In two separate attacks, gunmen, on Tuesday night and in the wee hours of Wednesday, killed two vigilante members guarding Isiala Mbano Local Government Area headquarters, and a policeman after setting ablaze the Obowo Police Station in Imo State. News reports gathered on Wednesday that the gunmen also burnt some vehicles parked at the council […]
This is contained in a statement posted on the website of the US Department of Justice. Okwonna, 34 years old, was sentenced by a federal judge in the Eastern District of Virginia to five years and three months in prison. He was also ordered to pay nearly $5 million in restitution. Okwonna had pleaded guilty […]
This is contained in a statement made available to newsmen by the LASTMA’s Director of Public Affairs and Enlightenment, Adebayo Taofiq. Taofiq noted that the accident occurred when a truck that had developed a mechanical fault rammed into a stationed armoured vehicle. The impact of the collision was said to have caused the armoured vehicle […]
The students were waiting to enter the gate of a middle school in Tai’an city in Shandong province when the bus slammed into them after 7 a.m. The public security bureau in Dongping county said in a statement the bus, specially customized for transporting students, lost control when it drove into an intersection, th Five […]
The family of Kogi journalist, Mohammed Bashir, and nine others kidnapped two weeks ago in a Kaduna suburb have regained their freedom. The journalist confirmed this in a statement giving no details on how the victims were released and whether any ransom was paid to secure their freedom. Recall that Bashir’s wife, Aminat Shana, his […]
The Ogun State Police Command informed Newsmen earlier in the day that the incident took place around 9:00 a.m. on Friday. This incident occurred just days after a 32-year-old man, Olúwaṣeun Shorinola, died by suicide in the Kémta area of Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, on August 28, 2024. The command’s spokesperson, Odutola Omolola, told […]
Bandits last night invaded a community known as ‘Zone A, back of Primary School’, in Ushafa, Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory FCT, killing a man identified as Felix Chuks and abducting his entire family. The gunmen reportedly stormed the community around midnight on Thursday, with heavy gunfire, a development which reportedly overwhelmed […]
According to reports, the incident happened in the wee hours of today, precisely, around 2.20 am and one of the two-bedrooms in Flat 5, of Block 21, a two-winged, three-story building of 16 two-bedroom flats, was burnt. A preliminary investigation conducted by the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, revealed that the fire originated from […]
The security agency said the child was laid under a tree, while the mother picked firewood nearby, but by the time she returned to the spot where the child was laid to breastfeed it, she could not find her. The command while expressing concerns over the rising cases of missing children in the state, said […]