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The association of Fulani Christians has spoken out about the insecurity in Nigeria and other West African countries, saying it is still possible to defeat banditry and kidnapping. Speaking at the end of its annual conference in Jos, the Plateau State capital on Sunday, the Fulani Christian community blamed the political …

A 24-year-old man who was declared missing last week, has been found dead in an uncompleted building in Delta State. Frank Egbepade was last seen on March 7 after he paid a visit to some friends. His decomposing body has now been found in an uncompleted building in Ughoton, in …

The Trade Union Congress (TUC) of Nigeria lost two of its members in Monday’s attack on the Abuja-Kaduna bound train. The online news portal had earlier reported that the Secretary-General of the TUC, Barrister Musa-Lawal Ozigi, was among the passengers killed when terrorists bombed and derailed an Abuja-Kaduna train and …

The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Bank of Agriculture, Kabir Mohammed Adamu, has been confirmed as one of the Abuja-Kaduna train passengers abducted by bandits after the terrorists successfully blew up the train and immobilised it on Monday evening. SaharaReporters learnt that Adamu was among the victims …

The Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Lieutenant General Faruk Yahaya on Tuesday visited the scene of Kaduna – Abuja where suspected terrorists detonated bombs on the railtrack of Abuja-Kaduna train. Director Army Public Relations, Brig. General Onyema Nwachukwu in a press statement said the COAS, who was accompanied by some …

Air Peace, Nigeria’s largest flight carrier, has suspended operations to Kaduna International Airport. A source disclosed this to Daily Trust, attributing the development to the gun attack around the airport at the weekend. Daily Trust had reported how bandits gunned down a local guard attached to the Nigerian Airspace Management …

A former Deputy Governor of Zamfara State, Ibrahim Wakkala, has sustained gunshot wounds in Monday’s terrorist attack on a Kaduna-bound train. The train conveying hundreds of passengers from Abuja to Kaduna was attacked by gunmen suspected to be bandits between Katari and Rijana in Kaduna State. An aide to the …

46 suspected internet fraudsters have been apprehended by the Abuja Zonal Command on Monday, March 28, 2022, for alleged involvement in computer-related fraud at different locations in Owerri, the Imo State capital. The suspects who are mainly students and job-seekers between the ages of 18 to 31 years were apprehended …

Steph Adamu, a twitter user, has disclosed that Dr. Chinelo Megafu, a young Nigerian medical doctor killed by terrorists in a attack on Kaduna-Abuja train on Monday night, had secured papers to travel abroad to continue her medical practice. Adamu, who seems to know the late 27-year-old doctor closely, said she was …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission says it will approach the Court of Appeal to contest the verdict of the Abuja Federal High Court quashing the 16 counts bordering on corruption and money laundering to the tune of N715million levelled against the former Minister of Special Duties and Inter-governmental Affairs, …