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Just IN: Six Lecturers Kidnapped, One Shot Dead In Osun File photo   reports from  Daily Trust, five staff of Osun State College of Technology, Esa-Oke have been abducted by some kidnappers and one of them was killed by their abductors on the spot.    A staff of the College who confirmed the incident, said one of the policemen that attempted to rescue the college staff was shot by the kidnappers before they took the college staff away.   He said: “There was an attack on Esa-Oke Road in the evening on Tuesday. Some staff members of Osun State College of Technology were abducted and they are still being held in the bush by the kidnappers.”   According to him, “those kidnapped are Mr Olaleye Olalekan (Bus. Admin. Department); Adeyeoluwa Bankole (HOD Civil Engineering); Dr Jesuola Ajibola (Director Ventures); Adenreti Chukwu (Secretary to Civil Engineering Department);  Olaniyi Emmanuel Temitope (Registry staff member and...

President Buhari R eaffirmed His Commitment to Release of Chibok Girls                                                                           Muhammadu Buhari President Buhari reassures his commitment in bringing back Chibok girls in Poland.  According to reports by Thisday, president Muhammadu Buhari has reaffirmed the pledge that his government will not rest until the remaining Chibok girls kidnapped by Boko Haram terrorists since April 2014 are safely reunited with their families. The president was also at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum, in Owicim, Poland where he paid tribute to Holocaust victims. According to the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, the president renewed the commitment on Chibok girls in Katowic...

Man Commits Suicide On FCT Railway Track According to report, a middle-aged man, who is yet to be identified, was on Monday crushed to death by a train at the Phikwore Area of Kubwa, a suburb of the Federal Capital Territory. The  News Agency of Nigeria  reports that the victim, who left a suicide note, was seen lying down on the rail track waiting for the train, which was close by. NAN  also recalls that the incident happened around 12:45pm, a kilometre away from the Kubwa Railway Station. The victim left behind the suicide note in a bag containing some clothes by the side of the railway track. Some of the eyewitnesses who spoke to  NAN  said that the note contained a short message, supposedly to his wife and kid, which reads, “Please forgive me for I do not have funds to take care of you.’’ NAN  also reports that the body of the victim was yet to be identified as of the time of this report. The spokesman for Nigerian Railway...

Benue Youth Group Forcefully Barber Residents With Afro/Bushy Hair (Photos)   Jemgbagh Youth Development Forum members  on Monday, stormed the Gboko main market in Benue State to cut the hair of residents keeping Afro forcefully.   The group, stormed the popular main market yesterday afternoon with operation "Say no to cultism", as they wage a war against cultism and anyone with bushy hair, were seen in photos forcefully cutting down people's hair who they suspect were cultists.   According to online reports, the group believe that anyone who keeping long hair is a cultist and should be dealt with accordingly.  

Evil World: Woman Sells Eight-Month-Old Baby for N283,242                                                  Women accused of stealing an eight-month-old baby. Source: SDE According reports by Punch Metro, a Kenyan woman, Joyce Wairimu Wahome, has been arraigned in court for allegedly stealing and selling her eight-month-old baby, Consolata Wambui, for the sum of Sh80,000 (N283, 242). According to  SDE , Wahome sold her baby to Margaret Wairimu Kihiko and then reported to the police that her baby had disappeared. Police charged the two women alongside Kihiko’s mother, Susan Nyambura Gihumbi. The court was told that on November 10, Wahome announced that her baby had been stolen, only for police to trace the baby to Molo, where they (police) said they believed she (Wahome) had sold her for Sh80,000. Wahome was accompanie...

National Assembly Workers Protest Members of Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria protested in  the Senate and House of Representatives chambers at the National Assembly The action is in protest against non-implementation of the Consolidated Salary Structure and unpaid allowances. The protesting workers, who are carrying placards with various inscriptions, have vowed to frustrate legislative activities today. The Clerk to the National Assembly, Mr Mohammed Sani-Omolori, had written to PASAN to urge its members not to picket the legislative house

Police Arrest Three Men For Killing Their Friend In Order To Steal His Dangote Truck  The suspects after they were arrested   Policemen in Ondo state have arrested three men for killing their and taking his Dangote Truck   The three men have been arrested and are currently  in police custody for over the alleged murder.   They were  arrested by men of the Nigerian Police Force in Ore, Ondo state while fleeing with the stolen truck. Their identity is yet to be made public.   They are still undergoing interrogation and will be charged to court after investigation into the case is concluded.  

President Buhari Responds To Cloning Allegation: It’s Real Me,                                                                                         President Muhammadu Buhari in Poland President Buhari colned pictures and video going viral in the social media, the president responds to it for the first time.  According to reports by President Muhammadu Buhari for the first time on Sunday reacted personally to a trending allegation that he was cloned. The real Buhari, according to the allegation, is dead, while the person going about as Nigeria’s President is a certain Jubril Aminu from Sudan, Buhari’s cloned version. But speaking in far away Krakow, Poland, Buhari called those spreading the allegation as “ignorant and irreligious.” He ...

Senator Shehu Sani, Buhari Osinbajo To Reveal Persons Desperate To Be VP *                                                                                   President Buhari in Poland. According to report by Punch, Senator Sani Shehu, on Monday, urged President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice-president Yemi Osinbajo to reveal the names of the persons, who were begging Osinbajo to make them his vice president while Buhari was ill. Shehu was reacting to the statement made by Buhari in Poland on Sunday, where he refuted claims that he was dead and someone was impersonating him in the State House. He said, “A lot of people hoped that I died during my ill health. Some even reached out to the Vice- President (Prof. Yemi Osinbajo) to consider them to be his deputy beca...

Tinsel Actor, Victor Olaotan Cries Out For Financial Help To Avoid Amputation of His Two Legs. Victor Olaotan   Nollywood Veteran actor, Victor Olaotan, Who had accident for two years now is crying out for financial help to avoid amputation of his two legs. He has been completely off the scene for the past two years after a ghastly accident cost him the use of his legs.   The Actor who play lead character of the popular TV soap opera, Tinsel, has now created a Gofundme page which went live on Sunday, 2nd of December. He is appealing for financial aid to seek medical treatment abroad.   He  was involved in a car crash on Lagos/Ibadan Expressway in 2016, and was placed in a medically induced coma as he was treated for months.    Olaotan needs $50,000 to seek treatment abroad, has been facing the possibility of his two legs being amputated to save his life  Victor at the hospital     The message on his...

Nigerian Army Discovers Militia Training Camp In Rivers Community                                                                  File photo: Soldiers in the Niger Delta According to reports, the 6 Division Nigerian Army in Port Harcourt says it has discovered an illegal militia training camp inside a Rivers community. Col. Aminu Iliyasu, spokesman of the division, told the  News Agency of Nigeria  on Thursday in Port Harcourt that soldiers had taken over the camp. He said the illegal camp was discovered by troops, who were on routine surveillance of the NYSC Orientation Camp in Nonwa Gbam, Tai Local Government Area of the state. “The troops on routine surveillance discovered the illegal militia training camp in the area. We met over 100 recruits undergoing military type of training inside t...

Grandmother Burns Grand Daughter's Hand For Stealing Meat According reports by punch A 62-year-old grandmother, Aisha Tetteh has been arrested for allegedly burning her 13-year-old granddaughter’s left hand, as punishment for stealing meat from the pot. The police at Amasaman in the Greater Accra region, Ghana, said, they also arrested Godson Ablor, 36, who reportedly assisted her in punishing the girl, reports  Adomonline. Police Public Relations Officer of the Accra Regional Command, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Mrs Effia Tenge, said the incident took place around 8pm on Tuesday. She said the two accused the victim of stealing meat from two separate pots of soup belonging to Aisha and Ablor’s wife. “Ablor’s wife, Regina Ayi complained that pieces of meat was missing meat from her pot of soup, after which Aisha also claimed meat from her soup had gone missing. “Immediately, four children in the house were assembled as part of investigations to find t...

Nigerian Female Student 'Runs Mad' After Dropping From Lexus SUV In Ogun                                                        The student who reportedly ran mad   A Nigerian female student has ran mad after coming down from an Suv in Ijebu Ode, Ogun State. A video which emerged online on Thursday and went viral on social media has shown the moment a young female student reportedly 'ran mad' immediately after coming down from a Lexus SUV.    The person who shared the video on his Twitter handle, @honey_blackie wrote;  "When they say stay with your broke boyfriend,ladies won’t listen…Guys are desperate ladies beware…This happened today at Ijebu-ode after she got down from a Lexus jeep." The lady has been identified simply as Blessing, and she was said to be a student of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba in ...

Nigerian Police Dismiss  A Sergeant For  Allegedly Killing Undergraduate In Bayelsa According to Punch reports, the Police Command in Bayelsa State has dismissed a sergeant Timadi Emmanuel, who allegedly shot and killed Tariela Nikadae, a 20-year-old undergraduate of Petro-Chemical Engineering, Niger Delta University, Yenagoa. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that on Nov. 23, Sgt. Emmanuel, attached to a patrol team in Akenfa Division, while on patrol on Tenacious Road, Edepie, Yenagoa, allegedly shot Nikadae dead. DSP Asinim Butswat, Spokesman for the command, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Yenagoa on Wednesday that the policeman would be charged to court as soon as investigations were concluded. “The Bayelsa Police Command regrets the unfortunate incident involving a police officer and a resident of Tenacious Road, Edepie, Yenagoa. “The policeman has been dismissed after preliminary investigations into the incident as he would be prosecuted as ...