Five soldiers and a police officer have been killed following a terrorist ambush on troops of Operation FANSAN YAMMA, Joint Task Force North West, along the Bingi–Kekun Waje–Gusau Road in Zamfara State. The incident occurred on Monday, while troops were returning from a series of successful offensive operations conducted between January 17 and 19 across…
Togo has extradited Burkina Faso’s former transitional president to his home country, where he is accused of plotting several attempted coups, the government said Tuesday. Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba seized power in January 2022 in Burkina Faso, only to be ousted nine months later in the coup that installed current junta chief Captain Ibrahim Traore. Since…
The Farmers Herders Special Court of Jigawa State, sitting in Dutse, has convicted nine herders and sentenced them to prison terms for offences bordering on destruction of farmlands and breach of public peace. The herders were found guilty on multiple counts under relevant provisions of the Penal Code Laws of Jigawa State, following a case…
Many construction workers were on Tuesday trapped while others sustained varying degrees of injuries after a two-storey building under construction collapsed along the busy Oyemekun Road in Akure, the Ondo State capital. As at the time of filing this report, it was unclear whether the incident resulted in any fatalities. Eyewitnesses told Vanguard that the…
Ilorin stood still on Tuesday as thousands of mourners flooded the forecourt of the Emir of Ilorin’s palace for the final burial rites of the Chief Imam of Ilorin, Sheikh Muhammad Bashir Saliu, amid tears. From the early hours of the morning, streams of Muslim faithful, scholars, traditional rulers and political leaders converged at the…
At least six persons, mostly students returning to school, have been confirmed dead following a boat mishap at Buruku crossing in Buruku Local Government Area (LGA) of Benue State. Several others are also still missing after the wooden boat conveying passengers across the river sank late on Monday night. Sources in the area said the…
A Magistrate Court sitting in Sagamu, Sagamu Local Government Area of Ogun State, has granted bail to Adeniyi Kayode, the driver who conveyed former world heavyweight boxing champion Anthony Joshua and two members of his team before a fatal road accident. Kayode was admitted to bail in the sum of N5 million, with two sureties,…
Prominent socio-political organisations, including Afenifere, Arewa Consultative Forum, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the Middle Belt Forum, and others, have expressed outrage over a plan by the Katsina State Government to release 70 bandits as part of measures to patch up a floundering peace pact with bandit leaders. The groups, in separate interviews with The PUNCH, described the…
Ghost workers of the Taraba state civil service on Monday staged a protest over the unpaid 7 months’ salaries. The alleged ghost workers claimed that they had done all the necessary procedure lay down by the state government, but were still not considered since seven months ago. Mr Abdurahul Sani, the chairman of the alleged…
The Ogun State Government has claimed that social welfare activist, Adetoun Onajobi, popularly known as Just Adetoun, has gone into hiding, and a medical doctor who allegedly issued a fake medical report to help her evade police arrest has been remanded in prison. The state government also confirmed that the Ogun State Police Command has…
