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President Muhammadu Buhari believes state police is not an option for the nation. The President made the remark in an exclusive interview with Channels Television which is scheduled to air on Wednesday at 7 pm (WAT). Calls for state policing have been made by several Governors as a way to solve insecurity across the country. […]

Operatives of the Akwa Ibom State Police Command attached to the State Criminal Investigation Department have arrested a suspected fraudster, Mr Imaobong Akpan, for allegedly impersonating the state Commissioner for Lands and Water Resources, Pastor Umo Eno. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Odiko MacDon, who disclosed this while parading the suspect at the command […]

Farmatof Paul, a bride-to-be, was kidnapped hours to her wedding in Plateau State. The resident of Ngyong community in Bokkos Local Government Area of Plateau was abducted at her pastor’s house where she was expected to pass the night before the wedding. Witnesses said the gunmen stormed the pastor’s house at about 10:45 pm on […]

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) on Monday said the recitation of the Nigerian national anthems will no longer be allowed in Southeast schools. The group’s head of Directorate of State (DOS), Chika Edoziem, stated this in a New Year message announcing the plans of the separatist group for 2022. Edoziem said school authorities in […]

Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodimma, would tomorrow publicly name those behind the spate of insecurity in the state. Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Declan Emelumba, in a statement in Owerri, said the governor would use the occasion of the sixth edition of Imo Stakeholders Forum to name sponsors and financiers of insecurity in the state. He […]

The presidency says visitors to the presidential villa in Abuja will be required to take rapid COVID tests before they would be allowed in. Garba Shehu, presidential spokesperson, confirmed the development to state house correspondents in Abuja on Sunday. Rapid COVID tests are designed to tell in a few minutes if someone is infected with […]

The Spiritual Director of the Adoration Ministry Enugu, Nigeria, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka, on Saturday, appealed to his fellow priests to stop castigating him for praying for and blessing the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, over his travails. The cleric, who intensified prayers for the release of the IPOB leader […]

A kidnap suspect named Ayobamidele Ayodele who was nabbed in Ogun State confessed that he learnt the act of kidnapping by watching Zubby Michael’s movies. Ayodele was arrested for abducting a six-year-old boy, Ebube Eze, after the victim’s father sent a petition to the Inspector General of Police, Usman Baba. The 23-year-old was nabbed by […]

The United Nations Children Emergency Fund on Friday decried the high rate of children’s abductions, violations among others in 2021. This was as the UN organisation classified Nigeria, Somalia, Congo, Chad, Cameroon and Niger as the countries with the highest cases of verified abductions. This was also as a tally conducted by Saturday Punch revealed that no […]

The People’s Democratic Party has urged Nigerians to use the New Year to rekindle the virtues of love, unity, social justice as well as the quest for good governance in the country. This is as the party noted that surviving the year 2021 under the “repressive, treasury-looting, completely rudderless and lying All Progressives Congress-led administration […]

President Muhammadu Buhari, Thursday met with the former President, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, at the presidential villa, Abuja. The agenda of the meeting with the former president which took place at about 3 pm was not made public. However, Jonathan regularly comes to the villa to brief the president on his activities as ECOWAS Special Envoy […]

Sirajo Saidu, one of President Muhammadu Buhari’s staunch supporters on Facebook, has dumped the president. He has now declared support for a former governor of Kano State, Rabiu Kwankwaso. Mr Saidu, from Sokoto State, said his decision was influenced by the recent kidnap of five of his brothers by bandits. Premium Times reported how bandits on December 12 abducted […]

Governor Nyesom Wike of  Rivers State has recalled how a chieftaincy dispute in his community led to the arrest and detention of his father, himself and other family members. He said this while eulogising Emmanuel C. Ukala, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Wike said it was Ukala, who […]

Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode has shared that many Nigerians are obsessed with him and pay strong attention to his daily activities. This comes amidst his ongoing custody battle with estranged wife Precious Chikwendu. His post on Instagram reads; ”The obsession that many Nigerians have with FFK amazes me.What he does, what he says, where […]

Rochas Okorocha, senator representing Imo west, has accused Hope Uzodimma, governor of the state, of ordering the arrest of Uche Nwosu. On Sunday, Uche Nwosu, former governorship candidate of Action Alliance (AA) and son-in-law of Okorocha, was arrested during a church service in Imo. Although Nwosu was released from custody hours after he was picked up, the […]

After many years of enquiry, the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has finally revealed those that support and finance its activities. In a statement signed by its spokesperson, Emma Powerful, IPOB, averred that no single individual can sponsor the organisation. The organisation headed by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, stated in its latest statement titled: “Abduction of […]