Soldier arrested with illegal ammunition, grenades hidden in bag of rice

A Lance Corporal, Mubarak Yakubu, has been arrested by the Nigerian Army on Thursday for the illegal possession of ammunition and explosives. He was arrested during a routine search operation by the Military Police K9 Team, at the Borno Express Terminal in Maiduguri, Borno State. A statement by Major Gen Onyema Nwachukwu, Director of Army Public Relations said, “The soldier, Lance Corporal Mubarak Yakubu was found in possession of 756 rounds of 7.62 mm special ammunition and four 36 hand grenades, ingeniously concealed within a small bag of rice”. “This…

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Man gives Yoruba monarch, Ọọni, two months ultimatum to confirm paternity

  The video of a middle-aged man who claimed to be the son of the Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Ogunwusi, has surfaced online. In the video, the man who did not identify himself, claimed the monarch hid him with his mother with an instruction that he should stay discreet. “Oba Enitan Ogunwunsi is my father. He hid me with my mother with a clear instruction that I must not reveal myself,” the man dressed in a white Agbada said in Yoruba. The palace of the monarch has, however, debunked…

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