Fuel Price Hike: Sowore Mocks Tinubu’s Supporters Over Inability To Go To Work
The candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore has faulted President Bola Tinubu over his announcement on the removal of fuel subsidy. Sowore stated this in a statement via his verified Twitter handle on Wednesday. The AAC presidential candidate, who opposes the fuel subsidy removal, said Tinubu failed to announce an increase in the minimum wage from N30,000 to...
Kidnappers Kill Two, Abduct Others In Ogun Farm Raid
On Wednesday, gunmen suspected of kidnapping killed a security guard and one other person while abducting two people at a farm in Awo village, Orile-Imo in Ogun State's Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area. The kidnappers allegedly killed a So-Safe Corps area commander, Saheed Ogunrinde, a native of the village. The kidnappers were alleged to be clothed in military fatigues. They were reportedly pursued...
Terrorists Abduct Two Kaduna APC Women
Bandits kidnapped two women leaders of the All Progressives Congress in Kaduna State, Hajiya Lami Awarware and Hajiya Haulatu Aliyu. The women were allegedly kidnapped at the Manini hotspot in Kaduna State's unstable Birnin-Gwari Local Government Area. The incident occurred after the women leaders attended the inauguration of the state governor, Senator Uba Sani, in Kaduna on Monday, according to the...
NAPTIP Sacks Five Officials For Receiving Bribes, Leaking Official Information, Others
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons has dismissed a deputy director and four other officers for various offences. The spokesperson for the agency, Vincent Adekoye, disclosed this in a statement made available to journalists on Wednesday. Adekoye explained that the offences range from corruption to demanding and receiving bribes from suspects and relatives. According to him, other offences...
Gunmen Kill Five In Rivers Community Over Failure To Provide N1m
Five individuals were killed in an attack on the Odiereke Ubie community in Rivers State's Ahoada West Local Government Area after the community allegedly failed to provide N1 million for their sustenance. A member of the community who confirmed the occurrence stated that the crooks arrived on motorcycles equipped with AK-47 weapons. The victims were killed on their way back from...
Thunderstorm Kills Five-year-old Boy In Katsina
Abdulmalik Junaidu, a five-year-old boy, was killed by a thunderstorm on Monday at about 7 p.m. in Nasarawa Yanlemu community, Bakori LGA, Katsina State. "When I closed from work at the motor park after Maghrib prayers, it was raining," stated the victim's father, Malam Junaidu Gide. "As the rain subsided, I went home and asked for the children. The mother told...
Police Arrest Teenage Suspect, Recover Pistol, Cult beret
During a regular surveillance sweep, police operatives from Agbarho Police Station apprehended an eighteen-year-old suspected cultist, Difference Sunday, in Ekrerhawe, a community in Delta State's Ughelli North Local Government Area. The suspect, who lived in Isiokolo, Ethiope-East Local Government Area, was found with a locally produced, cut-to-size gun. DSP Bright Edafe, the Delta State Police Public Relations Officer, confirmed the report...
Quranic School Student In Kano Drowns In Pond
Yusuf Magaji, a 13-year-old Qur'anic school student, drowned in a pond at Makugara village in Kano State's Karaye Local Government Area on Thursday. Saminu Abdullahi, spokesman for the Kano State Fire Service, confirmed the disaster in a statement made in Kano on Friday. "We received an emergency call, and we sent our rescue team to the scene but Yusuf was brought...
Online ‘Businesswoman’ Arrested In Minna For Allegedly Defrauding Over 100 People Of N150m
The Niger State Police Command has arrested an online businesswoman, Akinnowonu Damilola Victoria, for allegedly defrauding over one hundred people of N150m. Spokesperson of the command, DSP Wasiu Abiodun, who disclosed this in a statement on Friday, June 2, 2023, said the suspect deceived her victims that her goods were seized by the Customs after they made orders. "A case of...
Labourer Dies In Lagos Church Soakaway
A labourer known only as Dogo died after slipping into a sewage tank belonging to a church in Badore, Ajah, Lagos State. The incident occurred on Friday when the deceased victim was hired by the church's leadership to labor on the premises. According to a source in the region, the middle-aged worker began doing his job when one of the...
