Imo police locate abducted NYSC members’ camp, IED threat delays rescue
The Imo State Police Command has identified the location where 19 prospective National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members abducted in the state are believed to be held, but security operatives have delayed moving into the area over fears that the camp has been planted with improvised explosive devices (IEDs). The Commissioner of Police, Audu Bosso, […]
Court jails 2 account officials of Orthopaedic Hospital of N3m fraud
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission today secured the conviction of Umar Yusuf, and Ibrahim Ahmed Bebeji, former Chief Clerical Officers in the Account and Internal Audit Department respectively at the National Orthopaedic Hospital, Dala, Kano State.
Rice now being smuggled through creeks — Customs
The Ogun Area Command Controller, Nigeria Customs Service, Sani Madugu, said smugglers now use the creeks along the border communities at Idiroko, Ipokia Local Government Area, to smuggle bags of rice and other prohibited products into the country.
Bishop Onaiyekan bags Ahmadiyya Int’l Peace Award
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Nigeria will tomorrow confer International Peace Award on the Arch Bishop of Abuja, John Onaiyekan during the group’s Jalsa Tarbiyya Islamic Training Conference for Northern Nigeria.
Ramadan: Between Moonsighting controversies and youth zealousness
The recent pronouncement of the crescent of the month of Rajab, the seventh month of Islamic calendar, by the National Moon Sighting Committee (NMSC) triggered serious controversies, especially from among the Muslim youths.
CIO trains over 600 Imams
The Chairman of Conference of Islamic Organisations, CIO, and Chief Missioner of Ansar-ud-Deen Society of Nigeria, Sheikh Abdur-Rahman Ahmad has charged the federal government to deploy similar attention in fighting corruption to all other aspects of the economy to lift the country out of its present socio-economic challenges.
