained freedom when Abdulsalami took over…
A moving train crushed a trailer and commercial tricycle in Kano State. The incident occurred on Obasanjo Road in Kano metropolis at 11:30am on Sunday, January 22. According to eyewitnesses who run businesses near the railtrack, the cement trailer was coming towards the rail line as the train was speeding. The witnesses said they attempted…
A 14-year -old herder, Idris Idris, has been shot dead in Dong community of Jos North Local Government Area of Plateau State. According to the State Chairman of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), Malam Nura Abdullahi, the deceased, was killed on Saturday evening. He said Abdullahi was attacked while rearing animal but…
The Plateau State Police Command, on Sunday morning, confirmed that four men were killed at a mining site by yet to be identified gunmen Saturday evening. The Command, through its Public Relations Officer, ASP Ubah Ogaba, disclosed this in an interview in Jos, the State Capital. Ogaba said, “Four men who went to a…
Men of the Bayelsa State Vigilante have apprehended a suspected criminal who robbed a victim in Yenagoa. It was gathered that the vigilante got a piece of information from a pedestrian that some criminals were stealing from an innocent victim identified as Reymond Egbuta, in broad daylight under the bridge of the Swali Market on…
A 55-year-old police officer has passed away after he collapsed during a romp with a lady in Ndhiwa town in Homabay County, Kenya. Paul Rioba, the Ndhiwa Sub-County Police Commander said the incident happened on Friday night and that the man whose identity cannot be revealed was a police officer. The lady the 55-year-old police…
A query letter sent to a staff by The Zamfara State Urban and Regional Planning Board has sparked mixed reactions online. The letter queried a staff over absenteeism. The query letter misspelt “quarry” and signed by one Ibrahim Madawaki on behalf of the Director General, has been trending on social media.
The lifeless body of a baby boy was found wrapped in a plastic sheet inside a chest freezer. Neighbours living on the quiet street in Corowa, around 40 miles from Albury on the New South Wales-Victoria border in Australia, heard anguished screams of a baby at around 10pm on Wednesday, Jan. 19. Days before the…
The mother of two, Mercy Henry who was reported missing in Lagos state in December 2021, has been found dead and her body mutilated and packed into sacks. Mercy went missing on December 16 after she left her home to see a trado-medical doctor in Ijegun, a suburb in Lagos state. She however did not…