Category: metro
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Police ‘rescue’ 21 pupils abducted in Zamfara
The Zamfara police command says it rescued 21 Islamiyya school children abducted by bandits along the Gusau-Tsafe-Funtuwa road on Friday. Mohammed Shehu, spokesperson of the command, disclosed this in a statement on Saturday. Shehu said the victims were rescued by security operatives after a gun duel with the bandits. According to him, the Islamiyya school…
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How NAF Airstrikes Killed Zamfara Bandits’ Leaders, Others
Early morning airstrikes by personnel of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Saturday morning claimed the lives of two kingpins and about a dozen other bandits operating around Birnin Magaji Local Government Area of Zamfara State. Daily Trust on Sunday gathered that a notorious bandit, Alhaji Auta, was killed when a military jet dropped a bomb on…
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Siblings drown in Kwara river on New Year’s eve
Firemen from the Kwara State Fire Service have recovered corpses of two children of the same parents from Asa River in Ilorin, the state capital. The children, Damilare (12) and Kamaldeen (14), were said to have drowned in the river in the evening of Friday. The service said that it evacuated the corpses from Asa…
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Mbaka: My persecutors planned to drug, undress, film me among prostitutes
Fiery Catholic priest and founder of Adoration Ministry Enugu, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka has said that his sudden disappearance some time in 2021 was meant to hack him to death by those he said were persecuting him. The cleric also said that the plan was to take and drug him, undress him before prostitutes and…
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Police kill 38 bandits, lose 5 officers in Katsina – Arrest 152 robbers ,999 suspects
Speaking at a press conference, the Commissioner of Police, Sanusi Buba who was represented by the Command’s Police Public Relations Officer, Gambo Isah, said despite the challenges,) of the period, the Command has recorded tremendous successes against the menace of banditry, kidnapping, armed robbery and other forms of crime and criminality in the state. He…
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BREAKING: 3-Storey building on fire in Surulere, Lagos
A three-storey building has gone up in flames on New year’s day after suspected electrical appliances exploded shortly after power supply was restored to the building. As of the time of filing this report, there were no casualties figures reported yet but property worth millions of naira have been lost to the sudden inferno. The…
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Alhaji Auta, Zamfara Banditry Kingpin, Bombed To Death
A notorious bandit operating in Birnin Magaji area of Zamfara State, Alhaji Auta, has been killed in an air strike by the Nigerian Air Force (NAF). Many of his gang members were also eliminated during the operation around his camp located at Jama’are Bayan Dutchi, in Nasarawa Mailayi District of Zamfara, on Saturday. Multiple sources…
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Teenage artistes stab Lagos RCCG pastor to death during robbery
The Lagos State Police Command has arrested two minors, who claimed to be up-and-coming artistes, for allegedly stabbing a Redeemed Christian Church of God’s pastor, Babatunde Dada, to death. The suspects, Farouk, 15, and Jamiu, 17, were paraded on Friday by the state Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu. The minors were said to have attempted…
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Wife, Daughters Of Lecturer Abducted In Fresh Zamfara Attack
Gunmen stormed Mareri area of Gusau, capital of Zamfara State, on Friday, and kidnapped the wife and two daughters of a lecturer at the Federal College of Education (Technical). They were also said to have carted away property from the residence of the lecturer identified as Dr Abdulrazak Muazu. It is unclear if Muazu was…