Adeniyi Olugbemi, Sokoto Sokoto-based Islamic scholar and the Overseer, state Zakkat and Endowment Committee, Mallam Muhammad Maidoki, who was recently released from captivity, has narrated his ordeal in the hands of his abductors. He described the experience as the will of Allah who he said rescued him, his wife and other relatives from the kidnappers. […]
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Adelani Adepegba, Abuja A farmer, Ndubuisi Uzoma, has been beheaded in his farm at Iddo community along the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Road, Abuja by assailants suspected to be Fulani herdsmen. The headless corpse of the university graduate was found in the pool of his blood last Sunday by his relations, who went in search […]
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Success Nwogu, Ilorin A suspect, Salisu Imam, has blamed unemployment for his involvement in cult-related activities. He stated that he was lured into cultism by one of his unnamed friends, who, he said, told him that membership of a cult would guarantee him daily meals. Speaking after being paraded by the Kwara State Commissioner of […]
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Adelani Adepegba, Abuja The Commissioner of Police, Federal Capital Territory, Muhammad Mustafa, has called on FCT residents to partner with his command by promptly reporting cases of police misconduct to the Public Complaint Rapid Response Unit of the Force for investigation and action. The CP, who said this during the distribution of flyers to market […]
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Umar Muhammed, Lafia The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association, Nasarawa and Benue states chapter, have inaugurated a three-man peace committee to address the incessant crises between farmers and Fulani herdsmen in both states. Briefing journalists in Lafia shortly after a meeting on Sunday, the Nasarawa State Chairman of MACBA, Muhammed Hussaini, said the meeting would […]
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Adelani Adepegba, Abuja Suspected cultists have killed a student of the University of Abuja, Onyekachi Azubuko. He was killed behind his parents’ residence off Gado Nasko Way, Kubwa, a satellite town in the Federal Capital Territory. Northern City News gathered that Onyekachi, 25, was shot dead on Tuesday afternoon shortly after stepping out of the […]
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Adelani Adepegba, Abuja Operatives of the Federal Capital Territory Police Command have apprehended a polytechnic student, Uzairu Sulaimon, for vandalising underground armoured cables at Maitama, Abuja. The 24-year old ordinary diploma computer science student was nabbed as he emerged from a manhole where he stole the cables. His accomplice, identified as Muar, however escaped. Sulaimon […]
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The Police Service Commission has again raised the alarm over the activities of fraudsters, who created a Facebook account in the name of its Chairman, Mike Okiro, to dupe unsuspecting members of the public. The commission, in a statement on Tuesday by its spokesman, Ikechukwu Ani, said it discovered that new Facebook accounts of its […]
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