Crime

Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal on Thursday confirmed the killing of no fewer than 43 persons in Monday’s bandits attack on Illela Local Government Area of the state.

A statement issued by Tambuwal’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Malam Muhammad Bello, on Thursday which was sighted by Africa Daily News, New York disclosed that the Governor led members of the state’s executives and the Security Council on a condolence visit to the people of Illela on Wednesday.

Recall that bandits attacked the town and some villages near it in the wee hours on Nov. 15, killing 13 persons in …

A commercial driver in Abakaliki, the capital of Ebonyi has bitten off and swallowed part of a finger of Iboko Kenneth, a member of the State’s Ministry of Capital City Development taskforce in a bid to escape arrest.

The action left Kenneth in pains, and his colleagues in total confusion, but before they could recover from their shock, the driver had escaped from the scene, with the dismembered finger in his stomach.

The incident occurred at Onuebonyi Junction in Abakaliki metropolis when the state’s Ministry of Capital City Development and its task force team were inspecting the state capital to …

The Islamic State group (IS) has announced that it was behind Tuesday’s blasts in the Ugandan capital Kampala, pointing out that they were carried out by suicide bombers.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that it made its latest claim on Tuesday in the name of its so-called Central African Province (ISCAP) on the messaging app Telegram.

Providing further details, it said the first attacker, whom it identified as Abu Sabr al-Ugandi (meaning from Uganda), detonated a bag of explosives he was carrying near a checkpoint at a police station.

IS said a second cell made up of two …

Gunmen suspected to be bandits on Tuesday killed no fewer than two persons in a fresh attack on Rafinkada village of Wukari Local Government Council of Taraba State.

Several persons were confirmed to have sustained various degrees of gunshot injuries in the bloody attack.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that properties worth millions of Naira were also destroyed by the attackers even as the reason for the attack is yet to be ascertained.

Residents of the community told reporters on Tuesday that the attackers invaded the community when the people were deeply asleep.

Stressing how they were forced out …

The management of the University of Ilorin has expelled a final-year student, Salaudeen Waliu Aanuoluwa of the Department of Microbiology after being found guilty of assaulting a female lecturer, Mrs Rahmat Zakariyau, of the same Department.

A statement by the University’s Director of Corporate Affairs, Mr. Kunle Akogun, disclosed that the verdict was handed down by the Student Disciplinary Committee where Salaudeen was arraigned on Monday, adding that “he has 48 days to appeal against the verdict to the Vice-Chancellor in case he feels dissatisfied with the decision”.

‘Salaudeen has since been handed over to the police for further necessary

Suspected fighters of the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) on Saturday night engaged Nigerian troops stationed at a military base in Askira/Uba Local Government Area of Borno State in a bloody gun duel forcing civilians in the area to flee.

Some civilians who spoke to newsmen said they sighted the ISWAP fighters in a long convoy of gun trucks along Ngude axis towards Askira, early Saturday morning.

The civilians claimed they reported the movement of the terrorists to security forces but no action was taken before the deadly group stormed Askira town hours later.

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Ferocious clashes have left 68 inmates dead in an Ecuador prison, police said Saturday, in the latest unrest at a Guayaquil jail that was the scene of a September riot which killed 119 prisoners.

“According to preliminary information, some 68 prisoners were killed and another 25 were wounded,” the Ecuador Prosecutor’s Office wrote on Twitter.

The riot began around 7:00 pm Friday (0000 GMT) when prisoners tried to enter a section of the jail, firing gunshots and using explosives, and police moved in to contain the unrest.

‘These events are the result of a territorial dispute between criminal gangs inside

No fewer than two people were kidnapped on Thursday when armed bandits reportedly stormed the community hosting off-campus students of the Federal University of Technology (FUT), Minna, Niger.

Although the identities of the two victims are yet to be ascertained as at the time of filing this report, unconfirmed reports identified them as students.

The armed bandits, who stormed the community in large numbers, also raided shops directly opposite the university gate and made away with valuables.

It was gathered from a source close to the area that the incident occurred at about 1:00 am on Thursday when the gunmen …

There is palpable tension in Anara market, in Isiala Mbano Local Government Area of Imo State following an attack that claimed four lives on Tuesday night.

Suspected gunmen who operated in a white sienna vehicle were said to have opened fire at the market thereby killing four persons.

Africa Daily News, New York learned that the incident occurred around 8:30pm while the traders were preparing to close for the day.

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A team of angry looking policemen were also sighted at the crime scene.

A source close to …

Nigeria’s Minister of State, Federal Ministry of Mines and Steel Development, Uchechukwu Sampson Ogah has insisted that capital punishment against illegal miners is the potent way of stopping fleecing of nation’s resources in the mining and solid minerals sector and would never be set aside.

Armed men suspected to be bandits on Tuesday attacked a team of policemen in Zonai village in Magami district, Gusau Local Government Area of Zamfara State, killing no fewer than seven officers.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that the incident, which occurred in the early hours of yesterday left residents in panic over fear of attack on the community.

According to residents, the officers were returning from duty where they had mounted, a checkpoint near Zonai village along Gusau-Magami-Dansadau following frequent attacks on the community.

Details of the incident were still sketchy as at the time of filing this …

Bangladesh’s former chief justice was sentenced in absentia to 11 years in jail for corruption on Tuesday, in a case that opposition groups and supporters say is politically motivated.

Surendra Kumar Sinha, 70, headed the Supreme Court when it ruled in 2017 that parliament could not sack judges, a move hailed by lawyers as safeguarding judicial independence.

Sinha left Bangladesh in late 2017 alleging he had been forced to step aside following the landmark ruling. He lives in North America where he has reportedly sought asylum.

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Campaigners have said his …