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A final year student of the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi, Joseph Agabaidu, has been stabbed to death by some assailants while trying to steal his mobile phone. Newsmen learnt that the deceased is a 500-level Geology student of ATBU who hails from Ankpa Local Government Area of Kogi State but is based in Benue […]
The management of the Nigerian Television Authority, NTA, says the fire incident that erupted on Sunday at its Sokoto Network centre has been contained This was disclosed in a statement by NTA through its official X handle on Sunday night. According to NTA, the fire was put out by the joint efforts of staff and […]
Mubarak Akadiru, the son of a housemaid who was arrested by police detectives for the murder of a 62-year-old grandmother and former head teacher, Mrs Sidikat Adamolekun, in Arigidi Akoko, Ondo State, has told an Akure Magistrate Court why he killed her mother’s benefactor. The defendant, who was 18 at the time, told the court […]
A team of armed military personnel from Nigerian Army ‘4’ Special Forces Command, Doma in four Hilux vans, yesterday, allegedly rammed into over 500 women during a peaceful protest in Lafia, leaving many wounded. The incident happened at the stadium junction, where the protesters gathered to pray after their protest for the day. The first […]
Operatives of the Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) have arrested a farmer identified as Paul Amaechi, following the alleged killing of a herder for grazing cattle on his farm. The mutilated body of the herder was reportedly found on Amaechi’s farm at Telemu village in Ago-Owu, Ayedaade Local Government Area of the state on Thursday, raising […]
The Lagos State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of a suspected traffic robber identified simply as Ali in the Lekki area of the state. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, said on Wednesday the “notorious traffic robber, one Ali ‘m’, was arrested in the Ikate area of Lekki” while carrying out “his […]
Some local security agents also known as Vigilantes killed four bandits after they attacked one person in Dan-Umaru village of Bena District in Kebbi State on Monday. The Chief Press Secretary to the State Governor, Ahmed Idris, disclosed this in a statement made available to journalists in Birnin Kebbi on Monday. Idris quoted the Director, […]
The Nigeria immigration Service on Sunday lost some of its officers along Kano-Zaria Road. The officers, who were on their way back to Abuja from Kano after a Passing-Out-Parade (POP) at the Immigration Training School, were involved in an accident. It was gathered that two persons died after the auto crash. The Nigeria immigration Service […]
Parents of the freed students of the Obafemi Awolowo University on Friday demanded an immediate clearance of their children’s names, biometrics and pictures from the records of the Economic Financial Crime Commission. They also demanded an apology for what they termed as an unlawful clampdown on their wards from the anti-graft agency. This followed the […]
Tragedy struck on Thursday afternoon in Jalingo the Taraba State capital when a secondary school teacher, Mr Bassey Sardauna of the Government Model School, Jalingo was stabbed to death by his former student. Confirming the incident, the state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Abdullahi Usman noted that the teacher was attacked by his former student […]
