No fewer than six passengers have been abducted as Armed bandits attacked travellers on the Shinkafi road near Kwanar Jalaf village under the Shinkafi Local Government Area of Zamfara State. The incident happened yesterday morning when the assailants abducted six passengers travelling in a Golf car and set the vehicle ablaze, further heighteni...
•A fire incident A tanker fire has razed a section of Okokomaiko Police Station, Lagos State Police Command. The tanker reportedly caught fire while discharging diesel into the storage tank of a hotel that shares same fence with the police facility, reports Daily Trust. The incident created a stampede as both the staff of the […]
•Fire The popular Odenigbo Nsukka Deeper Life church has been razed down by a fire incident that broke out around 1 pm yesterday, Saturday, December 28, 2024 in the university town of Nsukka. It was gathered that residents of the area were thrown into confusion as to what may have caused the inferno as shops […]
•Rebel fighters burning gravesite of Syria’s late President Hafez al-Assad The tomb of ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s father Hafez was torched in his hometown of Qardaha, footage taken by our correspondent today showed, with rebel fighters in fatigues and young men watching it burn. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monito...
•Fire An early-hour fire destroyed goods worth millions of naira at the popular Alaba Rago market in the Ojo area of Lagos State today. •Alabarago market fire A statement by Lagos State Emergency Management Authority’s Permanent Secretary, Dr. Femi Oke-Osayintolu said the fire started at midnight. The immediate or remote cause of the fire coul...
•Tinubu and Ramaphosa Many South Africans are kicking over the recent decision of President Cyril Ramaphosa to relax visa rules for Nigerian businessmen and tourists. Some are even asking Ramaphosa to resign for “selling” the country to Nigeria on the strength of a part of the deal that allows that category of Nigerians to apply […]...
•Fire Mask-wearing arsonists set a synagogue ablaze in a pre-dawn attack today in the Australian city of Melbourne, police said, sparking widespread condemnation. The fire broke out at 4:10 am (1710 GMT yesterday) in the Adass Israel Synagogue when some congregants were already inside, police said, gutting much of the building in the southeast...
Students scampered for safety as fire razed a section of the Queen Elizabeth Hall of the University of Ibadan, today. The property of the affected students was destroyed but there was no record of loss of lives, reports Nigerian Tribune. The incident which source could not be confirmed at the time of filing the report […]
•Fire Properties worth billions of naira have been lost in Yobe, Kwara and Taraba states after a fire incident razed down a market, shops and a lounge yesterday. In Yobe State at least 200 people lost their means of livelihood, after fire razed 46 shops at Bayan Tasha Market in Damaturu Local Government Area of […]
•Fire The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) today, Tuesday, December 3, announced that its office in the Ika North Local Government Area of Delta State has been gutted by fire. National commissioner and chairman of the Information and Voter Education Committee, Sam Olumekun, said in a statement that the fire was caused by a powe...

