BREAKING: Panic as plane crash-lands in Ilorin

A training aircraft belonging to the International Aviation College (IAC) Ilorin crash-landed at the Ilorin International Airport on Wednesday. The Diamond plane with registration Number 5N-BNH with two pilots onboard crashed landed at exactly 11:05am without any casualty, it was learnt on Thursday. The incident caused panic within the airport and Ilorin Community. It was … Read more

16-year-old Guatemalan immigrant dies in US custody

A 16-year-old Guatemalan immigrant has died in US custody, days after arriving at an Office of Refugee Resettlement shelter. The boy died on Tuesday at a Texas children’s hospital where he had been treated for several days in the intensive care unit, according to a written statement from Evelyn Stauffer, spokeswoman for the Department of … Read more

Police Arrest Suspected Kidnappers Of Buhari’s ADC’s Father-In-Law

Police Confirms The Arrest Of A Kano Man Who Locked 30-Year-Old Son In Car Garage For 7 Years

Police in Katsina State on Thursday said the suspects in connection with the abduction of President Muhammadu Buhari’s Aide de Camp (ADC)’s father-in-law, have been arrested. The spokesperson of the Katsina State police command, Gambo Isah, in a statement disclosed that Magajin Garin Daura, Alhaji Musa Uba, was abducted on Tuesday evening at his residence. … Read more

Five Missing As Gunmen Storm Zamfara School

Five persons have been reported missing after gunmen stormed Government Girls Secondary School Moriki, Zurmi Local Government Area (LGA) of Zamfara State. The armed men were said to have entered the school through the back fence on Wednesday with an intention to attack the school and abduct students. Confirming the incident, the Police Public Relations … Read more

Shehu Sani reveals what NLC, Aviation workers should do to governors defaulting on minimum wage

Shehu Sani

Shehu Sani, the Senator representing Kaduna Central in the National Assembly, has advised the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, to devise ways of imposing ‘no fly’ sanctions for any Governor, Industrialist, CEOs who deliberately refused to implement the new National Minimum Wage recently signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari. Sani said this while celebrating with … Read more

NHRC condemns raid on Abuja night clubs

National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, has condemned the raids on popular night clubs in Abuja by the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, authorities and the Police, cautioning that citizens’ rights to freedom of association and movement cannot be abridged. Executive Secretary of the commission, Tony Ojukwu, who stated this in Abuja yesterday, also called on the … Read more

Kaduna insecurity: IGP orders redeployment of Police Commissioners

Adamu Mohammed

The Inspector-General of Police, Adamu Mohammed, has ordered the redeployment of Kaduna State Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Abdulrahaman, to Force Intelligence Bureau, Force Headquarters, Abuja. Also redeployed is the Commissioner of Police in Bauchi State, Aji Janga, who will now assume duty as Kaduna State Police Commissioner. Others are CP Habu Ahmadu, former CP Intelligence, … Read more

Governors fuel insecurity cos of security votes—EFCC Chairman

Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, has alleged that some state governors covertly promote insecurity as justification to inflate their security vote. Magu, who stated this while presenting a paper on “Imperative of Fighting Corruption/Terrorism Financing in Nigeria,” at the induction of new and returning governors at the Old Banquet … Read more

Most Nigerians still lack electricity supply, Osinbajo admits

Osibanjo May Day

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has admitted that most Nigerian homes and business premises still lack electricity. During a May Day celebration yesterday in Abuja, he said government was committed to making power available to most Nigerians, adding that the sector needed a lot of re-engineering and re-working to deliver service. He thanked Nigerians for re-electing … Read more

APC suspends former Ekiti state governor, Segun Oni

The All Progressives Congress APC has suspended the immediate past Deputy National Chairman (South) of the party and former Ekiti state governor, Segun Oni, from the party indefinitely over alleged anti-party activities. In a letter dated May 1st and addressed to Oni by the party’s executives in Oni’s Ifami Ward II, Ekiti, the party said … Read more

BREAKING: Gunmen Storm Daura, Kidnap Father-In-Law To Buhari’s ADC

Gunmen have stormed Daura, kidnapping the father-in-law to President Buhari’s ADC. The victim Musa Umar who is said to be the Magajin Garin Daura was abducted in his Daura residence, Katsina North shortly after observing Maghrib prayer. A credible source in Daura told Channels Television that “the attackers shot sporadically to disperse the crowd and … Read more

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