Poultry The Poultry Association of Nigeria (PAN) has threatened to shut down the industry by Jan. 2021 if the Federal Government fails to halt exportation of maize, soybeans and soymeals. Mr Ezekiel Mam, President of the association said this on Thursday in Abuja at a news conference tagged “Crisis and the survival of the Nigeria … Read more
Artefact The Kingdom of Netherlands on Thursday officially presented a smuggled Ife Terracotta antiquity dated to be at least 600 years old to Nigeria. The repatriated antiquity was presented to the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed at a ceremony held in Abuja. Read Also: IPOB Leader, Nnamdi Kanu’s Trial Resumes Today In … Read more
23-year-old 100 level student of Osun State University (UNIOSUN), Ikire campus, Juba Orisajafor is dead. He allegedly drank poison and died few hours he preached against suicide on his WhatsApp. It was gathered that Orisajafor on Tuesday morning around updated his WhatsApp status, condemning suicide. His post on WhatsApp reads: “Often time I ask myself, … Read more
The Bayelsa State Police Command, has confirmed the shooting of two women and a teenager by a trigger-happy policeman. The Police Public Relations Officer for the command, Asinim Butswat, in a statement, said the incident took place in the Edepie-Etegwe area of Yenagoa, the state capital, on Tuesday. Butswat, who identified the victims as Ebinipiri … Read more
Edo State Police Command has arrested a hoodlum identified as Sunday Effiong who reportedly hijacked one AK-47 from a police station during the #EndSARS protest. Eko Hot Blog gathered that Effiong was captured on video leaving the Oba Market Police Station with an AK-47 rifle belonging to the force during the protest. Following the possession … Read more
The Ogun State Police Command have arrested Yesiru Salisu, for being in possession of human parts, including four skulls, two hands and three jaws, in Ijebu-Igbo area of the state. The suspect, 55, allegedly severed the human parts from a Christian cemetery in Oke-Eri, Ijebu-Ode, on Monday alongside his accomplice, Lekan Bakare, who is currently … Read more
The Nigeria Customs Service Zone ‘B’ command, Kaduna State has said it confiscated smuggled vehicles, bags of foreign rice, textiles and other items with a duty pay value of over ₦139 million worth. The Coordinator of the Strike Force team, Aliyu Olorukoba, paraded the seized items before the press at the zone ‘B’ command office … Read more
A 50-year-old man has allegedly defiled a six-year-old girl (name withheld) at Hanyi Danmani in Kaduna South local government area of Kaduna State. Hanyi Danmani is a suburb of Kaduna metropolis bordering Rigasa (the largest community in Kaduna where Abuja-Kaduna train terminal is located). Confirming the latest development on Monday, Village Head of Hanyi Danmani, … Read more
Donation Gov. Abubakar Bello of Niger has lauded the Victims Support Fund (VSF) Task Force on COVID-19 over the donation of N107.9 million food and medical items to the state. He said this when he received members of VSF Task Force on COVID-19 on a courtesy visit at the Government House in Minna on Monday, … Read more
… the exchange of fire lasted for about an hour Five soldiers and a Civilian Joint Task Force (JTF) were killed on Sunday in an ambush staged by suspected Islamic State Of West Africa Province along Maiduguri/Monguno road in northeast Nigeria. The ambush occurred around 4:00pm at Pilimari village of Nganzai council area of Borno … Read more
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has confirmed six persons dead and 11 injured in an auto crash in Anambra State on Sunday. Eko Hot Blog gathered that a statement by the Anambra State FRSC Public Education Officer, Kamal Musa, said the accident was caused by excessive speeding. The statement read partly, “Six people killed … Read more
Two drunk police officers on Saturday night shot a yet-to-be identified man dead in Ado-Ekiti. The incident occurred around 9:45pm at a hotel located along Ado-Ikere road while the victim was having a good time his friends. It learnt all was well in the hotel until the police officers who had escorted a retired Assistant … Read more
NOVEMBER 22, 2020 The Police Command in Nasarawa State has confirmed the abduction of the state chairman of the All Progressive Congress, Philip Shekwo, by gunmen on Saturday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Nasarawa State Commissioner of Police, Bola Longe, confirmed the incident to newsmen on Sunday in Lafia. Longe said … Read more
EKOHOTBLOG, 22ND NOVEMBER, 2020 Vital video of stranded and frustrated passengers at Abuja-Kaduna Railway Passengers have been left stranded as an Abuja-Kaduna train broke down in the middle of nowhere. A Nigerian Health practitioner, Fatima S. Zuntu, (@drfatima84) took to Twitter to share a video of her and the fellow train passengers all standing and sitting around while … Read more
A policeman was reportedly shot dead on Friday in a bloody fracas that erupted between the policemen attached to the Area Command in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital. The deceased police officer got trapped in the melee when some protesters were being chased out within the premises of the station. An eyewitness told journalists in Ado … Read more
NOVEMBER 21, 2020 The Special Task Force, Operation Safe Haven has arrested 27 suspects after conducting series of raid operations on criminals and cultists hideouts in Jos, the Plateau State capital. According to the Commander of the Task Force, Major General Chukwuemeka Okonkwo, the suspects were arrested at various locations within the metropolis where the … Read more
…recruits youth vigilantes to be trained by Police The Katsina State Government has awarded a contract for the renovation and upgrade of Mobile Police Barracks in Katsina valued at N117, 965,367.38 and also approved the recruitment of qualified youths from each of the 34 Local Governments to be trained by the Police. The State Governor, … Read more
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Friday secured the convictions of two fraudsters before Justice Simon Amobeda of the Federal High Court sitting in Calabar, Cross River state. The convicts; Okanezi David Tamunonengiyeofori and Unuafe Robert Oghenetejiri, were charged by the zonal office of the EFCC and convicted by the Court on a … Read more
NOVEMBER 21, 2020 The Niger State Police Command has arrested a 37-year-old man for killing his two children with a cutlass in the Magama Local Government Area of the state. The suspect, Abubakar Maidabo of Maidobo village in Magama, was apprehended by the police operatives attached to the Magama Division on November 14, 2020 while … Read more
NOVEMBER 20, 2020 The Lagos State Police Command, on Friday, arraigned six men accused of stealing and setting a police station ablaze before an Ikeja Chief Magistrate’s Court. The suspects, Tunde Abiodun (32), Sodique Tiamiyu (22), Seun Olatokun (27), Akeem Apena (52), Olawunmi Lateef (28) and Isah Lukeman (24) all of no fixed address, are … Read more