archiveMarch 2, 2021

  Six suspected drug dealers have been arrested in Berlin for allegedly running a cocaine delivery service in the German capital, investigators said on Tuesday. Around 200 officers raided 14 properties in the early morning hours, a statement from police said. This followed on from a five-month investigation into 13...

 One of the victims of last Friday’s Zamfara Government Girls Secondary School, Jangebe, abduction, Hafsat Anka, said the captives threatened to kill, fry and eat them if they misbehaved. Hafsat, while narrating her ordeal to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) at the Government House, Gusau, shortly after regaining freedom,...

  Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar has told the Federal Government led by President Muhammadu Buhari to ensure that abduction of school children should not happen again anywhere in the country. Atiku was reacting to the release of 279 schoolgirls of Government Girls Secondary School, Jangebe, Zamfara State on Tuesday....

  President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo will pick dates on which they will be vaccinated publicly, with the first batch of Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, which is about four million doses, expected to arrive in Nigeria on Tuesday (today). The Executive Director, National Primary Health Care Development Agency...

  The Governor of Zamfara State, Bello Matawalle, has revealed that while the state was negotiating with terrorists who abducted female students from the Government Girls’ Secondary School in Jangebe, Talata Mafara local government area of the state, to release them, there were influential people who were offering the kidnappers...

  President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed “overwhelming joy” over the release of abducted female students in Zamfara State. A total of 279 out of 317 students of the Government Girls’ Science Secondary School (GGSSS), Jangebe, Zamfara State, kidnapped from the school last Friday, were released around 4am on Tuesday. Reacting...

  The Leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele, has reacted to the threat by Northerners to stop supplying foods to the South over the Yoruba-Fulani crisis in some states in the South. The popular prophet in his reaction explained that he supports the decision of the North...

The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) on Tuesday said that it will not hesitate to apply appropriate sanctions on marketers engaged in hoarding of petroleum products in their outlets. Mr Sarki Auwalu, Director, DPR, gave the warning in a statement issued on Tuesday in Lagos. Auwalu said the warning was...

  “This is the result of our peace efforts (with bandits)” “We saw our schoolmate’s father with bandits” – Victim reveals Governor Bello Matawalle of Zamfara says repentant bandits assisted security agencies in the operation that led to the Jangebe schoolgirls’ rescue. The governor, who received the girls at about...