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Commissioner of Police for Enugu State Command, CP Mohammed Ndatsu Aliyu, psc, has ordered the launch of a full-scale manhunt of yet-to-be idenitifed armed assailants alleged to have trailed and shot dead an unidentified man driving in a Mercedes Benz Jeep, which they carted away, along Ebeano Tunnel, Enugu on Sunday, May 30, at about […]
Continue ReadingWith its peoples deeply divided along ethno-geographic and religious fault lines, under a tense socio-political atmosphere arising from heightened insecurity, the situation in Nigeria today reads like a tragic plot from the Sudanese playbook. Like Nigeria, Sudan was a British colonial creation, in which the colonials lumped racially, ethnic and religiously diverse peoples together in […]
Continue ReadingNigerians mourn and are asking for justice for Comfort Otega Benjamin, a girl found murdered in Jos on her 16th birthday. On May 23, photos of the celebrant were shared online, with loved ones asking for help in finding Comfort, who was supposed to be celebrating her 16th birthday. They said she had left home on […]
Continue ReadingUS-based Nigerian man who was killed in Nigeria by the Abia vigilante (security) he employed to keep him safe has been pictured. The man, identified as Enyinnaya Mark Ogbonna, is said to have returned to Nigeria to invest and was building a gas station. He hired a member of the Abia State vigilante group, Okorie Chukwuma, […]
Continue ReadingOver 156 people have been declared missing and are feared dead after an overloaded boat capsized in Kebbi, Birnin Kebbi. The incident took place early Wednesday, May 26, when the boat carrying about 180 passengers left Loko Mina in Niger State at about 7.30 am and was heading to a market in Kebbi State?, according […]
Continue ReadingProf. Itse Sagay SAN, Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), has said the 1999 Constitution should be scrapped and the 1963 Republican Constitution should be amended and adopted as the country’s constitution. Sagay spoke on Monday evening while featuring on Channels Television’s ‘Politics Today’ programme. The 80-year-old Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) believed that […]
Continue ReadingGunmen suspected to be kidnappers have abducted a female lecturer with the Tai Solarin University of Education (TASUED), Ijebu-Ode, Mrs. Lateefat Abimbola; a student of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB) Toyinbo Olayinka, and two others. It was gathered that Olayinka, a 400-level student of Aquaculture and Fisheries Management was abducted on Saturday, May […]
Continue ReadingPentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) yesterday rejected the review of the 1999 Constitution by the National Assembly, saying Nigeria needed a new constitution and not amendment of the existing document. PFN, a voluntary fellowship of pentecostal churches and organisations, canvassed the enactment of a new legal document that would be in agreement with the socio-political […]
Continue ReadingMixed reactions by lawyers have greeted the proposed bill by the Senate that anyone who pays for ransom is guilty of a felony and liable to 15 years in jail. Some lawyers in Lagos on Friday kicked against the proposed bill while others commended the lawmakers for thinking outside the box to curb the menace. […]
Continue ReadingThe irony of life is that sometimes we find wisdom in the most unlikely places. And often from the most unlikely persons. That precisely was the point of a tweet last week and two of the responses that followed. First, from @nzesylva: “Cab guy just dropped an epic proverb: ‘This world na standing fan. If […]
Continue ReadingThe United States Track and Field confirmed Lee Evans death on Wednesday, May, 19. This platform reported last week that Lee Evans, 74, was on life support in Ilishan-Remo, Ogun State, after suffering “an unusual kind of stroke,” Evans was an assistant track coach at Odegbami’s International College and Sports Academy and had coached on […]
Continue Reading47-year-old-woman, Olanshile Nasirudeen, pictured above, has been apprehended by men of Ogun state police command, Nigeria, for allegedly stabbing her 51-yr-old husband to death. A statement by DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, spokesperson of the state police command, says the suspect was arrested, following a distress call received by the DPO Obalende divisional headquarters, ijebu ode, that […]
Continue ReadingA bill seeking to prohibit the payment and receipt of ransom for the release of any person kidnapped, imprisoned or wrongfully confined in the country was on Wednesday May 19 considered by the Nigerian senate. The bill titled Terrorism Prevention (Amendment) Bill, 2021 which stipulates a 15-year jail sentence for anyone found guilty of such action is […]
Continue ReadingFormer Chief Judge of Jigawa State, Justice Aminu Sabo Ringim, has died. He died in a lone accident at about 1.00pm on Tuesday, May 18 in Shafar village, Ringim Local Government Area of the state. Confirming the incident to newsmen, the Public Relations Officer, Jigawa Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), […]
Continue ReadingGunmen have abducted a judge identified as Alhaji Husaini Sama’ila at a Sharia Court in Bauren Zakat village in Safana Local Government Area of Katsina State. It was gathered that the attackers broke into the court around 3.00pm on Tuesday and abducted the judge. Katsina is one of the states most affected by terrorism and […]
Continue ReadingA six-year-old girl (name withheld) was raped to death by unknown men in Mararaban Jos, Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna state, Nigeria. It was gathered that the girl went missing around 4.30 pm on Sunday, May 16, while playing with other children at a neighbour’s compound. Her parents, relatives and neighbours started searching for her […]
Continue ReadingSpokesperson of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Okezie Kalu, says the lower chamber of the National Assembly is set to legalize the use of Indian Hemp in Nigeria for economic benefit. A Bill to legalize the use of Indian Hemp in Nigeria for economic benefit passed second reading in the house in October, 2020. Kalu […]
Continue ReadingFounder and Senior Pastor of Living Faith Church Worldwide also known as Winners Chapel, Bishop David Oyedepo has revealed what his action would be if the country is engulfed in crisis. In a message to his church members, Oyedepo stated that he will be the last to leave the country if there is a crisis. […]
Continue ReadingPlateau Police Command has arrested a middle-aged Lebanese national identified as Simo, for allegedly sleeping with 14 under-aged girls in the Abattoir Community, a suburb of Jos, the state capital. According to Africa Independent Television (AIT), the Lebanese was said to have lured his victims to his residence, while seven of them are allegedly pregnant. […]
Continue ReadingThe New York Times report of March 13, 1976 put the story of Nigeria’s perennial human sacrifices by the bloodthirsty grove of coup-plotting most startlingly. The day before, newly appointed Chief of Defense Staff, Brigadier Musa Yar’Adua, had announced that former Defense Minister, Major General Iliya D. Bisalla and 29 others, had been executed by the seaside suburb of Victoria […]
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