A middle-aged man has died in multiple fatal crashes near Tarzan Junction along the Onitsha-Awka expressway, Anambra. The accident, which occurred Friday night, involved four vehicles: a Toyota Sienna with registration number SE 482 JJT, a Volkswagen bus with registration number NNE 336 ZK, a Toyota Hiace bus with registration number FST 635 XV and…
Three suspected members of a kidnap gang operating in Rivers State have been arrested after unleashing terror for many months on residents of Port Harcourt city and Rumuodogbo, in the Emohua Local Government Area of the state. The suspects, Uzoma Amandi, Uburize Omesi, and Onyekachi Amadi, were rounded up some weeks ago by operatives of…
The Air Force Council has approved the promotion of 107 senior officers to the next higher ranks in the Air Force, a statement by Bassey Okon, Acting Deputy Director for Director of Public Relations and Information, NAF Headquarters, said on Friday in Abuja. According to Okon, the senior officers comprise 16 Air Commodores who were…
The police command in Ekiti on Friday confirmed the killing of a police officer as gunmen allegedly abducted a Chinese expatriate in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital. The abductee was one of the engineers working with the Chinese company handling the new Ado-Iyin road. The Command Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Sunday Abutu, who…
Two men identified as Aliu Mubarak and Adewale Abiodun have been arrested by the Oyo state police in connection with the killing, dismemberment, and selling of decapitated heads of policemen for N1000. The suspects were arrested after one Oladipupo Ifakorede confessed to buying the heads from the duo for money ritual purposes. The two policemen identified…
Brazil’s unemployment rate has hit a record 14.6 percent as the pandemic slammed Latin America’s largest economy, the government reported Friday. The figure for the July-September period was the third straight record for joblessness in Brazil. A total of 14.1 million workers were seeking jobs, said Brazilian statistics institute IBGE. Another 5.9 million have given…
A mother-of-five is being praised as a hero after she tragically died moments after saving her children from a horrific house fire in Russia. The fire started late at night on Wednesday when the family were sleeping in the city of Yakutsk, far east Russia. Gulnara Kostelnyuk, 31, was killed in the blaze when the…
A Nigerian man, Ridwan Oyewunmi, has called on Nigerians on social media to help him get justice after a school teacher who is currently on the run, allegedly beat his younger brother, Boluwatife Omelaja, to death at a school in Ikorodu, Lagos state on Thursday, November 26. In a Twitter thread, the distraught brother said…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities has agreed to call off its eight-month strike which has grounded academic activities in the public universities since March. The union leadership reached the consensus during a meeting with the government team led by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, in Abuja, on Friday. The government…
President Muhammadu Buhari has stated that Nigerian women are stabilizers of peace in all parts of the country. He made the declaration yesterday when he hosted the representatives of women at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The Nigerian leader therefore urged women to engage the youths in the aftermath of the EndSARS protests, on the need…