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A driver and a female passenger was burnt beyond recognition today after a bus went up in flames after summersaulting severally along the Oshodi-Apapa expressway. Eight other passengers of the bus suffered varying degrees of burns and injuries in the accident. LASTMA spokesperson, Adebayo Taofiq in a statement said the mini bus which was on…
The disgraced former Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms, Abdulrasheed Maina, has threatened to sue Premium Times for calling him a “pension thief.” Maina was convicted and jailed for laundering ₦2 billion in pension funds. The Pension fraud convict in a letter dated Monday submitted by his lawyer Emmanuel Ekwe, he accused…
The Nigeria Police Force(NPF) has confirmed the abduction of 177 Christian worshippers in Kurmin Wali, Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna State, ending days of conflicting reports regarding the mass kidnapping. The confirmation comes as a reversal of earlier remarks that had cast doubt on the incident, which the police now admit caused significant public…
The Kano state police command has arrested three suspects in connection with the murder of a housewife and her six children at Dorayi Chiranchi quarters in Kano municipal LGA. The arrests followed a directive from the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, and were carried out in an intelligence-led operation overseen by Ibrahim Bakori, Kano…
The chief imam of Nghar village in Barkin Ladi LGA, Abubakar, has passed on aged 92. Abdullahi Abubakar, the Muslim cleric who gained national and international recognition for sheltering Christians during the 2018 Plateau attacks, is dead. Abubakar, the chief imam of Nghar village in Barkin Ladi LGA, passed on aged 92. The late imam…
*Create emergency exits in buildings, priest tasks developer Revd Father Williams Omatu, brother of Stephen Onyeka Omatu, 40; Casmir Nnabuike Omatu, 39; and Collins Kenechukwu Omatu, 37, who were part of those who lost their lives in the Great Nigeria Insurance building inferno, Martins Street, Lagos Island, has labelled Nigeria a failed nation and blamed…
Sunday Jackson, a farmer in Adamawa State, was sentenced to death for overpowering Buba Bawuro, a herder, in 2021, who invaded his farm to kill him. His freedom was announced on Tuesday by Humwashi Wonosikou, the governor of Adamawa State’s chief press secretary. The pardon is in commemoration of Christmas and New Year celebrations,” the…
Less than a year after Supremacy battle between the two occupiers of the stool of Ooni of Ile-Ife and Alaafin of Oyo went viral, another rancor is brewing. Two weeks after the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, installed Ibadan-based businessman, Prince Dotun Sanusi, as the Okanlomo Oodua in Ile-Ife, the Alaafin of Oyo,…
Two shooters opened fire at Sydney’s iconic Bondi Beach on Sunday, killing 12 people and wounding multiple others in an attack that spread panic, with bodies reported lying on the ground. Another 11 wounded were rushed to various hospitals at one of the biggest tourist draws in Australia’s largest city, New South Wales police said….
*Mob beats up police officer, accuses him of stealing The Lagos State Police Command has shut down an illegal pharmaceutical factory in the Ojo–Ijanikin area of Lagos State, arrest the security guard. Large quantities of suspected fake and harmful drugs were being produced in the factory. The Lagos State Police Command is hunting for the…