Six persons, including two mobile police officers and two officers of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), were killed during an attack carried out by suspected terrorists at PGP company in Birnin Tudu, Bakura Local Government Area of Zamfara State on Monday, June 14. The suspected terrorists were said to have attacked a company…
An Assistant Pastor with a pentecostal church in Asaba, Delta State has been accused of having carnal knowledge of the 19 months old daughter of his sister-in-law. An advocacy group, Centre For Basic Rights Protection And Accountability Campaign disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday, June 14. According to the group, the victim’s mother, Cindy…
The Oyo State Government has commenced evacuation of beggars in some parts of Ibadan, the state capital. The government noted that the evacuation of the beggars from the Jemibewon area to a resettlement facility in Akinyele started on Tuesday. Beggars had over the years been living around shanties on Jemibewon Road in the Sabo area…
There is an outrage on social media as the University of Nigeria Nsuka, UNN awarded the sum of N1000 and N1500 to its best graduating students in several categories. The 49th convocation of the University of Nigeria, Enugu State, held last Thursday. According to SaharaReporters, parents and visitors were disappointed and angry that the first-generation…
Ten persons have been allegedly killed after unknown stormed a drinking joint in Jos, Plateau State, shooting sporadically into the air. According to a statement released by the spokesperson of the state police command, Ubah Ogaba, the gunmen drove in a Hilux van into Kashe (Sabon Layi) community, Kuru District of Jos South Local Government, and…
Former Catholic Archbishop of the Lagos Diocese, Cardinal Anthony Okogie has insisted that President Muhammadu Buhari has made the country a ‘living hell for Nigerians’. Okogie said Buhari was responsible for the worsening economic and political situation in Nigeria. He maintained that Nigeria was currently worse than Buhari met it in 2015 when he assumed…
The Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Cross River State chapter, Comrade Ben Ukpepi who was kidnapped three months ago has regained his freedom. It was gathered that Ukpepi was kidnapped from his house at CROSPIL in Akpabuyo Local Government Area of Cross River on March 21, 2021. The Vice-Chairman, NLC, Cross River State,…
Nigeria has lost N24.72bn in 10 days due to the Twitter ban imposed by the Federal government. The Federal government on June 5 placed an indefinite suspension of the operations of the microblogging app in Nigeria after the site took down a tweet posted on the President’s handle. The Federal government last week said the…
A VIO official is battling for his life after he was hit by a truck. Mr. Udunobun Otaigbe, an official of the Directorate of Road Traffic Services (DRTS), otherwise known as VIO, is the Truck Timing Unit Head of the DRTS on the Kugbo stretch of the Abuja-Keffi road. He was hit at Karu bridge…
Senior Special assistant to the President on Niger Delta affairs, Ita Enang has said that the Governors are to be blamed for some of the challenges being witnessed across the country. Speaking during an interview on NTA on Monday, the Presidential aide alleged that Governors in the country have exercised powers beyond what the constitution…