Drama As Kidnapper Arrested While Hiding In Girlfriend’s Ceiling Police in Cross River on Sunday arrested a fleeing suspect in Saturday’s abduction of a former INEC employee. The suspect was hiding in the ceiling of his girlfriend’s house in Calabar when he was arrested. He has confessed that the victim’s tenant initiated the abduction. Police spokesperson, SP Irene Ugbo, confirmed the arrest of the fourth suspect in the abduction of Mrs Caroline Bassey, who the police rescued hours after the abduction. Police earlier arrested three suspects involved in the crime on Saturday, but the one arrested in the ceiling fled.…
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Woman Slumps, Dies During Prayer Session At Mountain Of Fire Church A female congregant identified as Bisi Adewumi reportedly slumped during a prayer session at the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries auditorium in the Ibafo area of Ogun State. The woman said to be 75-year-old died while receiving treatment at a government hospital in Sagamu, Ogun State police command said. According to PUNCH Metro, the police said the incident was reported on Friday to its Ibafo division by the church’s Head of Security, Pastor Ekikere Esiere, attached to the prayer city. The church’s famous prayer city is located along…
You Has No Right To Complain Over Tinubu’s Appointments – NYLF Blasts Northerners The Northern Youth Leaders Forum (NYLF) says the northerners have no right to complain about President Bola Tinubu’s ‘lopsided’ appointments. Some leaders from the region had accused Tinubu of skewed appointments in favour of the South West, the region he (Tinubu) hails from. An Islamic cleric, Ahmad Gumi, had during one of his sermons recently, attacked Tinubu for appointing Southern Christians into key positions, saying the President would not get a second term in office. The cleric also accused the President of using the North to get…
BREAKING: Massive Sacks, Resignations Set To Hit Tinubu’s Government Daniel Bwala, a lawyer and aide to People’s Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate in the 2023 general election, Atiku Abubakar, says only three ministers may remain in office by January 2023 if President Bola Tinubu keeps to his words of measuring performance of his appointees. The Borno State-born Bwala, in a post on his verified X handle on Friday night, also said that the performance bond signed by the ministers would serve as resignation letter for some of them. He said : “I have carefully followed the @officialABAT retreat for ministers…
US Government Sends Strong Warning To Citizens To Avoid The Following Hotels In Nigeria The United States Embassy and Consulate in Nigeria has issued a security warning asking its citizens in Nigeria to avoid hotels in major cities in the country over what it described as an elevated threat of security. The US issued the warning in an emergency information for American citizens dated November 3 where it warned US citizens in Nigeria to be vigilant at major hotels in larger cities and their surroundings. The security alert also asked US citizens in Nigeria to keep a low profile and…
Nigerian Police Deploy Wike’s Ex-Chief Security Officer, Other Loyalists To Head Tactical Units In Rivers Amid Governor Fubara’s Impeachment Plot The Nigeria Police Force has deployed Promise Wosu, a former Chief Security Officer to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike as the new commander of Special Protection Unit tagged Base 6 in Rivers State, according to signals. It was gathered that Nwosu was deployed to head the special unit days after he was sacked as the CSO to the current Rivers Governor, Siminalayi Fubara. His sack may not be unconnected with the move by some members…
Poverty Not A Shameful, Bad Things – Tinubu Tells Nigerians Amid Biting Hardship President Bola Tinubu has stated that poverty is not shameful but “unacceptable” while speaking against the background of the rising inflation, increasing cost of living, acute hunger, and rising level of poverty and hardship in Nigeria. Tinubu who said this at the closing ceremony of a three-day cabinet retreat which took place in the State House Conference Centre, Abuja, said that a check of everyone’s history would show that there is a trace of poverty in it. The President therefore tasked members of his cabinet and other…
BREAKING: Jet Conveying Tinubu’s Minister, His Entourage Crashes A private aircraft, with registration number 5N-AMM, conveying the Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu and his entourage, has crash-landed in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. It was learnt that the incident occurred on Friday evening, while the three cabin crews and the seven passengers were all rescued from the damaged aircraft. A preliminary report on the incident obtained on Saturday morning noted that the aircraft was still in the bush at runway 22. “At about 0825hrs of 03/11/2023, an aircraft with registration number 5N-AMM that convey the incumbent minister of power, Abdul…
Gov. Fubara Makes U-Turn, Tells Rivers People What To Do Over Fight With Wike The Rivers State governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has tendered an apology to the people of the state over the recent political crisis involving him and the Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike. In a statement titled “Peace is priceless”, on his X handle on Saturday, Mr Fubara emphasised that it was important to make sacrifices for peace to reign in the state. While recalling the bombing of the state House of Assembly complex and the division among lawmakers, the governor explained that his visit to the…
BREAKING: Passengers Escape Death As Private Aircraft Skids Off Track At Airport Passengers escape death as private aircraft skids off track at Ibadan Airport Passengers on board of a privately-owned aircraft including a serving minister (name withheld) escaped death by whiskers on Friday evening as their aircraft reportedly skidded off track into the bush at the Ibadan Airport, Alakia area of Oyo State capital. There was neither reported loss of lives nor property as men of the State Fire Services, Federal Fire Services, and Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) Fire Services in a combined service arrested the situation. The…