…victims include students, dad, wife, children Greatest tragedy in recent times -Bello Sympathisers wailed profusely yesterday as 30 people lost their lives when a petrol tanker crashed and exploded into flames on the Felele-Lokoja-Abuja Highway. The victims included students of the Kogi State Polytechnic, nursery schoolchildren and artisans among others. However, the state Sector Commander […]
Armed robbers yesterday invaded an Assemblies of God Church in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State and raped a teenage girl. The robbers reportedly shot another girl on the lap while resisting rape. The church, located at Azuiyiokwu, is under construction. Youths belonging to the drama wing of the church were said to be having an all-night rehearsal […]
An Ikeja Special Offences Court, Lagos, yesterday sentenced a dismissed police sergeant, Ologunowa Ojo, to seven years in prison for killing a 45-year-old man, Taiye Akande, with his AK47 gun. Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo sentenced the 47-year-old sergeant after finding him guilty of manslaughter under Sections 224 of the Criminal Law of Lagos 2015. Taiwo held […]
Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau State has given an assurance that the killers of a traditional ruler, the Acting Gwom Rwey Foron, Da Bulus Chuwang Jang, would be arrested and made to face justice. Jang was murdered in his home at Rasat community of Foron in Barkin Ladi Local Government Area. Lalong, said in a […]
Private sector-led Coalition Against Covid-19 (CACOVID) has handed over food supply relief packages worth N1.4 billion to the Lagos State government for distribution to the indigent and elderly citizens as part of measures to mitigate the impact of coronavirus. At the handover ceremony at the Governor’s Office, Alausa Secretariat, Ikeja, the coalition said the food […]
Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State has directed that the bodies of victims of an auto crash who drowned in River Zalzalu on Sokoto- Illela Road last Thursday be recovered and given befitting burial. Following this, bodies of five victims have been found and buried. The accident involved a vehicle and a motorcycle. Tambuwal also […]
Flood accompanying a downpour has destroyed property and goods worth N950 million in 16 local government areas of Bauchi State. Governor Bala Abdulkadir disclosed this when he received the Director-General (DG) of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Air Vice Marshal Mohammed Mohammed (rtd), during a courtesy visit yesterday at the Government House, Bauchi The […]
Bandits have kidnapped Hajiya Asiya Dangiwa, the younger sister of the Managing Director of Federal Mortgage Bank, Alhaji Ahmed Musa Dangiwa. “The bandits kidnapped their victim in Kankia town of Katsina State in the early hours of Wednesday (yesterday) about 1am,” a family source said. The source added that the bandits entered the matrimonial home […]
Residents of the 1004 Estate, Victoria Island area of Lagos State have lamented what they described as the infrastructural decay in the estate. Even as they claimed to have been paying the sum of N700,000 yearly as service charges and N40,000 monthly on electricity. These charges according to them, are paid to the coffers of […]
As Nigeria celebrates its 60th Independence Anniversary on October 1, the Lagos State government Wednesday said it will hold a highly restricted anniversary in consonance with the COVID-19 protocols. Hence, the government said that will also change the venue of the annual ceremony from Ikeja Police College to the Agege Mini Stadium to ensure strict […]