Gunmen on Sunday kidnapped a Catholic priest of Christ the King Parish of the Okigwe Catholic Diocese, Rev. Father Jude Maduka. The incident happened in Okigwe Local Government Area of Imo State. Residents and parishioners in the area gave conflicting accounts of has the incident happened. Some residents and parishioners said he was kidnapped while hurrying to celebrate Sunday mass, …

A road accident that occurred along Ife-Ibadan express road in Osun State at the weekend has claimed 12 lives. According to the spokesperson of the state’s Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Kehinde Adeleke, the accident left eight other persons injured. A witness reported that the accident which involved two commercial buses and a truck, occurred on Sasa Bridge …

An Ondo State Magistrate Court sitting in Akure, the state capital, has ordered the remand of a 14-year-old boy, Marvelous Asefon for allegedly killing his neighbour, Sunday Ogele. It was gathered that the defendant was arrested by the men of the State Police Command for stabbing the deceased to death with a pair of scissors during a scuffle over a …

The Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) has secured the conviction of 2 fraudsters, Aso Morrison and Frank Biobarakuma. The suspects were first arraigned sometime in March 2013, before Justice B. Georgewill of Rivers State High Court on a 17-count charge of conspiracy, forgery, and obtaining by false pretence. They were convicted and sentenced to seven years imprisonment each this month. …

Gunmen have reportedly kidnapped some National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members in Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State. The victims were said to be on their way back from the recent orientation camping exercise in Ondo State. They were abducted around 9 pm., Tuesday, on their way to Port Harcourt. The incident was confirmed by a witness, who called …

Three men, Onibonoje Timileyin, Bello Tumise, and Ahmed Olasunkanmi were on Thursday arraigned before an Ado-Ekiti magistrates’ court over alleged forgery. The police prosecutor, Inspector Olumide Bamigbade told the court that the defendants committed the offence on the 11th May at Federal Polytechnic Satellite Campus in Ado-Ekiti. Bamigbade alleged that the defendants conspired among themselves and forged the identity card …

President Muhammadu Buhari has inaugurated Kashimbila Multipurpose Dam, 40MW Hydropower Station and Associated 132KV Switchyard, Transmission Line, and Distribution Substation (Phase I) Project, at Kashimbila Dam site in Taraba State. A statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina said that President Buhari performed the inauguration in a virtual ceremony in Abuja. The President underscored the importance …

Akwa Ibom State Commissíoner of Police, Olatoye Durosinmi has directed the deployment of additional tactical assets to the Amazamba community and Ikot Akpan Udo community in Eastern Obolo and Ikot Abasi Local Government Areas, following a recent violent crisis in the area. Durosinmi gave the directive after he visited the scenes and stakeholders of the affected communities, yesterday. In a …

The ECOWAS Community Court of Justice in Abuja will on 19th May hear the suit filed by the Media Rights Agenda (MRA) seeking to compel the Federal Government to investigate the killing of 11 journalists which occurred between 1998 and 2019. In a statement made available to newsmen, MRA lamented that no one was ever charged or prosecuted for any …

A speeding truck belonging to the Dangote Cement factory in Ogun State, on Tuesday night, crushed a policeman to death and injured five others. The crash occurred around Saiten Petrol Station, along the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway in the Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area of the state, according to the state command of the Federal Road Safety Corps. In a statement, the spokesperson …