Police smash phone robbery syndicate, recover 34 stolen phones in A’Ibom
The Akwa Ibom State Police Command has dismantled a phone robbery syndicate and recovered 34 assorted phones in Uyo, while also securing the prosecution of a social media influencer for spreading false security information capable of causing panic.
Gunmen abduct 60 year-Old ondo community head, shoot wife
–Community in shock as police launch manhunt By Dayo Johnson Akure Suspected gunmen have abducted 60-year-old Adeniyi Adelana, community head of Ode Oriya Village in Owo council area of Ondo State and shot his wife. A police source said six armed men stormed the residence around 8:05pm Saturday. The assailants invaded under cover of darkness […]
Agbor’s Blood On The Tracks: Ujevwu-Itakpe derailment exposes systemic collapse of rail network
This is not the first time Agbor has swallowed steel and lives. It is the latest chapter in a timeline that reads like a lingering warning ignored.
Terrorists target more schools in ‘dangerous shift’
A fresh wave of kidnappings, bandit attacks and attempted mass abductions across several states has renewed concerns that criminal gangs are expanding their operations despite repeated assurances by security agencies that they are being degraded.
One year after Yelewata massacre, community honours 271 slain victims, demands justice
One year after 271 residents were brutally killed in the Yelewata massacre, survivors, families of the victims, religious leaders and political figures on Saturday gathered in the community to honour the dead and renew calls for justice and improved security.
‘Only American pilot and his God know how aircraft landed on Delta road’
“How he ended up landing on a strip or a road, a newly constructed road, only the pilot and his God could determine it”
Tragedy as truck driver dies, motor boy rescued in Lagos crash
Tragedy struck on democracy day on Friday, when a truck driver died in a lone accident involving an empty 40-foot articulated truck along Isheri Elemu inward Ijegun, area of Lagos.
Anambra Miracles: As Soludo cracks down on fake pastors
As Anambra’s crackdown on alleged fake miracles gathers momentum, a bigger question arises among Nigerians: where does faith end and fraud begin?
Probe continues as Dunamis church rejects ownership of road-landed aircraft
By David Nnasom & Dickson Omobola Faith-based Group, Concerned Christian Youth Forum, CCYF, has debunked a report claiming that the private aircraft with registration number N989BC, which landed on a road in the Ogwashi-Uku area of Delta State, belongs to Dunamis International Gospel Centre. CCYF, in a statement, Friday, said the church had consistently maintained […]
‘They removed my friend’s eye’ – Gory tales from South Africa
By Dickson Omobola & Matilda Ikediobi For the 258 Nigerians who returned home aboard an Air Peace flight under Federal Government’s evacuation programme, Thursday, it was a moment of relief after years of enduring xenophobic attacks and discrimination in South Africa. Read Also: South Africa to charge FG for cost of deporting Nigerians Though exhausted from the […]
How my mother’s video made me leave Boko Haram – Mohammed, ex-terrorists
the former fighters, dressed in white T-shirts, were handed copies of the Koran on which they swore an oath not to rejoin jihadist groups
