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Ibom Air bans ‘unruly passenger’ for life after airport row

11 August 2025

Emmanson had in a viral video repeatedly slapped a Purser with Ibom Aircraft after she was allegedly told to switch off her phone before take-off. Confirming the incident in a statement, Ibom Air said the incident happened on Sunday while Emmanson was on board their Uyo to Lagos flight. According to the statement read, “Shortly […]

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Tanker explosion kills several, injures others in Zaria, Kaduna

11 August 2025

The incident occurred on Monday morning at about 8:30 a.m. near Rochas Foundation School along the Kaduna–Kano expressway bypass, from Kwangila to Dan Magaji. Eyewitnesses told security analyst Zagazola Makama, who disclosed the development in a post on social media, that the accident involved two fuel-laden tankers and two passenger-filled Golf cars. The collision triggered […]

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NDLEA arrests General Overseer of Mercy Church in Lagos for cross-border drug trafficking

10 August 2025

Olasele, who had been on the run for months, was apprehended on Sunday, August 3, 2025, at his church in Okun Ajah, Lekki, Lagos. A statement released by the agency’s spokesman, Femi Babafemi, said operatives waited until the end of the Sunday service before arresting him as he stepped out of the premises. According to […]

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Police rescue three kidnap victims in Ekiti

10 August 2025

It was gathered that the victims were kidnapped on Friday August 1, 2025. According to a police report, the victims, identified as drivers Kunle Aka Orojo and Deji Akinola, along with a motor boy, Ojo Oluwole, were freed without harm. The Divisional Police Officer of Ilupeju, Ikere Ekiti Division, disclosed that their release was the […]

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Police arrest six in FCT ‘one chance’ crackdown

9 August 2025

The operatives noted that one of the suspects died from fatal wound, and it rescued a victim, and recovered the gang’s operational vehicle. The command’s spokesperson, SP Josephine Adeh, said in a statement on Saturday that the arrests were made on August 6, 2025, by operatives attached to the Anti-One Chance Unit during patrols within […]

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Five injured as fuel tanker rams into bus in Lagos

8 August 2025

The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA, in a statement issued on Friday by its Director of Public Affairs and Enlightenment, Adebayo Taofiq, confirmed that the crash occurred on Thursday, near The Guardian newspaper headquarters. The vehicles involved were identified as a PMS-laden tanker with registration number T28128LA and a Volkswagen T4 commercial bus with […]

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Nine passengers kidnapped after attack on bus in Kogi

8 August 2025

Security analyst Zagazola Makama shared a post on social media revealing that the incident happened around 4:20 p.m. near Ogbabo Junction. The attackers, believed to be armed hoodlums, suddenly came out from the bush, fired shots, and forced the Peace Mass Transit bus to stop. According to the post, the driver, Sunday Okechi, and six […]

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Motorists, passengers stranded as tanker drivers barricade road in Benue

8 August 2025

An eyewitness, who gave his name as Tahir Ahmed, said trouble started at about 2:20pm when a trailer-load of cows fell into a ditch while trying to avoid a police barricade. “The vehicle I was in overtook the truck when a policeman at the roadblock suddenly threw a spiked tree trunk on the road to […]

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Gunmen attack Fulani camp, kidnap two in Kwara

7 August 2025

According to a post shared by security analyst Zagazola Makama on social media, the incident happened around 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, when the attackers stormed the camp, shooting into the air before taking two residents, Ibrahim Nuhu and Musa Umar away. “One person, Opeyemi Ibrahim, was shot in the right thigh during the attack. He […]

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Panic in Delta community as herdsmen kill farmer on his land

7 August 2025

A son of the deceased, who went with him to the farm, fled the scene as a result of the attacks and raised an alarm in town. It was gathered that the deceased arrived at his farm when he saw the herdsmen destroying his crops and challenged them. The herdsmen, without any waste of time, […]

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