A Kenyan journalist, Betty Barasa was shot dead by suspected armed robbers at her home in Oloolua, Ngong area in Kajiado County. Barasa, who worked as a video editor at the national broadcaster, KBC, was fatally shot upon arriving home from work at 8 pm, on Wednesday night, April 7. Area DCIO Joseph Chesimet,…
Men of the Anambra state police command have arrested two suspects, Victor Ikechukwu, 30, and Ifeanyi Uyanne, 35, in connection with the death of two young men killed during a shooting incident that occurred at Tempsite Okpuno, Awka, Anambra State on Wednesday, April 7. A statement released by the spokesperson of the state police command,…
A 12-year-old boy has died after he jumped from the roof of an Upper East Side building in New York City. The unidentified boy landed on a parked car, shattering the front window of the vehicle when he jumped from the roof of the 15-story apartment building at 1045 Park Avenue on Tuesday, April 6….
A final year student of the University of Port Harcourt identified simply as Gloria, has died few days after writing her first-semester exam. It was gathered that the student of the Faculty of Agriculture reportedly collapsed in her room and died on Wednesday, April 7. The cause of her death cannot be ascertained, however, posts…
The minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Sabo Nanono, has married an 18-year-old school leaver in a secret wedding. Mr Nanono, 74, ties the knot with the beautiful lady in a secret wedding attended by only three representatives of the septuagenarian groom on Saturday in Jere town of Kaduna State. “The minister only assigned three…
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has condemned the recent attack of a Nigerian Correctional Services Centre and the Police Headquarters in Imo state. Osinbajo who condemned the attack which led to the freeing of an unspecified number of prison inmates during his visit to the state on Tuesday, April 6, appealed to Imo residents to resist any…
A man in his early 20s reportedly chopped off his grandmother’s head, placed the severed head in a plastic bag, and took it to Kisumu Central Police Station in Kenya. The man shocked police officers when he arrived at the station with the bag and asked the officers to open the bag on April 5….
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday, April 7, decorated a Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, as the acting Inspector-General of Police. The event took place at the State House, Abuja. President Buhari through the Minister of Police Affairs, Mohammad Dingyadi, had on Tuesday, April 6, appointed Usman as the next police boss. He takes…
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo missed the official opening of the 20th National Sports Festival (NSF) in Edo State on Tuesday. A heavy storm reported around the Benin airport forced his aircraft to make a detour. Governor Godwin Obaseki confirmed the situation in his address at the ‘Edo 2020’ opening ceremony. “His plane had to be diverted…
President Muhammadu Buhari’s Personal Assistant on Social Media, Lauretta Onochie, has declared that the president will go for his routine medical checkup in 2022 and 2023. Onochie made the remark while rubbishing those wailing over Buhari’s medical trip to London. She said Buhari has seen his personal doctor since 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and would…