A 70-year-old man has been arrested by the police in Jigawa over the rape of a 7-year-old girl. The suspect identified as Ibrahim Nasaleh reportedly committed the offense in Kiyawa Local Government Area of the state. Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Mr. Zubairu Ismail said the victim was rushed to the Sexual Assault and Referral…
Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III has alleged that the regimes of Generals Aguiyi Ironsi, Yakubu Gowon, and Olusegun Obasanjo laid the foundation for insecurity currently witnessed in the country. The monarch who spoke at a meeting with the Steering Committee of the Senate Constitution Review Committee on Thursday, March 11, said Ironsi’s 1966…
Gunmen have reportedly abducted dozens of girls during an attack on Federal College Of Forestry Mechanisation in Birnin Gwari LGA, Kaduna state. A resident told TheCable that the attack occurred in the early hours of Friday. The school is less than ten kilometers to the Nigerian Defence Academy in Kaduna. Mohammed Jalige, police spokesman in…
Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo state has procured bicycles the civil servants working within the premises; an act that has made him a subject of ridicule on social media. We reports that the bicycles were delivered to the secretariat on Tuesday, March 9. It was learnt that though the government did not announce the amount…
The Niger State Governor, Abubakar Bello has disclosed how some repentant bandits deceived the government into collecting money to buy more weapons for their operations. He made the disclosure at a parley with a vigilante group at Mariga Local Government Area of the State, yesterday. The Governor, however, assured that bandits who give up their…
The ban on Nigerian flights to Dubai has been extended by the United Arab Emirates authorities till March 20. Though it was stated that Emirates flights from Dubai to Lagos and Abuja will continue as scheduled, the statement from the public relations firm for Emirates revealed that customers from both Abuja and Lagos would not be accepted…
A Twitter influencer named Tunde, aka Tuneri, has allegedly committed suicide according to his friends. This comes just one day after he took to Twitter to say he needs money badly. “I need money like mad, Jesus,” he tweeted. This morning, Tunde began trending as friends took to the platform to claim he had committed…
Popular Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has disclosed that his interactions with bandits were done in the presence of government officials.Gumi disclosed this while rebuking those calling for his arrest and prosecution over his interaction with bandits. The Islamic cleric described those calling for his arrest as “clowns.” Recall that the Human Rights Writers Association…
The recruitment of health and care workers from Nigeria and 46 other countries has been suspended by the United Kingdom government as confirmed in its updated Code of Practice (CoP). Africa Check had earlier reported that about 5, 250 Nigerian-trained doctors are on the UK books as of April 2018, a rise of 10 percent…
The Special anti-kidnapping and Cybercrime Squad has arrested five suspected kidnappers in connection with the alleged abduction and murder of a 39-year-old woman, Joy Osameze, a farmer in Obiaruku Community, Delta State. The police squad also recovered from the suspects, a bagco bag containing a human skull and other human parts suspected to be that…