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The Katsina State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission (KTPCACC) has opened investigations into a ₦188.6 million fraud covering fertiliser distribution scams by councillors and community officers, mismanaged school funds and misappropriations in the state’s Department of Banking and Finance. This was contained in a statement issued by the agency, stating that preliminary findings showed that […]

Taraba State is among five states with the highest number of confirmed cases of Lassa Fever in the country, with about 63 deaths recorded annually in the state. The surveillance officer with the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Taraba State, Halilu Sani Abubakar, disclosed this at a meeting with community health workers and media executives […]

The Kano State Police Command has arrested two key suspects involved in a violent armed robbery and attempted murder incident that took place at Bera Estate, Chevron, Lagos. According to a statement released on Saturday by the command’s spokesperson, SP Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa, the breakthrough came on September 11 when tactical operatives, acting on intelligence, […]

The Nigeria Customs Service has introduced an automated overtime cargo clearance and disposal system to allow clearing agents and other stakeholders to clear overtime goods digitally. Speaking recently at a sensitisation programme for stakeholders in zones B and D at the customs training school at Goring Dutse in Kano, Controller Deborah Adeyemi, in charge of […]

Angry youths yesterday blocked the Makurdi-Abuja highway to protest the killing of over 15 farmers and abduction of many others from their farms by herdsmen at Garba-Atson in Agan community of Makurdi local government area of Benue State. The protesters who displayed the corpses of those killed said they would not desist until justice was […]

Two suspected kidnappers, Ibrahim Umaru and Adamu Mallam Musa, known for terrorising residents of Taraba State and beyond, have been arrested by troops of 6 Brigade of the Nigeria Army, Sector 3, Operation Whirl Stroke, in Rafin Taba community of Karim Lamido local government area of the state. The acting assistant director, 6 Brigade Army […]

‎‎Abia State council of Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) has elected a new leadership headed by Vanguard Newspapers correspondent, Steve Oko. ‎‎Oko emerged alongside other members of the leadership unopposed on Friday during the chapel’s 2025 triennial conference in Umuahia, the state capital. ‎‎The others are Henrietta Ifeanyi Ashikodi of Statesman […]

The recent conviction of Simon Ekpa in Norway is a major lesson for Nigeria’s sluggish judicial system and renews the call for the expeditious investigation and prosecution of suspects. Ekpa, a self-styled Biafra separatist agitator based in Finland, was engaged in broadcasting incendiary messages that incited violence in South-East Nigeria. The fact that it took […]

A South African hospital cleaner has been arrested after being found in possession of a bag of human placentas in eastern Mpumalanga province, police said yesterday. Rose Mnisi was allegedly seeking potential buyers for the human body tissue when she was picked up by security officers following a tip-off. “Upon being approached by police, the […]

The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has assured  Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) of its commitment to ensure their safe return to ancestral communities. Chief of Defence Staff  Gen. Christopher Musa gave the assurance at the Durumi IDP Camp in Abuja during an outreach organised to mark the International Day of Peace yesterday. The CDS who was represented […]