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WATERLOO: Lagos Police foil kidnapping attempt on high-net-worth individuals, neutralise 9 gang…
Maureen Aguta
The Lagos State Police Command has successfully thwarted a kidnapping attempt on high-net-worth individuals in the city.
The breakthrough operation, which occurred on Thursday, was announced during a press…
Fulani herdsmen attack: Benue records 135 attacks, over 2,600 deaths in one year
Joseph Irikefe
The Amnesty International has disclosed that between January 2023 and February 2024, Benue State recorded at least 135 attacks and over 2600 deaths including women and children.
The Programme Manager of…
Miyetti Allah rejects bill banning open grazing
Maureen Aguta
The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) has rejected a bill that seeks to establish a national agency for the regulation and management.
The Miyetti Allah Cattle…
Alarm over cholera outbreak as Lagos records 24 deaths
Maureen Aguta
Abayomi
Lagos State has recorded additional three deaths, bringing the total number of fatalities recorded in the cholera outbreak to 24.
Commissioner for Health, Prof Akin Abayomi disclosed…
HURIWA to Presidency: Even Pope, with authority over 2 billion people, takes commercial flights
Maureen Aguta
Human Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA)– is of the considered opinion that the decision to acquire a brand new jet for the President is an expensive gambit, especially now that majority of Nigerians…
GTBank staff steals N9.9m from customers
For allegedly betraying the trust reposed in him by his employer as the officer in charge of payment of drivers’ retirement benefits and stealing close to N10 million from Guaranty Trust Bank (GTBank), Komolafe Oluwayomi of the…
Gov Otti places N25m bounty on killers of soldiers in Aba
Joseph Irikefe
The Abia State Government has noted with great regret the ugly incident that occurred on Thursday, at around 7:45 am at Obikabia Junction, in the Ogbor Hill area, Obingwa LGA, near Aba, where suspected…
Court grants detained former police commander Abba Kyari 2-week bail for mother’s burial
Joseph Irikefe
A Federal High Court in Abuja has granted the former commander of the Force Intelligence Response Team, DCP Abba Kyari, two weeks’ bail after 27 months in detention.
The court said that the two-week bail…
Convicted billionaire kidnapper, Evans opts for plea bargain
Maureen Aguta with Agency report
The convicted billionaire kidnapper, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, popularly known as Evans and his co-defendant Joseph Emeka, charged with murder and attempted kidnap have opted for an option…
Nigeria, UN launch US$306m appeal fund to tackle urgent food nutrition crisis in Northeast
Joseph Irikefe
An appeal $306 million has been launched to tackle projected food security and nutrition crisis in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe (BAY) states during the lean season of May to September.
The appeal was launched…