Category: Metro
FG to feed, deworm children with N142.3bn in 2021
In 2021, under the Home-Grown School Feeding (NHGSFP), the federal government has penned N142.3 billion to feed 9.86 million children, deworm se [...]
Gunmen abduct lecturer, two children in Kaduna polytechnic
Two children and a staff of the Nuhu Bamali Polytechnic, Zaria, Kaduna state, have been abducted. Gunmen invaded the staff quarters of the main campus [...]
81 dons write Biden, seek travel ban for culpable officials in Lekki shooting
Eighty-one professors of African Studies, both Nigerians and non-Nigerians, have written a letter to the United States President-elect Joe Bid [...]
Edo police under threat of prison escapees – Police Commissioner
Escapees from the two correctional centres in Benin City, Edo State, have been sending threat messages to policemen who investigated and prose [...]
How Nigerian army rescued Oba of Lagos from hoodlums – General Taiwo
As part of the revelations at the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry probing the alleged shooting of unarmed #EndSARS protesters by soldiers on the [...]
Buratai ordered deployment of soldiers to Lekki toll plaza – General Taiwo
The Commander of 81 Military Intelligence Brigade, Victoria Island, Lagos, Brigadier General Ahmed Taiwo, has revealed that the Chief of Army [...]
#EndSARS: Troops were drafted from Badagry, Ikorodu, Epe, Apapa, Ikeja, Alimosho to Lekki toll gate – Army
Brigadier General Ahmed Taiwo in his testimony at the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry probing the shootings of #EndSARS protesters at the Lekki [...]
Gunmen kidnap five daughters of Christ Embassy Pastor in Kaduna
A group called Southern Kaduna Peoples Union, SOKAPU, has raised the alarm over the increased cases of kidnapping and other criminal activities [...]
Youth reps resume sitting after boycotting Lagos judicial panel over frozen accounts
The two youth representatives on the Lagos judicial panel probing the #EndSARS protest and police brutality, Temitope Majekodunmi and Olorunrinu O [...]
Court orders probe of Sam Adeyemi, Don Jazzy, Tuface, others
A Chief Magistrate Court in Abuja has ordered the Commissioner of Police in the Federal Capital Territory to launch a probe into 50 notable pe [...]