May 4, 2024

May 4, 2024

‘Save Our Souls’, Abducted Abuja-Kaduna Passengers Cry Out To FG

Another video of Kaduna-Abuja train victims in captivity emerged on Monday, with eight of the victims appealing to the Federal Government to listen to the bandits’ demands, with a view to rescue them.   The eight victims consisted of five men and three women guarded by armed masked terrorists.   The terrorist was heard saying; […]

Police Arrest 10-Year-Old Boy For Threatening Mass Shooting In Florida

The U.S. police arrested the juvenile suspect, a student at Patriot Elementary School in Cape Coral, Floridaand charged with making a written threat to conduct a mass shooting.   His identity can’t be revealed due to his age.   After he allegedly sent the threatening text, the School Threat Enforcement Team was immediately notified and […]

Police Nab First Bank Employee For Stealing Customer’s N303,000

Prosecution counsel Aminu Isaac told the court that the defendant committed the offence on January 21 at about 12:17 p.m. at the First Bank branch, Omitoro area along Ijede Road in Ikorodu.   Mr Isaac said the defendant stole an automated teller machine (ATM) card belonging to Abidemi Agbaje and withdrew N303,000 without her consent. […]

Again, Explosion Rocks Kogi Community

…As Police Confirm No Casualty   The ancient town of Kabba in the Kogi West Senatorial District has been rocked by another explosion – also at a beer parlour.   This is the second explosion in that community in one month.   The explosion was said to have occurred Sunday night at a bear parlour […]

Gunmen Invade Police Checkpoint, Kill One Officer In Anambra

…Attack Another Broadcasting Station   One police officer was, on Sunday, killed when gunmen attacked a police checkpoint in Ogidi, Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra, Nigeria’s South-east.   The police spokesperson in the state, Tochukwu Ikenga confirmed the incident on Monday morning.   He said the incident happened around 12: 50 p.m.   […]

I Killed To Become Number 1 In Hierarchy – Cult Leader Confesses

The Kwara state police command last week paraded one Olagunju Abdulfatai Tijani a leader of one cult group known as Eiye Confraternity who confessed to killing at least three members of a rival group in his bid to become number one in Ilorin zone. UMAR BAYO ABDULWAHAB chronicles the major breakthrough recorded by the command […]

Four Killed As Two Rival Cult Groups Clash In Lagos

There is tension in the Ebute Metta area of Lagos State after rival cults clashed in a supremacy battle that has lasted for three days.   It was learnt that the hoodlums looted shops and dispossessed residents of their valuables during the incident.   It was gathered that the fight was between the Kogbagidi Boys […]

EFCC Storms Zamfara, Arrests EX-GOV, Yari

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested a former governor of Zamfara State, Abdul’aziz Yari.   Sources within the antigraft agency said the former governor was arrested for his alleged role in the N84 billion fraud involving a former Accountant General of the Federation, Ahmad Idris.   He was said to have been […]

Gunmen Abduct Methodist Church Prelate, Two Others In Abia

A Prelate of the Methodist Church of Nigeria, Dr Samuel Uche, has been kidnapped by yet-to-be-identified men in Abia State.   The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Geoffrey Ogbonna, confirmed this to Channels Television on Sunday in Umuahia, the state capital.   According to him, the clergyman was abducted alongside two others – […]