•American flag The United States has raised serious concerns over Nigeria’s ability to protect Christian communities following the abduction of 177 worshippers in Kaduna State, as bandits were yesterday sighted moving freely through forest corridors with their captives, days after storming churches without resistance. On Sunday, gunmen attacke...
•Governor Monday Okpebholo of Edo State Acting Chairman of Esan West local government area, Albert Blessing Ebhodaghe, has announced restriction on the movement and operation of commercial and private motorcycles (popularly known as Okada) and tricycles (Keke). Ebhodaghe said the move was to strengthen public safety as well as maintaining law ...
The pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, has expressed concern over the surge in kidnapping incidents in Ondo, Kwara, Ogun, Osun, Niger and Plateau States, just as it condemns the reported attack on women who were at the gate of the Kwara State Government House on a Save Our Soul (SOS) mission. A press statement yesterday by [&h...
The police have arrested six members of the Omone family and one other person for allegations of kidnapping in the Ubeji community, as well as a woman found with 178 live cartridges in Tuomo, all located in Delta State. In a statement by the Police Public Relations Officer, SP Bright Edafe, today, it was noted […]
•Bauchi State Commissioner of Police, Sani-Omolari Aliyu Bauchi State Police Command has arrested one Esther Gambo for the alleged theft of a child and murder. According to a press release issued by the command’s Police Public Relations Officer, Ahmed Wakil, 19-year-old Esther from Lemoro Village in Toro Local Government Area, Bauchi State, re...
•Police The Anambra State Police Command has activated rescue operations to apprehend the armed hoodlums involved in the abduction of a yet-to-be-identified resident in Awka, the state capital. The incident, it was gathered, occurred in the early hours of yesterday, when the victim was abducted near his residence by three armed men operating i...
The Ondo State Police Command today said it had arrested a man Chief Adeniyi Ifedayo, for allegedly raping a 12-year-old girl in Laaagba community in Ondo East Local Government Area of the state. Ifedayo, who was the traditional ruler of the community, was said to have lured the girl into his house in the community […]
•Emir Umar Faruq Umar The Emir of Daura, Alhaji Umar Faruq Umar, has dethroned Iliya Mantau, the Village Head of Mantau, Yarmaulu ward, in the Baure Local Government Area of Katsina State, over his alleged involvement in the kidnapping and rape of a married woman. The emir announced that Iliya Mantau ceases to be the […]
“Let those who have ears, hear;” so goes the common say. Now landlords are fastidious about who their tenants are; and that is positive! Edo State Government has been in the news over the Governor’s stand on the ravaging activities of cult members, at intra and inter-cult levels, as well as kidnapping episodes. His stand […]
The Department of State Services (DSS) has arrested five suspects linked to the abduction and gruesome murder of a one-year-old girl, Sakina Mamuda, in Duhun Bake village, Gwarzo Local Government Area of Kano State. The development was confirmed yesterday by the Kano State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Haruna Isah Dederi, duri...
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