archiveMay 10, 2021

  The police command in Lagos State says statistics have shown that armed hoodlums who operate on motorcycles, popularly known as Okada, are responsible for greater percentage of crime in the state. Hakeem Odumosu, the state Commissioner of Police made this known while appraising the security situation in the state...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) office in the Ohafia Local Government Area of Abia state has been set ablaze. In a statement on Monday, INEC's National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, stated that the incident occurred on Sunday night. This is happening a week...

  Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike on Monday again reviewed the dusk-to-dawn curfew he declared from 7 pm to 6 am with effect from Tuesday, May 11, 2021. Wike said in a statewide broadcast that the decision was taken in the wake of multiple armed ambushes on police checkpoints along...

Prof. Lukman Azeez of the Department of Mass Communication, University of Ilorin, has advocated for the introduction of a special salary scale for journalists in the country. Azeez made the appeal on Monday in Ilorin in an interview with journalists on the occasion of the World Press Day. He said...

The National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) has disclosed that the next astronomical lunar crescent, which signifies the end of fasting month of Ramadan, will be sighted on Wednesday, 12 May. NASRDA, in a statement by its spokesman, Dr Felix Ale, on Monday, said from its calculations, the agency...

  President Muhammadu Buhari has sent warm felicitations to Michael Akinkunmi, on his 85th birthday, joining family members and friends to celebrate with designer of the National Flag, “whose creativity and patriotism remain remarkable.“In a congratulatory message by his spokesman, Mr Femi Adesina, in Abuja on Monday, Buhari affirmed that Akinkunmi,...

  Prof. Sulyman Abdulkareem, Vice-Chancellor, University of Ilorin, Kwara, says the institution will not lose any academic session irrespective of its prolonged closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic.Abdulkareem stated in the institution’s bulletin, ‘Unilorin Bulletin’, issued on Monday in Ilorin, that the truncation of the session was, however, not peculiar...

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Benin Zonal Office, in the wee hours of Sunday, May 9, 2021 arrested 52 suspected internet fraudsters. The suspects were arrested in different locations in Benin City sequel to actionable intelligence. Those arrested are Wisdom Attah, Alasa Solomon Osho, Jonathan Udofia,...

The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, has alerted Lagosians of an impending plot of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to attack soft targets in the state. Odumosu, who delivered a paper on ‘Appraisal of Security Situation in Lagos State’, at an ongoing security meeting, said the threat...

Operatives of the Uyo Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have arrested a syndicate of 5 suspected land scammers in different locations of Uyo, Akwa Ibom State over alleged N23 million scam. The suspects whose ages range between 37 and 57 are, Imaikop Okon Dickson, Pius...