Mentally unstable police officer on shooting spree, kills three in Calabar

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Calabar in Cross River State was in a state of pandemonium, on Sunday morning when a police officer suspected to be mentally unstable went on a shooting spree, killing three people. The tragic incident occurred at the Atakpaa Division police station, near the ever busy Watt Market. It was learnt that an officer had been displaying signs of mental distress, but his colleagues hesitated to confront him. According to information, he suddenly began to fire shots into the air, causing panic. Officers reportedly fled, some even scaling the fence into…

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NDLEA nabs Indian lady with 72 parcels of heroin at Kano airport

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An Indian lady, Ms. Neetu Neetu aged 42, was arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport (MAKIA), Kano, with 72 parcels of heroin, factory sealed in wafer wraps and packaged as chocolates. The class A drug consignment weighing a total of 11 kilogrammes was recovered from Neetu’s luggage after a thorough search, following processed credible intelligence, during an inward clearance of Qatar Airways flight QR1431 from Bangkok, Thailand via Vietnam and Doha at the arrival hall of the Kano…

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Emergency rule in Rivers State is an abuse of power — Jonathan

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Former President Goodluck Jonathan blamed key actors across the executive, legislature, and judiciary of abusing power, over the ongoing political crisis in Rivers State. Jonathan who spoke at the annual colloquium of the Haske Satumari Foundation on Saturday in Abuja, said the state of emergency rule imposed on Rivers State by President Bola Tinubu was a clear abuse of power. According to the former president, those in power know the right thing to do but are deliberately ignoring it. Jonathan, who didn’t mention President Bola Tinubu directly, accused government officials…

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Royal rumble: Ooni plotted my removal after I helped him to the throne — Oluwo

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Oluwo of Iwoland, Oba Abdulrosheed Akanbi, has launched a salvo against the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi as he claimed Ogunwusi has been making several attempts to remove him as Oluwo, despite being helpful to him in 2015 to become the Ooni of Ife. According to Oluwo, Tunji Adeyeye, the elder brother of the Ooni, could have been on the throne. Oluwo, in a statement issued by his spokesperson, Ibrahim Alli, on Friday said: “I acknowledged my affinity with the family because we stayed around the same place at…

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Namibia swears in first female president

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Namibia, Southern Africa’s desert nation today swears in its first woman president after Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah won elections last year that extended the ruling party’s 35-year grip on power. Nandi-Ndaitwah, 72, will become one of the few women leaders in the region when she is inaugurated at a ceremony to be attended by heads of states of neighbouring countries including Angola and South Africa. Previously the vice president, she is a stalwart of the South West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO) that led the sparsely populated and uranium-rich country to independence from…

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Lawyer arrested for shooting 16-yr-old boy to death in Imo

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64-year-old Barrister Donald Mbamah, has been arrested by the Imo State Police Command on Friday over the alleged shooting to death of a 16-year-old student of Urban Development Secondary School, Owerri, Paul Victor. The Imo Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Henry Okoye, disclosed this in a statement in Owerri. An eyewitness stated that the diseased had jumped over the fence into the suspect’s compound on Monday to retrieve a football when he was shot at the buttocks. He was rushed to the hospital where he was pronounced dead. However, the…

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Abuja explosions caused by truck’s brake failure — Fire Service

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The multiple explosions which rocked Abuja on Wednesday has been attributed to a brake failure by a truck conveying Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) canisters. The FCT Fire Service (FFS) Public Relations Officer, Ibrahim Mohammad said this in an interview on Wednesday in Abuja. Mohammad said that the truck which was headed towards Nyanya axis from AYA, lost control and in the process rammed into several vehicles along the route. “And as a result of the impact on the vehicles and the impact of its own CNG-loaded containers, they started flying…

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Tinubu declares state of emergency in Rivers

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President Bola Tinubu, yesterday, declared a state of emergency in Rivers state following the two-year political crisis ravaging the state. In a 1003-word nationwide broadcast, the President suspended the governor, Siminalayi Fubara, his deputy, Professor Ngozi Odu, and members of the State House of Assembly for six months. He appointed former Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ibokette Ibas, retd, as administrator, and the appointment is subject to the confirmation of the National Assembly. With the development, Rivers has become the sixth state, after Plateau, Ekiti, Borno, Yobe and Adamawa,…

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Farmers protest in Ondo as herdsmen kill five farmers

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Farmers took to the streets of Akure in Ondo state on Wednesday to protest the alleged killing of five people by suspected herdsmen at Aba Oyinbo community in Akure North Local Government Area. It was gathered that the assailants invaded the community in the early hours of Wednesday, opening fire on the victims. The fresh killings come barely two weeks after no fewer than 14 people were reportedly murdered by gunmen in four communities—Ademekun, Aba Pastor, Aba Sunday, and Alajido—all in the same local government area. Angry protesters stormed the…

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El-Rufai accuses Gov.Uba Sani of diverting funds to purchase property in UK, South Africa

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Former Kaduna State governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, who has consistently been in the news for controversial reasons, has again launched another salvo. This time, the former governor accused his successor and current governor of his state, Senator Uba Sani of diverting local government (LG) funds to purchase properties in Seychelles, South Africa, and the United Kingdom. El-Rufai, who recently defected to the Social Democratic Party (SDP) from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), made the allegations in an interview with Freedom Radio Kaduna, yesterday. He claimed that Sani converted local…

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