High profile kidnap kingpin, Hamisu Bala Wadume was being transported to Abuja on August 6, 2019 after he was arrested by a tactical police squad on a covert operation. Without the slighted warning, a team of soldiers from the 93 Battalion of the Nigerian Army based in Takum, Taraba State attacked the police officers with […]
The Israeli intelligence 2020 assessment published on Tuesday, January 14, estimates that if Iran continues its nuclear program at the present pace, it will have 25 kg of highly enriched uranium by winter 2020 and a missile capable of carrying a nuclear bomb in two years. This estimate matched the forecast Israel made five years […]
The Commissioner of Police in Kwara State, Lawan Ado, yesterday said the command had redeployed policemen at the Adewole Police Division in Ilorin, over an allegation against them. Ado explained that some residents had alleged that some of the policemen in the division had been selling suspects detained at the station to ritual killers for […]
A prosecution witness, Inspector Anthony Iliya, told an Upper Area Court in Zuba, FCT that a teacher, Akum-Chukwu Dolibi, defrauded four job seekers of N855,000. The police charged Dolibi, a teacher with the Union Secondary School Zuba, Abuja was charged with criminal breach of trust and cheating on July 1, 2019. The offence, the police said, […]
While Imo people were Wednesday waiting for the swearing in of the new Governor-elect of the state, Senator Hope Uzodinma, a former Auditor-General of the state, Barr. Osita Nwosu was busy allegedly plotting how to steal official documents from his former office. Owing to the vacuum created by the fact that there was no Acting […]
No fewer than 25 Secondary School students have allegedly been suspended for belonging to “Marlians’ Female Secret Cult”, the mother of one of the students disclosed this in a social media outburst. Although the woman didn’t disclose the name of the school in the Friday Facebook post on Lailanews page, she however said the school […]
…Says, it violates extant laws Media Rights Agenda (MRA) today called on the Kano State Government to discontinue its move to establish a committee to address alleged professional misconduct and abuse of privilege by media organizations in the State, describing it as an unwarranted and politically motivated effort to restrict media freedom. In a statement […]
The presidents of France, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, and Chad on Monday formulated a new framework for expanding military operations against Islamist terrorism in the Sahel region. The new framework – with greater contributions from France, the five African states, and several European countries – has become necessary because of the dramatic increase in […]
Following the Imo Governorship debacle that was dispensed with at the Supreme Court yesterday, political pundits have maintained that Imo should not be without a governor for 24 hours. It is their opinion that the Speaker of the Imo state House of Assembly, Chief Chiji Collins, being the highest ranking official of government should have […]
Long before any of the governorship election appeals were dispensed with at the Supreme Court Tuesday, a middle aged Nigerian rose up and walked away from the court lamenting the apparent tragedy of a less than competent Chief Justice of Nigeria. The man who goes by the name Henry Shield took to his Twitter handle […]
