It is a panic among parents today as Some gunmen this morning hijacked a school bus in Oba ile Estate of Akure North Local Government Area of Ondo state, abducting one person who was on duty to convey children to school. The incident which occured around 6:45am while the driver and the attendant were moving round to pick the Pupils of Chimola School, situated inside the Estate to their school. A source in the school told SUNSHINETRUTH that the gunmen numbering about eight who were on motorcycles, rounded the vehicle, forcing the driver to stop. He said the eight men…
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A Senior Special Assistant to Benue Governor Samuel Ortom on Security, Christopher Dega, has been shot dead. Mr Dega, a retired police officer, was killed in Jos, the Plateau State capital. Benue and Plateau are neighbouring states in North-central Nigeria. Although the full details of the killing were not available at the time of this report, Mr Dega was confirmed dead by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Terver Akase. Mr Akase, who spoke to PREMIUM TIMES on Wednesday, promised to send the governor’s reaction shortly. Before his retirement from the police, Mr Dega had served as commissioner of…
A former Governor of Ondo State, Olusegun Mimiko, on Tuesday said the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), would not be judge based on the provision of infrastructure but on his ability to secure lives and property. Mimiko stated this in Abuja on Tuesday at the 71st birthday celebration of a former member of the House of Representatives, Joseph Akinlaja, and the launching of a book titled, ‘Labour, Politics and Grace.’ The former governor stated, “Mr President will not be judged by the number of kilometres of standard gauge railway; history will not judge his accomplishment through the Second Niger…
A Nigerian social enterprise working on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) have been recognized as one of the best 7 social enterprises tackling sanitation challenges in Africa Building on UNICEF’s legacy of innovating for children and Duke’s track record of success in entrepreneurial education, the Accelerator supports social enterprises tackling the most pressing challenges facing children and youth around the world. The Accelerator’s second cohort of innovators come from diverse academic professional and geographic backgrounds. Through the two-year program, the entrepreneurs will have access to a multitude of resources, including UNICEF subject matter experts, mentorship opportunities, Duke University faculty…
Unknown gunmen, on Monday night, stormed the residence of the National Examination Council (NECO)’s Registrar, Professor Godswill Obioma, and strangled him to death. His wife, Mrs Elizabeth Obioma, told newsmen in a telephone conversation on Tuesday morning that her husband was assassinated. “The assassins came in and killed him and left without taking anything,” she said. She said her husband had just returned to Minna from a trip to Abuja when the armed men, lurking in his compound, descended on him and strangled him. It was gathered that there have been several attempts to remove the late Registrar from office…
The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has ordered security and intelligence agencies to hasten their moves to rescue the 200 children kidnapped from an Islamic school in Niger State. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, made this known on Monday in a statement titled, ‘Expedite action towards release of school children, President Buhari urges law enforcement officials.’ According to the statement, the President, who had been briefed on the latest incident of school kidnapping, condemned the act, describing it as “unfortunate.” He, therefore, charged all the agencies involved in the rescue operation…
The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Farouk Yahaya, has spoken on the need for the Army to change its strategy in the fight against terrorism and other forms of insecurity. He also called for a strict adherence to military traditions and doctrines to reposition the Army a more professional and formidable force that would meet the security challenges facing the country. Yahaya, who spoke yesterday in Abuja at his maiden briefing with General Officers Commanding (GOCs), field commanders and other frontline officers, pledged to rejig the Army for better performance and greater achievements. He was appointed the 22nd COAS,…
The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Farouk Yahaya, has spoken on the need for the Army to change its strategy in the fight against terrorism and other forms of insecurity. He also called for a strict adherence to military traditions and doctrines to reposition the Army a more professional and formidable force that would meet the security challenges facing the country. Yahaya, who spoke yesterday in Abuja at his maiden briefing with General Officers Commanding (GOCs), field commanders and other frontline officers, pledged to rejig the Army for better performance and greater achievements. He was appointed the 22nd COAS,…
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Command of the Nigeria Police yesterday denied shooting at the Convener of #RevolutionNow, Mr. Omoyele Sowore, during a protest at the Unity Fountain in Abuja. Sowore, who led a group of people for a #BuhariMustGo protest, claimed that a senior police officer, identified simply as Atine, a Commissioner of Police (ACP), shot at him. In a terse post on his Twitter handle @YeleSowore, he wrote: “Just been shot by a police officer, ACP Atine, at the Unity Fountain in Abuja. #RevolutionNow. “Let the struggle continue, even if they take my life! #BuhariMustGo.” Speaking on phone…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has given another two-week extension to candidates who genuinely had issues in completing their registration for the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The deadline for registration was May 29, 2021. A statement yesterday by JAMB’s Head of Information and Protocol, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, reads: “All prospective candidates with genuine proof(s) of failed efforts to register before the closing date, are to, between Monday, May 31 and June 15, 2021, visit any of JAMB’s offices (including JAMB-owned professional test centres, PTCs) across the nation to: “(I) obtain, at no cost, and complete a…