Category: Top Stories
Police arrest IPOB/ESN chief, recover stolen cars, IED
17 Dec 2022
Police in Ebonyi State, yesterday, disclosed it has arrested Sunday Ubah, aka Bongo, a commander of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB/Eastern Security Network, ESN, in Abakaliki. It added that during its operation, stolen vehicles, improvised explosive devices, IEDs, police officers’ uniforms, long-range riot gunners and their cartridges, among other items, were recovered by the […]
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Court remands man for allegedly raping 21 years old daughter
17 Dec 2022
A Chief Magistrates’ Court in Iyaganku, Oyo State on Friday ordered that a man, Opeyemi Ajala, be remanded for allegedly raping his 21-year-old daughter. Chief Magistrate Emmanuel Idowu, did not take plea of Ajala, 40, for lack of jurisdiction.Idowu ordered that Ajala be remanded at Abolongo Correctional Centre, Oyo Town. He said the remand is […]
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OVER 83000 Boko Haram fighters has surrendered
16 Dec 2022
The Theater Commander Operation Hadin Kai, Major General Christopher Musa has revealed that the number of Boko Haram terrorists who have surrendered with families is about 83,000 The Commander revealed this on Thursday when he paid a courtesy visit on Yobe state Governor, Mai Mala Buni at the Government House, Damaturu. He said out of […]
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Police have launched an investigation into the Abuja train crash due to victim’s death
15 Dec 2022
The Federal Capital Territory Police Command has launched an investigation into Thursday’s fatal train crash in Kubwa. Naija News previously reported that an Abuja-bound train collided with a moving car at Chikakore, in the Kubwa area of Abuja, causing the train to break down. The train crushed a black Toyota Camry from the driver’s side […]
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TRAIN crushes lady whose car was stuck on the rail
15 Dec 2022
The Police in Abuja has confirmed the death of a lady who was crushed to death along the Chikakore axis in the Kubwa Area Council of the FCT on Thursday by a moving train. The accident was said to have occurred when her car got stuck in the middle of the rail line resulting in […]
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LASTMA arrests fake traffic officer
15 Dec 2022
LASTMA recently arrested a man pretending to be a traffic officer in Lekki. According to Mr. Oreagba, “the suspect was apprehended after our patrol team sighted him fully kitted with LASTMA uniform on a black jean collecting money from different commercial bus drivers who were illegally dropping and picking passengers under the Lekki bridge. “It […]
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Airlines will pay an additional $222 billion for fuel
14 Dec 2022
According to the International Air Transport Association (IATA), airlines will pay an additional $222 billion for fuel this year. Kamil Alawadhi, IATA’s Regional Vice President for Africa and the Middle East, stated this in his address to the African Airlines Association’s 2022 General Assembly in Dakar, Senegal. Although oil prices have fallen from mid-year highs, […]
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ANOTHER market razed down by fire
14 Dec 2022
Goods worth millions of naira were, on Saturday, destroyed when fire razed some shops at Ọgbọ Osisi Timber Market, Bridgehead, Onitsha in Anambra State. This is the third fire incident in markets across the state in one month. The incident occurs about two weeks after fire razed a section of Onitsha Main Market in the […]
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FIVE people killed as rival cult group clash
14 Dec 2022
About five persons have been reportedly killed and others seriously injured as rival cult groups clashed Tuesday night around the popular Ibom plaza along Ikot Ekpene Road in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom state capital. Some eyewitnesses who were around the Ibom Plaza axis yesterday said the fracas which started about 6:30pm on Tuesday caused residents […]
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