Man kills 2 farmers over cannabis farm dispute in C’River
The Cross River State Police Command have arrested a 57-year-old man, Mr. Udo Samuel Sunday, in connection with the alleged murder of two farmers whose bodies were reportedly thrown into a river following a dispute over an illegal cannabis plantation in Odukpani Local Government Area.
FG auctions Lagos hotel, 3 properties forfeited by drug lords at N6.1bn
kingpins by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, and forfeited to the agency, through court processes, for the sum of N6.148 billion.
I was drugged, forced to sleep with 30 men a day — Teenager dv/sav/Svagsdbzdz
By Matthew Johnson LAGOS—Emotions ran high at the Lagos State Police Command yesterday, when a 16-year-old girl, Chidinma, narrated how she was allegedly trafficked from Imo State to Lagos and forced into prostitution for four months, during which she was made to sleep with 30 men daily, beaten repeatedly, and denied payment. The teenager, who said […]
When drains become dumps: Bayelsa park battles filth, apathy
By Samuel Oyadongha YENAGOA—The drains around Ekeki Motor Park in the heart of Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, were built to carry water. Today, they carry shame. Plastic bottles, sachet water wrappers, rotting food, dead rats, all festers in dark, sluggish channels that food stalls, POS kiosks, and the feet of thousands who pass through […]
Next downpour could kill more, flood-hit Cross River community cries out
By Ike Uchechukwu CALABAR — For residents of the riverside settlement of Efut Efio Ene, the sky is no longer a sight of hope, but a countdown to possible death. Every dark cloud brings fresh dread and every heavy downpour, they say, could sweep away more lives. Years of unchecked flooding have turned homes into ruins, […]
The canopy that became a threat: Calabar’s ornamental trees turn from beauty to danger
By Emma Una Arriving Calabar, the Cross River State capital, once meant entering a green cathedral. Now, it means dodging a death sentence. The ornamental trees lining Calabar’s roads were its proudest signature, a living archway of imported giants first introduced by Mr. Clement Ebri in the 1990s and expanded by Mr. Donald Duke in 1999. […]
From NDDC boss to monarch: Ogbuku ascends ancestral throne as Daufa VI
By Samuel Oyadongha AYAKORO — In the quiet water-fringed settlement of Ayakoro in Ogbia Local Government Area, Bayelsa State, where the Niger-Delta’s mangroves meet memory, they have a saying: a true leader is not announced, but recalled. The community recalled one of its own Dr. Samuel Ogbuku, the high-flying Managing Director of the Niger-Delta Development Commission (NDDC), […]
19-year-old beaten to death over missing N17,000 in Nsukka
Tension has continued to mount in Amoka Village, Nru Nsukka, in Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State, following the alleged killing of a 19-year-old resident, Chiadikaobi Asadu.
Troops arrest 46 suspected undocumented foreign nationals in Ogun
Troops of the Nigerian Army, in collaboration with the Department of State Services (DSS), the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), and the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), have arrested 46 foreign nationals during a security operation in Ogun State.
Our father not diabetic; mother still in captivity – Late Gen Rabe’s son
One of the sons of the late Major General Rabe Abubakar (retd), Isyaka Rabe, has said his father had no history of diabetes or high blood pressure, contrary to claims attributed to the Katsina State government.
Woman kidnapped in Edo market after husband escaped
“I saved the woman’s children today. It happened in front of me. We were both buying something in the same place, at the vegetable market”
