The United Nations has confirmed Boko Haram’s attack on its aid facilities in northeastern Nigerian town of Dikwa in Borno State. In a statement released on Tuesday March 2 by UN’s humanitarian coordinator in Nigeria, Edward Kallon, it was gathered that the insurgents directly targeted the facilities. Kallon said the premises of several aid agencies and a hospital…
Fulham midfielder, Kevin McDonald has revealed he is putting his career on hold to have a transplant amid a long battle with chronic kidney disease. The Scotland international has been suffering from kidney disease for around 14 years now and has been under doctors’ orders throughout a playing career which has included 500 professional…
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday March 2, declared Zamfara state a no fly-zone. National Security Adviser (NSA), Major General Babagana Monguno (rtd) conveyed the President’s directive while briefing State House correspondents after a meeting of National Security Council at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The NSA who disclosed that the President also approved a ban on…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibadan Zonal Office on Tuesday, March 2, secured the conviction of four internet fraudsters before Justice Mohammed Abubakar of a Federal High Court sitting in Abeokuta, Ogun State. A statement released by the commission gave the names of the suspects as Olawale Ibrahim Damilare, Goodluck Sambo Olatayo, Mathew Anuoluwapo Awoniyi,…
Armed bandits have killed six people in Igabi and Kauru local government areas of Kaduna State. The State Commissioner for Internal Security and Homes Affairs, Samuel Aruwan in a statement issued on Tuesday March 2, said armed bandits barricaded the Birnin Yero-Tami road, Igabi and killed one Hussaini Suleiman Dari. One Dahiru Saidu was left…
Over 100 cultists have renounced their membership of various confraternities in Orimekpang community in Boki Local Government Area of Cross River State. The repentant youths said they were tired of living in bondage and that there is no gain in cultism. The renunciation programme which began on Saturday, February 20, 2021, was held at a church premises and…
The National security adviser (NSA), Babagana Monguno, has said some people are taking advantage of the deteriorating security situation in the country to profit themselves. Monguno disclosed this when he spoke to newsmen after the national security council meeting presided over by President Buhari at the state government house on Tuesday, March 2. …
BBNaija star, Cindy Okafor, has advised women with cheating partners not to believe they can change them. According to her, women with cheating partners should not stress themselves as the men will only change if they wants to. She stated this on her Instastories. See below…
There was a mild drama in a church in Kogi as youths beat up a clergyman for refusing to allow them to perform their tradition. Angry youths numbering about 20 on Monday night, March 1, beat to coma Pastor Michael Samson, the clergy in charge of United Evangelical Church in Iyano community under Ibaji Local Government Area…
Justice Ayokunle Rotimi-Balogun of a High Court sitting Abeokuta, Ogun state has sentenced a 39-year old labourer, Mohammed Ibrahim, to death by hanging for killing a two-year-old baby and also found him guilty of attempting to kill the mother, Rabi Yakubu. The Prosecuting counsel, Oluwabumi Akinola, had told the court that Mohammed committed the offence on April 12, 2014,…
