One of the students abducted while returning from writing the JAMB-UTME exam in Otukpo, Benue State, has shared a chilling account of how he managed to escape from his captors. The survivor, who was among the 18 victims reportedly taken during the incident, said they were travelling in a bus when they ran into armed…
Islamic cleric Ahmad Gumi has condemned the rising wave of kidnappings in Nigeria, invoking divine punishment on those responsible for the crisis while calling for a new approach to tackle insecurity. Gumi made the remarks in reaction to the abduction of a student of the University of Jos, John Arum, whose ordeal has drawn widespread…
Kwara State Government has officially filed a 20-count charge against former Senate President Bukola Saraki and former Governor Abdulfatai Ahmed over their alleged arming of top suspects convicted in the tragic Offa armed robbery incident of April 2018. Those also listed in the charge, filed under case number KWS/114C/26, include Yusuf Abdulwahab, former Chief of…
Nigerian troops have arrested the second-in-command to a notorious bandit kingpin, Kachalla Auta, alongside his wife in Gombe State. The arrest followed an intelligence-led tracking operation across multiple locations in the state. This was disclosed in a post on X by Zagazola Makama, a counter-insurgency and security expert in the Lake Chad region. Makama, citing…
Justice Rahman Oshodi of the Lagos Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, Ikeja, on Thursday, sentenced a 63-year-old pastor, Chris Mcdouglas, to life imprisonment for raping his church member’s daughter aged 18 years. The judge sentenced Mcdouglas, a pastor at the Peculiar Generation Assembly Church, Lagos, to life imprisonment after he found him guilty of…
Proceedings were stalled in the trial of a former Minister of Power, Saleh Mamman on Thursday, as he could not file his final written address before Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court, Maitama, Abuja. Mamman is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on a 12-count charge, bordering on money…
Unknown gunmen have reportedly abducted 14 passengers said to be candidates of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, during an attack on a commercial bus travelling from Makurdi to Otukpo in Benue State. It was gathered that the victims, who are young adults, were travelling on Wednesday night to Otukpo, where they were scheduled…
The Niger State Child Rights Agency says a 65-year-old grandfather, Musa Gado, has been detained in police custody for allegedly impregnating his 16-year-old granddaughter (name withheld). The Director General of the agency, Hajiya Kaltume Mohammed, made this known to newsmen in Minna, Niger state. She said that a Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) test confirmed that Gado,…
Edo Dtate Gov, Monday Okpeholo By Isaac Eranga The rhythmic thud of cassava being processed into garri is the traditional heartbeat of Ugboha, an agrarian stronghold in Esan South-East. But today, that heartbeat is erratic, punctuated by the silence of empty barns and the cries of women who have turned their grief into a peaceful,…
Former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has approached the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, with a petition not to allow Justice R.M. Aikawa to preside over his ongoing criminal case at the Federal High Court in Kaduna. In a petition dated April 9, 2026, the former governor called for the case to be…
