Year: 2021

Operatives of Ghana Police Service have arrested five students of Konongo Odumase Senior High School for allegedly stabbing a colleague to death. Konongo District Police Command in Ashanti region confirmed their arrest. It was alleged that the deceased was stabbed to death after a fight broke out between him and the other “notorious students”. The…

The All Progressives Congress (APC) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have disagreed over the results released so far by the electoral umpire, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in the Anambra governorship poll. According to the Nation, their agents in Onitsha South, Dunukofia, Ayamelum and ambra East local government areas said the results didn’t reflect…

All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) candidate, Prof Charles Soludo, has won in 10 of the 11 local governments declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) so far in the ongoing Anambra governorship poll. The candidate of the Young Progressives Party (YPP) Senator Ifeanyi Ubah, won in one of the local governments. But candidates of…

By Vanguard Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, is in the eye of the storm following statements he makes that appear to be in support of bandits terrorising the North-West. Many Nigerians have wondered why the Islamic scholar had not been reined in by President Muhammadu Buhari especially when he said lately that the corporate existence…

Lagos State governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Saturday said death toll from the Ikoyi building collapse stood at 42 while 15 persons have been rescued alive. Six of the survivors were evacuated from the rubbles. Mr Sanwo-Olu, while giving an update at the scene of the Monday crash said four more bodies were recovered from the…

A 300-level student of Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO) identified as Miracle Ogochukwu Chiagoziem has been arrested by the Police for reportedly pouring hot water on her colleague Wisdom Uchenna Chukwuemeka, a 400 level student of Geology department. Ogochukwu reportedly poured hot water on Chukwuemeka at their hostel in Eziobodo on Thursday afternoon, November…

Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba Alkali, has issued directive to field commanders and strategic managers to compile list of the policemen who are on election duty in Anambra but have not been paid. This is as a result of the complaints of some police personnel over the non-payment of their allowances for the Anambra Gubernatorial…

Counting of votes has started in some polling units in Awka township after the Saturday governorship election in Anambra. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that though voting began late in some polling units in Awka, the exercise was concluded about 3.30 pm. Mr Ugochukwu Nwosu, a voter at the Agu ward 2 polling…

Two persons (a driver and a passenger) narrowly escaped being drowned on Saturday in Osogbo, when their Toyota Camry car plunged into the Osun River along Gbongan/Ibadan expressway. According to Nigerian Tribune, the driver and a woman believed to be the owner of the car were said to have been trapped when the vehicle plunged…