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Kaduna: 4 Rail Vandals With 500 Rail Slippers Nabbed By NSCDC

Kaduna: 4 Rail Vandals With 500 Rail Slippers Nabbed By NSCDC

May 28, 2022 10:49 am

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) Kaduna State Command has announced on Friday that its operatives in a crack operation have arrested four suspected vandals and recovered 500 railway slippers in Kaduna.

The State Commandant of NSCDC, Mr Idris Adah, said this at a News Conference in Kaduna.

Adah said the suspects were arrested on May 13, on Jagindi road Jema’a Local Government area at about 8 p.m.

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He said operatives of NSCDC serving in Area C Command Kafanchan received an intelligence report about suspected …

Story: How Texas School Shooter Masssacred 21

Story: How Texas School Shooter Masssacred 21

May 26, 2022 12:58 pm

Texas authorities are still trying to piece the evidences together to what drove 18 year old Salvador Ramos to commit America’s worst school massacre in a decade, but here is what is known so far about the shooting:

Described as a long-bullied youth with a history of self-harm, Ramos turned 18 on May 16 and bought an assault rifle the very next day. He purchased 375 rounds of ammunition on May 18, and then a second rifle two days after that.

Ramos — a dropout with no criminal history — messaged on Facebook Tuesday morning that he planned to attack …

Favela Massive Police Raid On Rio Favela Leaves At Least 22 Dead

Massive Police Raid On Rio Favela Leaves At Least 22 Dead

May 26, 2022 12:24 pm

A massive unannounced anti-crime operation by a Brazil special Police division in a Rio de Janeiro slum has left at least 22 people dead. This raid comes a year after the bloodiest-ever favela raid in the city’s history.

A further seven people were hospitalized, according to health officials, while police said one of the victims was a female bystander felled by a stray bullet.

Military police said they came under gunfire as they approached the northern Rio slum of Vila Cruzeiro in the early morning hours with the mission of locating and arresting “criminal leaders.”

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Panic As Gunmen Kidnap HYPPADEC Board Member, Kill 3

May 26, 2022 12:13 pm

There was huge pandemonium in an area in Kogi State  as one of the board members of the Hydroelectric Power Producing Areas Development Commission (HYPPADEC), Alhaji Isah Ozi Salami, was brazenly kidnapped in his country home in Ogaminana Adavi Local Government Area of Kogi State after a gun battle with the kidnappers which saw to the death of three other individuals.

Salami was kidnapped on Thursday morning on his to the mosque.

A source told Newsmen that the kidnappers came with a vehicle parked close to the victim’s residence and zoomed off with the old man at about 5 am.…

How Insurgents Killed 32 Youths In Kala-Balge – Borno Govt

How Insurgents Killed 32 Youths In Kala-Balge – Borno Govt

May 26, 2022 5:58 am

No fewer than 32 locals were killed over the weekend by Boko Haram/ Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP) insurgents in Borno State, authorities have confirmed.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that those killed were said to be youths trapped in an ambush by the insurgents around Mudu village – some 45 kilometres away from Rann, the headquarters of Kala-Balge Local Government Area of the state

The spokesman for Governor Babagana Zulum, Isa Gusau, confirmed the figure on Wednesday in a statement released to journalists in Maiduguri, the state capital.

‘Governor Babagana Umara Zulum is very disturbed …

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Suspected Cultists Nabbed In Ogun – Police Report

May 25, 2022 11:29 am

The Ogun State Police division in Ogun State on Tuesday has nabbed and detained four suspected members of the Eiye cult group for causing mayhem in the State.

They were nabbed while holding a nocturnal meeting “in preparation for an attack to be launched on members of another cult group.”

The Ogun State police spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, identified the suspects as Oriyomi Bankole (a.k.a Ortom), Odedina Sodiq, Shofola Ayodeji and Adelawa Ayo.

Oyeyemi said they were nabbed at different locations in Oke-Lantoro and the technical college at Leme.

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Gunmen Invade Bishop Kukah’s Church, Kidnap Priests, Others

Gunmen Invade Bishop Kukah’s Church, Kidnap Priests, Others

May 25, 2022 3:34 am

Some yet-to-be-identified Gunmen in the early hours of Wednesday broke into one of the parishes presided over by the Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Matthew Hassan-Kukah, and kidnapping two priests.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that the armed hoodlums kidnapped two priests and two others in the rectory of St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, Gidan Maikambo, in the Kafur Local Government Area of Katsina State.

Kukah’s Sokoto Diocese covers Katsina, Zamfara, Sokoto and Kebbi States.

The Director, Social Communications of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Rev. Fr Christopher Omotosho, confirmed the development to reporters on Wednesday morning.

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Panic As Gunmen Kill Seven, Injure Five In Kaduna Community

Another APC Aspirant In Kwara Attacked By Gunmen

May 24, 2022 8:04 am

As politicians in the country take some more extreme measures to tighten up their security, some gunmen, in the early hours of Tuesday, in Igosi, Oke-ero Local Government Area of Kwara State, attacked a House of Representatives aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Kayode Bankole who luckily escaped unharmed.

Bankole had gone to visit the delegates at the Igosi-Imode Ward, to solicit their support for the forthcoming primaries of the APC when he was attacked on his way to his hometown in Ekan.

The have also been reports that Bankole, however, escaped by the …

Nzeribe Sent To Prison Over Impersonation, Forgery

Nzeribe Sent To Prison Over Impersonation, Forgery

May 24, 2022 4:43 am

A former House of Representatives member and Governorship Aspirant in Anambra State, Chuma Nzeribe was on Monday in Abuja convicted in the 4- count criminal charges brought against him by the Federal Government.

The former federal lawmaker was convicted by a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory FCT in Abuja on impersonation, possession of Federal Government documents, and using same to fraudulently acquired at Maitama, Abuja.

Nzeribe could, however, not be sentenced to prison following his absence in court when the judgment on the criminal charges against him was delivered.

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Gunmen Abduct Taraba Village Head, Three Others, Kill Four

Panic As Robbers Break Into NPC Office To Steal Certificates

May 23, 2022 1:55 pm

There was mild pandemonium today as the National Population Commission (NPC) Badagry office which is located at Town Hall near Topo Garage, in Lagos State was besieged by a group of armed robbers who turned the place over in search of some birth cerificates.

A staff member of the commission, Mrs Funmilayo Bojrenu told the Newsmen Badagry that vital documents belonging to NPC were stolen.

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Narrating the incident, Mrs Bojrenu said they left the office on Friday around 4:30 pm, with all the doors locked and all documents …

Bomb Laden Vechicle Intercepted In Kano State

Bomb Laden Vechicle Intercepted In Kano State

May 22, 2022 7:29 am

Fresh reports hitting the desk of Africa Daily News, New York have it that the Kano State Command of the Nigeria Police Force has intercepted a vehicle laden with deadly explosive devices and sophisticated weapons in Kano state.

DSP Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa who is the Police Public Relations Officer in the State, made this known in a statement released on Saturday.

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DSP Kigawa said the Mercedes Benz was intercepted following an intelligence report.

However, the suspects abandoned the vehicle at Bubbugaje Quarters Kumbotso LGA Kano State at 4 pm following a …

Insecurity Bandits Release Abducted Kano University Lecturer

Insecurity: Bandits Release Abducted Kano University Lecturer

May 22, 2022 2:30 am

The Associate Professor with the Kano University of Science and Technology (KUST), Wudil, Huzaifa Karfi, who was held back by bandits after he delivered ransom for the release of a district head in Kano community, has been released his abductors.

Gunmen had on May 26, 2022, stormed Karfi village, Takai Local Council of Kano State and abducted the village head, Yahaya Ilu.

After much negotiations with the bandits, Professor Karfi took the ransom to the bandits who released the village head and held him back.

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However, a family source told DAILY …

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