CRIME
Doctors Must Treat Gunshot, Stab Victims Without Report — Police
The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has restated that doctors and hospital personnel are mandated to treat gunshot and stab victims without requesting for any police report. The Police said every medical facility in the country was free to receive and treat victims of gunshot wounds with or without Police clearance, but are duty-bound to report to the nearest Police station...
EFCC Seizes Orji Uzor Kalu’s Properties
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Saturday, December 14, 2019, moved to the next level in fulfilling the terms of the court sentence passed on former Abia State governor, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu. The anti-graft agency said it has begun marking properties belonging to him to seek reparation for the N7.65b stolen from the Abia state treasury.. The marking...
Man Slumps, Dies At Murtala Muhammed Int’l Airport Lagos
A passenger identified as Chukwuma Anthony Ezeh, on Wednesday slumped and died at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos. ABN TV gathered that the passenger slumped on arrival from China and died while waiting to collect his luggage According to information on his passport, Ezeh was 47 years old at the time of the incident. Spokesperson of the Police MMIA Command,...
MAN BANISHED FROM ANAMBRA COMMUNITY FOR IMPREGNATING DAUGHTER, TWICE (Photos)
An unidentified man said to be in his late 60s has been banished from Okofia, Otolo Nnewi for impregnating his own daughter twice. ABN TV gathered that, the community decided to send the man away after he got his daughter pregnant a second time. A picture showed members of the community handing the man and his daughter fresh palm fronds, while...
First bank corporate headquarters shutdown by Abia govt over tax default (Photos)
The Abia State Board of Internal Revenue on Tuesday sealed up the Corporate head office of the First bank PLC located along Goods Shade off Bank Road, Umuahia over non payment of outstanding sum of N 5,916,568.00 accumulated tax. The amount ABN TV gathered is outstanding balance of owed to the state in respect of the twenty two (22)...
DSS Doesn’t Need Buhari’s Permission To Arrest Sowore – Presidency
The Presidency has said that the Publisher of SaharaReporters, Omoyele Sowore, planned to cause trouble in the country and disappear like the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu. The Presidency said this in reaction to the insinuations in the media about the rearrest by the Department of State Services (DSS) of Sowore. Garba Shehu, President Muhammadu Buhari’s...
We Tracked 387 Hate Speech On Social Media In November – CITAD
Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) has said it tracked a total of 387 Hate speech on Facebook and Twitter handles in Nigeria in November. This was made known to the public by Hamza Ibrahim, CITAD Coordinator, Countering Hate Speech Project, at a Post-Gubernatorial Election Press briefing organised by the Centre and supported by the National Democratic Institute (NDI)...
Policeman Shoots Graduate Who Just Returned From India Dead In Kano (Photos)
I A graduate of computer science from India was reportedly shot and killed in cold blood by a police officer in Kano over a minor misunderstanding. According to report, the deceased just returned to Nigeria from India.
Kogi PDP woman leader burnt to death, buried amid tears
The charred remains of Mrs. Salome Abuh, the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) woman leader, who was burnt alive at Ochadamu, Kogi State, on Nov. 18, have been committed to mother earth. Abuh was laid to rest amid tears and wailings by relations, friends and associates on Saturday at her village, Aji-Obala, Ofu Local Government Area. The Officiating Minister, Rev. John Adino...
Sowore’s Court Invasion: If I Were Buhari, I Will Sack DSS Boss, Says Barr. Ubani
A former second Vice President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Mr. Monday Ubani, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to sack the Director-General of the Department of State Service (DSS), Yusuf Magaji Bichi. Ubani’s comments come on the heels of the invasion of the Federal High Court in Abuja by operatives of the commission while trying to rearrest the...
