Police authorities are still searching for six officers who went missing in Delta State, according to Force spokesman Muyiwa Adejobi. Six police officers were gruesomely murdered in Ohoro Forest, Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State and the same number declared missing after they were ambushed during a rescue mission of their colleagues. […]
Venezuelan Juan Vicente Perez Mora, certified in 2022 by Guinness World Records as the oldest man in the world, died on Tuesday at the age of 114, officials and relatives said. “Juan Vicente Perez Mora has transcended into eternity at 114 years of age,” Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on social media platform X. […]
No fewer than five persons were feared killed and others injured during a gun duel between security operatives and gunmen on Tuesday in Anambra. The incident took place when the Anambra Joint Security Force (JSF)stormed two camps of the gunmen in Aguluezechukwu, Aguata council area and Ogboji, Orumba South council area respectively. During the […]
Power companies will be allowed to raise electricity prices to N200 ($0.15) per kilowatt-hour from N68 for urban consumers this month, the Bloomberg news agency, citing sources, reported Tuesday. It was learnt that these customers represent 15% of the population that the government says consume 40% of the nation’s electricity, the agency said. […]
Some residents of Akure, the Ondo state capital, have looted a truck conveying food items. TheCable understands that the truck developed a mechanical fault at the popular cultural centre junction, along Ondo-Akure expressway, on Monday. The mechanical fault enabled the residents to overpower the driver and loot the truck. It was observed that the […]
Bauchi Police Command has arrested one Sanusi Umar, a 23-year-old suspected gay, for allegedly raping a 10-year-old boy with mental health issues. Spokesperson of the Command in a statement , Ahmed Wakili, on Wednesday claimed Umar , a vendor who sells garden eggs, tigernuts, and other items was apprehended by operatives attached to […]
The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has apologised to Christians over its Easter message. On March 31, in a now-deleted post about Easter, the FIRS wrote that “Jesus paid your debt, not your taxes”— a statement that sparked significant public outcry among Christians. Consequently, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) condemned the Easter message […]
Left-wing pan-Africanist Bassirou Diomaye Faye on Tuesday became Senegal’s youngest president, pledging systemic change after years of deadly turmoil and announcing his mentor, opposition figure Ousmane Sonko, as prime minister. Faye, 44, has never previously held an elected office. He swept to a first-round victory on a promise of radical reform just 10 days […]
Air Peace on Tuesday, alerted some passengers intending to book UK flights on its portal were defrauded by fraudsters who cloned its official website. The alert was issued a few days after the airline inaugurated its groundbreaking direct flight from Nigeria to the United Kingdom. The airline stated in a post on X (formerly […]
The Federal Government has again said security agencies will go after individuals with fake university certificates in the country. Education Minister Tahir Mamman spoke during the maiden quarterly citizens and stakeholders’ engagement in Nigeria’s education sector in Abuja on Tuesday. The minister assured Nigerians that there would transformation in the education sector with the […]
