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February, 2021

  • 27 February

    Opinion: Zamfara and Futility of Amnesty for Bandits

    All through February before they Struck at dawn on Friday 26 , everybody thought Zamfara had seen the end of Banditry.This is because the amnesty declared and pursued by Governor Bello Matawalle has witnessed the renunciation of Banditry by different groups and surrendering of huge cache of arms and ammunition. Indeed one of the the dreaded groups led by the ...

  • 26 February

    BREAKING: Again, Gunmen abduct over 300 girls in Zamfara school around 1.00 a. m

    Another Set Of Students, over 300 has been Kidnapped In Zamfara. Some gunmen suspected to be bandits entered schoolgirls at Government Girls Secondary School, Jangebe in the Talata-Mafara Local Government Area of Zamfara State. A staff of the school, who begged for anonymity, said the bandits arrived in the school around 1am on Friday with Hilux vehicles and motorcycles and ...

  • 26 February

    3 Herdersmen who allegedly set Village ablaze in Ogun arrested

    By Felix Mordi Three of the herdsmen who, last Thursday, allegedly conspired to attack a village in the Ayetoro area of Ogun State, have been arrested. The gun-totting and blood-thirsty herders, We gathered, besieged Bamajo Village in the early hours of the day and caught the villagers napping. In the unprovoked and senseless attack, houses were torched just as the ...

  • 26 February

    Policeman Knocked Off Lagos Bridge By Driver Alive, Out Of Hospital – Police

    David Zapaina, a police inspector, who was knocked off a bridge into a canal in Lagos State by a driver is alive and has been discharged from hospital. Muyiwa Adejobi, the Public Relations Officer of the Lagos Police Command, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday. In a viral video on Wednesday, the driver, identified by the police as Sunday ...

  • 26 February

    EFCC Arraigns Insurance Broker for Diversion of N26bn PHCN funds

    The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, 25 February, 2021 arraigned Abiodun Waheed Hassan and his Company Bestworth Insurance Brokers Limited before Justice S.C Oriji of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Apo, Abuja on a five count charge of alleged criminal breach of trust and misappropriation of funds to the tune of over Twenty Six Billion Naira ...

  • 26 February

    Buhari orders: “No Amnesty for Bandits, Insurgents, Kidnappers… They are criminals”

    A meeting of the Governors of the 19 Northern States, the Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, Chief of Staff to the President, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, Director General of the Department of State Service, Yusuf Bichi, as well as the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, held in Kaduna on Thursday. The Sultan of Sokoto, ...

  • 26 February

    BREAKING: Kwara approves use of hijaab in schools

    Position of Kwara State Government on the Hijaab Question in Public Schools has been made known. Sequel to recent developments in our state over the status of the hijaab in public/grant-aided schools, the state government has consulted widely with thought leaders and leaders of both Muslim and Christian communities with a view to clarifying issues and reaching a consensus. The ...

  • 26 February

    Sterling bank manager, wife fight dirty over mistress

    The marriage between the Team Lead, Institutional Banking, South South of Sterling Bank, Anthony Ikpor and his wife, Blessing Oko Ikpor is collapsing on account of the secret wedding between Anthony and his mistress. Blessing is alleging that her husband, Anthony, is under his mistress’ spell. The estranged wife, alleged that the mistress deceived him to abandon his 17- year- ...

  • 26 February

    Court ruling on 17 yrs land dispute in Sagamu causes ripples

    Landlords and tenants in Atoyo Adubiagbe-Oga community, in the Sagamu Local Government Area of Ogun State, are running from pillar to post, after court ordered a family to take possession of over 500 houses in the area. The Ogun State High Court sitting in Sagamu on Monday declared the family of Adubiagbe as the lawful owner of the community. The ...

  • 26 February

    Imo police station set ablaze,as officers, detainees flee

    The law of nature called self preservation came to the fore,  as croaks and alleged criminals broke away from detention, running for their dear lives. It happened in Imo State on Thursday night as hoodlums razed Aboh Mbaise Divisional Police Headquarters. This is even as policemen on duty fled as the hoodlums carried out the arson on the police facility. ...