No fewer than seven villagers have been killed in an attack on Yanbuki community in Zurmi Local Government Area of Zamfara State by suspected armed bandits. According to an eyewitness from the village, the bandits started shooting immediately after they stormed the area, neutralizing scores of people in the village. “The bandits were moving from…
Barely a week after four persons were kidnapped at Ayebode, in Ikole Local Government Area of Ekiti State, eight victims were allegedly kidnapped on Tuesday at Itapaji Ekiti in the same council area. The abductors were said to have contacted the family early on Wednesday and demanded the sum of N50 million as ransom. An…
A man reportedly attempted to jump down from a telecommunication mast at the Iyana-Ipaja area of Lagos State on Tuesday morning. The man who climbed to the top of the mast around 8.30 am, but was rescued by a combined team of policemen, officials of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), and those from the Lagos…
President Buhari has said that 12 million children in the country are traumatized and afraid of going to school due to the rate of abduction in the country. The President disclosed this during the opening of the Safe School Programme in Abuja on Tuesday, October 26. Represented at the event by his Chief of Staff, Prof….
The corpse of a farmer has been found with machete cuts on his body in Ondo state. The farmer was alleged to have been killed by suspected a herder following the discovery of an injured cow at the scene of the incident. The incident occurred in Ajowa-Akoko, Akoko North West Local Government Area of the…
A 37-year-old man, Abdulkareem Muhammed has been arrested by the police after he was caught with thirty-two litres of petrol in 3 polythene bags, hidden in a travelling bag in Kaduna. Spokesman of the command, SP Gambo Isah, who paraded the suspect before newsmen at the Command Headquarters on Tuesday, said he was arrested along…
Seven siblings from Kenya have refused to bury their brother who died two years ago because he abandoned them when he was alive and squandered wealth. According to The Standard, Clement Kariuki Kiraihira died in 2019 at the age of 69 and since then his body has been lying at the Consolata Mathari Hospital mortuary…
The trial of Nigerian music star, Azeez Fashola, popularly known as Naira Marley, on 11 charges bordering on conspiracy, possession of counterfeit cards and fraud, resumed on Tuesday, October 26 at the Federal High Court, Lagos. The anti-graft agency had arraigned the artiste Naira Marley, who sang the popular song: “Am I a Yahoo Boy”,…
Akinwumi Adesina, President of the African Development Bank Group has lamented that a paucity of energy is negatively affecting the growth of Nigerian industries. Speaking at a meeting organised by the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) in Abuja on Tuesday October 26, Adesina noted that no business can survive in Nigeria without generators. He also…
The Federal Capital Territory Administration Social Development Secretariat, SDS, has rescued a 56-year-old retired Marine Engineer who attempted to commit suicide five times in Abuja. The Acting Director, Social Welfare Services of the SDS, Sani Amar, who disclosed this in an interactive session with newsmen in Abuja on Tuesday, October 26, said that the secretariat…