The Indigenous People of Biafra has condemned the killing of policemen and a couple at the Okpala Junction in the Ngor Okpala Local Government Area of Imo State by gunmen last week. The pro-Biafran group, which disassociated itself from the killings, also said people should stop linking them with the insecurity in the South-East […]
The President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has arrived Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, on Monday. Tinubu’s flight touched down at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, and was welcomed by a crowd of supporters. The President-elect arrived from France in the company of his wife, Oluremi Tinubu, at the presidential wing of the airport to […]
The Nigerian police have said their officers on patrol must be fully kitted in the approved uniform. The Force spokesperson, Muyiwa Adejobi, in a series of tweets on Sunday said officers on patrol are not allowed to wear any clothes other than the approved uniform. Mr Adejobu was reacting to a tweet by one […]
Police in Imo State, South-east Nigeria, have charged a man, Solomon Ohadoma, with robbery for seizing his debtor’s phone. Mr Ohadoma, a 29-year-old civil engineer, reportedly grabbed the phone from his debtor, Chidiebere Ahamefula at about 9 a.m. on 9 March along the road after Mr Ahamefula repeatedly failed to pay for a project […]
A 24-year-old man, Agbo Onuabuchi, has been arrested for strangling his friend and burying him in shallow grave in Enugu State. According to the spokesman of the state police command, Daniel Ndukwe (DSP), Onuabuchi, who hails from Ebonyi State, had on April 1, killed one Peter Ukekwe aged 44 in Amori community in Nkanu […]
Governor Darius Dickson Ishaku has apologised to Taraba people whom he might have stepped on their toes during his eight-year administration. Ishaku tendered his apology during a thanksgiving service organised by the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Taraba State chapter, held at the CAN Secretariat in Jalingo. The governor said he was happy that […]
An elderly man has been buried alive over witchcraft allegation levelled against him by some youths in Ikyve community, Konshisha Local Government Area of Benue State. Witnesses said the incident happened at the weekend in Ikyve community of Diiv-Ikyurave, a rural area which borders Cross River State. A resident of the area explained that […]
The former National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo, has said that Nigeria’s President-elect, Ahmed Tinubu, has started serving Ndigbo “a piece of bread soaked in water”. Back in January, Tinubu was at Michael Okpara Square for a presidential campaign rally. During the rally, he urged the southeasterners to work for […]
Kenyan President William Ruto on Monday vowed to crack down on “unacceptable” religious movements as police discovered more fatalities in a Christian cult that practised starvation, bringing the toll to 58. A major search is under way in a forest near the coastal town of Malindi where dozens of corpses were exhumed over the […]
Kabba-Bunu Local Government Area of Kogi State, Chief David Obadofin, has reportedly died in the custody of his abductors, 12 days after he was kidnapped. A family source stated that the monarch died last Thursday as a result of torture from his abductors. Our correspondent gathered that the abductors of the monarch had agreed […]
