UNKNOWN gunmen on Saturday attacked the convoy of the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Ado Bayero, killing four of his palace guards. The incident took place in the early hours of the day, after the Emir’s convoy departed from a Qur’anic graduation ceremony at Murtala Muhammed Mosque, in Kumbotso Local Government Area. A few minutes later, [...]
Three members of the same family have been confirmed dead as a result of an early morning fire which razed shops and houses in Idi-Iroko area of Ipokia local government area of Ogun state, south west Nigeria. It was gathered that the victims were a mother and two of her children who were completely burnt [...]
Three communities in Ivo local government area of Ebonyi state, yesterday, protested the kidnap of seven children from the area by gunmen even as they gave the state police command a seven day-ultimatum to secure the release of the children. The three communities, Ovumte, Ayaragu and Ekembe, alleged that unknown gunmen stormed the communities between [...]
About 200 students may have been expelled by the authorities of Covenant University, Cannanland, Ota, Ogun State, recently for what was described as “disregard of paramount core values.” Frustrated and angered by the development, some of the affected students who gave account of what happened battled emotions while narrating their situations to Saturday Vanguard recently. [...]
Part of Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja, Lagos was on Thursday gutted by fire. According to an eyewitness who pleaded anonymity, the fire emanated from some cables, which apparently melted under heat, as some welders were working at the extension of ‘D’ Wing of the international airport. It was learnt that airport officials in [...]
The efforts by the National University Commission (NUC) sanitise tertiary institutions yielded positive result, following the arrest of Mr. John Agbo, the proprietor of illegal Middle Belt University and North Central University. Agbo who also posed as the Director of Research and Innovation of the Commission, was convicted on a two-count charge of impersonation and [...]
A suicide bomber drove a jeep full of explosives into a Catholic church during morning mass in northern Nigeria on Sunday, killing at least eight people, wounding more than 100 and triggering reprisal attacks that killed at least two more. There was no claim of responsibility but Islamist sect Boko Haram has bombed several churches [...]
The Governor of Taraba State, Dambaba Suntai and five of his aides were, yesterday, involved in an air crash after their private plane, Cessna 208 aircraft marked 5N-BMJ, crashed in Yola, Adamawa State capital. Governor Suntai, who is now in a critical condition at the German Specialist Hospital in Yola, was said to be piloting [...]
TWO students of Federal Polytechnic, Auchi, Edo State, Henry Edewo, 21 and Emmanuel Isikhuime, have been arrested by the Police for kidnapping, raping and murdering a female student, one Mercy Peter, 21, also a student of the institution. They were alleged to have buried their victim in a shallow grave in a forest at Ugbor [...]
Miss Chidimma Ukachukwu, a 12-year-old, JSS 1 student of a secondary school in Awka, Anambra State has died after she was allegedly flogged by her teacher for failing to do her home work. A source in the school told newsmen in Awka yesterday that the girl died on Thursday last week after the incident. The [...]
Barely two weeks after four undergraduates of the University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT) were murdered at Omuokiri-Aluu, three persons, including another student of the institution, have been shot dead at Choba, one of the university’s host communities. Also killed in the Thursday night incident were the student’s girlfriend and a young man who had just [...]
There was a mild drama at the weekend when the police at Ikotun Division, Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria, arrested three monkeys and their minders suspected to be Fulani herdsmen who were allegedly using the monkeys to breach public peace and to steal. Police arrested the monkeys and their minders at the popular Ikotun roundabout. But [...]
Officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) yesterday impounded three consignments of heroin hidden inside balls and woollen carpets at the Nigerian Aviation Handling Company (NAHCO) Shed, Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos worth N351million. The consignments of drug, imported from Pakistan, were detected through the help of the agency’s sniffer dogs weighing [...]
No fewer than 20 people were reported dead in auto crash yesterday along Kobape-Abeokuta. The accident occurred at Ototo village located between Paramount F.M Radio Station and Police Computer College, Abeokuta around 7.30 a.m. The accident was reportedly caused by a truck with registration number, Lagos, JJJ 489XB, which allegedly veered off its lane and [...]
No fewer than 1,200 houses had been submerged and 7,000 persons displaced at Abare and Toru-Angiama in Patani Local Government Area of Delta State. Also, 46 communities across Isoko South, Ndokwa East and Ndokwa West affected by the surging flood, are now taking refuge in Ivrogbo, an upland community in Isoko South Local Government Area [...]
The NDLEA in Osun has arrested an Akure high chief for allegedly being in possession of eight bags of Indian hemp. The agency’s acting Commander, Mr Samuel Gadzama, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Osogbo that the 52-year-old suspect was arrested with his cousin on Sept. 23 in Iwo town. “The [...]
The images were released by the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, and shows the extent of the flooding in the city caused by the overflowing River Niger, which is virtually cutting off the Northern part of the country from the South. A lot of small villages in Lokoja and Kogi will soon be wiped out [...]
A man who was identified by the police as Sunday Eze (Jnr) has reportedly matcheted his wife to death at the University town of Nsukka in Enugu State. Eze, alleged to be a native of Agbani Nguru in Nsukka Local Government was said to have killed his wife following a slight misunderstanding he had with [...]
Tragedy struck Nigeria foremost Private University, Igbinedion University Okada as four of it lecturers died on Wednesday night when their car plunged into the Ovia river as they made their return journey to Benin City after a trip to the Ivory tower community. Those who died are Mr Morgan Efosa Uwogiren, Lucky Ehiorobo, Mrs. Shirley [...]
The birthday celebration of a 17-year-old female student of Yaba College of Technology, Omodesola Olusoji, turned sour last Wednesday as an unidentified school friend of hers poured a substance suspected to be a corrosive chemical on her. PUNCH Metro learnt that it is a tradition in the 65-year-old institution for students to pour water on [...]
RESEARCHERS from the Adelaide Tambo School of Nursing Science, Tshwane University of Technology, Staatsartillerie Road, Pretoria-West, South Africa have validated the use of lemon grass in treating thrush in people living with Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV)/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). They concluded: “Though the patient population was small, the use of lemon grass for the [...]
Michael Onoja, 56, his wife, Comfort Onoja, 42, their children and grandchild have met their untimely death after allegedly eating their lunch of ‘amala’. The children who died along with the parents are Monday Onoja, Patience Onoja and Joy Odoh (grandchild). The incident which occurred last week Tuesday in Bolorunduro village in Akure North Local [...]
Two middle aged men have been arrested by the Ogun state Police Command in possession of a human skull. The two suspects were said to have been arrested at Sabo area of Abeokuta, the state capital, by the officers of the command who were acting on a tip-off. Parading the two suspects at the state [...]
Another suicide that has left the country shaken is that of two students who allegedly committed suicide after failing the recent West African Examinations Council (WAEC) examinations. The incident which happened in Asaba, the Delta state capital occurred after the students checked their results and found out they had failed. Leadership reports that the students [...]
Osun State Government has promised to donate condoms and conduct free HIV/AIDS tests during the Osun Osogbo Festival grand finale. Chairperson, Osun Osogbo HIV/AIDS Prevention Committee, Dr Temitope Ilori, said the initiative was aimed at checking the spread of the disease during the festival. A statement on Tuesday, said the Deputy Governor of the state, [...]
