Not less than 80 children have been kidnapped by terrorists on Friday morning during a fresh operation in the Tsafe Local Government Area of Zamfara State. This was confirmed to BBC Hausa by the parents of the victims who revealed that the children were between the ages of 12 and 17. They added that […]
The candidate of the Labour Party for the Imo State House of Assembly election for Owerri Municipal state Constituency, Clinton Amadi, has been released from the police custody. Amadi, was released on Thursday after he was arrested on Tuesday at the secretariat of the Independent National Electoral Commission in Owerri, the state capital, where […]
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said the outcome of this year’s general elections has made Nigeria more divided than ever before. He said the administration after President Muhammadu Buhari’s must find ways of healing the wounds caused by the division. Powered By VDO.AI He said this on Thursday at a national seminar titled ‘From […]
A bill seeking to mandate Nigerian-trained medical and dental practitioners to practice for a minimum of five years in the country before being granted a full licence has passed second reading at the house of representatives. Sponsored by Ganiyu Johnson, an All Progressives Congress (APC) lawmaker from Lagos, the bill seeks to amend the […]
Some members of the National Working Committee of the Labour Party (LP) led by the Deputy National Chairman of the party (South) Lamidi Apapa have taken over the affairs of the party following a court judgment restraining Julius Abure and three others from parading themselves as national officers of the party. The development […]
Gunmen on Thursday killed three policemen at Agor, along the Igarra-Auchi Road in Edo State. The cops were killed while they were resuming duty, Okeomanews gathered. A fourth policeman was seriously injured as police operatives and the gunmen engaged themselves in a gun duel. One of the assailants died of gunshots while another sustained […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved N320.3 billion as the 2023 Intervention Funds for public tertiary education institutions in the country. The Executive Secretary of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), Sonny Echono, disclosed this in Abuja on Wednesday, during the Fund’s annual strategic planning workshop with all heads of beneficiary institutions. Echono said […]
The Lagos State Magistrates’ Court in Yaba, on Wednesday, ordered that the Eze Igbo of Ajao Estate, Fredrick Nwajagu, be remanded at the Ikoyi Correctional Centre. Nwajagu was arrested last Saturday following a viral video, in which he threatened to invite members of the Indigenous People of Biafra to Lagos to secure properties of […]
The Federal Operations Unit, Zone ’C’, Owerri, of the Nigeria Customs Service intercepted contraband goods valued N2.8 billion between January 25 and March 25. The unit also arrested 13 suspected smugglers during the period. Acting Comptroller of the NCS in the zone, Mr Kayode Kolade, a Deputy Comptroller of Customs, made the declaration on […]
Men of the Zamfara State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corpse have arrested three suspects for their alleged involvement in printing and spending fake naira and dollar notes. The command’s spokesperson, Ikor Oche, identified the suspects as Kamalu Sani, Uzaifa Muazu and Suleiman Yusuf. According to Oche, the suspects were arrested […]
