The Police Command in Gombe State has confirmed a fatal accident in the Billiri Local Government Area, which claimed multiple lives during the Easter celebration. Confirming the development, the Police Public Relations Officer, Abdullahi Buhari, stated that five persons were confirmed dead and several others injured. “We recorded an accident at Billiri Local Government after…
Former presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has launched an online registration portal and identity cards for members of his Obidient Movement in Nigeria and in the diaspora. This was disclosed in a joint statement issued in Abuja by the Obidient Movement’s National Coordinator, Dr Yunusa Tanko and its Director of Strategic Communications…
Two Ugandan TikTok users, 21-year-old David Ssengozi, known as Lucky Choice, and 28-year-old Isaiah Ssekagiri, have been remanded to Kigo prison on charges of insulting President Yoweri Museveni, First Lady Janet Museveni, and Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba. Magistrate Stella Maris Amabilis ordered their detention until 13 November, when they will make an initial court appearance, BBC…
The Nigeria Police Force says it has uncovered credible leads on the gun suppliers who armed the suspects allegedly responsible for the killing of Arise News anchor, Somtochukwu Maduagwu. The Federal Capital Territory Police Command had earlier announced the arrest of 12 suspects in connection with the September 29, 2025, robbery and murder at Unique…
GISTSMATE MEDIA reports that the at least one person has died and six are missing, including tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch, after a superyacht carrying mostly Britons was caught in a tornado and sank off the coast of Sicily. A one-year-old girl is among the 15 people who have been rescued. Mike Lynch told a journalist…
Operatives of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested a 25-year-old man, Samson Oghenebreme, in Lagos while transporting human organs from Edo State to a native doctor for use in money-making rituals. In a press statement released by the command’s spokesperson, CSP Benjamin Hundeyin, disclosed that Oghenebreme was apprehended in the Odomola community of Epe…
The Police Special Fraud Unit has arraigned students of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, and Resign Regal Academy, Timothy Oluwabukola and Anthony Odemerho, for allegedly hacking MTN Nigeria Communication Plc’s computers and stealing airtime and data valued at N1.9bn. Oluwabukola and Odemerho who were arraigned before the Federal High Court in Lagos on Tuesday are facing…
A man, Godwin Anuka, who was kidnapped by suspected Fulani herders alongside his wife and two children in the Ubulu-Uku area of Delta State, has been killed in the presence of his wife and children. The Senior Special Assistant on Civil Society and Youth Mobilisation to the Delta State Governor, Harrison Gwamnishu, disclosed this in…
Pastor David Ibiyeomie of Salvation Ministries has issued a stern warning to bloggers, threatening arrest and detention for anyone who reports on him negatively. In a video circulating online, the cleric accused some bloggers of deliberately twisting his messages and alleged that certain church members are working against him. Declaring that he would not tolerate…
The Foundation for Investigative Journalism (FIJ) says its founder Fisayo Soyombo has been released from detention by the Nigerian Army. On Friday, FIJ reported that Soyombo had been arrested and detained for three days by the 6 Division of the Nigerian Army in Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers state. But the military authorities said…