Some suspected gunmen have kidnapped four farmers in a farm located in Ekiti, demanding N50 million ransom to secure their release. The Police Command in the state on Tuesday confirmed the kidnapping of the four farmers but denied knowledge of Read more…
Dr Mohammad Abubakar, Minister of Environment, on Monday, disclosed that Nigeria recorded 4,919 oil spills between 2015 to March 2021 and lost 4.5 trillion barrels of oil to theft in four years. Abubakar disclosed this at a Town Hall meeting Read more…
Traditional ruler in Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau State, Daniel Chega has escaped death after gunmen attacked his vehicle. It was gathered Chega, who is the District Head of Miango, was returning home after a peace meeting with herdsmen Read more…
Osun State government, on Tuesday, said that passengers abducted by bandits at Odo-Osun axis near Imesi-Ile in Obokun Local Government Area of Osun State, on Monday night, have all been rescued unhurt. However, one of the local hunters who were Read more…
No fewer than 19 people have been reportedly killed at Tsauwa village, Batsari Local Government Area, Katsina State. Residents said the bandits stormed the village around 11.30 p.m on Monday and operated till the early hours of Tuesday. It was Read more…
Gunmen on Monday afternoon abducted yet-to-be known numbers of passengers at Odo-Osun around Imesi-Ile in Obokun Local Government Area of Osun State, The Nation has learnt. It was gathered the commercial vehicle from Ekiti was going toward Ikirun through Ila Read more…
Armed assailants have abducted 140 children from a boarding school in northwest Nigeria. The mass kidnapping is the latest such incident in the country, with hundreds still missing from raids carried out in the past six months. The pupils were Read more…
Hoodlums have chopped off the manhood of Matador from Orsu Iheti Ukwa in Imo State.× The man was seen tied in a viral video horizontally to a stick and subjected to inhuman treatment by the suspected hoodlums. The hoodlums were Read more…
General Buba Marwa is an administrator par excellence from Adamawa State. He was Borno and Lagos State military administrator under the late General Sani Abacha and presently the DG NDLEA. I came close to Marwa the first time when we were Read more…
Ifeoluwa Oyeleke, the mother of a 14-year-old girl, Jumoke Monsurat, who was killed during the Yoruba Nation rally in Lagos on Saturday, says she has yet to see the corpse of her child. The mother alleged that when she and Read more…
The Lagos State Police Command has denied claims that a 14-year-old girl was shot and killed by the police during the Yoruba Nation rally on Saturday. The police made this known in a statement signed by the Public Relations Officer, Read more…
An Israeli merchant ship has reportedly been hit by an “unknown weapon,” causing the vessel to catch fire in the northern Indian Ocean. The incident comes amid rising tensions between Jerusalem and Tehran. Lebanese media outlet Al-Mayadeen reported the attack Read more…