CRIME
One Corps Member Killed, Several Abducted As Gunmen Shoot Sporadically Along Jere-Abuja Highway
The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has confirmed the death of a corps member along Jere-Abuja highway. NYSC, in a statement issued on Wednesday by its Director of Press and Public Relations, Adenike Adeyemi, said 17 corps members were attacked by suspected armed robbers who stormed the expressway. According to the statement, the corps members had completed the 2020 Batch “B”...
I Stole So I Can Afford To Feature Davido Or Runtown In My Music – Car Thief
A 23-year-old Federal College of Education (Technical) Akoka student, Dare Williams, arrested for snatching a vehicle from a hailing service driver has said he committed the crime because he was desperate to feature either Davido or Runtown. Williams, who said he is a music artist, lured his friend, Bethel Chukwuocha, 18, to snatch a Toyota Corolla car from the driver, Clement...
Pray For Troops To End Insecurity – Defence Minister
The Minister of Defence, Maj Gen Bashir Salihi Magashi, has urged Christians to pray for the country to overcome its security challenges as they celebrate the birth of Christ. Gen Magashi, the Defence Minister gave the charge in a Thursday statement felicitating with Christians on the special Christmas occasion. He urged Christians to be Christ-like in celebrating the birth of Jesus...
Yuletide: DSS Raises The Alarm Over Plot To Bomb Worship Places, Parks
The Department of State Services, DSS, has alerted Nigerians about plans by “enemies of state” to unleash terror on vulnerable places, including critical infrastructure, places of worship as well as recreational centres during the Christmas and New Year celebrations. It said the plot would be executed through the use of explosives, suicide bombing, and other dangerous weapons. The DSS spokesperson for...
17-Year-Old Boy Dies After Smoking Suspected Colorado
A 17-year-old boy who is identified simply as Joshua has reportedly died after smoking a high dose of suspected colorado. The incident was said to have happened on Sunday at Oba- Ile area of Akure North local government area. Witnesses said the deceased usually smoke the substance with his friends. He was said to have gone into a coma after puffing three...
Kidnapped Edo HoS Okungbowa Regains Freedom
The kidnapped Edo State Head of Service (HoS) Anthony Okungbowa, has regained his freedom from the den of kidnappers, where he had been since Saturday evening, after the payment of huge ransom by the administration of Godwin Obaseki. Okungbowa was seized at gunpoint, after the hoodlums killed his driver on the spot, while his police escort went missing, but he...
We Were Told To Say Boko Haram Kidnapped Us – Kankara Student
One of the hundreds of schoolboys kidnapped from the Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State has said that their abductors were not members of Boko Haram. The schoolboy disclosed this in a viral video, adding that they were told to say that the kidnappers were Boko Haram insurgents. Asked if their abductors were bandits or Boko Haram, the students said,...
Terror Attacks ‘Have Reduced Drastically’ In Zamfara – Governor
Zamfara State Governor, Bello Matawalle on Sunday said the security situation in the northwest state has improved since he assumed leadership. The Governor was responding to accusations by the All Progressives Congress that he was sponsoring bandits in Zamfara. Matawalle, a Peoples Democratic Party Governor, said such accusations were malicious and insulting. “I find it insulting that the Apc is accusing me...
Ignore Nnamdi Kanu’s Security Outfit — South-East Governors
THE Chairman of South-East Governors Forum and Governor of Ebonyi State, Engr. David Umahi, weekend called on the people of the region to ignore the so-called security outfit set up by the leader of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. Umahi who described the outfit as laughable stressed that the Governors of the region have...
Gunmen Kidnap Former LG Chairman, Demand N25m Ransom
Some gunmen have abducted a former Chairman of Olamaboro Local Government Area of Kogi State, Barrister Isaac Emmanuel Ekpa. Sources close to the former local government chairman said he was abducted on Friday, around Ochadamu in Ofu Local Government Area of the state while on his way to his country home. Ekpa was said to be making preparations for his late...
