A Kenya pastor stabbed his wife during a church service and then slit his throat in a murder-suicide witnessed by the shocked congregation, local police told CNN yesterday. On Sunday, Elijah Misiko, an assistant pastor with the Ground for God’s Gospel Church in Mombasa, left his front row seat and approached his wife, Senior Pastor … Read more
Erstwhile Governor of the old Western Region, Brigadier General Oluwole Rotimi (retd.),has said that he had given up hope on the present generation of political leaders in the country in view of their selfish approach to governance. Rotimi, who was the Chairman at the 21st Benjamin Oluwakayode Osuntokun Lecture, held at the Emeritus Professor Theophilus … Read more
An $80million bounty has been placed on Donald Trump’s head in Iran in the wake of General Qasem Soleimani’s assassination, Mirror.co.uk reports. During the televised funeral, an unidentified eulogist speaking on official state television said that one US dollar should be tabled for every Iranian in the country, with the cash going to whoever killed … Read more
The US military has informed its counterparts in Baghdad on Monday that it was preparing for “movement out of Iraq,” a day after the Iraqi parliament urged the government oust foreign troops. The head of the US military’s Task Force Iraq, Brigadier General William Seely, sent a letter to the head of Iraq’s joint operations … Read more
Policeman guarding a new generation bank at the Ekeki axis of Bayelsa capital city,Yenegoa, has shot a commercial bus driver and two of his passengers. The yet-to-be-identified police operative reportedly boarded a commercial tricycle and escaped the scene shortly after wrecking havoc in the area. It was learnt the bullet, which was shot at close … Read more
An Armenian man has been arrested for releasing “false information” on Facebook claiming the country’s prime minister had congratulated Donald Trump for killing Iran’s top General, the security service said Monday. “On January 2, the Facebook page ‘Diana Arutyunyan’ published information according to which Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan congratulated the United States for its actions … Read more
Katsina State Police on Monday, confirmed that its Operation Puff Adder team has rescued occupants of two J5 buses kidnapped by suspected bandits at Ruma village, along Jibia/Batsari road. The police, clarified that seven occupants of the two vehicles were still being looked for on Monday morning. The spokesman for the command,SP Gambo Isah, made … Read more
The Department of State Services(DSS) has spent at least N164.5m in feeding the leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky. El-Zakzaky was arrested by the DSS on December 12, 2015 and remained in custody until December 2019 when Justice Gideon Kurada of a Kaduna State High Court ordered the agency to transfer … Read more
The Iranian ambassador to the United Nations described the killing of one of his country’s top generals as an act of war, US media reported late Friday. The death of Quds Force commander Major General Qasem Soleimani in Baghdad was the most dramatic escalation yet in spiralling tensions between Iran and the United States, despite … Read more
The current President of Nigerians in Diaspora Organisation (NIDO), New York Chapter, Honourable Bamidele ‘Bobby’ Digi Olisa, has called on the Nigerian Government to take employment seriously and as a national priority. The New York-based Nigerian made this known during his visit to Nigeria while speaking to journalists. Hon. Bobby said: “My presence here is … Read more
Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani will be laid to rest on Tuesday in his hometown of Kerman as part of three days of ceremonies across the country, the Revolutionary Guards said. The US military killed Soleimani on Friday in an air strike outside Baghdad international airport that shocked the Islamic republic and sparked fears of … Read more
President Donald Trump on Friday said that the United States killed top Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani to stop a war, not start one. Addressing newsmen in Florida, Trump alleged that Soleimani was “plotting imminent and sinister attacks on American diplomats and military personnel, but we caught him in the act and terminated him”. The … Read more
Six members of Spain’s police have left Bolivia on Friday after being accused of trying to sneak a wanted man out of the Mexican ambassador’s residence in La Paz, the government said. National Migration director Marcel Rivas said that the six men were members of “a special group of the Spanish Civil Guard.” They allegedly … Read more
A new bomb letter has been reported on Friday at the Okura Hotel in the south of Amsterdam, the Dutch police reported. “Employees from the mail room of the hotel found the letter and sounded the alarm. The hotel did not have to be evacuated. “The Dutch Explosives Clearance Defense Service is now investigating the … Read more
The Somali Government has confirmed that its commandos killed 30 militants and destroyed vehicles packed with explosives during a raid in the Lower Shabelle province. “They were planning massive operations and suicide car bombings against the people of Somalia,’’ Gen. Ismael Abdimalik Maalin, commander of the US-trained elite forces, told state-run Radio Mogadishu earlier. Maalin … Read more
Israel has placed its military on heightened alert on Friday following the U.S. killing of Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani. Israel, America’s closest ally in the Middle East and Iran’s top regional foe, has not publicly responded to the death of Quds Force chief Soleimani and Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis in the U.S. air … Read more
The Federal Government of Nigeria has said that there was no diplomatic row with Ghana, also denied media reports that the country’s High Commission in Ghana has been evicted. The Nigerian Government said that the property located at No.10 Barnes Road, Accra was recently reallocated to Amaco Microfinance by Ghana’s Ministry of Lands and Natural … Read more
Edo state Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has approved the conversion of the death sentence of four prisoners to life imprisonment. Obaseki, made this statement through Mr Crusoe Osagie, the Special Adviser to Edo State Governor on Media and Communications, gave the approval in exercise of the powers conferred on him under section 212 of the Constitution … Read more
Top Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani was killed on Friday in a US strike on Baghdad’s international airport, Iran and the US confirmed, in the most dramatic episode yet of escalating tensions between the two countries. The Pentagon said that US President Donald Trump ordered Soleimani’s “killing,” after a pro-Iran mob this week laid siege to … Read more
The Kwara State Government has moved in its heavy duty equipment and demolished the ancestral home of the late Olusola Saraki’s at Ile Arugbo, Ilorin. Ekohotblog garnered that the building was demolished at 4am on Thursday. When the enforcement team got to the scene about 3am, it was learnt that they were initially resisted by … Read more