Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Tukur Burutai has cautioned media practitioners and members of the public against glorifying bandits, armed robbers, kidnappers and ethnic militias in the country. He lamented that the situation has snowballed to the extent ...
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House of Representatives seeks end to Tiv, Jukun crisis
The House of Representatives yesterday urged security agencies to arrest perpetrators of the killings in Taraba State due to crisis between Tiv and Jukun nationalities with a view to prosecuting them. The House also sought thorough investigation to unravel those ...
Read More »Group urges FG to compensate pipeline explosion victims
The Centre for Peace and Environmental Justice (CEPEJ) has asked the federal government to compensate the families of the 11 persons who died in the 2016 pipeline explosion at Agip’s oilfield in Southern Ijaw Council of Bayelsa State. It urged ...
Read More »Police arrest four suspected cultists in Rivers State
The Rivers State Police Command have arrested four cult kingpins suspected to have been the brains behind the incessant cult wars in Rumuolumeni Community, Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of the state. Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of the command, Nnamdi ...
Read More »Killing at Ladol was deliberate, Samsung insists, alleges falsification of reports
Samsung Heavy Industries Nigeria (SHIN) has declared that the killing of a Korean and a Nigerian by an unknown gunman at LADOL Free Zone was deliberate and not accidental discharge, as managers of the zone claimed. Its Managing Director, Jejin ...
Read More »ICPC indicts financial institutions over opening accounts for criminals
The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related Offences Commission (ICPC) yesterday insisted that some financial institutions were engaging in unethical conducts by opening accounts for ‘criminals.’ Its chairman, Professor Bolaji Owasanoye, said the banks also employ innuendos that lure criminal ...
Read More »Stakeholders to brainstorm on votes buying in Nasarawa tomorrow
NO fewer than 60 persons drawn from academics, faith-based and civil society organistions, development partners and organised labour will converge on Keffi, Nasarawa State tomorrow to proffer solutions to votes buying and selling in the country. Others are, the Independent ...
Read More »Police arrest suspected abductors of Channels TV reporter
Police operatives attached to Operation Puff Adder, acting on intelligence report, have arrested three persons for allegedly kidnapping a Channels Television reporter, Friday Okeregbe. This is in line with Acting Inspector General of Police (IGP)’s commitment to curb crimes and ...
Read More »Court orders forfeiture of property traced to Diezani
Lagos Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has secured the interim forfeiture of property linked to a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, Donald Chidi Amangbo and Sequoyah Properties Limited. Acting Spokesperson of the commission, ...
Read More »Herdsmen kill 25 persons, injure 21 in Nasarawa, Anambra, Ekiti
No fewer than 25 persons have been killed in suspected herdsmen attacks in parts of Nasarawa, Anambra and Ekiti states, as militants shot a police officer in Cross River State. While the attack on Noma Village of Andaha in Akwanga ...
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