Friday, 05 June, 2026

Month: June 2021


Osun State Police Command on Thursday said seven people, including two police officers and two constabularies, lost their lives during attack on two banks in Apomu and Ikire communities by suspected armed robbers. A statement by the command spokesperson, Yemisi Read more…


Right now, I am both physically and emotionally drained, just watching events in my beloved country. Today, I draw a sketch of what I see from the South East, my home region, where I was born and had all of my Read more…


• Condemn govt’s shoot-on-sight position Diaspora Igbo group, the Igbo World Assembly (IWA), has said there was need to restructure Nigeria to ensure true federalism as it was in the 1963 Constitution based on regions. It condemned Federal Government’s shoot-on-sight position, noting that Read more…


The Katsina State police command has confirmed the killing of an Inspector of Police and three residents of Zandam village, in Jibia Local Government Area, by suspected bandits. The state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Gambo Isah, said the incident happened Read more…


Allegedly ritually murdered by would-be husband The decomposed remains of a missing female officer with the Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC), Josephine Cynthia Inalegwu Onche, has been found in a shallow grave in Obi, Benue State. Cynthia, an Read more…


Kwara State Police command has confirmed the killing of a Fulani man by suspected assassins in Lamba village, Asa Local Government Area of Kwara State on Wednesday. Speaking with Tribune Online, the PPRO, Okasanmi Ajayi, said that the commissioner of Read more…


In the wake of growing insecurity across the states of the federation and the Federal Capital Authority, FCT, Abuja, the Police High Command, on Wednesday, raised the alarm that it has uncovered a local AK-47 fabrication factory in Jos South Read more…


Deputy Inspector-General of Police (DIG) in charge of Operation Restore Peace in Southsouth geo-political zone, Moses Jitoboh, has disclosed members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) are gathering in Edo State. He revealed the IPOB members were secretly meeting Read more…


The Governing Council of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) has sacked two lecturers, Dr. Boniface Igbeneghu and Dr. Samuel Omoniyi Oladipo for sexual harassment of students as exposed by a BBC documentary aired in 2019 In the documentary, Igbeneghu of Read more…


The Federal Government has assured it is on course with the remediation process of oil-polluted sections of Ogoniland. It said 17 sites had already been cleaned up and certified cleaned. Minister of Environment, Mohammed Mahmoud, who disclosed this to State Read more…


Twitter on Wednesday deleted a remark on Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari’s account for violating its rules, after he referred to the country’s civil war in the context of recent unrest. Buhari, a former general, made a statement on Tuesday referring Read more…


The largest warship in the Iranian navy caught fire and later sank Wednesday in the Gulf of Oman under unclear circumstances, the latest calamity to strike one of the country’s vessels in recent years amid tensions with the West. The Read more…