By Bashir Bello No fewer than 344 students kidnapped from Government Science Secondary School, Kankara in Katsina State by bandits last Friday night have been released. Abdul Labaran, the Director General, Media to the Katsina State Governor, Aminu Bello Masari, confirmed the release of the students to Vanguard. ALSO READ: Police have right to kill in […]

By Davies Iheamnachor – Port Harcourt Unidentified gunmen have assassinated a yet to be identified man in Rivers State. The incident happened around 3:30 pm at Evo road, Government Reserved Area, GRA, Phase 2, Port Harcourt. The victim, who is yet to be identified was driving in a Kia Optima car, with registration number KUJ-713 […]

By Chidi Nkwopara – Owerri The kidnapped Catholic priest, Rev. Fr. Valentine Oluchukwu Ezeagu, has been freed unhurt, by his captors. Confirming the development in a telephone interview with Vanguard, Wednesday evening, the Imo State Police Command’s Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Mr Orlando Ikeokwu, said the kidnapped Catholic priest, just stepped into the Okigwe Divisional […]

Boko Haram recruited three local gangs in to kidnap hundreds of schoolboys on its behalf in Katsina, security and local sources said Wednesday. The jihadist group has claimed responsibility for Friday’s attack, which targeted a secondary school in the town of Kankara, in Katsina state. But sources told AFP the operation was carried out on […]

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri – Abuja The Court of Appeal in Abuja, on Wednesday, nullified the Federal High Court judgement that convicted and sentenced a former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh, to seven years imprisonment for money laundering. In a unanimous decision, a three-man panel of Justices of the […]