Local News (Page 126)

The Katsina State Command of the Nigeria Customs Service has been thrown into mourning following the murder of one its officers by bandits at a checkpoint in Dan Arau Village along the Katsina/Jibiya Highway. Garba Nasiru, who was an Assistant Superintendent of Customs, was killed on Friday afternoon. According toContinue Reading

For the seventh time in the last three years, the Department of State Services and Corporate Affairs Commission have frustrated the registration of a civil society group, Concerned Nigerians. SaharaReporters gathered that the DSS stopped the CAC from issuing the group led by Deji Adeyanju the certificate of incorporation evenContinue Reading

Fredrick Nwabufo The affliction called “the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS)” has become resistant to every divine antidote. It was set up to treat the pestilence of armed robbery and other violent crimes. But the police unit became the behemoth of organised criminality. It became the canker it was commissioned toContinue Reading

About a month ago, we sent our boy who just turned 18 years old to ICC Cyber Café at Ajah to check on the status of his Post UMT if the form was out. We gave him N5, 000 for the form payment. He took Okada from Kekere Bus StopContinue Reading

Kayleigh McEnany, White House Press Secretary, has tested positive for COVID-19. Her positive diagnosis comes three days after United States President, Donald Trump, tested positive and was hospitalised for the same virus. McEnany in a statement on Monday said, “After testing negative consistently, including everyday since Thursday, I tested positiveContinue Reading

Maina in court Abdulrasheed Maina, former Chairman, Pension Reformed Task Team, is again absent from court for the continuation of his trial. Maina is facing trial on 12 counts bordering on money laundering, alongside his son. At the trial of the case on Monday, Maina and his surety were bothContinue Reading

Ali Ndume, Majority Leader of the Senate Senator Ali Ndume has submitted fake and forged documents to perfect the bail of former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, from prison. Maina, who is standing trial on a 12-count money laundering charge filed by the Economic and FinancialContinue Reading

The Ondo State High Court, Akure, will on Tuesday deliver judgment in the trial of founder of Sotitobire Praising Chapel, Prophet Babatunde Alfa, and six other church members over the disappearance of a toddler named Gold Kolawole. Little Kolawole was declared missing at the popular Akure church last year November. Continue Reading

The Nigerian military high command on Monday said that two armed bandits were killed by its troops on Sunday along the Abuja-Kaduna Expressway. Major General John Enenche, Coordinator of Defence Media Operations, made the disclosure in an operation update released to newsmen in Abuja on Monday. Enenche said that theContinue Reading

A policeman, Johnson Samanja, has been arrested for killing a 19-year old boy, Jonah Samson, in Abuja. The victim was shot and killed by Samanja on Saturday at Dutse-Apo, a slum community in Apo District. FCT Police Public Relations Officer, Yusuf Mariam, confirmed the incident in a statement on Sunday.Continue Reading

The Presidency has replied General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, and other critics over warning of a possible breakup of Nigeria. Adeboye had said that the Muhammadu Buhari-led government looks on while the country plunged into various insurrections and criminalities. He said the restructuringContinue Reading

Bunmi Makinwa The recent gubernatorial election in Edo State, which Governor Godwin Obaseki won convincingly over his rival, despite running on a new party platform that he joined only a few months earlier, gives a glimpse on how interactions around politics create deep favours or intense dislike for key politicalContinue Reading

File Photo: Gunmen Gunmen suspected to be Fulani bandits have attacked two communities in Batsari Local Government Area of Katsina State. According to Katsina Post, the communities attacked are Tsauwa and Gandu. File Photo: Gunmen middleeastpress The newspaper reported that no fewer than nine persons have been killed by theContinue Reading

File Photo: IPOB members Members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), living in South Africa, have urged the Israeli government and the United Nations to put pressure on President Muhammadu Buhari to stop the persecution of their members in Nigeria. In a statement sent to SaharaReporters on Saturday, theyContinue Reading

Colonel Sean Conley, personal physician to United States President, Donald Trump, has said that he experienced two episodes of blood-oxygen drops and was administered a steroid, Dexamethasone, as well as oxygen as part of his treatment. Trump and his wife, Melania, tested positive for COVID-19 on Friday.  He has sinceContinue Reading