•Late Raymond Erukaa The kidnapped octogenarian and pioneer Ukum Local Government Area chairman in 1981 Raymond Erukaa has died in captivity after he was kidnapped from his home at Tse-Erukaa, in Zaki Biam, on the 23rd of September 2023. Confirming the sad passing of the 81-year-old elder statesman, the eldest surviving son of the deceased [&h...
•Babagana Zulum The Borno State Governor Professor Babagana Zulum has raised the alarm that the Boko Haram insurgency is threatening to consume the nation if the humanitarian crisis in the North-East is not contained. Professor Zulum says the continuous existence of IDP camps in Local Government Areas of Borno State is a potential time bomb [&...
•IGP Kayode Egbetokun The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, says that all is set for the smooth take-off of the Special Intervention Squad (SIS) in 10 pilot states. He made this known in his address at the opening ceremony of the Conference and Retreat for Senior Police Officers at the Landmark Event Centre […]
Residents of Ekondo street in Calabar agitated and are asking questions how a fourteen year-old could commit suicide with a shoelace as string. The boy whose name was given as Donald resides with his grandmother at 49, Ekondo Street in Calabar South and on Saturday afternoon, he was alleged to have committed suicide by tying […]
One person identified as Ulim Amos Udo, suspected to be a cable thief, has been killed as vandalized power infrastructure including electric pole crashed to the ground at Udianga Enem, in Etim Ekpo Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State. Sources in the community told this reporter that the deceased was a notorious cultist who […]
•Late Adefolalu Funmilola Sherifat A lecturer with the Department of Biochemistry, School of Life Sciences, Federal University of Technology (FUT) Minna in Niger State, Dr. (Mrs) Adefolalu Funmilola Sherifat has been found slaughtered in her residence in the Gbaiko Area of the town. The chairperson of the Academic Staff Union of University (AS...
The pastor of a new generation church in Makurdi and an alleged usher in his church, whose names were withheld, narrowly escaped death at the weekend when they were beaten to a pulp by youths of the New Layout area of Kanshio in the outskirts of Makurdi town for the alleged disappearance of the genital […]
•Osatawaji and late Justina Osatawaji Otuene, the elder brother of a 300-level undergraduate of the University of Port Harcourt, River State, Justina Otuene, who was allegedly killed by a 400-level Petrochemical Engineering student of the university, Damian Okoligwe, talks to DENNIS NAKU about the incident, reports Sunday PUNCH. Can you confir...
One person was killed and two others were abducted when gunmen invaded Ora, an agrarian community in the southern part of Kwara State, today. The abductors, who reportedly stormed the town around 8am, shot sporadically before whisking away their victims, reports Daily Trust. A senior community leader who does not want his name in print, [&hell...
Gunmen have abducted a Catholic priest, Very Reverend Fr Thaddeus Tarhembe, the priest in Charge of Saint Anne’s Parish, Sarkin Kudu Ibi, in Wukari Diocese in Taraba State. The Bishop of the Diocese Most Rev. Mark Nzukwein who disclosed this today in a press release signed by the Diocese’s Director of communication Rev. Fr. John […]

