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Daredevil kidnappers have abducted a couple in the Alfa area of Igbogbo in the Ikorodu Local Government Area of Lagos State. It was gathered that the couple were allegedly stopped by gunmen who shot sporadically in the air to scare other road users and residents on Thursday night. According to a resident, Adisa Tobias who…
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPCL) has revealed to the Senate Committee on Appropriations that there are approximately 4,800 illegal connections to oil pipelines across the country. This information was disclosed by Mele Kyari, the Group Chief Executive Officer of NNPCL, during an interaction with members of the committee on the budget for 2024. The…
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has set up a mobile court in Abuja to prosecute traffic offenders, especially drivers who engage in overloading. The FRSC’s Zonal Commanding Officer for the Federal Capital Territory and Niger State, Assistant Corps Marshal Shehu Mohammed, said that a special operation is being carried out to address the irresponsible…
Centre for Transparency Advocacy (CTA) has said the non-reconstitution of the Board of NEITI and National Stakeholders Working Group (NSWG) of NEITI is a clog in the wheel of progress in the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI). It therefore tasked the National Assembly on the quick passage of the NEITI Amendment Act 2007 and listing…
…Bring them back to us alive -Mother AKWA Ibom state parents whose children were kidnapped along Zamfara Highway 17 August 2023 while traveling to Sokoto State Orientation Camp for the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme have again appealed to the Federal and Akwa Ibom state governments to assist release of the victims. Some of…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has presented two more witnesses, including a Foreign Service National Investigator with the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI, in the case against the quartet of Mark Obisesan, Olumide Mcintouch, Bolaji Bakare, and Goodluck Bazunu, who are being prosecuted for alleged purchase of forged US Dollar Travellers…
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has successfully apprehended Ibrahim Momoh in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) after he eluded capture for seven years. Femi Babafemi, the agency’s spokesperson, confirmed the rearrest in a statement on Sunday. Initial arrestMomoh, also known as Ibrahim Bendel, initially faced arrest on November 27, 2014, with 385.1 kg…
Reports indicate that a significant number of individuals have evacuated Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, a site that Israeli forces have been searching for days. Health officials in Gaza said 450 patients had been left behind at the hospital following repeat warnings that the sick and wounded would not be able to escape Al-Shifa hospital…
Israeli forces have penetrated Gaza’s largest hospital in what the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) describes as a “concentrated assault”. According to eyewitness reports, commando forces entered the main emergency department and went from room to room questioning people, but there is presently no shooting in the hospital area. Israel accuses Hamas of operating a command…
Popular music star, Naira Marley and music producer, Sam Larry have been granted bail by a Lagos State Magistrate Court sitting in Yaba Area of the State. The Magistrate Court granted Naira Marley and Sam Larry bail in the sum of N20 million with three responsible sureties. The two were also asked to submit their…
Israeli warplanes have killed 33 people and injured many others in the early hours of Sunday, according to Palestine’s health officials. The attack occurred as Israel said it would continue its bombardment in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, despite US appeals for a “humanitarian pause” to get aid to desperate civilians. The soaring death toll in…
A new report from Save the Children International (SCI) Nigeria, reveals that Nigeria with a population of 218 million has 23 million child marriages, with two in every five women married as children. Child Marriage is also a consequence of adolescent pregnancy which is associated to maternal mortality, poor education, illiteracy and intergenerational poverty. The…
Pope Francis on Sunday after his traditional Angelus prayer in Rome’s Saint Peter’s Square entreats for an end of the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. Brothers, stop! Stop! he appealed, saying war is always a defeat and a destruction of human fraternity. The Bishop of Rome made the plea due to concerns that the Hamas-Israeli confrontation could…
International aid desperately needed piled up in Egypt near Gaza where Palestinians are in dire need of food and water after relentless bombing by Israel. Since the massive notorious attack launched by Hamas an Islamist militant group from Gaza strip on October 7 that killed over 1400 people, Israel has vowed to destroy Hamas. Israeli…
Attack on a hospital in Gaza has left hundreds dead and many injured. The two warring factions, Israel and the Palestinian Hamas have been trading blames as to who was responsible for the attack. The strike has been adjudged as the bloodiest single incident in Gaza since Israel launched a retaliation against the Hamas in…
Pope Francis on Sunday reiterated his call on Palestinian militant group Hamas to release all hostages taken to the Gaza Strip during last weekend’s attack on Southern Israel. Pope Francis renewed the call during weekly prayers at St Peter’s Square in Rome. “I renew my call for the release of the hostages and I strongly…
The Nigerian Army has rescued six kidnapped victims at Hayin Tsando, Maraban Jos area of Kaduna State. Nigerian Army troops acting on credible and timely intelligence on the kidnapped victims, embarked on a search and rescue operation, where they engaged the criminals in a gun duel. Confirming the incident, Acting Deputy Director, Army Public Relations,…
Reuter’s video journalist has been killed in southern Lebanon on Friday following a missile fired from the direction of Israel. Six other journalists were also injured in the missiles strike. The group of journalists, including those from Al Jazeera and Agence France-Presse, were working near Alma al-Shaab, close to the Israel border, where the Israeli…
A man of Chechen origin stabbed to death a teacher and severely wounded two other adults on Friday at a school in northeastern France, with President Emmanuel Macron denouncing an act of “Islamist terror”. The attack in the town of Arras comes with France, which has large Jewish and Muslim populations, on high alert for…
Israel is debating whether to use a “Leningrad approach” to starve out Hamas fighters in the Gaza Strip and thus avoid a ground invasion, U.S. investigative journalist Seymour Hersh reports. But that course of action may kill some 100,000 residents as well, Hersh said, citing an Israeli national security veteran. “The big debate today ……
Kaduna – The Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI) led by the Sultan of Sokoto has said that the protracted conflict in the Gaza Strip must come to an end for the sake of human global peace, particularly that the Al-Aqsa mosque which is the third sanctified site after Makkah and Madinah was not spared in the…
The United Nations mission in Democratic Republic of Congo, says it has suspended some of its peacekeepers in response to reports of sexual exploitation and abuse. According to an internal documents of the MONUSCO peacekeeping mission, sighted by AFP, the eight peacekeepers deployed in Beni, eastern Dr Congo were arrested on October 1 and an…
The Kaduna State Police Command says it arrested 10 suspected kidnappers between September and October 3, 2023. The Command’s Acting Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Mansir Hassan, stated this at a news conference on Saturday. He said operatives of the Command recovered three AK-47 rifles; three fabricated 10 rounds revolver, 448 rounds of 7.62 X…
Owodunni Ibrahim aka Primeboy has claimed that the police lied about inviting him for questioning over the death of singer, Ilerioluwa Aloba aka Mohbad. The Lagos State Police Command on Thursday, confirmed that Primeboy had been taken into custody. This came less than 24 hours after he was declared wanted and a N1 million bounty…
MTV’s first pan-African music channel, MTV Base, has positioned a ban on Marlian music following the death of a Nigerian singer, Mohbad. Marlian Music is a record label owned by Nigerian musician, Naira Marley, who is being fingered in the efforts of Mohbad, which allegedly led to the latter’s eventual death. A former signee of…
Following an interview with media personality Daddy Freeze discussing the circumstances of Mohbad’s passing, veteran singer Daddy Showkey has expressed concerns about threats to his life. During the said online interview, Daddy Showkey opined that the rapper’s death was not an isolated incident and suggested the involvement of substantial figures in the music business and…
The Senior Pastor of Awaiting the Second Coming of Jesus Christ Ministry, Pastor Adewale Giwa, stated on Wednesday that Naira Marley and Sam Larry ought to have been declared wanted by the police over the occurrences encircling the death of Promise Oladimeji Aloba, also known as Mohbad or Imole. According to the popular cleric, before…
By Damilola Adeleke Music promoter and talent manager, Paul Okoye, aka. Paul O, has revealed that late Nigerian singer, Ilerioluwa Aloba, popularly known as Mohbad, once told him he needed extra security because of threats to his life. Paul O disclosed this during an Instagram session with renowned on-air personality Daddy Freeze and music legend,…
By Damilola Adeleke In 1998, a 21-year-old Nigerian soldier named Hassan Adeyemo, hailing from Ibadan, met and fell in love with an 18-year-old girl named Sarah from Bauchi. Their love story began with a strong attraction, and they married in 1999. Over time, they were blessed with four children: three daughters and one son. Hassan…
