Bayelsa State Livestock Management Committee has charged three herders at a Magistrate’s Court in Yenagoa for violating the anti-open grazing law. The herders were arrested around Royal Tulip hotel (Onopa), Tombia-Amassoma road and Zarama respectively on Saturday, November 27, by security operatives attached to the committee for contravening the Livestock Breeding, Rearing and Marketing…
The Department of State Services (DSS) has raised an alarm over plans by terrorists to attack military bases in border towns across the country. In a leaked memo dated November 25, 2021, the secret agency also put the Nigeria Customs Service on red alert to avert the pending attacks by the insurgents on Ogun…
The Kano State Police Command has arrested a wanted notorious armed robber, Sabitu Ibrahim, popularly known as Aljan and recovered six stolen motorcycles and tricycles from him. Spokesperson of the command, DSP Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa, who disclosed this in a statement on Saturday, November 27, said that the 18-year-old suspect has been on police wanted…
Suspected bandits attacked the Jos Correctional centre today November 28. According to reports, the bandits pretended to be on a visit before they opened fire on reaching the gate of the correctional facility. Five inmates attempted to escape but were stopped by armed personnel of the service. The Jos Correctional Centre is located near the…
Founder and Senior Pastor of Salvation Ministries, Port Harcourt, David Ibiyeomie, has said that anyone who allows his phone to ring in a church is a poor man. The clergyman said this while delivering a sermon to his congregation on Sunday, November 21. “Anyone whose phone rings in church is a poor man.…
Two persons have died while eight others sustained various degrees of injury when a Toyota Haice Bus plunged into Ososa River in Ogun State on Sunday night, November 21. Confirming the incident, the Public Education Officer of the Federal Road Safety Corps, Ogun Sector Command, Florence Okpe, said the incident occurred after J4 Ogbere on the…
Femi Adesina, presidential spokesperson, has explained why Nigeria was removed from the list of countries blacklisted for “engaging in violation of religious freedom” by the US. In 2019, Mike Pompeo, former US secretary of state, announced that Nigeria has been placed on its Special Watch-List (SWL) for governments that have engaged in or tolerated…
President Buhari has broken his silence days after the Lagos state judicial panel on EndSARS and Lekki tollgate shooting incident submitted its report to the Lagos state government. Speaking at a meeting with Antony Blinken, United States secretary of state, in Abuja, on Thursday, November 18, President Buhari said he will await the steps taken by…
The Katsina state government has said that bandits operating in the state are using Radio Frequency Walkie Talkie Transceivers to overcome the shutdown of telecommunications service in the state. Speaking at a press conference today November 18, the Secretary to the Government of Katsina State, Mustapha Inuwa, said the bandits have been unrelenting in circumventing the…
The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria HURIWA has called on President Buhari to immediately sack, arrest and prosecute the Minister of Information and Culture, following his insistence that nobody was killed in the October 20, 2020, Lekki tollgate shooting. The writers made the call while reacting to the conclusive judicial report by the Lagos…
