•Seme border and Nigeria Immigration Service boss, Kemi Nanna Nandap An Abuja resident, Isaac Ben Etim, has accused officers of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) at the Seme border in Badagry, Lagos State, of harassment and extortion. He claims they demanded N2 million from his sister, Blessing, while she was travelling to Mali, but eventu...
•Benin’s President Patrice Talon Two high-ranking Benin army officers taken hostage during an attempted coup were released early today, a day after the government said it thwarted the military takeover with support from Nigerian forces. Benin’s economic capital Cotonou was calm and traffic was returning to normal, after a group of soldie...
•Yakubu Dada and late wife, Lami Bandits have reportedly killed a woman simply identified as Lami. The victim was kidnapped alongside her husband, Yakubu Dada, on the Kontagora Road in Niger State, on October 31, 2024. The abductors, who had earlier collected a N10 million ransom from the family, are now demanding an additional N20 […]...
A Police Inspector, one Effiong Bassey, ran amok yesterday, shooting indiscriminately, killing one civilian identified as Mrs. Ijoema Obot and injuring two others in Calabar, Cross River State capital. The incident, it was learnt, occurred about 6a.m. when the policeman who went to night beat at a Microfinance Bank in Calabar South returned to...
•Late leader of the Palestinian Hamas movement, Yahya Sinwar Hamas vowed today it would not release the hostages it seized during its October 7 attack on Israel until the Gaza war ends, as it mourned the death of its leader Yahya Sinwar. The killing of Sinwar, the mastermind of the deadliest attack in Israeli history, […]
•Policemen push away the friends of the abductee Hersh Goldberg-Polin Palestinian militant group Hamas released today a video of an Israeli-American man held hostage in Gaza and seen alive in the footage. Israeli media identified him as Hersh Goldberg-Polin, who was abducted from the Nova music festival in southern Israel during the Hamas atta...

