The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office which disclosed this on the UK government website cited Monday’s terrorist attack on the Abuja-Kaduna train. It also cited last Saturday’s invasion of the Kaduna airport by bandits during which one person was killed. Kaduna government on Tuesday said eight persons had been confirmed …
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FCCPC Freezes Over 30 Accounts Of Illegal Loan Companies
The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC), says it has frozen no fewer than 30 bank accounts operated by illegal loan organisations. Mr Babatunde Irukera, the Executive Vice Chairman of the Commission, said this at a media engagement in Abuja on Tuesday. Irukera also said that the Commission had …
Read More »ASUU Strike: UNICAL Orders Students Out Of Hostels
The management of the University of Calabar (UNICAL) has ordered students of the institution out of their hostels with immediate effect due to the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). A statement released on Tuesday by the Registrar Gabriel Egbe said following the industrial action embarked …
Read More »Kaduna: Terrorists Storm Kofar Gyan Low Cost Estate, Kidnap Families
Reports from multiple Twitter users claim that Bandits a.k.a Terrorists have stormed a low cost area in Zaria, Kaduna State and are shooting sporadically. A female Twitter user claimed a Mallam and his family were kidnapped. The attacked seemed to have began by 10:20 pm on Wednesday. JUST IN: Bandits …
Read More »No Special Treatment For Abba Kyari, Others In Kuje Prison – Prison Authorities
The suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Abba Kyari and four other officers facing trials over alleged Cocaine deal have landed in Kuje prison custody. Prison authorities said there would be no special treatment for anyone of them, The Nation learnt yesterday. The authorities, however, assured that they are safe. …
Read More »Train Attack: 9 Killed, Many Kidnapped, Terrorists Chanted ‘Allahu Akbar’ – Survivor
Malam Muhammadu, one of the survivors of Monday terror attack, has in an interview with newsmen gave account of what happened during the train attack that claimed lives and injured many. Muhammadu said that the terrorists came with buses and evacuated a number of passengers during the Monday night train …
Read More »Kaduna Rail Bombing: APC Chieftain, Joe Igbokwe Blames PDP
Their thieving PDP were in power for 16 years and they could not even build one Station. Now see what the hediots are doing with heavy projects that took Nigeria billions of dollars to build. A well known Nigerian politician, Joe Igbokwe who was the spokesperson of All Progressive Congress, …
Read More »Artiste, Horace Tempo Reveals How COVID-19 Lockdown Inspired Him Into Production
Music Artistes, Horace Tempo Reveals How Covid-19 Lockdown Inspired Him Into Production A popular music artiste, Horace Tempo has finally revealed what inspired him into the craft of music production, giving thanks to the 2020 Covid-19 lockdown which had people confined to their homes early 2020. In an interview recently, …
Read More »Kaduna Train Bombing Among 10 Major Global Rail Attacks Since 2010
Insecurity has been a major concern in Nigeria for over a decade now. Starting from the dreaded Boko Haram group and Islamic State’s West Africa Province (ISWAP) unleashing terror in the North East to banditry and kidnapping in the North West and violent attacks by Indigenous People of Biafra in …
Read More »EFCC Arrests 80 Suspected Internet Fraudsters In Ibadan, 40 In Enugu
Operatives of the Ibadan Zonal Command of the EFCC, have arrested eighty (80) suspects for alleged internet- related activities in Ibadan, Oyo State. Forty (40) other suspects were arrested by operatives of the Enugu Zonal Command of the Commission for the same suspected offences. They were all arrested based on …
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