News

Governor Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra has passed a vote of confidence on security agencies for setting up checkpoints around the state, in contravention of his deputy’s recent stand on road blocks. Deputy Governor Onyekachukwu Ibezim last Saturday confronted soldiers who erected barricades at Amansea, a border town near Enugu State, causing heavy gridlock for Christmas […]

During an interview with News Central Media, the ADC governorship candidate in Akwa-Ibom, Ezekiel Nya-Etok, stated that the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has changed the political ideology of the people in the south-south and particularly Akwa-Ibom state with his political ambition.  He revealed that the presence of Peter Obi in the presidential race

A young man, whose name was given as Ifeanyi, who was allegedly kidnapped on Friday last week, just two days to Christmas, has been found dead. The man, said to be an indigene of Awgu, a community in Orumba North Local Government Area of Anambra State, was abducted at Okpuno, close to Geneva Hotel. Meanwhile,

The Photograph of ASP Ayuba, an officer attached to Ajiwe Police Station who shot and killed Mrs Bolanle Raheem, on Christmas Day while returning from Church with her husband and four kids has surface online. Bolanle was attempting to make a U-turn beneath the Ajah Bridge when the officer opened fire on her car. The culprit was

A 46-year-old, Mrs Tunrayo Famurewa, has narrated her ordeal at the hands of kidnappers who stormed her house in the month of October, while also leaving an unforgettable pain in her heart as they killed her husband during the attack, Nigerian Tribune reports. The victim while speaking in an interview with newsmen disclosed that the

Popular South African musician, Mandla ‘Mampintsha’ Maphumulo has died. Bestnewsnet reports that Mampintsha suffered a stroke a week ago after a performance with his band, Big Nuz. The ailment caused his death on Saturday. He was aged 40. West Ink Records manager Sbu Ncube confirmed Mampintsha’s demise. In a statement, the artist’s management said details

16 Indian army personnel have died in a fatal road accident that occurred on Friday. Bestnewsnet learned that the accident occurred at Zema in North Sikkim. The security operatives’ vehicle skidded off while negotiating a sharp turn, causing the tragedy. “16 Army personnel have lost their lives, four injured in a road accident involving an

A Kano Sharia court judge has ordered journalists out of his courtroom before hearing the divorce case of Governor Abdullahi Ganduje’s daughter, Asiya Balaraba Ganduje.  Although Khadi Abdullahi Halliru agreed that everyone is equal before the law, he noted that the case of Mr Ganduje’s daughter “is a special case that need not be reported”.

Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, (HURIWA) on Thursday, carpeted the Federal Government over its planned tolling of the almost completed 1.6 kilometres long Second Niger Bridge which links Anambra and Delta State. HURIWA’s National Coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko, in a statement, said the project was funded with taxpayers’ money returned in the form of loot