A total of 324 persons were killed in 2022, while 1,706 others sustained various degrees of injuries in the same period in road accidents in Kogi State, the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), has revealed.
This was disclosed to newsmen in Lokoja on Thursday by Stephen Dawulung, the State FRSC commander.
He described 2022 as “very unfortunate and saddening”, in view...
Unknown gunmen have kidnapped Mr Kefas Ishaya, the Catechist of St. Monica Catholic Church, Ikulu-Pari, in Chawai Chiefdom of Kauru Local Government, Kaduna State.
It was gathered that the gunmen abducted the Catechist when they could not get his boss, Rev Fr Joseph Shekari.
According to NAN, Shekari, who was not at his residence when the attack occurred, had travelled out...
Heavily armed men suspected to be kidnappers have again kidnapped a traditional ruler in Taraba State.
The traditional ruler, Sani Suleiman Duna, was kidnapped around 1 am on Friday alongside his two wives and six children.
The gunmen were said to have taken over the monarch’s palace after they had successfully scared the community’s residents with sporadic gunshots.
A palace guard, who...
A magistrate court in Kano State has ordered eight Sharia Court judges and seven Sharia Commission staff members to be remanded in prison custody over the allegation of diversion of N99 million belonging to orphans in the state.
Magistrate Mustapha Sa’ad Datti gave the order on Thursday following charges of diverting N99 million instituted against the 15 persons before the...
The Jimeta Area Court II in Yola, capital of Adamawa State, has remanded a suspected member of a notorious youth gang, Shila Boys, caught with machetes.
The court ordered the remand of 22-year-old Abba Hassan in prison custody pending the next sitting.
The suspected Shila Boys member, who is from Jambutu Rumde Kila, Army Barracks Road, Yola, and a tricycle operator,...
The Edo State Government on Wednesday confirmed the arrest of two traditional rulers over the kidnapping of passengers waiting to board a train from Igueben station to Warri in Delta State.
Charmingpro recalls that bandits on January 7, 2023, kidnapped 20 passengers awaiting a train in Edo.
Governor Godwin Obaseki blamed the Federal Government for not providing adequate security at the...
The residence of the Ogun State Commissioner for Agriculture, Samson Odedina, was on Thursday gutted by fire.
The house located at Kemta Idi-Aba Area of Abeokuta was said to have caught fire during the day.
The cause of the fire incident could not be ascertained at the time of filing this report.
Our correspondent learnt that firefighters put efforts in top gear...
A man, Usman Garba, has been arrested by the police in Adamawa State over alleged N2.5 million money-printing fraud.
The 45-year-old Garba was arrested after allegedly collecting the N2.5 million in instalments after promising to print money to the tune of N30 million for his victim, 29-year-old Gabriel Ishaku, but failing to do so.
It was gathered on Thursday that Garba,...
A civil servant, Moses Saka, faces trial in an Upper Area Court Gwagwalada in Abuja for allegedly using ‘juju’ on his daughter.
The police charged 36-year-old Saka and an accomplice Joseph (at large), with criminal conspiracy and unlawful juju.
Prosecution counsel, Abdullahi Tanko told the court that the complainant Labaran Dikko of Gosa village in Abuja, reported the matter.
On December 16,...
A trader, Sarata Olagunju, on Thursday, told a Mapo Grade ‘A’ Customary Court in Ibadan to grant her divorce on the grounds that her husband, Adewale, said the union was being controlled by demonic spirits.
In her counterargument against her husband, Oagunju said: “He told me that there were demonic spirits in our house and I must leave immediately.
”I had...
