JUST IN: Watch: Herbert Wigwe, Wife, Son’s Corpses Arrive Nigeria The remains of the late Chief Executive Officer of Access Bank, Herbert Wigwe, as well as those of his wife and son, have arrived Nigeria. The corpses of the Wigwes arrived the Port Harcourt International Airport from United States, US, on Friday. The funeral of the trio will hold on Saturday at Isiokpo, his hometown, in Ikwerre LGA of Rivers State. Wigwe, alongside his wife, son, and Abimbola Ogunbanjo, the former group chairman of Nigerian Exchange Group Plc (NGX Group), died in a helicopter crash at the border of Nevada…
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Scarcity Of Husbands Looms Over Killings, Says Nigerian Government The Anambra Truth, Justice and Peace Commission (ATJPC) noted that restiveness and killings had resulted in a structural problem of demographic sustainability with women now finding it difficult to find mating partners. The Commission said this in the Executive Summary released to journalists on Friday in Awka. The report stated that women were some of the worst hit victims as they had suffered and might continue to suffer from killings, rape, loss of husbands, and loss of sons and denial of livelihoods. It noted also that thousands of young people had…
BREAKING: Heavy Gunshots As Knife-Wielding Man Attacks Nigerian Prison There were gunshots in Oke-Kura area of Ilọrin, Kwara State capital, on Friday, when a yet-to-be identified man attacked a staff member of the Nigerian Correctional Services (NCS). The incident, it was gathered, which occurred around past 8:00 am, caused panic and anxiety as residents scampered for safety. Daily Trust reliably gathered that the man, believed to be mentally unstable, was coming from Ode Sarumi heading for Oja-Oba when he attacked a prison official simply identified as Kenny with a knife. The victim was left with several deep cuts on his…
International Women’s Day: Single Mothers Jubilating About 1,000 young single mothers have been empowered with vocational skills in the Ibeju-Lekki local government area of Lagos State. The women, who have no male support in their households, were provided with relevant skills, resources and support to enhance their economic independence and self-sufficiency by a civil society organisation, Oladele Fajemirokun Foundation. Kene Egbue, the Foundation’s Program Manager, who announced the initiative in a statement released to mark the 2024 International Women’s Day, explained that the vocational skills acquisition program was an expansion of the organisation’s Sustainable Malnutrition Intervention Program (SMALINT) for malnourished…
JUST IN: Happening Now, Benue On Fire As Gunmen Kill Many Residents In Fresh Attack Gunmen suspected to be bandits on Thursday invaded some communities in Gwer East Local Government Area of Benue State and killed 16 people. This is coming barely 24 hours after rival militia groups unleashed terror on the Gbagir community in Ukum LG of the state leading to the death of no fewer than 40 people. The latest attack, according to a source, happened on Thursday as the bandits embarked on a killing spree as they ransacked about 11 communities. Sources revealed that the state deputy…
BREAKING: Nigeria Set To Join Russia, China In BRICS The President Bola Tinubu-led government is working towards submitting an application for Nigeria to join international organisation, BRICS. This was made known in a post shared via X (formerly Twitter) on Friday by the international union. Nigeria will apply to join BRICS in 2024. pic.twitter.com/LaadG8Fuae “Nigeria will apply to join BRICS in 2024,” the union wrote. BRICS countries include major world powers, such as China and Russia, and countries which are influential on their continent, such as South Africa and Brazil. The expanded group has a combined population of about 3.5…
Peter Obi Lands In Trouble Over New Private Jet Information reaching Ibom Focus says that Fresh Crisis Looms As Peter Obi Sets To Buy Private Jet Abayomi Arabambi, the National Publicity Secretary of the Lamidi Apapa-led faction of the Labour Party (LP), has alleged that the party’s presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections, Peter Obi is planning to buy a private jet after condemning other Nigerian leaders for flying same aircraft. Arabambi, who made the allegation in an interview with the Arise News TV, also accused Obi of joining forces with the embattled National Chairman of the party, Julius…
Armed Robbers Arrested For Invasion, Theft Of 25 Phones, Others From Student Hostels The police in Niger State say they have arrested two armed robbery suspects, including one of the robbers who invaded two hostels in Gidan-Kwano, and robbed some students of over 25 handsets, a laptop, and power banks. A statement by the command’s spokesperson, DSP Wasiu Abiodun, on Friday, gave the names of the suspects as Adamu Saidu, 30 and Idris Bala, 30, adding they were from the Masaka area of Nasarawa State. Abiodun said that the suspects were re-arrested on February 29, 2024, at about 1040hrs, by…
JUST IN: 80-year-old Man Commits Suicide An 80-year-old man, Isiyaka Ayinde, has reportedly committed suicide at the Watch Tower in the Araromi Imota area of Lagos State. It wss gathered that the incident occurred at about 7:30 p.m. on Thursday. A police source told our correspondent that, according to a tenant in the compound, the deceased hung himself with a rope in the kitchen. “He heard his children shouting that he should come and see Baba in the kitchen. When he ran into the kitchen, he saw the lifeless body of the tenant hanging on a rope that was tied…
Tinubu Talks Tough Over Kaduna, Borno Abductions, Says It’s Unacceptable If Schoolchildren, IDPs Are Not Rescued, Reveals Next Action President Bola Tinubu on Friday condemned abductions in the internally displaced persons camp in Borno and Kaduna school, saying it is unacceptable for the victims not to be rescued. “I have received briefings from security chiefs on the two incidents in Borno and Kaduna, and I am confident that the victims will be rescued,” Mr Tinubu said in a tweet on Friday, 24 hours after over 250 Kaduna schoolchildren were abducted. “Nothing else is acceptable to me and the waiting family…