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GUNMEN on Saturday killed one Abdulkareem Kwaren in Tsafe Local Government Area of Zamfara State. According to a relative of the deseased, Mallam Lawal Kwaren Mai Saje, his brother was returning from his farm Saturday evening when the terrorists on motorcycles shot him and he died on the spot. Newsextra24 …

SUSPECTED bandits attacked and abducted a health worker and his brother on Friday night at Wusasa area of Zaria Local Government Area of Kaduna State. The bandits stormed the area around 9pm and shot sporadically to disperse the crowd before picking their victims, Yushau Peter of St. Luke’s Hospital Wusasa …

THE Police Command in Ogun said one Babatunde Kolawole, allegedly found with a fresh male human corpse, was arrested and handed over to its personnel at Ado/Odo-Ota area of the state. SP Omolola Odutola, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), who disclosed this in a statement on Sunday in Ota, …

TWO separate incidents this week have left Customs officers in Kebbi and Katsina States reeling after suspected bandits and smugglers launched violent attacks, resulting in the death of two officers and injuries to another. Expressing deep concern, the Comptroller FOU ‘B’ Musa Ibrahim Jalo warned that further assaults on customs …

A gunman have allegedly raped a student of the College of Health Technology Student at the Primary Health Centre, Agbarha-Otor Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State. The gunman reportedly also carted away an android phone, ATM and unspecified amount of money from the victim. The gunman allegedly broke …

OPERATIVES of the Bauchi State Police Command have arrested 15-year-old Adamu Ibrahim of Jital village along Gombe road for allegedly amputating a farmer’s hand following a disagreement. The suspect was said to have, on several occasions, trespassed into the victim’s farmland while rearing his cows, a development that did not …

A man identified as a pastor of a pentecostal church, Pastor Prosper Obum Igboke has committed suicide in Nnewi, Anambra State. Sources said the man jumped down from a two storey-building after he was jilted by his lover. A relative of the deceased, who spoke to the press under anonymity, …

Bandits have abducted the Organizing Secretary of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Hon. Kawu Ibrahim Yakasai, from his residence in Yakasai village in Kaduna State. The abduction took place at around 10:00 pm on Friday when the bandits invaded Yakasai village in Soba LGA. They specifically targeted Yakasai’s residence and …

THE Taraba Police Command has confirmed that there was an attack on its station in Lau Local Government Council of the state in the early hours of Saturday. Confirming the incident, the state command Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Abdullahi Usman, said the attack occurred at around 2am. He said the …

WHEN Mr Festus Unah, a 50-year-old generator repairer, who also engages in subsistence farming, went with his wife to their farmland along Amorji Road, Obetim-Uno, Ndokwa West Local Government Area, Delta State on August 4, 2023, their mission was to rid the cassava farm of the weeds that had begun …