Metro

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, …

Gunmen suspected to be cultists reportedly killed 10 people at the Ukoosaa-Atam community, Ukum local government area of Benue State on Monday. The incident followed last Friday’s killing of 15 people during a supremacy battle between two rival cult groups in Ukum LGA. Residents of the community told journalists on Tuesday that the latest attack was a reprisal by one …

Gunmen suspected to be militia on Thursday, reportedly killed three farmers in a renewed attack in Panyam community of Mangu local government area of Plateau State. The farmers were said to have been attacked and killed by the suspected herdsmen while working on their farms in the community, barely a week after a Fulani comunity leader, Mohammed Gabdo, was allegedly …

Spokesman for the Federal Capital Territory Fire Service, Ibrahim Tauheed has confirmed that no casualty was recorded following a fire outbreak at the headquarters of South Korean electronics giant, Samsung, located in the Wuse 2 area, Abuja. In a statement on Tuesday, Tauheed said the inferno that gutted the two-storey complex on Monday night was as a result of careless …

At least three persons died and five others were injured in an auto crash along the Osogbo-Ilobu highway of Osun State on Thursday morning. The Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in the state, Mr. Henry Benamasia, confirmed the accident in a statement issued by the command’s spokesperson, Mrs. Agnes Ogungbemi, in Osogbo. He said a white …

Police operatives in Edo State have arrested a 24-year-old student of the University of Port Harcourt for allegedly stabbing his girlfriend to death. The state’s Commissioner of Police, Mr. Muhammed Dankwara, told journalists on Tuesday in Benin that the suspect’s landlord reported the case to the police. He said the landlord informed the police that the suspect stabbed the lady …