An Australian fisherman is believed to have been killed by a crocodile after falling into a creek, according to police on Tuesday. Human remains were discovered inside a 4.9-metre (16-foot) crocodile that was captured nearby. The 40-year-old man was fishing along a riverbank in tropical north Queensland when he “fell into the water and failed to resurface,” police stated. Reports indicated that the man had been “taken by a crocodile.” The fisherman had been at a remote spot known to locals as “crocodile bend,” as reported by Australian media. Rangers captured and euthanized a large crocodile close to where the…
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…As Onuimo Sole Administrator condemns killing OWERRI — The Commissioner of Police, Imo State, Mr. Aboki Danjuma, has assured the general public, particularly the residents of the Umucheke Okwe Community, Onuimo local government area of the state that the command under his watch, will leave no stone unturned in ensuring that the killers of Eze Umucheke’s cabinet members are all arrested and brought to justice. Danjuma also disclosed that the command’s tactical units, in synergy with the other security agencies and the local vigilantes, are presently combing the surrounding forests in Onuimo communities for possible apprehension of the fleeing suspects. The…
Following the expulsion of some students of the Federal Polytechnic, Ede, Osun State, the leadership of the National Association of Polytechnic Students, NAPS, has called for the removal of the Rector, Dr Sani Man Yahaya.The student body gave the Governing Council of the institution seven days to remove him over the manner he handled a recent protest by the students.According to the Southwest leaders of NAPS, including the Zonal Coordinator, Comrade Obasanya Monday Johnson, Comrade Oladipupo Olawale Ridwan, General secretary and Comrade Oyewumi Festus Ayomide, the Public Relations Officer, the students said they were disappointed in the leadership style of…
The FCT chapter of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has urged President Bola Tinubu to address issues that led to nationwide #EndBadGovernance protests. The chairman of the association, Charles Ugwuanyi, made the call in an interview on Monday. According to him, the issue that led to the protest is hunger, occasioned by food costs that are biting Nigerians hard. ”We are calling on the president to make the economy friendly so the Nigerian will be able to put food on their table,” he said. He also urged Tinubu to review the security situation in the country, which he said was…
The death of High Chief Moses Ade Akinmade, the Obamoluwa of Idanre Kingdom, has been announced. The late Obamoluwa is the father of the Special Adviser on Media and Strategy to the Ogun State governor, Hon. Kayode Akinmade. Announcing the passing of the nonagenarian in a statement issued on behalf of the Akinmade family of Idanre, Ondo State, on Tuesday, Hon. Akinmade, who served as Special Adviser on Media to the then Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Dimeji Bankole, stated that the sad event took place on Monday evening. The statement said that even though the family…
Kaduna was calm on Tuesday as the residents complied with the 24-hour curfew imposed on the city and Zaria on Monday. The government had declared the curfew in response to the breakdown of law and order when hoodlums hijacked the #EndBadGovernance protests. In the ensuing melee, the hoodlums vandalised and looted various public and private property, including one of the commercial banks in the city. The compliance level of the curfew showed that the residents had stayed indoors, except for some individuals seen within their residences. A mobile team of military men on dozens of motorcycles and patrol vans were…
DR. JEMILA BIO IBRAHIM SHOULD BE INFORMED THAT TOWN HALL MEETING IS A WEIRD APPROACH IN A PERIOD OF YOUTH RESTIVENESS Being text of press statement by the Concerned Youth Alliance for Tinubu (COYAT) dated this 5th August, 2024 The attention of our noble group has just been drawn to a planned town hall meeting being proposed by the Hon. Minister of Youth Development, Dr. Jemila Bio-Ibrahim. As a youth group passionate about the success and legacy of our President, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, it gives us great joy that the current issue of protest in some parts of the…
The police command in Plateau says it has arrested 14 suspected violators of the 24-hour curfew earlier imposed in Jos and environs. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Emmanuel Adesina, disclosed this shortly after the state security council meeting on Monday in Jos. Plateau government, on Sunday, imposed a 24-hour curfew in Jos-Bukuru metropolis, following outbreak of violence and looting by some protesters in Jos North Local Government Area of the state. Mr Adesina said that activities of miscreants, who hijacked the peaceful protest in the state, forced the state government to impose the 24-hour curfew. ”As you all…
The Federal Government has concluded plans to sell a 50kg bag of rice at N40,000 to public servants with a view to alleviating the food crisis in the nation and its effects on Nigerians. This was disclosed in a letter from the Federal Ministry of Special Duties and Inter-governmental Affairs, which was signed by the Director of Human Resources of the Ministry, Jaiyesimi Abimbola. The letter said all interested staff members were to complete a Google form on the OHCSF website and submit it to the director of human resources for endorsement. It noted that payment for and the distribution…
A Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday granted N50m bail each to two students of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic and Resign Regal Academy, Timothy Oluwabukola and Anthony Odemerho, who allegedly hacked MTN Nigeria Communication computers and stole airtime and data valued at N1.9bn. Justice Akintayo Aluko granted them bail after hearing two separate bail applications filed by the defendants. In addition to the bail sum, Aluko ordered the defendants to provide two sureties each, one of whom must be a civil servant in the federal or Lagos State employment, who must be grade level 14 and above. He said that…