Anambra Police Command has arrested two suspects involved in a self-orchestrated kidnap incident designed to extort money from the victim’s own family. The suspects are Chinecherem Okonkwo ‘f’, age 28years old, and Chinecherem Aronu ‘m’ age 30years old. According to the State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, who disclosed this in a statement…
The House of Representatives on Wednesday ended plenary without any mention of the state of emergency in Rivers State. GISTSMATE MEDIA reported that nembers of the house of representatives are locked in a heated exchange before today’s setting, in expectation of debate on emergency rule in Rivers state. The shouting match began as the legislators…
The Anambra State Police Command has arrested a suspected kidnapper, John Chinagorom, who is said to have been on the Command’s wanted list. A statement released on Saturday by the Anambra State Police spokesman, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, said the suspect was arrested in Zaria, Kaduna State, with the assistance of the Kaduna State Police Command….
The students leaders of University Students (NAUS), National Association of Polytechnic Students (NAPS) and National Association of Nigeria Colleges of Education Students (NANCES) have request for fact-finding over how 42,000 metric tonnes of grains disappeared from Ministry of Agriculture, food and security. The students’ leaders lamented that they found it disheartening that under the leadership…
At least one person, a prospective member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), was killed in an accident in Ebonyi on Wednesday. GISTSMATE MEDIA gathered that 11 other prospective corps members alongside other passengers sustained varying degrees of injuries in the accident. All the passengers were in a 14-seater bus belonging to the Enugu…
A middle-aged man, popularly known as Uncle Light, and his son, Miracle, have allegedly died from suspected food poisoning at Ebebe Junction in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital. According to PUNCH, the victims were living with a woman who reportedly moved in with the man after divorcing her husband earlier this year. The woman is…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s economic diplomacy drive has received a boost as the Minister of Trade and Investment, Jumoke Oduwole, hosted high-level envoys from the Netherlands, Russia, Mexico, and China in Abuja. In a statement on the Presidency’s official X handle, the meeting was described as a strategic step in advancing Nigeria’s global economic integration,…
A high-level coalition meeting involving former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, Labour Party’s Peter Obi, former Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi and others descended into chaos as delegates from Jigawa State disrupted the proceedings. The ongoing coalition meeting at the Abuja Continental Hotel, organised by the National Political Consultative Group (North), was briefly disrupted following a…
President Bola Tinubu will depart Abuja on Wednesday for a two-nation visit to Johannesburg, South Africa, and Luanda, Angola, to participate in the 20th G20 Leaders’ Summit and the 7th African Union–European Union Summit, the Presidency has said. This was disclosed in a statement released on Tuesday by the Special Adviser to the President on…
The Yoruba community in Enugu State has unanimously selected Alhaji Abdulazeez Adebayo as its new traditional ruler. Adebayo, who hails from Osun, became the first ever Oba of the community since the history of Yorubas living in Enugu. Speaking during the community’s meeting on Tuesday in Enugu, the new traditional ruler, said that seven…
