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About 18 people have been kidnapped in Keke, a community in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State. Gunmen were said to have invaded the community around 12midnight. Eyewitnesses said the gunmen came in large number and after causing confusion in the area, they kidnapped 18 people. Our correspondent gathered …

Miyetti Allah To FG: “Stop Southern Governors From Enacting Anti-Grazing Laws”. The Group described the laws as an act targeted at destroying their source of livelihood. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj2K1lBAM88

SUPER TV BOSS MURDER: COURT ORDERS CHIDINMA, ACCOMPLICE TRIAL A Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos has ordered that Chidinma Ojukwu, who was charged with the murder of the Chief Executive Officer of Super Television, Usifo Ataga, will face murder trial at the Lagos State High Court. The court also …

A crisis is brewing at the headquarters of the Nigeria Correctional Services (NCoS), Abuja, following the alleged premature retirement of seven top ranking officers of the service by the newly appointed Comptroller- General, Haliru Nababa. Until his appointment, Nababa was head of the Directorate of Finance and Accounts in the …

A Nigerian graduate of the University of Uyo has reportedly been beaten to death by Akwa Ibom state police officers. According to what his friends revealed via Facebook post, he was killed in police custody in Akwa Ibom and they are demanding justice. Kubiet Akpan is a fitness enthusiast and …

Governor Matawalle Bello has explained why the government decided to shut down all telecommunications networks in the state to check banditry. Speaking to DW Hausa Service on Monday September 6, Matawalle said the security forces in collaboration with local vigilantes were taking the fight into the bandits’ enclaves as directed by army …

CONTROVERSIAL Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, said on Monday that the current military onslaught on bandits in Zamfara State and other parts of the North-West would not yield the desired results. Gumi also warned against poor handling of the situation so that it would not go the way of the …

SUPER TV BOSS MURDER: COURT ORDERS CHIDINMA, ACCOMPLICE TRIAL A Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos has ordered that Chidinma Ojukwu, who was charged with the murder of the Chief Executive Officer of Super Television, Usifo Ataga, will face murder trial at the Lagos State High Court. The court also …

Preliminary report from an autopsy conducted on Monday has revealed that a university student who died in police custody in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria’s South-south, was tortured. Kubiat Akpan, 28, a fresh graduate of architecture, University of Uyo, was arrested by the police on August 29, while he was sitting …

Inibehe Effiong, counsel for a young Nigerian graduate, Kubiat Akpan allegedly beaten to death in the custody of Akwa Ibom police has accused the police of lying about the circumstances surrounding the death of the deceased. Newsextra24 had reported how Kubiat, said to be the only son of his parents, …