Gunmen suspected to be armed bandits have allegedly killed a medical doctor identified as Precious Chinedu Emeka in Salka village, Magama Local Government Area of Niger State. It was gathered that the gunmen numbering about five invaded his clinic while he was on duty around 9:00pm on Wednesday evening, June 16, and whisked him away…
Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has sacked 99 political appointees. The Kaduna state Governor disclosed this during a media chat with some Kaduna-based broadcast journalists. Revealing that the state has started implementing its rightsizing policy but is yet to disengage any state civil servant, El-Rufai noted that the sacked political appointees constitute 30 percent…
Gunmen have reportedly kidnapped four Chinese railway workers working on the Lagos-Ibadan railway. During the attack carried out on Wednesday June 16 around Kila, a village between Ogun and Oyo states, a police officer who guarding the expatriates was killed. It was gathered that the gunmen who were dressed in black kaftan when they stormed the…
A 26-year-old barber who resides at Iyana Governor Road in Idi- Iroko community of Ogun State, has been arrested and charged with impersonation, stealing, obtaining by false pretences and threat to life after reportedly defrauding a London-based woman of N51m. Moses Olaitan was arraigned before an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court on Thursday June 17, over…
Yusuf Tanko Sununu, lawmaker representing Ngaski/Shanga/Yauri Federal Constituency of Kebbi State at the House of Representatives has confirmed the abductions of students and teachers of Government Girls’ College, Birnin Yauri, Kebbi State. Sununu who noted that the number of students and teachers abducted is yet to be confirmed while addressing newsmen at the national assembly, appealed…
Mike Ozekhome, Senior Advocate of Nigeria and constitutional lawyer has asked why the National Assembly is afraid of ‘referendum’ and ‘a people’s constitution’. The senior lawyer in an interview on Channels Television, recalled how he took on frontally the Deputy Senate President, Senator Omo-Agege on this issue penultimate Friday June 11 at the International Conference Centre.…
Police Spokesperson, Frank Mba has defended the use of tear gas on some June 12 protesters in Abuja. While a Channels Television correspondent who covered the protest in Abuja insisted that he did not observe any sign of violence from the protesters before the police disrupted their parade, Mba in an interview on same news platform…
Men of the Kano state police command have arrested a 13-year-old boy for killing two men suspected to be bandits in the state. The spokesperson of the state police command, Gambo Isah, who confirmed this to newsmen, said the boy simply identified as Mati, was once an errand boy to a bandits’ leader, Ardo Nashaware, who resides in…
A photo of a police officer shooting teargas at June12 protesters in Abuja has been shared online by Channels TV.
Men of the Lagos state police command this morning allegedly fired tear gas at protesters that gathered at the Gani Fawehinmi Park in Lagos. The Nation reports that the protesters had converged at the park to demand for an end to bad governance and others when they were allegedly attacked by the police officers.
