The Federal Government of Nigeria has declared Monday, May 3, 2021, as a public holiday to mark this year’s International Workers Day Celebration. The Minister of Interior, Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola, made the declaration on behalf of the federal government in a statement signed by Shuaib Belgore, the Permanent Secretary of the ministry on Thursday. While […]
A 17-year-old girl, on Thursday, reportedly drowned in Asa river at Harmony Holdings Estate, Kulende area of Ilorin, the Kwara capital. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that some personnel of the state Fire Service discovered the drowned girl, whose identity was unknown, and removed her dead body from the river. A NAN correspondent, […]
Lecturers at Kaduna State University have kicked against increase in tuition at the school, saying students might be forced to drop out. Academic Staff Union of Universities at the school said the students might have to leave because their parents who are mostly poor could not afford to pay the new fees. It called on […]
Ibe Pascal Arogorn with agency report The Police Command in Anambra has confirmed an attack on some Naval Ratings at a checkpoint near Enamel Ware Junction on Onitsha – Owerri Highway by hoodlums on Tuesday. Crimefacts.news had reported how gunmen attacked the naval check point around 5pm on Tuesday evening. According to a resident who […]
Opposition Peoples Democratic Party on Wednesday, took a swipe at Senator Oluremi Tinubu for criticising Senator Smart Adeyemi who expressed passionate concerns over the worsening security situation in the country at the floor of the upper chamber on Tuesday. In a statement titled, ‘Killings: Buhari Presidency, APC Insensitive… Accuses APC Of Gagging Members’, the PDP […]
The chairman of the Southeast governor’s forum and governor of Ebonyi State, David Umahi, on Wednesday, said that the Indigenous People of Biafra,(IPOB) were not responsible for most of the numerous attacks in parts of the state. Umahi made this known while briefing journalists on some issues reached during this week security council meeting, held […]
Barely a few hours after Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom reacted sharply to the killing of seven people at an Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp in the state by suspected Fulani herdsmen, a couple was reportedly hacked to death by suspected herdsmen. According to the report, the husband and wife were reported to be returning […]
A sex attacker had his penis and testicles hacked off and fed to wild pigs in a revenge attack after he allegedly attempted to rape his niece in Brazil. The 36-year-old man, who has not been named, sparked widespread anger in the northern Brazilian municipality of Olhos D’Agua after he allegedly tried to rape his […]
Following the death of the commander of the Eastern Security Network, ESN, Ikonso allegedly killed by security agencies last week, the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has named the Imo State Government House, Douglas Road Owerri, and Awomamma Junction respectively after the deceased. The group in a statement by its Media and Publicity Secretary, […]
The Senate Minority leader, Enyinnaya Abaribe, on Wednesday, alleged that the president, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), was steering the country to war and disintegration. Abaribe, who represents Abia Central, attributed the spates of insecurity and killings in all parts of the country to “Buhari’s policy of nepotism bad sectionalism”. The lawmaker, who spoke in […]
