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Uyo—A four-year-old girl, Aisha Rayanu, who was abducted from her School by one Favour Nwachukwu, has been rescued by operatives of the anti-child theft section, State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, SCIID, Akwa Ibom State Police Command. Speaking during the parade of the suspect, yesterday, at the Police Headquarters, Ikot…
A Lagos High Court sitting at Tafawa Balewa Square, TBS, has sentenced two Senior Secondary School (SSS 3) leavers Udochukwu Anyanwu and Udo Chibike (also known as Lasis), to seven years imprisonment each for breaking into a church and stealing a piano. Justice Yetunde Adesanya sentenced them after they pleaded…
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday met with Service Chiefs in Abuja over the Kaduna train incident which occurred on Monday and directed the immediate conclusion of all the processes for the implementation of the integrated security surveillance and monitoring solution for the Abuja to Kaduna railway line. The incident happened…
Dr Osita Offor, a wrestling champion, says the All Progressives Congress (APC), can only win back the confidence of Nigerians if it presents a trusted and capable young person as presidential candidate come 2023. Osita, also known as Ultimate Commander, said an established and impeccable candidate such as Tein Jack-Rich,…
One of the victims of the terrorist attack on the Abuja- Kaduna, a medical doctor, Chinelo Megafu, shot during the attack is dead. She had earlier posted on her Twitter handle that she had been shot, but was mocked by some people.
Evacuation of trapped train passengers concluded Kaduna State government says evacuation of passengers on the trapped Kaduna-bound train from Abuja has been concluded this morning by security forces, officials of Kaduna State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) and Nigerian Red Cross. A Statement by the State Commissioner for Internal Security and…
The Nigeria Railway Corporation, NRC, has shut down train services along Abuja-Kaduna route, hours after terrorists’ attack. Hours after terrorists’ attack on Abuja-Kaduna railway, the Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC) has suspended services along the route. This was disclosed Tuesday morning via a press statement on NRC Twitter handle. The statement…
The Director-General of the National Youths Service Corps, NYSC, Major-General Shuaibu Ibrahim, has condoled with the family of a corps member who slumped and died while watching a football match at the Kebbi orientation camp. The corps member, Musa Tunde, who was a graduate of Public Administration from the Federal…
