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Veteran actor, Sadiq Daba is dead

Mar 3, 2021 topnews

Veteran broadcaster and Nollywood actor, Sadiq Daba who was diagnosed with leukaemia and prostate cancer in 2017 is dead. Sadiq Daba reportedly died on Wednesday evening. It will be recalled that after his diagnosis, billionaire businessman, Femi Otedola came to his rescue and paid for his treatments with additional supplies of oxygen, therapies and drugs for a long time, after which he recovered. A senior official of NTA confirmed the death of the veteran broadcaster. Daba had suffered from leukaemia and prostate cancer over a protracted period. Daba became a…

Housewife burns 8 year-old stepdaughter’s private parts in Bauchi

Mar 3, 2021 topnews

‌ A housewife, Aisha Gaide has been arrested by police in Bauchi State for allegedly burning the private parts of her eight-year-old stepdaughter with matches. The command’s Public Relations Officer, Ahmed Wakil, said that the suspect was angry at the little girl and decided to burn her private parts with matches after severe beating. He stated that the suspect was arrested and taken to the State Criminal Investigation Department. Wakil said, “On February 15, 2021, around 6pm, the Secretary to the State Action Committee on Gender Based Violence, Mrs. Talatu…

Woman in police net for robbing pastor at gunpoint

Mar 3, 2021 topnews

A woman named Tolulope Oluwafemi has been arrested alongside a male suspect, Oshilaru Biodun for allegedly robbing Pastor Godwin Ojerinde of God’s Will Praying Ground, Siun in Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State. The two suspects are members of an armed robbery gang of five, that broke into the pastor’s house around 3:15a.m. on February 9, armed with guns and other dangerous weapons. The hoodlums held the pastor and his family hostage, ransacked the house and dispossessed them of one Pathfinder SUV with registration number: WDE-38-MM, one Samsung…

Zamfara governor, ACF clash over kidnap leaders’ identities

Mar 3, 2021Mar 3, 2021 topnews

‌ Bello Matawalle, the Zamfara State Governor, on Tuesday insisted that he would reveal the identities of people behind the abduction of over 300 students of Government Girls’ Secondary School, Jangebe in the Talata Mafara Local Government Area of the state. The governor, who stated this in Gusau, the state capital, however said he would make the revelation after the abducted schoolgirls, who were released earlier on Tuesday, might have been reunited with their families. Responding, the pan-northern socio-political organisation, the Arewa Consultative Forum, berated the governor, saying he should…

27 rifles recovered in Niger by NDLEA officials

Mar 3, 2021 topnews

27 new firearms has been recovered from two suspects during a routine stop-and-search operation in Kontagora area of Niger State by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). The suspects: Danjuma Auta, 35, and Daniel Danrangi, 25, both male and from Dirin Daji, Sakaba Local Government Area of Kebbi State were arrested along Kontagora-Zuru road, Niger on Monday night. According to the Niger Commander of the agency, Mr. Aloye Isaac Oludare, the duo were arrested with 12 locally-fabricated AK-47 rifles and 15 locally-fabricated pistols. The rifles…

Commercial driver arrested with human heads in Ondo

Mar 2, 2021 topnews

Hassan Saka, a commercial driver, has been arrested by men of the Ondo State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency on Monday, with two human heads. The suspect, was reportedly arrested with the two heads hid in a brown carton. The state Commander of the NDLEA, Mr Haruna Gagara, at the state command headquarters in Akure, said, “Saka was arrested by men of the command who were on stop and search duty along the Akure-Owo Expressway.” The suspect, who said he had been plying the Akure- Okene (Kogi…

172 persons arrested at Cubana nightclub fined N6.8m

Mar 2, 2021 topnews

172 persons arrested by the Lagos state police command for violating COVID-19 protocols, have been convicted by a mobile court sitting at the Lagos State Task Force on Environmental and Special Offences Enforcement Unit in Oshodi. The state police command said on Monday that the presiding judge ordered each of the 172 violators to pay a fine of N40,000, and also sentenced them to community service. The state Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, had while parading them at the command headquarters in Ikeja, said the 172 persons were arrested during…

President Buhari says Jangebe school abduction will be the last

Mar 1, 2021 topnews

President Muhammadu Buhari has given assurance to Nigerians that, last Friday’ abduction of female students from Government Girls Science Secondary School, Jangebe, will be the last to happen in the country. The president’s statement was relayed on Sunday, through Minister of Aviation, Sen. Hadi Sirika, who led a high-powered federal government delegation to sympathise with the people and government of Zamfara State. He said new measures had been developed by the federal government which would bring a complete end to all forms of criminality in the nation. “The President is…

Covid-19: Nigeria records 155,417 cases in 1 year

Feb 28, 2021 topnews

Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 341 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infected people in the country to 155,417. The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Saturday. Exactly one year ago, Feb. 27, 2020, Nigeria recorded its COVID-19 index case, believed to be the first in Sub-Saharan Africa. Till date, 155417 cases of the disease have been confirmed, while 133,256 patients have been discharged and 1,905 COVID-19 related deaths recorded in the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). In…

Insecurity: Kano State shut down 10 boarding schools

Feb 27, 2021 topnews

Kano State Government has officially shut down 10 boarding schools in the outskirts of the state to avoid a repeat of the insessant kidnappings of school children going on in the northern parts of the country. The state Commissioner for Education, Muhammad Sunusi Kiru, disclosed this in a short audio message over the radio stations in the state yesterday night. The Education Commissioner said the closure became necessary due to the rising number of abductions of school children in neighbouring states. The closed schools are situated at Ajingi, Sumaila, Jogana,…