33 months unpaid rent threatens war against oil bunkering
By Jimitota Onoyume, Assistant News Editor The war against illegal oil bunkering in the Niger Delta may be facing an unlikely, yet potent, enemy from a massive backlog of unpaid rent for House boats used to combat illegal bunkering activities and related maritime crimes The Nigerian Army and three indigenous houseboat contractors in the Niger […]
Police recover toy pistols from NGO training shooters at Maiduguri hotel
Borno Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, has directed the immediate suspension of ACTED, an international non-governmental organisation, iNGO, following Saturday’s discovery that the humanitarian iNGO was using a hotel in Maiduguri for training some persons on shooting.
Boko Haram, ISWAP factions reunite, pledge allegiance to Al-Khuraishi
Barely a month and some weeks after Abubakar Shekau, former leader of the factional Boko Haram sect killed himself after a violent confrontation with some renegade Islamic State of West Africa Province, ISWAP, commanders, it has emerged that Boko Haram and ISWAP fighters have mend fences.
Gunmen abduct another Ekiti traditional ruler, spare wife
Armed men believed to be kidnappers have abducted another traditional ruler in Ekiti, Oba Benjamin Oso, the Eleda of Eda Ile, in Ekiti East Local Government Area. A source told newsmen on Saturday in Ado Ekiti, that the traditional ruler was returning from farm with his wife on Friday when he was abducted but his […]
Police rescue 4 abducted women in Zamfara
The police command in Zamfara has rescued four women who were kidnapped three weeks ago in Bilbis village in Tsafe Local Government Area (LGA)of the state by bandits. This is contained in a statement by the state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Muhammad Shehu in Gasau on Saturday. “Following directives by the Commissioner of Police […]
Panic grips residents as oil pipeline leaks in Lagos
By Olasunkanmi Akoni Fear has gripped the residents of Ijeododo Road, Igando, Alimosho, Local Government Area, Lagos, Saturday, following a Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, popularly, called petrol, pipeline leakage in the area. The incident occurred in the afternoon when some of the residents noticed the leakage at Igando enroute Ijeododo road and raised the alarm. Eye witnesses account […]
