Thursday, 19 December, 2024

Month: December 2020


Governor Nasir el-Rufai has said that community policing has come to stay in Kaduna State. This is just as 272 Police constables pass out from training school in the state.Speaking at the reviewing of the passing out parade of the Read more…


A cult clash between two rival cult gangs has claimed four lives in Lobia community in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. According to investigations, the conflict between the two cult gangs which has been brewing in the Read more…


Melanie Zanona Wed, December 30, 2020, 3:51 AM GMT+1 Rep.-elect Luke Letlow (R-La.) has died from the coronavirus, multiple sources confirmed Tuesday evening. He was 41. Letlow, who announced on Dec. 18 that he tested positive for Covid-19, had been Read more…


Stakeholders in Enugwu-Ukwu community, Njikoka Local Government Area of Anambra State have thrown their weights behind the efforts being made by their traditional ruler, Igwe Ralph Ekpeh, to promote peace in the community. This position was contained in a communiqué Read more…


The head of the WHO health emergencies program Dr. Michael Ryan has warned there might be an “even more severe” pandemic in the future, as new mutant and highly infectious strains of Covid-19 spread. Commenting during a media briefing on Read more…


THE family of one Godstime Akugbo, who allegedly died in the custody of the Anti-Cultism Unit of the Rivers State Police Command in 2007, has called on the Rivers State Judicial Panel on Police Brutality and related crimes to prevail Read more…


One Abeeb Abifarin of Okedada compound, Ejigbo, Osun State, was on Tuesday pronounced dead following deadly clashes between rival groups in the town. Many people were also said to have been injured in the clashes involving members of the Lion Read more…


Southern Nigeria and Middle Belt Forum (SMBLF) has demanded an apology from the Federal Government and all those who have attacked Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah over his Christmas Day message which criticised President Muhammadu Buhari. The SMBLF made the demand Read more…


The Police Service Commission (PSC) has reacted to the protest by the pan Igbo socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, on the recent promotions in the Nigeran Police Force (NPF), saying that promotion in the force was based on merit and not Read more…


The Nigerian Army has built and handed-over a 1.2 kilometre road at Umurusi-Ukehe Community, in Igbo-Etiti Local Government Area (LGA), of Enugu State. Inaugurating the road on Monday in Umurusi-Ukehe, the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, said Read more…


The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) on Sunday faulted Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah for suggesting that President Muhammadu Buhari be removed through an undemocratic process. The Bishop of Sokoto Catholic Diocese in his Christmas message accused the President of nepotism. He Read more…


Operatives of the Ekiti State Security Network Agency codenamed Amotekun corps have rescued a businessman Happiness Ajayi that was kidnapped on Christmas day in Ekiti State. Ajayi was kidnapped along Isan-Iludun-Ekiti road in Oye local government area alongside his cousin, Read more…