Senior Special Assistant to President Buhari on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu says repentant bandits played a role in securing the release of over 300 schoolboys abducted from Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina. Recall that on December 11, gunmen on motorcycles attacked the school and abducted the students a few hours after President Buhari,…
11 National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members have tested positive for coronavirus in Taraba State Orientation camp. Taraba State Commissioner of Health, Innocent Vakkai who disclosed this while briefing journalists in Jalingo, said the corps members are asymptomatic and are responding to treatment at an isolation center in the state. Vakkai revealed that the corps members were…
Angry South Africans are demanding the death sentence for a 34-year-old man who stabbed his seven-month pregnant girlfriend to death. The 27-year-old woman died after being stabbed by her boyfriend during an argument outside her mother’s house in the North West on Saturday, December 19. Police spokesperson Lt-Col Amanda Funani, who confirmed the incident on Monday,…
Gunmen have killed a policeman while trying to rescue two kidnapped victims at Bosuwa village in Maigatari Local Government Area of Jigawa State. Police spokesman, SP Abdu Jinjiri confirmed the incident in Dutse. He said the incident happened on Monday at about 2:00 am in Bosuwa village. Jinjiri said the kidnappers, numbering about nine, stormed…
The US Congress has passed a long-awaited $900bn (£660bn) package of coronavirus pandemic aid after months of political maneuver between Republicans and Democrats… Senators approved the bill late Monday, December 21, hours after it was passed by the House of Representatives. The new financial aid includes direct payments for many Americans and support for businesses and…
A notorious armed robber and rapist, who told police in a viral video that it’ll be best to kill him to prevent him from committing further crimes, has escaped from the custody of the Lagos State Police Command. Adeniyi Ajayi had explained weeks ago that he was initially arrested for petty crimes and went to…
A medical doctor has died after contracting coronavirus in Benue state. The top doctor identified as Anweh Damian, who is also a member of the Medical and Dental Consultants Association of Nigeria (MDCAN), federal medical center (FMC) in Makurdi, Benue state died of COVID-19 complications. The association announced his death in a statement signed by…
The Federal Government has extended the deadline issued to all telecommunications operators in the country to block all Subscriber Identification Modules (SIMs) without National Identification Number (NIN). This follows a meeting of the National Task Force on NIN and SIM Registration which held on Monday in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The Executive Vice-Chairman…
The leader of the vigilante group and two others were killed at the weekend in renewed attacks on the Madaka community, Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State. The attack is coming two weeks after the village head was kidnapped. Sources said the bandits stormed the town on motorcycles, burning houses and shooting sporadically, and…
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command said it arrested five robbery suspects in Abuja last Wednesday. Spokesman Yusuf Mariam on Sunday said they were arrested around Wuse following a distress call that the suspects were about robbing their victims. Mariam said the suspects confessed to being responsible for criminal activities along the Wuse axis….