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Gunmen invade Mosques, abduct worshippers in Niger
MINNA — Gunmen have reportedly invaded several communities in Borgu Local Government Area of Niger State, abducting an unspecified number of worshippers shortly after Friday prayers. The attacks reportedly occurred…
Boko Haram Has Metastasised, lingers due to corruption, Says Conflict Expert, Prof Tope Oriola
Conflict expert and professor of Criminology at the University of Alberta, Canada, Tope Oriola has identified corruption and profiteering, neglect of foot soldiers and inability to deploy technology as the…
FICAN Condemns Alleged Police Assault on Journalist in Abuja
...Warns against backdoor revival of SARS-style tactics BY NGOZI ONYEAKUSI The Finance Correspondents Association of Nigeria (FICAN) has strongly condemned the alleged assault, harassment and destruction of the mobile phone…
200 Alleged Deaths: Group Petitions Uzodimma, Demands Shutdown of Notorious ‘Tiger Base Unit’
Uzodimma A prominent civil society organisation, OGANIHU, has called on Governor Hope Uzodimma to immediately disband the Anti-Kidnapping Unit of the Imo State Police Command, notoriously known as "Tiger Base."…
Murder Of Chigbo: Police Arrests Three Notorious ‘One Chance’ Armed Robbery Suspects
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command has recorded a major breakthrough in its sustained fight against violent crime with the arrest of three notorious armed robbery suspects involved in…
Kidnappers kill Abuja-based Lawyer Princess Nwamaka Chigbo
Nwamaka Chigbo THE family of Princess Nwamaka Mediatrix Chigbo, an Abuja-based lawyer, is saddened to announce her brutal death at the hands of still-to-be-identified kidnappers in the Nigerian Federal Capital…
Sleaze in the season of subsidy
By Taylor and Ali Simon Kolawole After years upon years of legal back and forth, a special offences court in Lagos state recently jailed two subsidy fraudsters. Mamman, son of…
APA WOMEN PROTEST OVER FULANI HERDSMEN KILLINGS
BY NGOZI ONYEAKUSI There is an ongoing protest march sweeping through Apa Local Government Area of Benue State today as hundreds of women under the banner “Voice of the Hopeless…
OCHETOHA K’IDOMA CONDEMNS BRUTAL ATTACKS ON EDIKWU ANKPALI COMMUNITY BY SUSPECTED HERDSMEN
BY NGOZI ONYEAKUSI The Ochetoha K’Idoma National Forum expresses its profound outrage and deep sorrow over the recent violent attack on the Edikwu Ankpali community in Apa Local Government Area…
Ondo popular musician, comfort Omoge’s grandson murdered
Prince Ogo Omoge, a grandson of a popular musician, late Mrs Comfort Omoge, has been gruesomely murdered in Okitipupa, the headquarters of Okitipupa council area of Ondo State. Reports…
