The President of Ohanaeze Youth Council (OYC), Comrade Igboayaka. O. Igboayaka, has been reportedly kidnapped by unknown gunmen who stormed his house located at Works Layout, Owerri, the capital of Imo State. President of Igbo National Council (INC), Chilos Godsent, who disclosed this in a statement issued on Sunday morning, said the gunmen who were…
At least 25 civilians were killed in a deadly ambush on a civilian convoy escorted between Gao and Ansongo, near Kobé, about 30 km from Gao in Mali, on Friday afternoon. The General Staff of the Malian Armed Forces (FAMA), in a statement, confirmed that in addition to the deaths, dozens more were injured in…
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has announced the arrest of two suspected drug barons at the Port Harcourt International Airport and Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos. Spokesman for the agency, Femi Babafemi who confirmed the arrest in a statement on Sunday, said the two suspects, Onyekwonike Elochuckwu Sylvanus and James Herbert Chinoso, excreted…
Six senior police officers implicated in age falsification and circumventing service regulations are threatening the Nigerian Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, insisting that he must retire along with them. The six officers are Idowu Owohunwa, Simon Lough, SAN, Benneth Igweh, Aina Emmanuel, Salama Wakili Abdul, and Adepoju Olugbenga. SaharaReporters reported on Saturday that Egbetokun…
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has appealed the recent ruling of the Court of Appeal which upheld its proscription and designated it as a terrorist organisation, by asking the Supreme Court to overturn the judgment. A three-man panel of the Court of Appeal led by Justice Hamma Barka, had, on January 30, upheld the…
