FULL LIST: Tinubu Approves Immediate Upgrade Of 16 Hospitals Across Nigeria President Bola Tinubu has approved the immediate upgrade of key health infrastructure and equipment across all six geo-political zones in line with his administration’s vision of overhauling the health and social welfare sector for enhanced service delivery to all Nigerians. Upgrading health infrastructure and equipment is a top priority of President Tinubu’s Health Sector Renewal Investment Initiative. To advance this landmark effort, the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare in collaboration with the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA) will carry out the comprehensive upgradation of cancer-treatment infrastructure and…
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BREAKING: Less Than 48hrs After Wike’s Placed N20m Bounty, Wanted Kidnap Kingpin Arrested A wanted kidnap kingpin, Dahiru Adamu, has been arrested, two days after the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Nyesom Wike placed a bounty of N20 million on him and his counterpart, Abu Ibrahim. On Wednesday, Wike placed the bounty on the suspected terrorists, allegedly responsible for attacking and kidnapping two defence staff at an Army Estate in Abuja and kidnappings across the capital city. Adamu, whose real name is Saudi Abdulkadir was arrested on Thursday, by the FCT Police Command attached to the Anti-kidnapping unit…
Nigerian Security Forces Intercept Weapons Smuggled From Libya To Boko Haram In a major intelligence operation over the weekend, Nigerian security forces intercepted a significant shipment of weapons destined for Bakura, a Boko Haram factional leader in the Lake Chad region. According to counter insurgency expert, Zagazola Makama, citing a report by @PhantomEyeHub, on Friday, the successful operation, carried out in northern part of Nguigmi, near the Niger and Chad border, prevented a potentially deadly influx of weaponry into the hands of the terrorists. The seized weapons include 6 AK-47 assault rifles, 11 magazines, and 50 rounds of ammunition. Expert…
Kidnappers Demand N100m Ransom, Police Demand N50,000 Bribe From Kidnap Victim’s Family The family of a man kidnapped in Abuja has alleged that the police demanded a bribe of N50,000 to trace the victim over whom the kidnappers have also demanded a N100 million ransom. Alfred Ahọn was kidnapped on the morning of 1 February in the Mpape district of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) after he set out from home on a journey to Lagos. His wife, Senami, and one of their neighbours, who requested to be anonymous because of fear of intimidation, said the Divisional Crime Officer (DCO)…
BREAKING: Many Causalities As Terrorists Storms Mosque Gunmen suspected to be bandits have invaded a mosque in Kankara local government area of Katsina State on Thursday, killing three persons and kidnapping several others. A credible source in the area revealed that the bandits raided the mosque and opened fire on the Muslim faithful during the Isha’i evening prayer session, leaving three persons dead, four others wounded and unconfirmed number of worshippers abducted. He further explained that the hoodlums also moved into the town where they abducted a man and two women and also killed a man who refused to go…
BREAKING: Fear Grips Traders As FG Seals Off Top Abuja Store As Crackdown On Hoarding, Price Fixing Begins Twenty-four hours after President Bola Tinubu unveiled plans to tackle factors responsible for food crisis, the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC), sealed Sahad Store, a popular supermarket in the Garki area of Abuja. The management of the supermarket was accused of shortchanging customers by charging prices other than the price tag at the shelves. The enforcement was led by FCCPC Acting Executive Vice Chairman, Adamu Ahmed Abdullahi. Briefing journalists on the sidelines of the event, Abdullahi said the commission’s preliminary…
Man Knocked Down By Car While Escaping With Stolen Foodstuffs In Abuja A 36-year-old man, simply identified as Jamilu, was on Tuesday knocked down by a car while attempting to escape with a woman’s foodstuffs at the Kwali market in Kwali Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory. Witnesses said the incident happened around 11am when the suspect pretended to assist the woman to carry her foodstuffs from the market to board a vehicle by the road side. The woman, Mrs Patience Raphael, had barely finished buying food items which comprised of rice, beans, garri, yam, among others which she…
Man In Trouble For Stealing N3,000 From Ashaw0 A 28-year-old man, Sikuru Morufu, was on Thursday arraigned before a Mapo magistrates’ court in Ibadan, Oyo State, for allegedly stealing N3,000 from a commercial s3x worker. The Magistrate, Mrs O O Latunji, admitted the defendant to bail in the sum of N100,000 with two sureties in like sum after the defendant pleaded not guilty and adjourned the case to February 26. Earlier, the prosecution counsel, Insp Salewa Ahmed, informed the court that the defendant on January 19, in the Idi-Aro area of Ibadan, was apprehended after a commercial s3x worker, Miss…
Suspected Ritualists Arrested With Human Parts Ritualist used to illustrate the story The police command in Ogun on Thursday arrested a seven-man gang that specialised in trading in human parts for rituals. Police commissioner Abiodun Olamutu said a human heart and two kegs filled with human bodies were parts of exhibits recovered from the suspects. The men arrested included Moses Abidemi, Oluwo Monday, Peter Akiwunmi Ifatosin, Jamiu Yusuf, Sheriff Agbai and Osojieahen Alioneitoura, Alamutu said. Mr Alamutu said the divisional police office, Onipanu, received a report of a missing lady, Ms Sulaiimon Adijat, on January 9, who was invited out…
Man Kills Neighbour Over Goat The Ogun State Police Command has arrested and put in protective custody one Kolawole Akinsanya for allegedly conspiring with hoodlums to beat his neighbour, Lukmon Ajibola, to death at Ilepa in the Ifo Local Government Area of the state. We learnt that the incident happened on Monday, February 5, around 8pm. A resident of the community who spoke to our correspondent on the condition of anonymity said that a goat belonging to the deceased strayed into the compound of Akinsanya and ate his dried yam. This was said to have infuriated Akinsanya who allegedly killed…