•Late Rotji Lazarus A 27-year-old resident of Gwalameji area of Bauchi, Rotji Lazarus, has reportedly been knocked down by a hit-and-run driver along Bauchi–Dass road in Yelwa area, 24 hours before a planned trip abroad after securing a job. Eyewitness accounts said that Lazarus was killed at night by a moving vehicle without headlights, close...
Ukraine said today that Russia had fired dozens of drones and missiles at the country, ripping open a residential building and killing eight civilians in Kyiv. A flurry of diplomatic efforts to end the three-year war have stalled, with the last direct meeting between Kyiv and Moscow almost three weeks ago and no follow-up talks […]
•A bomb explosion At least 20 people were killed Sunday in a suicide attack on a church in Damascus, authorities said, with Syria’s interior ministry blaming a member of the Islamic State group. The international community condemned the attack, the first of its kind in the Syrian capital since Islamist-led forces toppled longtime ruler Bashar ...
•Power transmission line A Permanent Secretary in the Gombe State Civil Service and four other people were electrocuted, while 13 others sustained varying degrees of injuries, following a high-voltage surge of electricity supply in the early hours of yesterday. Muhammad Yusuf Kulani was the Permanent Secretary at the state’s Ministry of Specia...
•Firemen work at the Marienkrankenhaus Hospital An overnight blaze that broke out in a room in a hospital’s geriatric ward in Hamburg, Germany, killed three people and injured about 50 others, police said yesterday. The three casualties were aged between 84 and 87 years old, while three others were between life and death, authorities said. [&h...
•Okada riders The Ondo State Police Command confirmed today the murder of a commercial motorcyclist, Nazifi Ibrahim, by a suspected armed robber. Ibrahim was reportedly shot dead by a passenger he had picked up in Ore community, Odigbo Local Government Area, yesterday evening, reports The PUNCH. Following the attack, the assailant allegedly ma...
A stray bullet killed a teenage boy on his way to school in Ibadan today. An eyewitness account stated that the incident occurred at the Ibadan airport junction, along Old Ife Road, reports NAN According to a commercial motorcyclist, Dauda Oseni, the deceased, with his twin brother, was in his father’s car on his way […]
•Myanmar Police Junta forces bombed a school in central Myanmar, killing more than a dozen children, the country’s exiled civilian administration told Radio Free Asia today. A jet fired at Sagaing region’s Oe Htein Kwin village in Tabayin township, which is under rebel control. “As far as we know now, 17 young students have died […]...
A 22-year-old lady, Joy Tale, has been reportedly killed by her landlord’s son, Odunayo Olomolatan, 41, in Ode-Irele, Irele Local Government Area of Ondo State. It was learnt that the tenant was hacked to death yesterday during an argument, reports NAN. DSP Olayinka Ayanlade, the spokesman for the Police Command in Ondo State, confirmed the [&...
•Spokesperson of the Delta State Police Command, Bright Edafe The police have arrested a member of a vigilante group, one Peter Ike, for allegedly shooting to death a 29-year-old student of Ogwashi Uku Polytechnic, Peter Eyorowalebo. Delta State Police Command’s spokesperson, SP Bright Edafe, who confirmed the arrest in Asaba yesterday, said t...

