Vendors Arrested For Selling Newspapers With News On IPOB The newspaper vendors are accused of circulating newspapers that promote the activities of IPOB The Inspector-General of Police (IG) Intelligent Response Team (IRT) on Monday arrested five newspaper vendors in Owerri, Imo State, Nigeria’s South-east, for allegedly promoting activities of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra … Read more
Police Nab Notorious Armed Robber In Kaduna The Police Command in Kaduna State says its operatives have arrested a notorious suspected armed robber and cultist and recovered a Baretta pistol from him The command’s spokesperson, ASP Mohammed Jalige, made the disclosure in a statement in Kaduna on Sunday Jalige said that the command acted on … Read more
Panic As Army Arrests Suspected Terrorists In Kano Residents of Hotoro North in Nassarawa Local Government Area of Kano State were apprehensive on Saturday evening when soldiers invaded a newly moved-in house situated at Filin Lazio of the area and arrested some people said to be suspected terrorists. According to a resident, Malam Muhammed Amadi, … Read more
Hoodlums Set Abia Police Station On Fire Suspected hoodlums have razed the Ubani Market Police station in Bende Local Government Area of Abia State. The armed men invaded the station in the wee hours of Sunday. No life was lost in the incident as policemen had relocated from the place days before the incident. The … Read more
EFCC Offering N1 Million To Yahoo Yahoo Informants The EFCC has reacted to the viral reports that there is a huge reward for ‘yahoo yahoo’ informants. Nigeria’s anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has said that it has not issued any notice on social media promising a financial reward for anyone with information … Read more
Passport Issuance Will Resume May 31–Aregbesola The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola has said that the Nigeria Immigration Service was working to ensure that all outstanding passports were issued by May 31 after several months of delay. Mr. Aregbesola also stated that beginning June 1, passports would be issued within six weeks, reasons for the … Read more
El-Rufai Is One Of Those Who Have Misled Buhari Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom on Saturday took a swipe at his Kaduna counterpart, describing him as “one of the real enemies” of Nigeria. Mr. Ortom was responding to a statement credited to Governor Nasir El-Rufai, where the latter reportedly accused the Benue Governor of attacking … Read more
TB Joshua Should Have Been Prosecuted–Soyinka Prof. Wole Soyinka has said that Prophet TB Joshua ought to have been prosecuted by the Lagos State Government over the 2014 hostel collapse at his church. The collapse at the SCOAN’s premises in Lagos had killed at least 116 people, 84 of them South Africans Soyinka said this … Read more
Buhari Government Cant Unite Nigeria–Soyinka Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has expressed that he doesn’t believe Nigerian unity is attainable under the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari due to its systemic failure. Soyinka stated this in Abuja on Saturday at the book reading and signing of two of his books titled ‘Trumpism in Academe’ and … Read more
6 Police Officers Killed In Rivers In what looked like coordinated attacks suspected IPOB militants Friday night attacked Elimgbu Police Station in Obio/Akpor LGA of Rivers State, killing three policemen and injuring one other. In another attack at Rumuji Divisional Police Station in Emouha Local Government Area, the attackers killed two police officers while another … Read more