The Kaduna state government has promised to ensure the release of the remaining 83 students of the Bethel Baptist High School still being held in captivity by bandits. The Commissioner for Education, Dr. Shehu Muhammad stated this in a statement on Tuesday in Kaduna. He also said the state government will ensure that those students…
The wife and daughter of the Plateau state Commissioner for Environment, Usman Bamaiyi, have been abducted by gunmen. The incident, according the Punch newspapers, was said to have occurred in the early hours of Saturday when the gunmen broke into the commissioner’s residence in Gindiri, Mangu Local Government Area of the state. According to the…
Gunmen suspected to be fulani herdsmen have killed 30 people No fewer than 30 people in an attack on Odugbeho village in Agatu Local Government Area of Benue State. The herdmen were said to have invaded the village at about 5:45pm on Sunday and started shooting sporadically, killing anyone on sight. They were said to…
“A horrific incident occurred in Oron, Akwa Ibom State, earlier today, where a 42-year-old man, Victor Okoh, allegedly murdered his 38-year-old wife, Victoria Okoh, with a machete over accusations of infidelity,” an online newspaper reported last week. The brutal killing of Victoria Okoh adds to the growing and tragic list of women who have met…
Faruk Yahaya, a former Chief of Army Staff, has called on the federal government to intervene in the critical areas of equiping, governor kitting and provision of accommodation and other basic needs to the Nigerian Army. Yahaya made the call in a lecture he presented on Saturday at the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA), Kaduna, as…
Another office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was set ablaze on Sunday in Njaba Local Government Area of Imo state by unknown persons. The commission in a statement, by its spokesman, Mr. Festus Okoye, condemned the attacked on its offices. Okoye said, the building was substantially burnt down, along with electoral materials,…
