Service chiefs, today, appeared before the Senate Joint Committee (comprising Army, Navy, Defence and Airforce committees) to begin an investigative hearing on the gruesome killing of military personnel in Okuama community in the Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State, last Thursday. A minute silence was first observed for the soul...
•Knife A 12-year-old girl simply identified as Wumi has been arrested for allegedly stabbing her 54-year-old adopted mother to death. The decomposing body of her mother, Florence Adelayi, was found inside her residence at Premier Estate, Okunbadejo Street along Oda Road in Akure, reports The Nation. She was believed to have been locked inside ...
•Bandits The federal government says it has uncovered the identity of 15 entities, including nine individuals and six Bureau De Change operators and firms, allegedly involved in terrorism financing. Details of the development were revealed by the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit, in an email sent to our correspondent last night, entitled “...
•Troops At least three of the suspects who killed 17 officers and men of 181 Amphibious Battalion, Nigerian Army, Otuama, Delta State, last Thursday, have been arrested. The arrest came as the President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, said yesterday that whoever was responsible for the killing of the military personnel, would be broug...
•Agbo Major The New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) has criticised the killing of military perÂsonnel in Okuama commuÂnity of Delta State, saying with such carnage, the counÂtry was at the risk of losing its sovereignty. While speaking with our correspondent, Dr. Agbo Major, the party’s national chairman, who admitted to be speaking for the NNPP ...
•Godswill Akpabio The President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, today hinted that the 16 soldiers who lost their lives in Okuama community in Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State, may have been killed by mercenaries. The Senate President made the assertion during a debate at plenary over the ‘gruesome’ murder of the service [&he...
•Tinunu and Oborevwori The Delta State governor, Sheriff Oborevwori has just briefed President Bola Tinubu on the incident that led to the killing of 16 soldiers in Okuoma community, Ughelli South council area of the state last week. Governor Oborevwori, who briefed journalists at the State House, after the meeting with President Tinubu, howev...
A 23 year-old secondary school leaver, Rukevwe George, has been arrested by operatives of Edo State Police Command for allegedly being in possession of firearms. Rukevwe was arrested at a location in Benin, the state capital, reports Vanguard. The suspect who attended Baptist Medical Center Secondary School, Eku, Delta State, was arrested with...
A Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, has convicted and sentenced five people to death by hanging or by lethal injection until they are confirmed dead. The verdict came following the prosecution and sentencing of the five convicts over the murder of the Omudioga Security Planning and Advisory Committee, OSPAC, Commander of Omudio...
The Defence Headquarters has released the list of 17 military personnel killed in an attack in Delta State. The military personnel were killed last week in Okuama, a community in Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State after a peace mission, reports Channels TV. Days after the gruesome murder, the Defence Headquarters said 17 [&hell...
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