CRIME
Ohafia Community In Mourning As Trailer Crushes Many Christmas Travelers To Death (Photos, Video)
Ohafia, Abia State, was plunged into mourning on Sunday following a tragic accident involving a chippings-filled trailer, which overturned and trapped several people under its crushing weight. The incident happened on Sunday at about 1:30pm near popular Nmuri Bridge Ebem Ohafia in Ohafia LGA Abia State. https://youtu.be/Qr32s4u7t7o?si=FQMbjs6HgL7RegrN Many of the victims pleaded for help as they endured unbearable pain, but rescue...
Police Nab Suspected Robber With Pistol In Ogun
The Ogun State Police Command has arrested a suspected armed robber with a locally made pistol at the Joju area of Sango Ota. Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, who disclosed the arres...
Billboard Destruction: Call Your Thugs To Order, NSA Monguno Warns Governors
The National Security Adviser (NSA), Major General Babagana Monguno (retd), has cautioned state governors using thugs to prevent opposition from placing their campaign materials in strategic points that security agencies will soon take necessary measures if such action continues. Moguno spoke on Thursday while featuring at the Ministerial Media Briefing organised by the Presidential Communications Team at the Presidential Villa,...
Chief Of Army Staff Reveals Strategy To End Insurgency, Banditry
Chief of Army Staff, COAS, Lt. Gen. Farouk Yahaya, Friday, said the four command pillars of professionalism, readiness, administration and cooperation were his strategy to ensure a discipline and professional Nigerian army that will defeat terrorists and bandits. He also stated that central to the pillars was the welfare of the officers and men of the institution which is geared...
Travelers Reportedly Dead As Bandits Plant Explosives On Zamfara road
On Wednesday, a vehicle carrying passengers in the Maru Local Government Area of Zamfara State ran on explosives planted along the Dansadau-Gusau Road, resulting in the confirmed deaths of an unspecified number of passengers. An anonymous source told the Daily Trust that the explosives were planted by some bandits after the completion of community work on the road. The source, a...
Tension Brews In Enugu Community Over Killing Of 2 Persons By Soldiers, Many Injured
There is unease in Eke community, Udi Local Government Area of Enugu State following the alleged killing of a neighborhood watch group member by soldiers attached to the 82 Division of the Nigerian Army, Enugu. Also allegedly shot dead is a housewife from the same community. ABN TV reports that other members of the local security network who survived the said...
Bandits Invade Zamfara Mosque, Abduct Worshippers
Bandits on Friday abducted dozens of worshippers from a Jumuat Mosque in Zugu community of Gummi local government area of Zamfara state. Residents said the armed men hid their guns inside their clothes and stormed the mosque when the Imam was about to start delivering sermon. The intruders reportedly told those outside the mosque to go inside. “When they laid siege, they...
Sales Rep Arraigned For Allegedly Stealing Goods Worth N1m
A 38-year-old sales representative, Kayode Oludoyi, was on Wednesday docked in an Iyaganku Magistrate's Court, Ibadan, for allegedly stealing Guinness products worth N1, 850,419.54. The police charged Oludoyi, whose residential address was not provid...
Kidnappers Release Former NFA Secretary-General, Ahmed Toro
A former Secretary-General of the Nigeria Football Association (NFA), Alhaji Ahmed Sani Toro, who was kidnapped on Saturday night, has regained freedom. Speaking to Daily Trust, one of his sons, Nasiru Toro, said his father was released on Monday nig...
Rep Ben Kalu Seeks Reversal Of Shoot-At-Sight Order In South East, Says It Fuels Extrajudicial Killings [VIDEO]
The member representing Bende Federal Constituency and the Spokesperson of the House of Representatives Rep. Benjamin Kalu has called for the reversal of the shoot-at-sight order given by the Inspector General of Police, IGP. Usman Alkali baba. According to the federal lawmaker, this would give rise to extrajudicial killings without proper monitoring. Speaking on his weekly radio programme 'Ben Kalu’s Mandate’...
