CRIME
Russia Converts Schools To Parade Grounds, Teaching Students How To Assemble Guns
The Russian government is engaging school children in military drills including assembling guns, marching practice, throwing grenades, and shooting with real ammunition, CNN reports. From the Pacific to the Black Sea, playgrounds are becoming parade grounds, and service in the armed forces is accorded more honour in schools, while the national curriculum is being modified to emphasise defence of the...
Abia Police Parade 11 Suspected Electricity Vandals Who Sabotage EEDC’s Services (Photos, Video)
Residents of Aba, Umuahia, and environs will now heave a sigh of relief and witness improved power supply at officers of Abia State police command have arrested 11 suspects who engage in vandalizing the installations of Enugu Electricity Distribution...
Police Arrest Nasarawa Student After Rescue Of Abducted Lecturer
The police authorities in Nasarawa State have rescued a lecturer with the state university in Keffi, Isaac Igbawua, from his abductors. Igbawua, of the Department of Microbiology, was kidnapped by gunmen from his residence along Old Barracks, Kokona Local Government Area on December 27, 2023. A day after his abduction, the Nasarawa State Police Command arrested a student of the Federal...
We’ve Not Proscribed Bandits As Terrorists Because We’re Following Procedures — FG
The Minister of Defense, Bashir Magashi, has explained that despite calls to designate bandits as terrorists, the Federal Government is yet to do so because it is still reviewing and following all the required procedures. Mr Magashi said this while responding to questions from journalists in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital on Friday when he led service chiefs to receive...
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...
BREAKING: Stop Killing #ENDSARS Protesters, Hillary Clinton Warns Buhari And Army
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton, former United States secretary of state, Tuesday night warned President Muhammadu Buhari and the Nigerian Army to desist from killing innocent #ENDSARS protesters. Nigerians who were protesting against Police brutality and bad governance were shot at by men believed to be Nigerian soldiers, at Lekki Toll Gate. Few were reportedly killed while many sustained various degrees...
Ex-Defence Minister, Kwankwaso Says Military Can End Insecurity If…
Sen. Musa Kwankwaso, a former Minister of Defence, says the military can end the current security challenge facing the country, given the necessary motivation. Kwankwaso, also the National Leader of New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) stated this when he spoke with newsmen shortly after the NNPP National Executive Committee meeting in Abuja. He said that although it was the responsibility of...
Northern Governors Backs Creation Of State Police Over Rising Insecurity
Northern governors yesterday warned that the region stood on the brink of losing its future to escalating insecurity and deepening poverty, unless leaders took urgent, decisive action. They also called for state police as a way out of the high level insecurity in the north, and asked for a 6-month ban on mining in the region. This is even as Kaduna...
Five Abia Varsity Students Risk Expulsion Over Alleged Rape, Cultism
Five students of the Abia State University Uturu ABSU, have been apprehended over alleged rape and involvement in cult-related activities. Three of the students according to a university Senate Committee member, Mr Ojo Ezichi, in a viral video, allegedly raped two female students. Mr. Ezichi who doubles as the Chairman of the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities, SSANU, in the...
#EdoDecides2020: Jubilant Obaseki’s Supporter Falls From Moving Vehicle [PHOTOS]
A yet-to-be-identified supporter of Governor Godwin Obaseki has fallen from a speeding vehicle, ABN TV reports. The young man was part of the youths, in a vehicle, jubilating over results announced in favour of the Peoples Democratic Party candidate Obaseki. The incident happened in front of Ugbekun Primary School in Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area around 4:05 pm. The youth fell from the...
