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FACTS emerged on Friday that terrorists killed 41 guards and injured two others in an ambush on Thursday in the Bakori Local Government Area of Katsina State. A statement on the incident by the spokesman for the Katsina Police Command, SP Gambo Isah, on Friday confirmed the incident. The statement …

LABOUR Party’s  House of  Representatives candidate for Lere Federal Constituency in Kaduna State,  Suleiman Tambaya, on Friday night, escaped an assassination attempt as gunmen invaded his residence at Gure village in Lere Local Government Area of the state, killing two persons. The incident, our correspondent gathered occurred at about 10:00 …

THE country home of Dr Nnaemeka Obiaraeri, the Okigwe Local Government Area of Imo State House of Assembly candidate of the Labour Party, was in the early hours of Saturday attacked by unknown gunmen. His house, cars, and those of his father and uncles were burnt and destroyed by the …

Nnamdi Kanu’s Self-proclaimed Disciple, Simon Ekpa Threatens To Attack Banks In South-East Over Scarcity Of New Naira Notes   February 3, 2023   Ekpa issued the threat in a memo titled “Memo to Nigeria Banks Operating in Biafra Territory” where he gave all commercial banks in the region till February …

Police arrest two suspects for allegedly possessing and selling counterfeit N1000 notes   Police Operatives serving in Igbo-Eze South Division of Enugu State Command, on Thursday, February 2, have arrested one Joseph Chinenye aged 39 and Onyeka Kenneth Ezeja aged 29, both male and respectively of Iheakpu-Awka in Igbo-Eze South …

A 46-year-old man identified as Hassan Azeez has been arrested by men of the Ogun state Police Command, for allegedly pouring petrol on his wife and setting her ablaze, NEWSEXTRA24 reports.   A statement released by SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, spokesperson of the state police command, says the suspect was arrested …

An Ogudu Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State on Friday sentenced one 31-year-old Scott Asuquo to three years in jail for burglary and stealing. Asuquo was arraigned on January 20 on a four-count charge bordering on burglary and stealing. The Magistrate, Mrs O.A. Daodu, who summarily tried Asuquo following his guilty …

Police in Enugu, on Thursday, arraigned one Moses Chikereze before an Enugu East Magistrates’ Court for allegedly stealing four drums of engine oil valued at N1.3 million. The engine oil was said to belong to the Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC). Chikereze was arraigned on a one-count charge bordering on …

Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have abducted the Commissioner for Women Affairs in Cross River State, Gertrude Nnanjar Njar, in Calabar. An eyewitness, Samuel Okon, told the News Agency of Nigeria that she was forcefully taken out of her official car by masked young men on Wednesday, February 1, 2023. …

Police officers who were attacked, wounded and disarmed by unknown gunmen have raised the alarm over their continued detention for about five months without trial. They spoke through their Counsel, Barrister Godwin Onwusi in a petition to the Inspector General of Police, through the A.I.G, Force C.I.D Annex, Enugu. The …