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Bandits moved abducted 333 school boys on bikes —DHQ

Dec 15, 2020 topnews

THE Nigerian Army, gave more insight into the abduction of school children in Kankara Local Government Area of Katsina State. The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations (DMO), Major-General John Enenche, who spoke on Channels television programme, on Monday evening, said the bandits moved the abducted students from their hostels using motorcycles. “They were moved on the motorcycles they (gunmen) brought and after a short distance, some of them continued with the motorcycles, others dismounted. “That is their usual characteristics – those abductors. It is the same system; the same approach they…

My husband is a pastor, yet he sleeps with church members, wife tells court

Dec 14, 2020 topnews

A married woman, 49-year-old evangelist, Mrs. Chinwe Ekwe told an Igando Customary Court on Monday in Lagos that her husband is a womaniser. Chinwe spoke while responding to a divorce suit filed by her husband, Pastor Paul Ekwe, who had accused her of planning to kill him. “My husband is a womaniser, he sleeps with church members. “I care for him both physical and spiritual but he still chose to be flirting around with different women. “He even brought a married woman home as wife and chased me out of…

NCOY: FirstBank powers the Next Generation of Nigerian Innovators and Entrepreneurs

Dec 14, 2020 topnews

What did (the various territories that were later to be amalgamated into) Nigeria look like in 1894? How about a hundred years later in 1994? And what could Nigeria look like in the year 2094? History provides elaborate answers to the first two questions. Answers – accurate or near-accurate answers, that is – to the third, however, will rely entirely on the ability to predict/envision the future and work to invent and create the predicted future. With a continuing shining legacy of nation building – supporting innovative financial, commercial and…

Residents protest missing Katsina students

Dec 14, 2020 topnews

Protests have greeted the streets of Katsina as residents expressed their anger over the kidnapping of hundreds of Government Science Secondary School (GSSS) students in the Kankara Local Government Area of the state. Gunmen, suspected to be terrorists had, on Friday night, attacked the school, shot a policeman in the leg, and took away the students to an unknown destination. The protesters, made up of women and youths, lamented the fate of their children and wards as they called on relevant authorities to rescue them. Some of the protesters, whose…

Idumuje- Ugboko Crisis: IGP Report says Ned Nwoko’s Hands Are Clean

Dec 13, 2020 topnews

The office of the Inspector General of police, IGP,Abuja has absolved a former member of House of Representatives, Prince Ned Nwoko of allegations of intimidation and harrasement of some persons in Idumuje ugboko community in Aniocha North local government area of Delta over a lingering land dispute . This is the outcome of a police investigation, following a petition to the IGP written against Prince Nwoko by some members of the community including one Mr. Chris Aligbe and others, all indigenes of Idumuje Ugboko. The petitioners in a letter dated…

Gabriel Ogbechie Was Arrested, Detained By Police Over Threat To Life Of Ned Nwoko, But Released On Bail -Police Source

Dec 10, 2020 topnews

Contrary to a denial by billionaire owner of Rainoil, Dr Gabriel Ogbechie that he was not arrested and detained by the FCT Police Command over assassination plot against billionaire International Lawyer and politician, Hon. Prince Ned Nwoko, reports indicated that Ogbechie was actually arrested and detained by the police. A police source revealed that Ogbechie was arrested and detained by the police on Friday December 4, but that he was later released on bail to his lawyer, Barrister Ademola since it was a bailable offence. “Why did his lawyer stand…

Desertion: 43 Naval officers on foreign mission abscond

Dec 10, 2020 topnews

The Nigerian Navy has released a circular containing the names and photographs of 43 personnel declared wanted for desertion. The circular was displayed at the Naval Headquarters in Abuja, and it requested the public with useful information that could lead to the arrest of the fleeing officers to report to the nearest Naval facility or Police station. The circular also mandated all Navy personnel with information on the whereabouts of the 43 personnel to arrest them or be dealt with as an accomplice. Although no reason was given for the…

President Buhari to reopen border soon

Dec 9, 2020 topnews

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that border re-opening will be considered soon. The president had ordered the closure on August 2019 to curb commodity and small arms’ smuggling. He said, since neighbouring countries, have now learnt their lessons with the border closure, there is a need to review the decision. But the president, who spoke at a meeting with governors of the 36 states of the federation, which held behind closed doors in the State House, Abuja did not give a definite time on when the land borders will be…

Three policemen drown in Bayelsa

Dec 5, 2020 topnews

Nathaniel Solomon: ‘I saw 4 corpses at Lekki Tollgate’

Dec 5, 2020 topnews

A man who identified himself as Nathaniel Solomon said he saw about four bodies on the ground when he went to pick his brother’s remains at Lekki Tollgate in the aftermath of the shootings by soldiers on October 20. Solomon was one of the complainants at the Lagos State Court of Arbitration and Mediation in Lekki, venue of Lagos State Judicial Panel of Enquiry and Restitution for Victims of SARS-related abuses and other matters. He said his younger brother, Abouta Solomon, was shot dead and had since been buried in…