Gunmen numbering over twenty invaded Kuchiko Relocation Development Area in the Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory and abducted a resident and his son. According to a report by Daily Trust, the gunmen, stormed El-Rufa’i Estate, in the early hours of Sunday and started shooting sporadically. Having overpowered security guards on night duty,…
A 41-year-old Nigerian man, identified as Chieuikem Daniel, has been arrested in South Delhi’s Khanpur area for allegedly cheating people on the pretext of supplying them Remdesivir injections meant to treat COVID-19 patients at a higher rate. According to a police source on Friday, Daniel was arrested from his rented house on a victim’s complaint…
One of Nigeria’s leading private universities, Covenant University (CU), has graduated a record 201 students who were awarded First Class degrees among 1,664 graduates for the 2019/2020 academic session. The Vice-chancellor of the university, Professor Abiodun Adebayo, announced this at the 15th convocation ceremony of the institution tagged, “The Release of Eagles” on Friday. According…
The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa has disclosed that the anti-graft agency recovered over N1 billion cash from a civil servant within a week. He disclosed this on Thursday while appearing before the Senate Committee on Finance investigating Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) and payment of one percent stamp duty…
Four suspected cultists and traffic robbers have been arrested by men of the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly dispossessing unsuspecting members of the public of their valuables in various parts of the state. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi, said in a statement on Wednesday that the command was committed to tackling cultism and other forms…
Men of the Nigeria Customs Service, Ogun 1 Area Command, have seized an articulated vehicle loaded with 600 bags of 50kg foreign parboiled rice and belonging to Dangote Cement Company. The NCS personnel also arrested three persons, including the truck driver, as they were conveying the consignment to the eastern part of the country. The Customs Area…
Many commercial vehicles were destroyed in the process, as bus drivers abandoned their vehicles and traders fled their shops. Several residents and commuters at Oshodi, Lagos, reportedly scampered for safety following an alleged face-off between military personnel and hoodlums on Thursday morning. The incident happened at the Mosafejo area of Oshodi. According to a report…
That Popular Islamic cleric, Sheikh Gumi has organised a lunch party for freed students of Kaduna forestry College alongside their parents. The invited guests were fed as they spent quiet time with the cleric. See photos below:
Suspected members of Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) have reportedly caused the death of Abubakar Shekau, the leader of the dreaded Boko Haram, officially known as Jama’at Ahl as-Sunnah Lid Da’wah Wa’l- Jihad (JAS) during a fierce battle between the rival groups in their Sambisa Forest hideouts on Wednesday, May 19, Vanguard reports. According…
There was pandemonium in Osogbo, the capital of Osun State, on Tuesday, as suspected internet fraudsters, popularly known as ‘Yahoo boys,’ blocked major roads to protest alleged indiscriminate arrests by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). PREMIUM TIMES gathered that the protesters, who were said to be ‘Yahoo boys’, set up bonfires…
