The Zamfara State Governor , Bello Matawalle , on Tuesday insisted that he would reveal the identities of people behind the abduction of over 300 students of Government Girls’ Secondary School, Jangebe in the Talata Mafara Local Government Area of the state. The governor , who stated this in an interview with one of our […]
Barely two weeks after 49 passengers on board a luxury bus on the fleet of Niger State Transport Authority (NSTA) were abducted and released, passengers have been kidnapped again by gunmen suspected to be armed bandits on Tuesday evening. The inciden happened along Tegina-Minna Road in the Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State. Nigerian […]
THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has deepened its probe into All Progressives Congress stalwart , Bola Tinubu , The PUNCH has learnt. To this end , the EFCC has written a letter to the Code of Conduct Bureau , requesting copies of Tinubu’ s asset declaration form . A copy of the letter which […]
No fewer than three Senior Secondary Students were on Tuesday kidnapped from a Community Secondary School (Day school) in Runka town, Safana Local government area of Katsina State. Information gathered from the area revealed that the gunmen stormed the area in their numbers and kidnapped the students on their way home and after closing from […]
Benue State Governor , Samuel Ortom, and his Bauchi State counterpart, Bala Mohammed, on Tuesday, settled their differences over their face – off on the herdsmen crisis rocking the country. Mohammed had defended Fulani herdsmen wielding AK-47 rifles , saying they do so for self -protection . Reacting, Ortom had lambasted the Bauchi governor for […]
Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, on Monday, affirmed that the nation’s security has fared much better under the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari than the previous administration. The minister, who took the president’s message to Zamfara State over the weekend when he assured that the Jangebe school girls abduction would be the last, met in […]
The trial of Omoyele Sowore and four others has commenced at the Chief Magistrate Court, Wuse Zone 2, Abuja. All five of them are standing trial for criminal conspiracy, unlawful assembly, and inciting the public. Sowore showed up in court on Tuesday alongside his spiritual adviser who was clad in a red and black striped […]
An Emirate plane — Boeing 777300ER, carrying 3.92 million doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine arrives at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport Abuja in Nigeria at 11.36 a.m. on Tuesday, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. The vaccine shipment is from COVAX, a global scheme to procure and distribute inoculations for free, as the world […]
Over 50 persons have been arrested in connection with pipeline vandalism in Imo state. The Commandant of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, Elisha Danjuma, disclosed this on Tuesday in Owerri, while commemorating the International civil Defence Day. Danjuma said that the arrest of over fifty persons was part of it’s efforts to […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has directed that Zamfara State be declared a no fly-zone. The National Security Adviser (NSA), Major General Babagana Monguno (rtd), disclosed this on Tuesday while briefing State House correspondents after a meeting of National Security Council at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Monguno said the President had also approved a ban on mining […]
