A 3-year-old girl has died of a heart attack after ingesting cocaine brought into her home by her drug-dealer dad, a judge has ruled. The child, named in court only as K, was admitted to hospital with suspected sepsis or meningitis but collapsed and died on April 6, 2019. A post-mortem then revealed she had…
The Coalition of Northern Groups on Thursday asked the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari(retd) to order for the immediate re-arrest of some politicians allegedly linked to banditry in Zamfara State. The politicians were said to have been arrested earlier over their alleged complicity in the activities of bandits in the area but later released. According…
The Nigeria Police Anambra State Command has arrested and paraded a man who allegedly defrauded his Bishop, Archbishop Alexander Ibezim and others of monies running into N20 million. The man identified as High Chief Izuchukwu Nwabueze in Ukpo community in Dunukofia Local Government Area of Anambra State is a knight of the Anglican communion. Nwabueze…
A musician sentenced to death in Kano, Yahaya Sharif-Aminu, can appeal the judgement up to the Supreme Court, the Kano State Government said on Tuesday. Governor Abdullahi Ganduje said this during a briefing with State House Correspondents in Abuja after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari. Shariff-Aminu, 22, was sentenced by an upper Sharia court in…
A chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, on Monday attributed the party’s defeat in the Edo State governorship election held on Saturday to what he called “the unpleasant carriage and incoherent disposition” of the party’s former National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole. According to the result released by the Independent National Electoral…
A seven-day warning strike embarked upon by the Joint Health Sector Unions and Assembly of Health Professionals, JOHESU, has been suspended. The union said it would soon convene an expanded National Executive Council meeting to take a position against the indifference exhibited against them. This is contained in a statement issued by its National Chairman, Comrade…
Federal Government has withdrawn the approval granted to Emirates to conduct international flight operations in the country. Hadi Sirika, minister of aviation, disclosed this via a post on his Twitter handle on Friday. The ban will take effect on September 21, 2020. The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) had, in a memo earlier in September,…
A 19-year-old woman has died after being gang-raped by at least 11 men and thrown from the sixth floor of a building. Hamdi Mohamed Farah was lured to meet a male friend on Friday last week, September 11, but was attacked by a group of men in Mogadishu, Somalia. 11 arrests have been made so…
Suspected bandits have killed the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Gidan Madi police station in Tangaza local government area of Sokoto state. The incident happened on Wednesday night, September 16. The gunmen also killed another police officer said to be the DPO’s orderly before abducting two wives of a prominent businessman in the area. According to a…
Two University of Jos students Kamal Abubakar and Ramadan Muhammad died in a fatal car accident on Wednesday, September 16. Details are still sketchy, however, it was gathered that the accident happened at Sabon Gari Narabi, Jos North, a border village along Jos-Bauchi road. Kamal was the son of Plateau State business tycoon and philanthropist, Abubakar…