Operatives of the Plateau State police command have arrested 27 persons for engaging in shooting and wanton destruction of property in Jos. The rioters were arrested in Nasarawa and Zololo Junction areas of Jos after they defied the 24-hour curfew imposed on Jos and Bukuru metroplis by the state government. The youths of the area…
Adeyanju, Gbajabiamila unite to boost lottery industry Director General of the National Lottery Regulatory Commission, Mr. Lanre Gbajabiamila, has described the appointment of Comrade Tosin Adeyanju as the new Executive Secretary of the National Lottery Trust Fund a new era in the history of the organization, both in Nigeria and beyond. Special Assistant to the…
Governor Uba Sani of Kaduna State has enforced a 24-hour curfew in the Kaduna and Zaria metropolitan towns. In a statement issued Monday, the Overseeing Commissioner of the Ministry of Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, said, “The Kaduna State Security Council under the leadership of Governor Uba Sani, following a review of the…
Fans and lovers of controversial cross dresser Idris Okunneye, better known as Bobrisky, are going wild over the news of his release from prison. TheNewsGuru.com(TNG) reports that the male Barbie was released from prison after serving a six month jail time. Recall, that Bobrisky served a six-month prison sentence for abusing naira notes, as handed…
Two students of the Plateau State University, Bokkos, have been reportedly kidnapped by some unidentified gunmen. The students, identified, Theresa Puntel and Dimfat Atukum, were said to be abducted Sunday night from their lodge outside the campus where they were staying. Puntel is said to be a 200 level student of the Theatre Art Department,…
Operatives of the plateau state police command have taken over major streets in Jos North as youths of Nasarawa area defied the 24-hour Curfew in Jos and Bukuru metroplis. The youths were said to have came out in numbers and vowed to continue the protest they started on Sunday. It was gathered that the youths…
•Nigeria better than us, says Canada’s Achonwa Head coach and team captain of Nigeria’s senior women’s basketball team, D’Tigress, Rena Wakama, and Amy Okonkwo, have explained how the African champions overcame Canada on Sunday to qualify for their first quarterfinals at the Olympics since their first appearance in Athens in 2004, The PUNCH reports. D’Tigress…
Monday Lines By Lasisi Olagunju (Published in the Nigerian Tribune on Monday, 5 August, 2024). They did what locusts do to farms. They spared almost nothing. They ate road slabs, pilfered roofs and stole ceilings. They attacked and looted at least one mosque – and at least one church. They hammered concrete slabs and squeezed…
In a decisive move to enhance the security of lives and maintain public order, Plateau State Governor, Barr. Caleb Manasseh Mutfwang, has imposed a 24-hour curfew on Jos/Bukuru Metropolis, effective from 12 midnight on Sunday, August 4, 2024. A statement signed by the Director of Press and Public Affairs to the Executive Governor of Plateau…
A few hours after President Bola Tinubu’s plea in a nationwide address on Sunday seeking an end to the ongoing #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria protest which started on August 1, the protesters have vowed not to heed his call, The Punch reports. Rather than ending the protest, the demonstrators, tweeting on X.com under #OccupyAbuja on Sunday, said they…
