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Armed bandits attacked Baidi community in Tangaza Local Government Area of Sokoto State on Saturday, killing one person and injuring two others.   Eyewitnesses said the assailants stormed the village in broad daylight, shooting at residents before fleeing.   The victims were rushed to Tangaza General Hospital, where one later ...

The Anambra State Police Command has arrested two suspected cultists in separate operations and recovered firearms along with other incriminating items.   In a statement on Sunday, the command’s spokesperson, Tochukwu Ikenga, said the arrests were made during intelligence-led patrols across the state.   He said, “On 22nd March 2025, ...

A joint security operation involving the Federal Capital Territory Police Command and the military has rescued a kidnapped naval officer, Lt. Cynthia Akor, attached to the Defence Headquarters and two civilians abducted from Mpape, Abuja.   The victims were taken on March 21, 2025, when armed men attacked the Maman ...

  Pope Francis greeted and thanked the faithful from a balcony of Rome’s Gemelli hospital on Sunday, the first time the 88-year-old has been seen in public since his admission on February 14.   “Thank you, everyone,” a weak-sounding Francis said into a microphone, as he sat in a wheelchair ...

26-year-old Nigerian travel content creator, Alma Asinobi, attempting to break the Guinness World Record for the fastest journey across all seven continents in 60 hours has travelled across six continents and is closer to the end of the journey.   PUNCH reports that as the youngest and only Black solo ...

The Anambra State Police Command has rescued Reverend Father Stephen Echezona, abducted by gunmen at a petrol station in Ichida, Anaocha Local Government Area.   The assailants, operating in a white Lexus SUV without a plate number, took the priest in his own vehicle after abandoning theirs during a gun ...

IPOB leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu Mrs Uchechi Kanu, wife of the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has said the apologies tendered by her husband’s lawyer, Kanu Agabi, SAN, at the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Friday, are yielding results.   Uchechi said it was crucial ...

Senator Sunday Karimi The Senator representing Kogi West, Sunday Karimi, has said that President Tinubu acted fast to save Nigeria’s economy by declaring a state of emergency in Rivers State.   He also said it was the proper thing to do to suspend the political actors in the two factions ...

A former queen of the Ooni of Ife, Naomi Silekunola, has applauded the dismissal of criminal charges against her and two others over a stampede incident in Ibadan, Oyo State, which led to the death of 35 children.   She, however, says her heart still grieves over the tragedy.   ...

NAFDAC destroys N1tn fake drugs, others in Anambra The National Agency for Food Drug Administration and Control, on Friday, destroyed counterfeit, substandard and fake pharmaceutical and other products worth over one trillion naira at the Anambra State Waste Management Authority Dump Site, Agu Awka, Anambra State.   The Director General ...