Nineteen persons have died in a fatal road crash that occurred at the Kateri axis of the Kaduna-Abuja highway on Sunday, March 21. Samuel Aruwan, Commissioner Ministry of Internal Security and Home Affairs, who confirmed the incident in a statement on Monday, March 22, said 34 others were injured and are now receiving treatment in a…
The Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrosheed Adewale Akanbi has cautioned against the use of social media to create falsehood just as he advised agitators of Nigeria’s breakup to channel their energy into demanding quality governance and devolution of power. Oba Akanbi while addressing journalists in his palace earlier on Monday also called on Nigerians in…
State Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, who confirmed this in a statement on Sunday, said the bandits opened fire on motorists on Saturday, March 20, and killed a driver identified as Danladi Maisamari Udawa. In another incident, a 30-year-old herder, Yakubu Aruwa was also killed while grazing his cattle between Gora and…
One police officer has been confirmed dead after hoodlums attacked the Divisional Police Headquarters, Isiala Mbano, in Imo state on Saturday, March 20 at about 6.30 pm. The hoodlums stormed the station in their numbers and started shooting sporadically into the air. Operatives of the Division however successfully repelled them. After the encounter, it was discovered…
Chairman of Cross River state chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Ben Ukpekpi has been reportedly kidnapped. Ukpekpi was kidnapped while standing in front of his house at CROSPIL Estate, Akpabuyo, in the outskirt of Calabar with his wife around 8 pm on Sunday, March 21. It was gathered that they took him through the…
The Adamawa State Police Command has arrested three suspects for alleged kidnapping and robbery and recovered three single barrel guns. Spokesperson of the command, DSP Suleiman Nguroje, who disclosed this in a statement on Sunday, March 21, in Yola, said the suspects were responsible for the kidnap of Engineer Elan Jobbo, a principal of VTC…
A Fulani group named Fulani Nationality Movement (FUNAM), has claimed responsibility for an attack on Samuel Ortom, the Governor of Benue State. FUNAM said they would have killed Ortom on Saturday, if not for a slight communication error. A statement by one, Umar Amir Shehu, said the Governor stood against open grazing and Fulani interest…
Baoku Gbuyi, a 29-year-old herbalist, and a 27-year-old, Bricklayer Olamide Odulaja, have been arrested by detectives of the Ogun state police command. They were nabbed over the killing of a housewife Modupeola Folorunsho and her 4-year-old son Peter Folorunsho for money-making ritual. A statement released by DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, spokesperson of the state police command,…
President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday described the attack on Benue State Governor as unacceptable, warning, however, that the incident should not be politicised. Buhari who said an attack on any Nigerian is an attack on all Nigerians, welcomed the deployment of a high-level team of crack investigators to the state from the Police headquarters in…
A celebration over a newly-bought Lexus GX 460 turned sour on Friday night when six suspected internet fraudsters, otherwise known as Yahoo boys, died after ramming the car into a stationary truck along the Agbarho-Ughelli section of the East-West Road near Ekiugbo Junction in Ughelli, North Local Government Area of Delta State. The incident occured…