Gunmen kidnapped a businessman, Mr. Emmanuel Eze, in Kore town in Danbatta Local Government Area of Kano State on Thursday. A police spokesman in the state, DSP Abdullahi Haruna, said in a statement on Friday that Eze has kidnapped from his groceries shop at about 10: 30pm. He added that the police have mobilized officers…
The Police Council has confirmed Usman Alkali Baba as the Inspector General of Police. Usman Alkali was confirmed on Friday during a meeting of the council in Abuja presided over by President Buhari. Minister of Police Affairs, Alhaji Maigari Dingyadi, confirmed the development to State House correspondents at the end of the meeting. Recall that…
Mohammad Mohammad, aA 25-year-old farmer, in Kasesa village near Damaturu in Yobe State has been arrested for allegedly poisoning nine wells in the community. The state police command, through its spokesman, ASP Dungus Abdulkarim confirmed the arrest on Thursday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). The PPRO said the suspect confessed…
Unknown gunmen have killed a policewoman and two other yet-to-be-identified residents at the Orji area of Owerri, the Imo State capital. The gunmen numbering about seven invaded the area on Thursday, June 3, at about 05:30 pm, moving around shooting sporadically. It was gathered that they started their operation from the Orji axis, headed to…
The Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta said kidnappers and armed bandits now use telephones of their victims to evade being tracked. He disclosed this on Thursday at the National Secretariat of the All Progressives Congress (APC) during the mid-term scorecard presentation of activities of the Ministry of…
Kogi Chapter of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), has said the group wants scholarships for Fulanis. The ethnic group traditionally consists mainly of nomads and herders from the northern parts of the country. Scattered across Northern states, they are believed to be marginalised in terms of education and are listed amongst…
A bar worker in Spain has reportedly been arrested after she cut off her boss’s penis following an alleged rape attempt. It was reported that the woman sliced off her boss’s genitals after he allegedly attempted to rape her on Monday night, June 2, at Sant Andreu de la Barca outside Barcelona. The woman in…
The Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps, Brig.Gen Shuaibu Ibrahim, says corps members are part of the national defence policy of Nigeria and can be mobilised for war if need be. Ibrahim said this on Channels Television’s ‘Sunrise Daily’ programme on Wednesday while reacting to moves to scrap the NYSC scheme which is compulsory…
Popular Nigerian activist, Aisha Yusuf has slammed the River State Governor over threats to kill members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB in the state. Sources had reported that the governor on Tuesday during the commissioning of construction work at the Ahoada Campus of the Rivers State University and the dualization of the Ahoada-Omoku…
Miss Blessing Olajide Omowumi, a 300- level student in the Agricultural Science Department of the University of Ilorin, have been brutally raped to death. The deceased, who hailed from Oke-Opin in the Ekiti local government area of Kwara state, was said to have been raped to death in her Tanke, Ilorin home on Tuesday. Kwara…