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By Safiu Kehinde Suspects being tried over the October 30, 2023 attacks on the House of Assembly in Rivers state will know their fate on Monday. The suspects are believed to be loyalists of Governor Sim Fubara and working with his current Chief of Staff, Edison Ehie. Justice Bolaji Olajuwon of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Friday, fixed February 5 for ruling on bail applications filed by five suspected persons accused of burning down part of the Rivers House of Assembly on Dec. 29, 2023. The Judge fixed the date after lawyers to the prosecution and that of the defence adopted their processes…
By Halimah Olamide The United States and Nigeria have sought ways to put in place a partnership that will adequate security for Nigeria’s mining sites. The partnership is to ensure that security agencies are trained to be able to secure the sites as part of the overall objectives of improving Nigeria’s revenues accruable from solid minerals. The Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dr Dele Alake announced the partnership in a statement by his Special Assistant on Media, Mr Segun Tomori on Friday in Abuja. David J . Greene, the Chargé d’Affaires of the United States’ Mission in Nigeria, had visited Alake in his…
By Halimah Olamide A police inspector has been killed while another officer was injured in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi state capital on Friday. NPO Reports that the armed men had attacked Police personnel on patrol along Ngbo-Effium road in Ohaukwu local government area of Ebonyi. The attackers were said to have operated using an Ash-coloured Toyota Sienna without registration number. DSP Joshua Ukandu, Ag. Police Public Relation Officer (PPRO), Ebonyi Command told journalists in Abakaliki on Friday that Ukandu said the operatives engaged the hoodlums in gun duel which resulted in one of the policemen fatally wounded while one currently receiving medical treatment at…
The Police Command in Kwara on Thursday in Ilorin confirmed the killing of a traditional ruler in the state, Oba Peter Aremu, the Onikoro of Koro-Ekiti in the Ekiti Local Government Area. CSP Ejire Adeyemi-Tohun, the Public Relations Officer (PRO) for the state Police Command, confirmed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) late Thursday in llorin. She added that the king’s assailants also kidnapped his wife. “The gunmen invaded the residence of the traditional ruler in the evening and killed him and went away with his wife,” the Police PRO said. The Police spokesperson said…
By Halimah Olamide Amidst worsening insecurity, the Police Command in Kaduna State said on Thursday that its operatives arrested eight persons suspected to be highway robbers on the Kaduna-Abuja expressway. Its Public Relations Officer, Mr Mansir Hassan, in a statement in Kaduna, said that operatives from Tollgate Divisional Headquarters, while on patrol along Kaduna-Abuja expressway on Jan. 27, arrested seven suspects “while gearing up to operate”. “The patrol team, at about 1100 hours, sighted and intercepted a suspicious vehicle with seven passengers who were met changing their clothing to seemingly operational ones. “When accosted, they could not offer a plausible explanation,…
Global cancer cases are expected to rise around 77 per cent by the middle of the century, UN health authorities said on Thursday. According to latest figures from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a specialised branch of the UN World Health Organisation (WHO), there are predicted to be more than 35 million cancer cases during 2050, up from the estimated 20 million in 2022. The increase reflects both population ageing and growth, as well as changes to people’s exposure to risk factors which include tobacco, alcohol and obesity are key factors, along with air population. Richer countries…
Seven workers seized at a Proctor & Gamble (P&G) plant outside the Turkish city of Istanbul were rescued after a nine-hour ordeal, officials say. Police in Gebza moved in after the suspect, who was apparently protesting at the war in Gaza, went to the toilet. Local governor Seddar Yavuz said the hostages had suffered no injuries. Images online showed the suspect, his face hidden by a Palestinian scarf, wearing what appeared to be an explosives vest and carrying a gun. He was detained unharmed after the “meticulous” rescue operation, Mr Yavuz added. The hostage-taker entered the plant at about 15:00…
A huge gas blast in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, has killed at least two people and injured at least 222. A lorry carrying gas exploded in Embakasi district around 23:30 (20:30 GMT), “igniting a huge ball of fire”, a government spokesperson said. Housing, businesses and cars were damaged with video showing a huge blaze raging close to blocks of flats. Earlier, the government had said the blast happened at a gas plant. The cause is still being established. Mr Mwaura said the fireball from the blast had “spread widely”, and a flying gas cylinder had hit a garments and textiles…
By Kamil Opeyemi Days after the gruesome killing of two monarchs in Ekiti state, another traditional ruler has been shot dead in Koro Ekiti. Koro Ekiti is in Kwara State one of the communities boundary of Ekiti state. The gunmen had reportedly killed Oba Peter Aremu and took his wife away in the ensuing shootout. kiti Local Government Area of Kwara State, kill Oba Peter Aremu, and kidnap. the state Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq who confirmed the attack late Thursday in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Rafiu Ajakaye, condemned the killing of the monarch. The statement read, “The monarch…
A female soldier named Ruth Ogunleye recently spoke out about sexual harassment in the military in a video that went viral, after which Uju Kennedy Ohanenye, the minister of women’s affairs in Nigeria, reportedly visited the rehabilitation centre where Ruth was receiving treatment. In a post on her X (formerly Twitter) handle on Thursday, Ohanenye said, “Aside from the noticeable improvement from my last visit to her, she was in high spirits and we interacted cordially.” She added that her ministry had deployed a “desk officer to monitor her recovery in keeping with our mandate to promote the welfare and well-being of Nigerian women”. Meanwhile,…