By Abimbola Ogunnaike Joy and happiness have enveloped Sokoto State after 15 students who were kidnapped by gunmen at a Qur’anic school in the state regained their freedom in the hands of their abductors. Thegazellenews.com reports that the students were kidnapped at Gidan Bakuso village in Gada Local Government Area while running to their rooms to escape the attack on the community two weeks ago. It wa also gathered that the victims were abducted hours before the graduation ceremony of the state’s Community Guard Corps created to fight banditry. The proprietor of the Tsangaya school in Gidan Bakuso, Liman Abubakar,…
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By Abimbola Ogunnaike The West African Examinations Council, Nigeria, on Friday, 22 March 2024 released results of the first-ever Computer-Based West African Senior School Certificate Examination for Private Candidates, 2024–First Series. The council commenced migration from traditional paper-based examinations to Computer-Based Examinations for its private candidates’ examinations. A statement by the council made available to media houses sid that the novel CB-WASSCE entailed using a hybrid method where all questions were projected on the computer. It said answers to the multiple-choice questions were supplied on the computer in real-time, and answers to the essay and test of practical questions were…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike The number of deaths including children in the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall in Moscow, the Russian capital, has reached 93. The Investigative Committee of Russia made this known on Saturday, 23 March, 2024 on its Telegram channel. Recall that earlier, some gunmen gunmen in camouflage invaded a concert venue complex near Moscow Friday and opened fire on unsuspecting citizens killing at least 60 people and wounding 100 others According to BBC-verified video, at least four attackers clad in camouflage gear took part in the attack, in the north-west suburb of Krasnogorsk. The gunmen burst the Crocus City…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike The Imo State Police Command has announced the killing of two police officers attached to Mopol 18 by suspected gunmen along Gariki Road in Okigwe area of Imo State. The State Police Public Relations Officer, Henry Okoye, announced the sad development in a statement issued to newsmen on Saturday, 23 March, 2024. According to Okoye, the officers were ambushed in the early hours of Saturday, 23 March, 2024 while on patrol duty along old Gariki Road, Okigwe by hoodlums who threw dynamite on the officer’s patrol vehicle and engaged them in a protracted gunfight. He added that…
The Chief of the Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Emmanuel Ogalla, has approved the appointment of a certified PR person as the new Director of Naval Information. The new Naval spokesperson is Commodore Aiwuyor Augustine Adams-Aliu, said a release signed by Rear Admiral JD Akpan, the Naval Chief of Policy and Plans. Commodore Adams-Aliu took over from Rear Admiral Adedotun Ayo-Vaughan, who has been redeployed to Headquarters, Naval Training Command, as the Chief Staff Officer. *About the New Naval Spokesperson* Commodore Aiwuyor Augustine Adams-Aliu was born on 15 December 1977 in Lagos into the family of Sir and Lady Adams Aliu.…
A former Chelsea midfielder, Geremi Njitap, has reportedly filed for a divorce from his wife of 12 years after DNA test revealed he’s not the biological father of her twins. Geremy also played for Real Madrid where he won the UEFA Champions’ League. Geremi and Toukam Fotso Laurie Verline — the daughter of late Cameroonian billionaire, Fotso Victor — tied the knot in 2012, four years after she gave birth to the twins in 2008. The 45-year-old claimed the twins, which were part of the reason they got married, were fathered by his wife’s ex-partner, according to a report by…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike The Federal Government of Nigeria, on Saturday, 23 March, 2024 commiserated with the people and Government of the Russian Federation following Friday’s terrorist attack in Moscow. Gunmen in camouflage clothing opened fire on people at a concert in the Crocus City Hall near Moscow, the Russian capital, on Friday, 22 March, 2024. The number of deaths, including children in the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall in Moscow, has reached 115, as reported by Al Jazeera. It was gathered from several Russian media outlets that automatic weapons were used in what many have termed ‘one of the…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike Nigerian boxers at the African Games on the night of Friday, 22 March, 2024 won eight gold medals at the Bukom Boxing Arena in Accra . Joy Ojo opened the account for the day, winning in the 57kg women’s category after defeating Algeria’s Selmouni Chahira. After this, Dele Omole made it two for the West African country when he took home the gold medal in the 57kg category. He beat Sigauque Amando of Mozambique. In the 75kg women’s category, it was Nigeria’s Patricia Mbata taking the gold medal, winning 4-0 against Molka Ben Mabrouk of Tunisia. Olaitan…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday, 23 March, 2024 announced the arrest of all four gunmen who carried out an attack on a concert hall and killed more than 100. Putin, who described the action of the attackers as a “barbaric terrorist act”, vowed harsh retribution to all those involved. The Russian , who made this disclosure in a televised address to the citizens, said all four gunmen had been arrested before they had a chance to cross the border into Ukraine. “I am speaking to you today in connection with the bloody, barbaric terrorist act, the…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike At least, no fewer than 10 people were reportedly kidnapped at the Taraba/Benue border community in Jootar, in the Ukum Local Government Area of Benue State on Friday, 23 March, 2024. A source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, explained that the driver of the ill-fated vehicle who escaped being kidnapped narrated the attack. The source stated that the driver of the Sharon bus explained that he picked up the passengers at Takum junction in Wukari, Taraba State and that they were 10 in number. “He was to drop them (passengers) in Gboko where they ought to…