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Gas Explosion Kills Six In Abia Community [VIDEO]
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At least six persons have been killed at a gas explosion in Owaza, Ukwa West local government area of Abia State. Though the details of the victims are yet to be ascertained, our correspondent gathered that at about 9:50am on Sunday, the victims stormed an illegal oil refining site in Owaza. They were said to have used a gas cylinder to...
BREAKING: Canadian Military Helicopter Crashes In Ionian Sea
There are reports a Canadian NATO helicopter has crashed into the Ionian Sea on Wednesday. The Associated Press wire service has published a report saying that a military helicopter operating off of a Canadian frigate went missing while taking part in a NATO operation in the Mediterranean. ABN TV has learned the Canadian military is now in a communication lockdown. A spokesperson for...
Terrorists Give Deadline To Start Killing Abducted Kaduna Passengers, Releases Fresh Conditions To Release Hostages
Terrorists who kidnapped passengers on the Abuja-Kaduna bound train that was attacked on 28th March 2022 have urged the government to release their children allegedly kept in a Yola detention facility. They threatened to start killing the passengers ...
Corruption Under Buhari’s Government Historic, Says PDP Presidential Campaign Spokesperson
The Spokesperson of the Peoples Democratic Party’s Presidential Campaign Council, Mr Daniel Bwala, has said President Muhammadu Buhari has failed in his war against corruption. Rather than curb corruption, Mr Bwala said the situation has worsened under the Buhari administration. In 2015, President Buhari was elected on a platform of eradicating corruption, reducing insecurity, and advancing the economy. Mr Bwala concedes that...
NAF Aircraft Crashes in Kaduna, Many Feared Dead
A military aircraft belonging to the Nigerian Airforce, NAF, has crashed in Kaduna state with many officers on board reportedly killed. Recall that last year a military aircraft conveying the former Chief of Army Staff, Ibrahim Attahiru, and 10 other...
Court Sends Senator Ndume To Prison Over Failure To Produce Maina
A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered that Senator Ali Ndume (APC, Borno South) be remanded in Kuje correctional centre following his failure to produce a former chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Team, Rasheed Maina, who is believed to have jumped bail. Justice Okon Abang ordered Ndume’s remand while ruling on an oral application made to the...
Ghana Deports Nigerian National Convicted Of Smuggling Counterfeit $100,000
A Nigerian national, Aremu Adegboyega, has been convicted by a circuit court in Accra, Ghana, for smuggling counterfeit CFA francs worth over $100,000 into the country through an unauthorized border crossing. He will be deported back to Nigeria, PUNCH Metro has learned. Presiding over the case, Justice Christiana Cann ordered Adegboyega's immediate deportation by the Ghana Immigration Service. According to Ghanaian...
Man Fatally Stabbed in Gombe, Police Launch Investigation
The Gombe State Police Command has confirmed the death of a 45-year-old man, Ahmed Aliyu, who was fatally stabbed by unknown attackers in Hammadu Kafi, located in Akko Local Government Area. According to a statement issued by the Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Buhari Abdullahi, the incident occurred around 8:00 a.m. on Sunday and was reported later that night at...
Defence HQS Denies Camping Of Terrorists Around Abuja
The Chief of Defense Staff, General Lucky Irabor, has dismissed claims that suspected terrorists are setting up camps around the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), ABN TV reports. General Irabor spoke on Thursday during the Ministerial briefing organised by the Presidential Communications Team at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, placing the source of the said information as one of the online media...
Insecurity: Nigerians Do Not Deserve This Torment — Reps Caucus Weeps
Members of the Minority Caucus in the House of Representatives have lamented that Nigerians do not deserve the torment which has become their plight in recent times. Their lament which was contained in a statement by the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Ndudi Elumelu, was hinged on the recent rise in terrorist operations and the escalation of bandits’...
