The Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Police Command has confirmed the arrest of 12 suspected armed robbers linked to the attack that claimed the lives of Arise Tv presenter, Somtochukwu Christella Maduagwu and a security guard, Barnabas Danlami, at Unique Apartment, Gishiri village, Katampe District, Abuja. Operatives of the Scorpion Squad led by ACP Victor Godfrey…
The Niger state police command has denied reports that bandits have threatened to invade M.I Wushishi housing estate in Minna, the state capital Sources in the estate had alleged that the bandits, believed to be miners operating around the area attacked the estate in broad daylight, breaking cars and windows of houses in broad daylight…
The National Assembly has extended its resumption date earlier schedule for April 7, by one week. The extension is as a result of the federal government’s 2-week stay-at-home policy to combat the spread of the deadly coronavirus ravaging the world. Femi Gbajabiamila, Speaker of the House of Representives disclosed this on Saturday a meeting held…
Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia’s first president and one of the last of the generation of African leaders who fought colonialism, has died aged 97. The BBC reports that, Kaunda was admitted to a military hospital in the capital, Lusaka, on Monday suffering from pneumonia. In the 1950s, Kaunda was a key figure in what was then…
Art imitates life, and life, in its many servile ways, often represents itself as the fiction of genius writers. Chinua Achebe exemplifies this in his book, A Man of the People, and masterfully mirrors the complexities of political choices through the characters, Chief Nanga and Odili. Chief Nanga is depicted as a shrewd and mischievously…
The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Gen. Christopher Musa, has said that the military is reassessing its operational strategies to tackle rising insecurity in Plateau and other areas covered by Operation Safe Haven. According to a statement by Brig. Gen. Tukur Gusau, spokesperson of the Defence Headquarters, the CDS stated his on Friday in Jos…
