By Isiaka Oyibo LOKOJA — ONE person identified as Surage was, yesterday, stabbed to death and ten others badly injured when some youths of Kabawa engaged themselves in a free-for-all fight. During the mayhem at the Maraba area of Lokoja metropolis, guns, machetes, cudgels, broken bottles and other dangerous weapons were freely used forcing motorists […]

Kafur (Katsina)  -  The Kafur Local Council in Katsina State has suspended an immunisation officer and his subordinates for allegedly compiling false report on immunisation exercise in Masari village. Director of Health in the council, Alhaji Shuaibu Garba, who disclosed this yesterday while supervising the on-going exercise in Masari village, said the doctored report was […]

Jos — The Justice Bola Ajibola Commission of Inquiry constituted in January 2009 by Governor Jonah Jang to investigate the November 2008 crisis in Jos-North is to wind up this week. Ajibola disclosed this yesterday in Jos, when the Commission visited the Gbong Gwom Jos, Da Jacob Buba, to seek his advice on finding lasting […]

Maiduguri — Some of the women who lost their loved ones in last week’s sectarian crisis in Maiduguri are bemoaning their fate and have appealed for government assistance. The Boko Haram Muslim sect, led by 39-year-old Mohammed Yusuf, had last Monday launched  a violent attack on the people of the state in what it called […]

Dr. Asogun, a Consultant Surgeon and Head of Department of Surgery, Central Hospital, Benin City, and Medical Director of Asogun Specialist Clinic, Benin, was abducted by unknown gunmen while attending to a patient in his clinic.
Family sources told newsmen on the telephone that the kidnappers allowed them to speak with the doctor for a few minutes before the ransom demand was made.