The Police Command in Gombe State says it has arrested three suspects believed to be part of a syndicate stealing goats in Malam Inna and Wuro Kesa communities of Gombe Local Government Area, Gombe State. ASP Mahid Abubakar, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of the command, stated this in a press statement issued to journalists on Friday in Gombe. Abubakar said the suspects had been using tricycles to steal goats from the communities which they eventually sell to make money. According to him, luck ran out of them when operatives of the Gombe Division, acting on intelligence report, arrested…
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The Adamawa Government, in collaboration with Malaria elimination partners concluded plans to distribute no fewer than 3.2 million insecticide treated nets to residents. The Manager State Malaria Elimination Programme, Mr Benjamin Nashon, disclose this in an interviewwith the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Yola on Friday. Nashon said the distribution would commence on July 1, to end on July 12, adding that it would be a house-to-house exercise. He also said that each net would be for two persons with maximum of four nets per household. He added that the target beneficiaries were more than five million, cutting across…
Alhaji Ibrahim Abdullahi, the factional Speaker of the Nasarawa State House of Assembly, has advised officers and men of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), to be professional in the discharge of their constitutional duties. Abdullahi gave the advice shortly after he decorated his orderly, Mr Abdullahi Adamu, alongside his colleague, Mr Yusuf Shuiabu, with their new ranks on Friday in Lafia. Adamu and Shuiabu were recently elevated from the ranks of sergeants to inspectors in the Police force. The embattled speaker tasked the duo on hard work, commitment and operate within the tenets of their profession. ” I want to…
The National Judicial Council (NJC) has dismissed petitions written against a retired Supreme Court Justice, Mary Odili and 25 other Judicial officers who were accused of professional misconduct in the discharge of their duties. This is contained in a statement issued by NJC Director of Information, Mr Soji Oye on Friday in Abuja. The council explained that the petition against the judicial officers were dismissed at a meeting presided over by the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Olukayode Ariwoola. Odili was not investigated by the council on the ground that she had retired as a judicial officer while 25…
(NAN)Sen. Dino Melaye, a star witness of Alhaji Abubakar Atiku and the Peoples Democratic Party has told the Presidential Election Petition Court, (PEPC) that the final result of the presidential election was wrongly computed and announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Melaye, the 22nd witness of the petitioners made the assertion on Friday in Abuja. Led in evidence by the petitioner’s lead counsel, Mr Chris Uche, SAN, Melaye who told the court that he was PDP’s National Collation Agent, identified himself as a businessman and a politician. The witness said that the presidential result, as announced by INEC…
The Godfrey Okoye University Teaching Hospital (GOUNI), Enugu, says it has taken over the Ntasiobi Ndi N’afufu Hospital owned by the Catholic Church, Enugu as its Teaching Hospital. The Chief Medical Director of the Godfrey Okoye University Teaching Hospital, Prof Cajethan Nwadinigwe made the disclosure while briefing newsmen in Enugu on Friday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that former Ntasiobi Ndi N’afufu hospital was renamed Godfrey Okoye University Teaching Hospital by the Catholic Bishop of Enugu Diocese, Most Rev. Callistus Onaga. Nwadinigwe said that he had been mandated to reposition the hospital to serve the people of Enugu…
The Police Command in Ekiti State has arrested eight suspects alleged to be involved in several bank robberies in the state. The Commissioner of Police in the state, CP Ogundare Dare, told newsmen on Friday in Ado-Ekiti that four suspects were also arrested for receiving stolen properties, and four others for sundry crimes. He said that the notorious robbery gang was allegedly involved in attacks on several banks in the state, including banks in Oye and Iyin where lives were lost in 2018 and 2019. The CP said that the gang members were arrestedby the Command Rapid Response Squad (RRS)…
The Lagos State Government on Friday began process toward removal of distressed buildings in the Alaba International Market in Ojo Local Government of the state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the enforcement team of the Lagos State Building Control Agency (LASBCA) and the Lagos State Task Force embarked on the joint exercise. The team which went round to re-seal several buildings that had been marked with previous multiple quit seal notices by LASBCA, said the measure was to prevent disaster. They advised occupants on the need to move out of the structurally defective buildings which they said…
The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS), Kebbi Area Command, has intercepted 104 parcels of Indian hemp, 359 sacks of diazepam and 70 packs of tramadol in the state. The Area Controller, Dr Ben Oramalugo, made this known while handing over the drugs to the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Birnin Kebbi on Friday. “On 11th June, based on a tip off from well meaning citizens about a vehicle conveying offensive goods into the country, the command’s officers and men swung into action. “At about 10am through stop and search along Kamba-Kyangakwai road, the officers and men were able to…