The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), has expressed sadness over the tragic loss of 22 Kano athletes to a road accident on Saturday. The accident occurred when the Kano athletes and officials who took part in the recently concluded National Sports Festival in Ogun State, were returning home. Their bus plunged off a bridge leading to
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At least two people have been killed and several others abducted after armed bandits launched a fresh attack on Sabon Sarah, a community in Bakura Local Government Area of Zamfara State, early Wednesday morning. The incident was revealed in a post by security analyst Bakatsine on his X handle. According to the post, “Bandits attacked
The Nigerian duo of David Akintola and Ibrahim Olawoyin registered their names among the goal scorers as Caykur Rizezpor defeated Hatayspor 5-2 on Saturday. It was the final league game of the season for both clubs. Akintola scored the game’s curtain raiser in the 42nd minute. The 29-year-old finished the campaign with three goals from
Four herders and nine cows were reportedly killed, in two separate attacks in Bokkos and Bassa LGAs of Plateau State on Tuesday. Five other people also sustained varied degrees of injuries during the attacks. The incidents occurred a few hours after an earlier attack that resulted in the death of seven family members in Kopmur
The Police Command in Akwa Ibom says it has arrested five suspected cultists and recovered firearms in the Ibesikpo Asutan area of the state. DSP Timfon John, the Police Public Relations Officer, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday in Uyo. John said the arrests took place at the cultists’ hideout in Ikot Etuk village
A set of two 330KV transmission towers along the Kainji, Birnin Kebbi line collapsed on Wednesday night following a powerful windstorm at Galadima Village in Shanga Local Government Area of Kebbi State. The incident, which has heightened concerns over the reliability of the region’s power infrastructure, occurred during a heavy storm that damaged properties and
At least 100 people were abducted and several others killed on Tuesday evening when armed bandits attacked Dan Muntari village in Danko-Wasagu Local Government Area of Kebbi State. Among those killed was a woman who had given birth just two weeks earlier, along with her newborn baby. The incident was disclosed on Thursday in a
Kwara State Commissioner for Education and Human Capital Development, Dr. Lawal Olohungbebe, has expressed concern over the delays experienced by students sitting for the ongoing West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) across the state. He blamed the delays on late arrival of examination materials. This was disclosed in a statement released by the press
Three persons were killed, while two others sustained injuries when suspected hoodlums attacked a Fulani settlement in Gaa Fulani near Bankole, Oke-Ode in Ifelodun Local Government Area of Kwara State. Zagazola Makama, a counter insurgency expert and security analyst in the Lake Chad region, made this known in a post on his X account on
The Uyo Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has secured the conviction and sentence of eleven internet fraudsters. The convicts were presented before Justices Maurine Adaobi Onyetenu of the Federal High Court Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Justices Ijeoma Ojukwu and Rosemary Dugbo-Oghoghorie of the Federal High Court sitting in Calabar, Cross