Category: Metro
Emir of Kano, Aminu Ado Bayero enmeshed in financial scandal
The emir of Kano, Aminu Ado Bayero is currently enmeshed in financial scandal involving the sale of 22 hectares of land to the tune of N1,295,000,000. [...]
1,844 inmates escaped in Imo prisons attack – Corrections authorities
The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) says 1,844 inmates escaped following the attack on its prisons centre in Owerri, the Imo State ca [...]
Hoodlums unleash mayhem in Owerri prisons, release inmates using dynamites, explosives (photos)
The attack on inmates and releasing of inmates in prisons that was only limited to police stations and prisons in Akwa Ibom, Edo, Anambra and Abia Sta [...]
Obasanjo, Gumi urge FG to rehabilitate bandits willing to surrender
Islamic cleric, Ahmad Gumi has reiterated his call for federal government to rehabilitate bandits who are willing to surrender.
Joining him in th [...]
Kukah slams Buhari again, says Boko Haram consuming Nigeria under Buhari’s watch
The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto, Bishop Matthew Kukah on Sunday berated the current administration for its handling of Nigeria’s security challenges, [...]
Breaking: Afenifere spokesman, Yinka Odumakin, is dead
Yinka Odumakin, spokesman for Pan-Yoruba socio cultural group, Afenifere is dead.
The human rights activist who was married to fellow human rights [...]
Air force jet in pursuit of Boko Haram may have crashed, says NAF
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) says its fighter jet deployed to fight Boko Haram insurgents may have crashed.
The jet on Wednesday evening lost conta [...]
‘He threatened to jail me,’ says hospitalized guard assaulted by CCT chairman as NBA begins investigation into assault
The security man who was assaulted by Danladi Umar, chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), in Abuja, says that the CCT boss threatened to jai [...]
CCT chairman asked me to use ‘Biafran boys’ in response to assault says spokesman
Ibraheem Al-Hassan, spokesperson of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), says he was under intense pressure when he wrote the statement in murdered [...]
Anambra CP visits Soludo, arrests one suspect in connection to gunmen attack
Following Wednesday’s attack on former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, by gunmen, the Commissioner of Police, Anambra S [...]