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The Oworo Foundation, a group of professionals, academics, bureaucratics, business owners and other meaningful persons from all works of life of Oworo ethnic group has scheduled to hold her colloquium with the overall theme, “Reawakening Oworoland:The imparatives for Socio-Cultural, Political and Economic empowerment in Lokoja, Kogi State on 30th through 31st July, 2021 as scheduled….

In the early hours (about 0134 hours) of today, 1st July, 2021, a joint team of security operatives raided the residence of Sunday Adeniyi Adeyemo a.k.a. SUNDAY IGBOHO at Soka, Ibadan, Oyo State. This was based on intelligence that he had stockpiled arms in the place. On approach to the residence, the team came under…

Between the late Umaru Dikko and the now re-nabbed Nnamdi Kanu — any similarity?  That question must have pronged at the historic-minded, as the news of Kanu’s re-arrest punched the wires. Well, Umaru Dikko belonged to a separate age.  He was super-minister under the late President Shehu Shagari, of the ill-fated 2nd Republic (1 October…

Gunmen have kidnapped six workers of a ceramic company located at Itobe, Kogi State. This was made known by the Public Relations Officer of the Kogi State Police Command, DSP William Aya, while speaking with journalists in Lokoja on Wednesday that the workers were kidnapped on June 29. Aya said the workers were working at…

There was a gun duel between security operatives attached to the convoy of Kano State Governor, Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, and some heavily armed bandits along Shema in Katsina State on their way back to Kano from Zamfara State. Although Ganduje was not in the convoy, it came under attack by bandits who blocked Zamfara,…

, Nnamdi Kanu, who was living outside Nigeria, mostly used social media to communicate with his followers Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of a separatist group that wants a breakaway state in eastern Nigeria, has been arrested. His movement, the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob), has been labelled as a terrorist organisation by the Nigerian authorities….

The Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos, will on October 7, 2021, hear a motion filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) seeking the final forfeiture of N2.42billion and $5.78million linked to former First Lady, Patience Jonathan. Justice T. G. Ringim fixed the date on Monday after argument by counsels. The EFCC had…

The Borno State Police Command on Monday paraded nine persons accused of robbery and drug trafficking. Briefing newsmen on the arrest of the suspects in Maiduguri, the Command’s spokesman, SP Edet Okon, said two of the suspects, Akachukwu Emmanuel and Isa Goni, were arrested for attacking a POS operator around Circular Road in Maiduguri and…

A week after the inauguration of the Niger Special Vigilante Corps (NSVC) under the supervision of the police, the joint security outfit has recorded some successes in its anti-banditry campaign. A security source involved in the operation told Journalists that some arrests and recoveries were made in the Rafi Local Government Area of the state….

General Overseer plans own kidnap, demands N10m ransom from family BY THE EAGLE ONLINEJUNE 26, 20210 COMMENTS7 MINS READ  The General Overseer of Resurrection Power Church in Nasarawa State, Pastor Richard Onyekachukwu, 47, has been arrested for staging his own abduction in order to make his brother pay a ransom of N10 million. The fake…