•Notorious bandit leader, Bello Turji Some displaced residents of Isa Local Government Area of Sokoto State have lamented increased banditry in the area, saying their family members are undertaking huge risks to move to Niger Republic. They told our correspondent that their relatives fled to the West African country following renewed threats a...
•Governor Inuwa Yahaya of Gombe State The Gombe State Government has presented N14 million to the families of seven journalists who died in a road crash in the state. The journalists died on Monday while returning from a colleague’s wedding in Kaltungo Local Government Area, reports The PUNCH. Governor Inuwa Yahaya, represented by the Secretar...
What began as a tragic fire on Christmas Eve has now escalated into a full-blown humanitarian crisis on Lagos Island, as families search desperately for missing loved ones, and traders count painful losses from the inferno that gutted the Great Nigeria Insurance (GNI) building, and spread to six surrounding structures at the Balogun Market, La...
•Bandits The gale of kidnapping that has been going on in the country has taken a new turn as the families of the victims at a village in Katsina went after the kidnapper’s family member and abducted them. The bandits had initially asked for a ransom of N100 million from the families, but in a […]
•Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians returned to a devastated Gaza City, after an Israel-Hamas ceasefire The families of Israeli hostages today demanded that the next steps in the US-brokered Gaza ceasefire be put on hold until Hamas returns the remaining bodies of dead captives. “Hamas knows exactly where every one of the deceased hostages ...
•Relatives mourn during a special prayer ceremony organised for victims of Air India Flight 171 crash Families of the victims of June’s deadly Air India crash demanded today the immediate release of the aircraft’s two flight recorders, saying delays were eroding their trust in the investigation. A total of 241 people on board the London-bound ...
Patients and their families were left stranded at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) today, as medical doctors employed by the Lagos State Government commenced a three-day warning strike over salary-related disputes. The strike, which began at 8:00 a.m., was declared by the Medical Guild following what it described as “illeg...
•Flood Victims of the recent flash flood that ravaged some parts of Ute-Okpu Kingdom in Ika North East Local Government Area of Delta State have called on government at all levels and well-to-do individual to come to their aid. Speaking on behalf of the victims, Mr. Simon Aliemeke, who now takes refuge at his friend’s […]
•Red oxide Unless something is urgently done to arrest the sliding economy, which has skyrocketed the price of everything in the market, many households in Nigeria may soon suffer one form of food poisoning or the other. It may not be that they intended to do so, but the search for cheaper alternatives to goods […]
•JAMB candidates The Imo State Police Command has said the 15 students who were declared missing on their way from Onitsha in Anambra State to write the rescheduled Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) in Okigwe in Imo State have been found and reunited with their families. The command announced the development on its X handle [&h...

