Some 101 vehicles have been impounded and their drivers prosecuted for flouting the border closure order in Zamfara State.
The transporters were intercepted by a committee headed by the state Commissioner of Police Usman Nagoggo.
They were found guilty by mobile courts sitting at the borders and heavily fined, Nagoggo said.
One suspect has been arrested and others currently on the run after men of the Ogun state police command engaged them in a gunbattle in the Ipamesan area of Sango Ota on Saturday, May 15. A statement released by the spokesperson, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, states that the Sango Ota divisional headquarters received a distress call…
Two close friends were on Saturday, burnt to death in a ghastly accident along Katsina-Dutsinma road. The painful accident which occurred at about 3pm on Saturday afternoon, December 5, when their Toyota Camry crashed and burst into flames claimed the lives of a newly graduated medical doctor and his friend. Two of the friends have…
An Iyaganku Chief Magistrates’ Court in Ibadan on Thursday ordered the remand of Olayinka Akinware, 35, and Tunji Adesina, 29, for allegedly setting four dogs on police officers to prevent the arrest of a suspect. Chief Magistrate M. Mudashiru, who did not take the suspects’ plea due to lack of jurisdiction, ordered that they…
A 22-year-old commercial motorcyclist, Sarafa Ayuba has committed suicide by hanging in an uncompleted building beside his uncle’s house at the Amuloko area of Olorunsogo in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. GIOTV gathered that Ayuba is the only son of his late father. His mother, Nike, who traveled to Ibadan from Owu in Ogun State,…
Gunshots have been fired by policemen present at the Gani Fawehinmi Park in Ojota, Lagos as the Yoruba nation rally begins. This was after the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, addressed journalists at the venue saying no rally is allowed in Lagos. However, some Yoruba nation agitators dared the security operatives by spreading…
*Learn From History On Awolowo’s Betrayal Against Ojukwu – Ohanaeze Youths Tells Kanu* An Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council, OYC, has claimed that some politicians from Yoruba extraction and North Eastern zone have concluded plan to scuttle Igbo presidential project ahead of 2023 Nigeria general elections. This was contained in a release…