Tears As Residents Kill 2 Mistaken For Armed Robbers A mob in Edo has reportedly killed two artisans mistaken for armed robbers in Amagba community in Benin City. Sources informed NAN on Monday that the victims, who were said to be welders, were identified as Osamudiamen Ehigie and Nosa Aghimie. The duo were said to be returning from a project site in the community at about 6 pm on November 16 when they ran into gunmen who were robbing some residents. A source told NAN that the suspected robbers who saw the artisans gave them a hot chase and in…
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Ahead Of Inauguration Jack Smith Moves To Drop Criminal Charges Against Donald Trump As president-elect, Donald Trump, is set to assume office, the United States special counsel for the Department of Justice, Jack Smith, is set to dismiss all four felony charges against him. “The Government’s position on the merits of the defendant’s prosecution has not changed. But the circumstances have,” Smith’s office wrote, adding that the decision aligns with the Justice Department’s position that a sitting president cannot be charged. The charges were linked to Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election and the January 6 attack on the…
JUST IN: Top Prison Officials Kidnapped A Deputy Superintendent of Corrections, Innocent Ogbu, and 15 others have been reported abducted while travelling to Enugu for a development course. Ogbu, the unit commander of the Armed Squad at the Medium-Security Custodial Centre in Minna, Niger State, was abducted along the Lokoja-Enugu road on Saturday, November 23, 2024. Confirming the incident, the command’s public relations officer, Rabiu Mohammed, said the unit commander was taken along with 15 other commuters who were travelling in an 18-seater commercial bus. The incident has been reported to the police and DSS, Mohammed added.
Crisis Looms As Reps Plot To Remove Deputy Minority Leader At least 15 out of 18 members of the House of Representatives elected on the platform of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) have passed a vote of no confidence on Ali Madaki, the member representing Dala Federal Constituency. They have also endorsed his removal as the Deputy Minority Leader of the House. Madaki, who represents Dala Federal Constituency, recently distanced himself from the Kwankwasiyya movement, a faction closely associated with NNPP’s presidential candidate in the 2023 elections, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso. Instead he pledged loyalty to the party’s founding father,…
Domestic Violence: Angry Man Kill Wife An Ikeja High Court on Monday sentenced one Akinwale Akinlabi to 12 years imprisonment for killing his wife, Tope, who died on February 2, 2020, due to sustained injury. Akinlabi was charged with inflicting bodily injury on his wife which resulted in her death. He, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge of manslaughter preferred against him by the Lagos State Government. While delivering judgment on Monday, Justice Oyindamola Ogala, held that the prosecution sufficiently proved the charge of manslaughter against Akinlabi. She held that the prosecution provided circumstantial evidence beyond every reasonable doubt,…
Show Evidences Of ‘100 Senators’ Attendance At Night Of Tributes As Well As Contributions To Burial; Family Of Late Senator Ifeanyi Ubah Challenges Senate The family of late Senator Ifeanyi Ubah has again challenged the Nigerian Senate, asking its spokesman, Senator Yemi Adaramodu to provide evidences to contradict media report that the Nigeria’s upper legislature chamber snubbed and abandoned the family during the burial of their late colleague. It was reported on Saturday that the Senator Godswill Akpabio-led leadership of Nigerian Senate appeared to have abandoned the family of the late senator who represented Anambra South Senatorial District as the…
Fresh Trouble Looms, Protest Rocks PDP Secretariat Over Ousted Chairman There was mild drama today, Monday, at the secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Cross River State, as members carried placards protesting alleged plan to reinstate the ousted state chairman of the party. There’re still Nigerians with integrity — Femi, who returned N21m worth of crypto coins to owner0:00 / 0:00 The protest, Vanguard learned, was carried out by the wards and local governments chapters of the PDP across the state. Armed with placard of various inscriptions, the protesters threatened to leave the party should the removed chairman,…
Many Feared Killed As Russia Launches Fresh Missile Attack Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskky, has said that 19 people have so far been confirmed dead in the fresh dozens of missile and drone attacks launched by Russian forces. President Zelenskky in a statement on Monday said that the occupiers in the continued attack on regions across Ukraine launched a missile strike in Kharkiv and dozens of strike drones on Zaporizhzhia. The President, who said that a rescue operation is currently underway in Kharkiv, said, “So far, we know of 19 casualties. Dozens of strike drones attacked Zaporizhzhia, injuring a child.” He…
Driver Escapes Death As Heavy Container Falls On Car A man narrowly escaped death on Monday morning in Mile 2, Lagos State, after a heavy 40-foot loaded container reportedly fell on his car. It was gathered that the incident occurred when the tanker, loaded with goods, lost control and toppled onto the vehicle. A video obtained Ibom Focus shows the miraculous moment when the man was pulled from the wreckage by a group of good Samaritans. Eyewitnesses described the scene as chaotic, with the driver of the Toyota Camry, registration number LSR 293 HJ trapped under the container. However, he…
Soldier Caught Stealing Mobile Phone ‘Few Days To Decoration With New Rank’ Dismissed The Nigerian Army has dismissed a soldier for stealing his colleague’s phone. According to a source, the Lance Corporal, Kenewenimo Lokoja (12NA/67/3446) was dismissed last week. He was said to have stolen a phone of one of his colleagues while on a course sponsored by the army authorities. The source added that Kenewenimo was recently promoted to a new rank of Corporal and was expected to be decorated officially few days before his dismissal. “He was dismissed a day before his decoration as a Corporal for stealing…