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The Police in Benue State on Friday confirmed the death of one Terhemen Tyavbi during a scuffle between its Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) and motorcyclists in Kwande Local Government Area. The spokesperson of the State Police Command, Catherine Anene, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Makurdi that the motorcyclists tried to stop policemen…
RESIDENTS of Ikorodu, a suburb of Lagos, were on Tuesday confronted with the sight of a fatal accident involving a truck in the fleet of Dangote Group and a BRT bus in Majidun area of the community. The Dangote truck, which was fully loaded with cement, was said to have had a head on collision…
Afghan air forces have slowed down a new Taliban offensive on parts of the north-eastern city of Kunduz, officials said on Saturday. Various militant locations were targeted inside the city, said Provincial Councillor, Gulam Rabbani Rabbani, in fighting that has been going on for about 12 hours. Sporadic gunfire rang out in different parts of…
Work on Dubai’s Al Maktoum Airport has stopped because the economies of the Gulf states are faltering, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. The airport was designed to be one of the world’s biggest, with an annual capacity of more than 250 million passengers. Bloomberg cited sources – who asked not to be named due to the…
The police have arrested three robbery suspects, Ayomide Babatunde, 30; Tunde Shabi, 37, and Femi Adeolu, 27, described as specialists in taking their victims to ATM machines to withdraw money from their accounts. They were arrested by the Lagos annex office of the Inspector General of Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT). The suspects are also …
The Kano State Hisbah Board on Saturday said it arrested 32 beggars in Kano metropolis for allegedly violating the law banning street begging in the state. The Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the board, Malam Lawan Ibrahim, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kano. Ibrahim said that the…
Sen. Hope Uzodinma, has commended President Muhammadu Buhari over the closure of Nigeria’s border with Benin Republic and other neighbouring countries to check rice smuggling. Uzodinma, who spoke in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja, said it was evident of the president’s determination to get Nigeria working again. He described…
A vocal and radical traditionalist, Eziokwu Chineke Gaadi has warned movie industries to desist from further demonization of Igbo tradition, noting that Igbo ancestors are angry with them. Eziokwu Chineke Gadi Disclosing this in a statement he personally sent to Vanguard, Eziokwu exposed the reason behind the untimely death of actors and actresses in the…
Almost two million people in northeast India were left facing statelessness on Saturday after they were excluded from a citizenship list aimed at weeding out “foreign infiltrators”, in a process the central government wants to replicate nationwide. India A total of 31.1 million people were included in a National Register of Citizens (NRC), but 1.9…
Ado Ekiti -A secondary school boy has been struck to death by thunderbolt in Emure Ekiti. The incident which occurred at the early hours of Saturday has thrown the community into mourning. Eggs Reports say the boy and his friend had gone to a mountain in the community where they stole some eggs from a fowl…