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The Academic Staff Union of Secondary Schools in Taraba has directed its members to withdraw their service in the state. This followed the murder of a teacher serving at the Model Government Day Secondary School in Jalingo by former students of the college. The teacher, Bassey Sardauna, was stabbed to death by the students while heading home after the close …

Police operatives in Bauchi on Tuesday killed five suspected kidnappers terrorizing residents of Jama’are local government area of the state. The state’s Commissioner of Police, Awwal Musa Muhammad, who confirmed the news to journalists at media briefing at the command headquarters in Bauchi on Thursday. He said: “A combined team of operatives in conjunction with a quasi-security outfit encountered suspected …

The Federal High Court has sent six persons to jail for defrauding a former Speaker of the Osun State House of Assembly, Timothy Owoeye, the sum of N38 million and publishing his nude video on the internet. Justice Emmanuel Ayoola handed down the sentence on Tuesday in Osogbo after finding the convicts guilty of conspiracy, advance fee fraud and cyber …

Olaniran Lateef, a secondary school teacher, has been taken into custody on charges of raping two girls in the Ogun State capital, Abeokuta. The suspect, according to a statement released on Wednesday by Motunrayo Adeleye, the state’s commissioner for women’s affairs, is a 43-year-old maths teacher at Ebenezer Grammar School in the state’s Iberekodo region. According to Adeleye, a report …

Operatives of the Nigeria Customs Service attached to the Port Harcourt 2 Area Command have intercepted containers with some arms and ammunition at the Onne Port in the Rivers State capital. The Customs Controller in the area, Baba Imam, who conducted journalists around the seized container on Wednesday, said arms were hidden inside a vehicle shipped into the country from …

A 43 years old man, Muhammadu Murtala of Damaiwa village in Zaki LGA of Bauchi State has lost his life as his move to get a bullet proof charm went soar when the bullet fired at him penetrated his body. A crime bulletin from the Bauchi State Police Command contained that on 31/10/2023 at about 0830hrs, information was received from …

The Nigerian Navy has arrested six suspected fraudsters posing as its personnel in Lagos State. The Commander of NNS BEECROFT, Commodore Kolawole Oguntuga confirmed the development to journalists on Friday in Lagos. He said the NNS BEECROFT’s patrol team arrested the suspects in a raid in the Ajah area of the state. The commander added that two Toyota Hilux vehicles, …

The Federal Government on Tuesday evacuated another batch of 161 Nigerian migrants stranded in Libya. The Chargé D’Affaires En Titre of the Nigerian Mission in Libya, Amb. Kabiru Musa, who disclosed this in a statement in Abuja, said the exercise was carried out in collaboration with the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). He added that the exercise was to ensure …

At least four persons were confirmed dead in a boat accident in Awe local government area of Nasarawa State on Monday night. The spokesman for the state police command, Ramhan Nansel, who confirmed the incident in a statement on Tuesday in Lafia, said the boat conveying Rice Farmers from Ubbe District in the Nasarawa Eggon LGA was crossing a river …

The Oodua People’s Congress (OPC) has lamented the death of the Nigerian Rapper Mohbad who died recently at the age of 27, saying, if he had opened up to the group about his travails, he would have been kept safe from his attackers. In a message of sympathy to Mohbad’s immediate family, management team and fans,.OPC President, Otunba Wasiu Afolabi, …